The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-12-25


drawn into the fly wheel. His skull
was fractured.
The ice industry of Kenosha county
went glimmering when Chicago com
panies announced that they would fill
only a few of the many large ice
houses of the county this winter, They
declare that artificial ice is cheaper
because of the high price of labor.
Discharging five foremen, who, he
alleged had allied themselves with
stockholders, seeking to gain control
of the business, Fred Opitz, superin.
tendent of the Perfex Radiator com.
pany, Racine, caused a walkout of
nearly every employee of the company,
causing complete close down of the
plant.
Mrs. Johanna Reed, blind and liv-
inc alone, was burned to death in her
home at Oshkosh. Her body was
found in the dining room where II is
supposed her clothing caught fire at
the stove. No one saw the accident!
She was about 20 years old. She had
sister at Chicago and brother in
Montana.
Because of an insistent demand from
teachers and school board members,
the Outagamie County School News,
first rural school newspaper in Wis
consin, has been forced TO resume
publication after a suspension OF sew
eral months caused by the print paper
shortage. The paper is published
monthly by the county superintendent
of schools.
Deposits in state banks increased
$110,000,000 in the period of Nov. ]
1918, to Nov. H. 1919, when the call
was issued. according to an abstract
of conditions made public by State
Banking Commissioner Marshall
Cousins. Loans and discounts in
creased S6I000O00 in the same pc
Rod The total resources of the state
banks is placed at $3.50 ,92786.
A transaction has been completed
at Burlington whereby four condenso-
ries of the Wisconsin Milk company
of this city will become the property
of the Nestles' Food company of New
York. The condensories, located at
Burlington and Valders, Wis, and
Grays Lake and Prentonicee, H.. will
be operated by the Nestles' Food com
pany after Jan. 2, 1920. The concen
row owns twelve factories in Wiscon.
sin.
Development of an extensive mari
bed discovered under a marsh near
Bloomer for lining farm lands in the
older sections in that vicinity, where
clover and peas are raised is being
started. Tests are being made. Prof
A. R. Whitson, soils department, Uni
Versity of Wisconsin, has found tina,
the mari bed runs very high N linn
carbonate, which many farmers are
having shipped from long distances al
expense.
In collision between the Omro-
Berlin-Oshkosh automobile bus and a
500 train seven persons were in
jured, three seriously, including Her
bert Exner, Berlin, hand and back
sprained Miss Mary Williams Der.
lin, head cut; Mrs. Herman Wilkie of
Oshkosh, head bruised 1t is said the
gates were down as the freight ap.
preached, but that the bus driver be
lieyed he had time to cross and, APP
parently, went under the gate.
Men feet inches in height, weigh
ing 116 ponucs, may now enlist in the
national guard This is one inch
shorter than tho minimum prior to
the war bit ;hrec inches higher than
the draft minimum. These are the
amended regulations, just received by
the adjutant general from Washing.
ton. Unlike the days before the war,
the young man between is and q
years of age does not have 10 have the
consent of his parents to enlist, but
under no circumstances is a boy under
Is years to be taken in.
Mrs. Adam Ogodzki, member OF
was awarded damages
TO $4,000. by jury in Circuit court at
In her suit against the
Rev. A. W. Cara, pastor of the church,
who was charged with forcibly ejectinG
her. Mrs. Ogodzki claimed severe in
juries and illness as result of having
been put out of the church. She is the
wife of the organist. Charles Marso
lex, independence postmaster, and
Simon Skruch, members of the choir,
are joint defendants in the suit,
At elections of Dec. 16, three coun-
ties voted down good roads bond is.
sues, and one, Fond du Lac, voted APP.
prevail Dane county voted down a
proposed S10,000,000 issue, Grant one
OF S5,000,000 and Iowa county disap
proved its proposed bond issue of ST.,
100000 The bond issue approved in
Fond du Lac county calls for the ex
penditure of S4,600,000 during the next
eight years. The vote was close, while
in the other three counties the pro
pOsdl was ueledteu ny OVERWHELMING
majorities.
Adolph Emerson, Wisconsin uni
versity medical student, became i'll
and his fiance, Miss Mayme Hackett,
Los Angeles, FASTENED to his bedside
with marriage license to cheer him.
He has until Jan s to get well and
enjoy his honeymoon before classes
begin.
Thefts of money and jewelry from
Chaplin hall of Beloit college. dormi
tory for freshmen girls, resulted in
The arrest of Eueene Riley. former