The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-08
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


NJ. p. Mccullough of Wausau was
elected general chairman of the war
industries board of District No. 2, Wis.
consin, comprising Marathon. lincoln,
Langlade and Shawano counties.
The Rev. George Shepherd of West
field has accepted a call from the Hor-
icon Presbyterian church. The former
pastor, the Rev. NJ. b. MacNeil, has
gone to Upper Lage, N. Y.
Considerable damage to crops near
Neenah was done by the recent terrific
wind and transforms. In many places
the grain was laid low by the storms.
lightning played havoc in many places.
Hans Christensen, farmer of Franks
vile, Racine county, tried to cross a
track ahead of train. The engine of
his automobile died on the track. He
jumped to safety. The machine was de
molished.
DR.. Neil Andrews of Oshkosh has
received a commission as captain in
the medical corps of the United States
stefan to volunteer and will go as a
specialist in heart and blood diseases.
Prof. c. n. Wilson, head of the COM
mercial department of the Sheboygan
high school for the last four years, has
resigned to become assistant secretary
and auditor of the state board of con
troll at Madison.
Herbert Glawson, Is years old, and
Kenneth Lynch, 10 years old, both of
Beloit, are under arrest charged with
a series of burglaries. They are al.
legged to have caused a damage of $500
TO machinery and food at a flour mill
Keke Majarus, 5year-old daughter
OF James Majarus, Sheboysan Greek
saloonkeeper, lost her left eye when
a boy playmate shot an arrow which
pierced her eye ball. An immediate re.
moval of the organ was necessary.
Neenah and Menasha auto dealers
report great number of sales of ma
chimes of late. The proposed 10 per
cent tax, which will be levied by the
government soon, is said to be respon-
sible for the stimulated business.
The Molle Typewriter company of
Oshkosh, a new industry, is now en-
gagged in manufacturing the first unit
OF thirty machines and expects To
make from ten to twenty-five machines
a day by the middle OF September
For violations of meat regulations
the enforcement division of the Wis.
consin food administration asked
Chas. w. Garrick, the manager of the
KAPPA tea room in Green Bay to pay
SO to the Red Cross, John j. Flaherty
OF Green Bay, S., and J. f. Aron, also
OF Green Bay, $40.
The $4,000 penalty imposed upon
the Horlick Matted Milk company OF
Racine by State Food Administrator
for violating regulations covering the
use OF wheat flour, has been upheld
by the national food administration
The Horick company will not be per.
mitted to pay the penalty in cash, but
must turn over to the army $500 cases
of one pound bottles of matted milk to
cover the amount.
INSCRIPTIONS persons who try to
defraud the public under food admin
istration guise must be subject to i'm
prisonment," said A. H. Melville, eX.
ecutiye secretary to the Wisconsin
food administration, on hearing of the
arrest of Charles h. Meyers and James
A. Alvin, who were imprisoned for six
months and fined 800 each for repre-.
senting themselves as food agents in
Pennsylvania.
Timothy Brennan, Fond du Lac,
democratic leader and late candidate
for appointment for postmaster of
Fond du Lac, died following an illness
of few hours. Mr. Brennan was the
son OF Timothy and Mary Brennan.
pioneers of the town of Lamartine.
He was a triplet-two boys and a girl
having been born. The sister died in
infancy, The triplet brother. John b.
Brennan, resides at Superior.
Five years of litigation over a set
OF books came to an end at La Crosse
when Judge Higbee of the circuit court
ruled that Bernhard f. Keller, state
deputy for the Modern Woodmen of
America and leading Mason of the
state, did not have to pay the Inter.
state Finance corporation which sued
him. The court held that the company
did not make the proper delivery at
the house as they represented they
would do.
Hotels, clubs and restaurants are
requested to discontinue TO serve
broiler turkeys weighing from two to
four pounds because during the pres.
ent meat shortage, it Is considered
wasteful to slaughter them. The Wis.
consin food administration appeals
to dealers to refrain from purchasing
these immature birds which are only
25 per cent of the weight of the full
fledged ones, and encourages produc-
ers to allow them to mature in order
to increase our meat supply.
Co b, Wisconsin state guards, ex-
poets to land the Chase trophy for be
ing the best disciplined and efficient
company in the Ninth regiment Reg.
mental officers have intimated that
the showing of the Menasha unit was
an exceptional one
Divorced two and a half months ago,
ordered TO pay SIS per month alimony.
fined $25 for contempt of court, badly
scalded by boiling asphalt, and re.
manded Ia the comfy iail mill ne NAYS