The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-17

pneumonia.
II. S. Siggelko, Madison attorney.
who was nominated for attorney-gen
eral on the Prohibition ticket a month
ago, filed declination with Secretary
of State Merlin Hull.
After an illness of four days, DR..
Clyde Storment of Viola, one Of the
most prominent physicians in that
part of the state, died OF Spanish in
huenza. He was 35 years old.
Co. b, Ninth Regiment, Wisconsin
State Guards, composed of Neenah
and Menasha men, won the Chase
trophy and first place for being the
best trained unit in the regiment
Dr. c. o. Latham, for the last five
years resident physician at the Wis
consin State reformatory, Green Bay,
has been commissioned captain in the
medical corps and ordered to report
at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark.
A six-cent fare was installed in Ra-
cine on Sunday, Oct 6. by the Mil
waukee Electric Railway and Light
company, operating the local street
railway system, following decision
of the state railroad commission.
The city of Green Bay has reached
a $50 per cent subscription in the
fourth Liberty Loan. The volunteer
plan has proved successful in Brown
county. Out of 1861 allotments over
1880 were completed without per
sonal solicitation,
Ninety-one S. A. r. c. men from
the University of Wisconsin left for
officers training camps. OF these
seventy-tive went to Camp Grant for
infantry training, eight to Camp Han
cock, Ga, for machine gun, and eight
to Camp Taylor, Ky, for artillery.
Claiming the bible excused him
from serving in the war, George
Wickland, 80 years old, of Maiden
Rock. said he refrained from register
ing for army service because of re-
ligious scruples, when arraigned be-
fore United States Court Commits
sioner Alfred Harrison at La Crosse.
He was held to the grand jury
The Racine county board Of super
visors voted to accept and amintain
a 100-bed hospital which is to be con
structed through private subscriptions
and a $4,000 appropriation from the
Racine county war chest. The board
has also unanimously voted to pur-
chase 100000 of the fourth Liberty
Loan bonds
on a hurryup call for nurses for
Camp Grant to assist in the effort to
control Spanish influenza, FIVE Osh-
kosh nurses were secured in four
hours time and they were on their
way to camp. The volunteers were
Misses Anna Bodden, Ellen Allen.
Charlotte Case. Anna Naby and Alice
GirouX All are graduate nurses.
Adjt. Gen. Orlando Holway, Madi-
son, has received calls from the fed
eral government for 4,S65 men. They
are to entrain in the fve-day period
beginning Oct. 81 OF this number, g.
453 men are wanted for general serv
ice at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg
Miss, and 1,142 for general service at
Jackson Barracks, Louisiana,
Byron b, Northrop, SO years old
dean of Wisconsin bankers, died at his
home in Racine Death was due to a
shock received when he fell week
ago and broke his right hip. Mr.
Northrop was born in New York in
1880. coming to Racine county in
1912. He attended colleges in Wis
consin and Michigan, graduating from
the University Of Michigan in 1855.
In order to determine who the
slackers in Outagamie county are, all
those who have refused to purchase
Liberty bonds will have their names
published and also placed in the Outa-
gamie County War history 1t is fear
ed that there will be a large number
of names to be published according to
members Of the Liberty Bond commit.
tee
IF you have any unused sugar cert.
ficates please return them to the sugar
committee at the state capitol so that
the sugar may be redistributed where
it is needed" is the plea of the Wis.
consn food administration. It is only
through such cooperation that the
committee is able to furnish sugar
for home canning purposes and other
emergency cases.
The following officers were elected
at Rhinelander at the annual meeting
of the Wisconsin W. c. II. IT,: Presi-
dent. Mrs. Mary Scott johnson. Supe.
rior; vicepresdent, Mrs. A. w. War
rem. Stoughton; corresponding secre-
tary Mrs u. w. Follett, Marshiield:
recording secretary, Miss Julia Hutch.
inson, Waupaca; treasurer, Mrs. Ida
NJ. Cooke, Green Bay
Edward Tctzlolf, retired farmer
De Pere, was arrested on charge of
violating the espionage act. According
to evidence in court he made sarcas-
tic remarks TO representative of the
Liberty Loan committee. Judge Mona
han suspended sentence after Mr.
Tetzloif had subscribed S3A50. one.
tenth of his estimated wealth. lie
also consented to give 800 to the Red
Cross. Knights of Columbus and Y
NJ. G A
George G. Laird for thirty-four
years chime ringer at st. Pauls ca
thedral, Fond du Lac, resigned to take
a vacation, the first in that period
Mr.. Laird has been absent from his
duties only once during this career