The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-09-26
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

written his parents that he lost an
eye as the result of being hit by a
German shell. He is continued in a
French hospital.
Kenosha gave Uncle Sam its Il. o.
IT," in connection with the last draft.
1t was impossible for the local board
to meet a call for 1913 men regardless
of the fact that every registered man
was called for mobilization. The list
was twenty names short,
The Denmark hotel and the Kri-
warek Bros general store, Green
Bay, We're fined $50 each for violating
food regulations, and an Outagamie
county creamery owned by II. j.
Fassbender at South Kaukauna was
fined $25 on a similar charge
According to a telegram received
from Food Administrator Hoover by
the Wisconsin Food Administration,
the maximum price for wet beet pulp
direct from the factory is to be so
cents a ton, for wet pulp out of the
silo the maximum may be $1,25 ton,
and for dry pulp $40 ton f. o. b. fac
tory.
The common council of Kenosha re-
fused to sanction the "skip.stop" plan
of the railway company The council
held that the lines of the company
were too short and it was just as inn
portrait to assist the war workers in
getting them to their places of en-
ployment as saving fuel, which in this
case would not be much.
Capt Robert p. Boardman son of
Brig, Gen c. Il. Boardman of Oshkosh,
is home from Fort Sheridan awaiting
orders for assignment as instructor at
one of the middle west colleges in the
training of student military corps.
Since his return from service in
France he has been serving as an in
structor in a battalion of men train
ing at Sheridan.
Matt Wagner of Marathon has re
ceiyed a telegram from the Red Cross
informing him that his son, Ray p.
Wagner, a member of headquarters
ambulance company, 1917 Sanitary
train, is being held in a prison camp
at Mainz by the Germans since Aug
4 Private Wagner was the auto
driver for Major Dirk Bruins of Mil
waukee, who is in the same camp.
Wagner enlisted and left Wausau a
year ago.
Otto Spaedtke of Oshkosh has been
officially reported as having died of
wounds received in action. He joined
Co. + in 1917, when only II, and went
across with the Rainbow division. He
was wounded July 80. He was the old
est son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spaedt-
Ike. A brother is in the navy. Off
cial notice has been received at Osh-
kosh verifying unofficial reports of the
deaths of Sergt. Elmer Bulls, Louis
Suess Sergt, Richard Procknow and
Corp Walter Thone
A naval section of the students
army training corps, consisting of 500
men of selective service age, who
voluntarily enroll in the unit, will be
established at the University of Wis
consin Oct /, to train engineer and
deck officers for the navy, according to
an announcement received from Wash.
ington. Of the 300 men in the naval
section, $50 are TO be electrical or me.
Cnanical engineering students. The
university is one of two Wisconsin in
situations which will have naval
S. A. II. c. sections The other is
Marquette university, which will have
a quota of sixty men
Ennis Kruger, youngest of the
quartet who resisted the authority OF
the United States in the administra.
ton of the army selection law, is
dead, and one brother, perhaps two
are trapped by federal deputies near
Policy twenty-five miles from owen
Ennis Kruger, 90, was shot to death
in barn two miles southeast of
Policy according to United States
Marshal Joseph CAN'T, who brought
the body TO Owen. Frank Kruger,
81, eldest of the brothers, is in a hos
pital at Chippewa Falls having sur
rendered after the first battle on the
Kruger homestead, in which he was
wounded Leslie %, and Louis, 26,
are stil sought
According to an announcement re-
ceived at Madison wholesale and re-
tail druggists throughout the country
have received communications enlist
ing them in the drive to save the fruit
pits and nutshells for the manufacture
OF carbon for army masks by Lieut.
Col. +. +. Simpson, chief If the section
of medical industry. war industries
board They are asked to establish
points of collection for pits at their
stores. Two hundred peach pits or
seven pounds of nutshclls will supply
carbon for one mask. They must be
cleaned and dried before they are
turned in. Bakers have also been no
tilted by the United States food admin
istration, and confectioners and res
taurant proprietors in various cities
have begun serving fruits at cost in
order TO secure supply of pits for
the masks
Judge Arthur Cough, Chippewa
Falls. grandfather of Arthur Mcleod,
clerk of the Wisconsin supreme court.
Is dead He was "a years of age. Up
to a few years ago he practced law
and was editor OF the Catholic Senti-
mel at Chippewa Falls.
After being in operation at Frederic
for month during which time over
500 barrels of dill pickles were pack