The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-06-20


cation.
A coroner's Jury decided that the
death of Edward Gerke, prominent
farmer found dead in field near To-
nah with a broken neck and burned
clothing, was caused by lightning.
About twenty saloons in Manitowoc
will not reopen in July, the start of the
fiscal year. Uncertainty as to the
business and shortage of help is said
to be the reason.
Sentences of two years and one year
in Waupun, respectively, were imposed
upon Oscar Olson and Charles Carls-
from, La Crosse, charged with having
impersonated secret service agents to
force attention upon girl.
Herman Rutzen, jefferson, as, for
merly well-known baseball player,
killed himself by hanging from the
door OF his cell in the Jefferson Jail,
where he was serving sentence for
disorderly conduct.
The 1000 Fond du Lac persons en-
listed in the service of the county
council of defense received notice to
turn in names of all persons not use
fully at work. They'll go to work or
to JAIL" said Chairman Frank j. Wolf.
The city of Marinette completed
deal for the purchase of seventeen
acres of land adjoining the ten acres
now constituting the city almshouse
cit "a ngpH
for farming purposes and will keep the
inmates busy.
Martin Christensen, county treasu-
rer for Racine county, established a
record when he offered for sale hun
dreds of parcels of land, sold as de-
linquent. The total amount of taxes
due was over $4,000. The buying was
not brisk.
When Milo WEIGH, Milwaukee bar
Der, arrived at Marinette, the first
news of his brothers. death reached
him at the railway station, where
casket enclosing the body of Lennie
Welch was awaiting shipment to Biz
namwood for burial.
While the weather this spring has
been very favorable for the pea crop
in the older sections of the state and
on soil that has been planted to sue
cessiVe crops of peas or which has
been given improper applications OF
old pea vines infected with the pea
blight organism the blight has ap
peared.
With the drafting of Albert Nc
Mahon, city engineer, Neenah is Civ
ing quite a few of its officials to the
country's service. City Attorney C
c. Fem is now captain at Camp
Custer; City Physician G. c. DelMar
celle is with the boys in France, while
Mayor c. b. Clark is a member of the
state guards
Democrats of the First congressional,
district will assemble in Burlington OIL
July s, to recommend a candidate for
representative in congress to succeed
Henry Allen Cooper who is bitterly
opposed for the republican nomination
by a faction of his own party that
named Judge Clifford Randall, Keno
sha, as their choice.
Joseph Hoof who runs a summer ia
sort near Gable, Bayfield, county, plan
ned venison dinner for some Chicago
friends, but the game wardens go,
there first. 1t cost Coof $90.13 in fines
and costs for forty pounds of venison
in his possession and the wardens
would not even leave him piece OF
the meat after he had paid up
One hundred delegates to the annual
convention Of the Wisconsin Fedora.
ton of Women's Catholic clubs at Ra
cine adopted resolution which pro
vides that only the English language
shall be taught in schools and that
movement to introduce the O'Clock
Angelus in all American homes anO
silent prayer for peace be carried out
County boards of supervisors are tc
be urged by the Woman's committee
of county councils of defense to pro
coed at once to establish sanitario for
the care of tubercular soldiers. AL
ready 434 enlisted men have been re
turned TO Wisconsin with tuberculai
infection and the women urge that
steps be taken at once, not only to ef
feet cure of these men but to prevent
them from being sources of infection
to others.
George c. Humphrey of the Uniyer
sity of Wisconsin has been placed on
the official list OF judges of Holsteins
for American fairs and dairy cattle ex.
positions of 1918. Three of the other
nominees are w. l.. Carlyle of Cana.
da, formerly connected with the Wis.
consin agricultural college; w. A.
McKerrow, st. Paul, MINI, formerly
of Waukesha county; &. e. Morton of
the Colorado agricultural college, for
merly a resident Of Rock county.
or fight rule is sought by the state
council of defense in an order issued
to county councils to cooperate with
draft officials in rounding up idlers.
it is requested that citizens generally
interest themselves in reporting to 10
cal draft boards registrants who are
idlers, engaged in serving food and
drink, elevator operators, door men,
ushers, attendants, sales clerks, store
employees, or employed in domestic
service.
Joseph Chapp, a resident of the town
of Knowlton, Marathon county, re-
Gently remarked that Liberty bonds