The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


without prisoners.
The Appleton board of equalization
/ has increased assessments about per
cent, due to new buildings and en-
larged stocks by industrial plants and
| merchants.
Father c. E. Dowd, of Eau Claire,
| left for Camp Lee, Va, where he has
been assigned as army chaplain hav.
| ing received a lieutenants commits
sion.
Since the selective draft law went
| into effect, the cost to the state of
Wisconsin has been $260,000 according
to estimates prepared by Major K. A.
Fitzpatrick. The cost for July will be
about $4,000.
The railroad commission has given a
hearing on the application of the
town of Milton for the purchase of the
light and water company there. The
property is now privately owned and
the town wishes to purchase it.
The barn on a fancy stock farm
north of Menomonie, owned by Atty
G. r. Bundy of Eau Claire, burned with
a loss of $4,000. Many head of pure
bred Guernsey cows were rescued
with difficulty.
Women may soon be employed as
gas meter readers at Madison, as two
of the men are subject to army call.
Women have replaced men in the gas
company offices. Superior has a wom-
| an gas meter reader.
Two University of Wisconsin goods,
Margaret Lewis and Alice King, swan
Lake Waubesa, distance of about
three miles. Miss lewis made the trip
in fifty-fve minutes, Miss King in
about siXty-five minutes.
Prof. II. ]. Thorkelson, business
manager of the University of Wiscon-
sin, will leave for Washington as soon
as his affairs can be adjusted, to ac.
cept an important post in the quarter
masters corps of the army.
Rev. Albert S. Gilbert, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church, Onalaska,
is employed daily in the plant of the
Onalaska Picking and Canning Co He
states he is merely doing his duty as
a citizen in laboring during the rush
season when help is short.
Cherries are being sold by the fruit
growers OF Door county for the highest
price in the history of the crop. Cases
are sent out at prices from $2.75 to SO
for each 16-quart case This is due to
the very light yield from this years
crop.
The Rev. j. Wesley Corter, pastor of
| the Uniyersalist church of Racine for
the last twelve years, has given his
| resignation to the congregation and
will engage in work at war camps both
with the Y. NJ. c. A. and government
| bureau work.
Mike Weber, a farmer residing near
| Gresham, Shawano county, father of
nine children, was killed instantly
when his automobile overturned. His
neck was broken. Webers son, one
armed boy, who was with him, escap.
ed with only slight bruises.
Dane county Democrats, in confer.
ence, indorsed L. j. Reynolds, Madi-
son attorney, for the Democratic nom
ination for congress in the Third dis
trict. M. j. Briggs, Dodgeville, and c.
l.. Lathrop, Crawford county, are also
candidates.
Oliver, the only wet town in the vi
cinity of Duluth and Superior, has
| added five special policemen to its
force of one, since the village became
an oasis in the thirst desert. The only
saloon in the town employs eight bar
tenders to handle it's increased trade.
Charles Larson, of Waupaca, for the
second consecutive year won the In.
terstate Trapshooting Association
State Amateur championship at the
| Wisconsin State Trapshooters' tourna.
ment al Wausau. He will be the states
| representative in the Great American
| Handicap tournament. The 1919 state
| tournament will be held at Milwau-
kee.
Unless the farm labor situation
clears itself Immediately, Gov. E. L.
| Philip will probably issue proclama-
| ton calling on all business and pro
| fessional men and manufacturers, ex-
| cept those engaged on war work, to
| close their places of business, at least
one day week so their employees can
go out and help the farmers with the
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state
Henry Carl Theodore Fromm, living
near Wausau, was arrested charged
with wilfully and unlawfully advocat.
ing, teaching and advising that citi-
zens of this state should not aid and
assist the United States in procuring
| and carrying On the war with public
enemies of the United States. The
accused is a son of Fred Fromm, So
cialist candidate for state senator. One
brother, Walter, disappeared when
called for military service early in
| May and another, John William, fail.
| ed to respond for entrainment.
Mrs Marx Traxler, residing at Me.
nominie, was kill when her Gaugh
| ter, who escaped with slight bruises,
drove the car over an embankment in
trying to avoid another automobile
going in an opposite direction.
Robert La Toilette, Jr.. son of Sen.
ator La Toilette, who has been i'll for
many months, has been taken from
the senator's home at Washington, d.
c., to Hot Springs, Va, on the orders
of his physician. Senator and Mrs