The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-04


John o. Johnson, so years of age,
was killed while removing loaded
shotgun from an automobile The
trigger caught in the car. He was as
SCISSOR of the town of Argyle.
The tug Brogan, which wintered at
the shipyards in Sturgeon Bay sank,
and now lies in twenty-four feet OF
water alongside the north pier What
caused the craft to sink is a mystery
Because Menasha wants to be 100
per cent patriotic, residents of Berlin
street have pettioned the council to
change the name to something more
| American.
Hundreds of housewives attended the
recent city fish sale held at Sheboy.
gan, when the city sold more than g.
600 pounds of pickerel and rough FISH
at prices ranging from to TO cents a
pound.
Arthur Lackhaus. 81 years old, died
at his home in the town OF Auburn as
| the result of injuries received when
his arm caught in the hywheel of a
motor on farm of New Prospect.
His skull was crushed.
The first death of "A Racine soldier
in France was reported by the war
department in telegram to Thomas
o. Evans advising him his son Gull
bert. % years old, died March % of
measles
Mrs. Minnie Drinkwater of Bridge
port, near Prairie du Chen, was held
by Judge Nelson of the county court
on charge of having murdered her
husband, Frank Drnkwater, a saloon
keeper.
The chief clerks Office of the rail.
way mail service at La Crosse will be
abolished according to word from
Congressman Esch. David Evans,
chief clerk. and four assistants will be
transferred.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Plainteld are heavy losers on their
potato crop and now have their cellars
full of fine eating potatoes. They get
go cents per 100 pounds for the best
ard SO cents per bushel for red stock.
Joseph Lewandowsh, a filer in a
sawmill at Athens was killed almost
instantly when steam pipe on the
boiler burst. LewandOwsh's back was
broken and he was frightfully scalded.
He was % years old and is survived
by widow and one child
William Topper, who was arrested
at Rhinelander last December on a dis
orderly charge together with that OF
being German spy, will be interned
near Atlanta, Ga. A federal officer
said it has been determined after in
vestigation that this man is a spy.
Miss Anna Schurman, 12-year old
girl trapper of Willow Springs, Lafay-
cite county, trapped $1,000 worth of
furs during the winter. Her catch con
sisted of fifteen muskrats, four skunks
and two minks She personally skin
ned the animals and cured the furs.
Clintonyile and the village of En-.
barrass became bone dry when federal
officers ordered saloons closed for the
duration of the war. There are mill.
tary camps in Clintonville in connec.
ton with the Four-Wheel Drive fac.
tory and no saloons are permitted
within five miles.
The Waupaca starch factory which
has not been in operation for seven
years, will start up again to make
starch from potatoes which are now
at price that permits their use as
starch. The factory will use 1900
bushels Of potatoes per day paying 40
cents a hundred now for culls and No.
2 grade
Wisconsin farmers are being warn.
ed to insist upon receiving certified re-
ports of termination tests with all
seed corn which they buy from Con
necticut growers or dealers. officials
of the Connecticut. Agricultural col
lege have written the Wisconsin seed
stocks committee, cautionlng them
against buying Connecticut corn with
out requiring termination tests.
Under a proclamation issued by c.
p. Norgord, commissioner of agricul-
ture, approved by the state council of
defense and Gov Il. l.. Phillip, all
dogs in Milwaukee Dane, Racine, Ke-
nosha, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson,
Walworth and Washington counties
must be confined or muzzled for pc
iod of 100 days to elimi ate the rabies
This is the most drastic action ever
taken in the state.
Plans are being made for gigantic
Liberty day celebration in Madison on
April 6. 1t is planned to have u parade
on the afternoon of April 6. the an.
niversary of Americas entry into the
war, with more than 10000 marchers.
Several hundred soldiers from this
county and vicinity, who are now at
Camp Grant, are expected TO take part.
Former President William Howard
Taft Is expected to be one OF the
speakers.
Simon Thoreson, former assembly.
man, died at his home in Grantsburg.
He had been in i'll health for a year
Mr. Thoreson had been member of
the Grantsburg school board, president
and trustee OF the village. chairman of
the county board of Burnett county,
chairman of the republican county
committee and in 1896 delegate to the
republican convention at St Louis.
He was born in Bardo, Norway. on
May 30. 1S49.
Capt. Robert p. Robinson, formerly
of Beloit, has been promoted TO major