The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-28


floating in the lake neaI the Sheboy
gan lighthouse by coast guards.
The Brown County Bar Association
unanimously endorsed Justice Marvin
b. Rosenberg as candidate for justice
of the supreme court to succeed him
self.
A more thorough enforcement OF
Sunday closing laws of the state is
forecasted in an opinion given by At
torney General Haven to District At.
torney Ralph Smith of Lincoln.
Whistles blew and bells rang in for.
nal announcement that industrial Nee
nah had commenced working for the
war One-half hour per week. under
the kenosha plan, will be devoted to
the raising of a war fund.
The will of the late Senator Isaac
Stephenson was filed with the county
court of Marinette county and appli-
cation made for its probate. 1t is an
instrument of tifty-eight pages and
was executed at Marinette June Is,
1916
Twelve big Industrial plants at Nee
nah, comprising practically all of Nee
nah's leading manufacturing concerns,
have through the cooperation of their
employees set up 100 per cent record
in responding to the Kenosha plan for
war funds.
Kenosha will not vote on the wet
and dry issue this spring according TO
present indications. If the drys are
casting their eyes in the direction OF
Menasha they have yet to make the
fact known as no prohibition petitions
are in circulation.
That it is the duty of district attor.
neys to enforce the law wherever they
know of violation and that it is their
duty to make complaints wherever
they occur is the opinion of Atty-Gen,
Spencer Haven to Dist-Atty. Ralph
Smith of Lincoln county.
j. NJ. Callahan of Milwaukee, secre
tary of the Davies campaign commit
tee, filed statement with the secre
tary of state showing the total expense
of the Davies campaign to be S3,177.40
The committee received in contribu
tions $4,000, including $l,7O0 from Mr.
Davies.
Car shortage and not boarding was
declared to be the cause for the small
shipments of potatoes, from Central
Wisconsin markets from the masses of
testimony introduced by the legisla
tive committee More than 100 repre-
sentative growers, dealers and ship.
pers from Waupaca and adjacent coun-
ties gave testimony.
Owing to the fuel situation the sa.
looms will close in Merrill on Sundays.
The question arose as to who should
make the complaint for continuation
of the enforcement Of the Sunday clos.
ing law. The attorney general sug-
gests that those who have through
custom kept their places open on Sun
day, be notified. An enforcement of
the Sunday closing law is contemplat.
ed
The libel suit of Rev. Alfred Leslie
MCfse of Waukesha against the Mod
ern Woodmen of America, which grew
out of the recent insurance rate war
when, Morse alleges. the order de-
| famed his character by the publica
tion of a booklet dealing with his life
as minister in Wisconsin towns, was
settled at La Crosse The Woodmen
paid him a substantial sum, attorneys
said.
An Austrian employed at the factory
of the j. |. Case Threshing Machine
company was roughly handled by fell
low employees, and would have been
| thrown into the river had officers of
| the company not prevented il. The
| Austrian was ordered to kiss the flag.
which he did after crawling on hands
and knees for a considerable distance,
and then willingly contributed TO the
county war relief fund.
Plunging over ten-foot embank.
ment when his automobile became un.
manageable near Bluff Siding, w. A.
Broght, mayor of Trempeauleau and
travelling salesman employed by La
Crosse grocery firm. was fatally in.
| jured. lie died while directing Joe
Miller a passenger in the machine
with him, and who escaped serious in.
jury. to secure a pry to lift the over.
turned machine from his body.
Joseph Pappan, Kenosha man who
was supposedly buried with ceremony
at Kenosha some three years ago has
turned up again. Letters from San
Francisco announce Pappan is now SUI.
perintendent of tannery there. Thres
years ago. a body recovered from the
lake was identified as the body of Pap
pan. A brother of Pappan and mem
bers of the society to which he be-
longed are now wondering who the
man they buried was
Fifteen hundred people assembled
in the high school gymnasium at Wa
tertown and many more were turned
away when the newly organized local
council of defense held its first as
sembly meeting. Judge W. II. Wood.
ard, chairman; Prof w. II. Kiekhoefer
of the University of Wisconsin and II
j. James of Fort Atkinson, chairman
of the county council of defense,
spoke advocating quick and thorough
preparation for the third Liberty loan
campaign.
The big government transport which
is under construction at the shipyards
at Sturgeon Bay is nearing completion
and the launching will take place. II
is expected at an early date. Prepare