The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Members Of the Farmers Equity as
sociation contemplate the opening OF
a general store in Reedsville.
Every one of Menasha's twenty 80
cieties was represented at meeting
Of committees to discuss war savings
plans.
a farmers institute will be held at
Reedsville on March and 6. A cook
ing school will be held in connection
with the institute.
The "Wattles" barn, a landmark OF
Kenosha, situated in the center of the
business district, was destroyed by
fire of mysterious origin.
Mrs. j. II. Patterson of River Falls
has a can of gooseberries which she
! preserved fortyfour years ago The
fruit is in excellent condition.
Forty-one years in business is
the successful record of Gottfried
Ulrich, pioneer Neenah meat dealer,
who recently celebrated the anniver-
sary,
Beloit college receives $4,000 from
the estate of Mary Dunbar, an old Be
lott resident, whose death occurred re-
Gently. This represented almost her
entire possessions.
Intense suffering, especially among
the poor families, was caused at
Neenah when the recent cold wave
struck the city and found dealers un-
able to supply coal
A campaign for 10000 war gardens
in 1918 has been launched by the Mad.
ison Association of Commerce. An ex-
pert from the university has been en-
gagged who will supervise the work.
Waterpower users al Menasha have
| pettioned the government to allow
the water 10 be lowered to two feet
below the crest of the Menasha dam
| The water is now eighteen inches
beneath this mark.
Mrs Martin Field of Eau Claire has
| received a telegram from the war d,
partment saying that her brother,
Arthur Nelson Harvey of Troop ]
107th supply train, is among the
known dead of the Tuscania.
Charles II. Crownhart of Madison,
| former chairman of the industrial
commission will be a candidate for
| the supreme court against Justice
NJ. b. Rosenberg Crownhart made
this known a short time ago.
The Marathon county asylum man
agement has increased the cleared
acreage at the asylum farms and this
year viii have 400 acres under cultiva-
ton. Rye, oats and ensilage corn will
be the principal crops.
BY a unanimous vote the Manitowoc
council approved the park program
which for two years remained undo.
cided and authorized the purchase of
three sites for park and playground
purposes at cost of $27,700
Lieut.. Frank Tiilmann has left La
! Crosse Tor an Atlantic port, whence
he will sail for France. He is a pilot
in the aviation corps. Norman Mol,
another La Crosse fier has been or.
dercd TO Urbana H., for training
Directors of the Marathon County
! Fair association have elected the fol.
lowing officers for 1918: President
Judd S. Alexander; vice-president,
| ID. Christie; treasurer, A. A. thinner.
mann; superintendent of speed, G. A.
! Mills
| Eighty-one young women employed
| by the Fairbanks Morse company, Be
| lott, have pledged themselves 10 work
| as a body, one night each week, for
the Red Cross. The Beloit center has
been reserved for them for work on
Thursday nights
The license question will be put TO
a test in each city, town and village
in Brown county on April 2, providing
! 200 signatures are secured to peti-
tons, The campaign for the dry sup
p0rters is in charge Of f. w Corbett
and his son, c. G. Corbett, engaged by
the Green Bay and Brown County Dry
league.
The Federation 9. WOmen's clubs at
Manitowoc has filed petitions with the
city council and district attorney ask
ing that the motion picture Cleopatra,
in which Theda Bara is featured, be
barred from showing in Manitowoc.
Manager Peck, of the opera house,
Cancelled the engagement as soon as
he heard that clubwomen objected to
it,.
Judge Isaac Crate, 81. first munic-
ipal judge OF Manitowoc county, died
at Manitowoc following parayt
stroke. He was born in Maniowoc in
1856. Judge Cratic was admitted to
the bar in 1890. Five years later he
was elected municipal judge and serv-
ed for six years Between 1887 and
1889 he was a member of the state
legislature.
Assemblyman T., ]. Labuwi was ar
rested at Neosha by the Shirt of
Dodge county. Later he was released
on $2,500 bond. The charges were pre-
ierred by Sias Mcclure before Justice
of the Peace J. d. Lyons and grew out
of the handling of the funds of a cele.
bration held last July which. it is said
was advertised as a benefit for the
Red Cross.
Miss Ruth NJ. Boyle of Madison.
graduate of the University of Wiscon.
sin in 1916. and woman's editor OF
Farm and Fireside, sailed for France
20 take up journalistic and secretarial
work in connection with the army Y.
M, G. A.
Parents of Baraboo boys. saved