The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-03


died at Sheboygan.
The work of converting the armory
at Rhinelander into a clubhouse for
Oneida county soldiers and sailors will
be completed before Easter.
DR.. Lyman Steffer, son of DR.. /. D.
Steffen, former mayor Of Amigo,
who has been with the British armies,
was promoted from lieutenant to cap
tain.
Forty-two students. twenty-four girls
among the number, will graduate
from the Neenah high school in June,
the largest class ever leaving the in
stitution.
Fourteen cans of speckled trout fry
have arrived at Rhinelander and have
been planted in the Bear Skin river
by the Oneida Fish and Game Protec-
tive association.
Kenosha Boy Scouts were ordered to
be ready to assist in the Victory loan
drive April 81 to May 10. The boys
are ready to better their record OF
$75O,0O0 in the last drive.
Rev. Edward Schmidt, former chap
lain at Camp Taylor, KY, and director
of the Negro mission at New Orleans,
was installed at Sheboygan as pastor
lof st. Pauls Lutheran church.
Rev. A. Milnar is the new rector of
the IS. Cyril and Methodious Cath
Ollie church at Sheboygan, succeeding
Tho Dow IarooS rbarpa who raoaptlv
took charge of parish in Milwaukee.
The war record of the Amigo public
schools shows that S75 pupils own war
savings stamps valued at $15,405.76,
am that 270 own Liberty bonds worth
S3S,595. Pupils adopted eleven French
war orphans.
A $4,000 hospital will be erected
in Hartford by Miss Helen Lohr, man
and her associate, Miss Esther Welter.
The building will be ready for oc-
cupancy by fall.
Neenah will support the employment
service bureau which UP to recently
has been maintained by the govern
ment. The money for such mainten-
ance will be paid out of the war chest
fund, it was decided,
Two carloads, $500 crates, of egg
cases, were received by one dealer at
Darlington, to be shipped before the
summer is over This is more than
100000 eggs. He is one of eight or
nine large dealers there
Restoration of a 15-cent car fare be-
tweer Neenah and Appleton and the
probable resorting to the 10-cent rate
following July 81, has put crimp into
toe jitney lines which contemplated
operating between the two cities.
The sanatorium committee of Ash
land, Bayfield, and Iron counties is
calling for bids for the construction
of a tuberculosis hospital at Salmo,
which borders the three counties. The
building will be of fireproof construc-
ton.
In 1880 the Wausau Driving Park
association secured a ninety-nine year
lease on the race track and grounds
of the Marathon County Agricultural
society. For many years the club has
held no meetings and is practically
out of existence, and now the faS so
ciety has started suit in circuit court
to have that contract declared void.
A band of auto bandits descended
upon Lodi, dynamited the safe in the
Office of w. w. Steeler Lumber Co,
and escaped with several thousand
dollars, mostly in Liberty bonds.
Bloodhounds trapped one of the band,
evidently left behind as a tip-off, on
the edge of town. No loot was recov-
cred.
Harold l.. Geisse, Madison, for six
years secretary of the railroad com
mission, has resigned. He has gone
to Chicago, where he will be associ-
ated with the insult interests, devot-
ing most of his time to the Contra
Illinois Utility company and the Wis
consin Power, Light and Heat com
pany.
Thomas Salisbury, Wausau, was
found guilty on the charge of assault
with intent to kill and was sentenced
to five years in Waupun, Salisbury,
last December, went to the Office of
former District Attorney John Rob
erts, at Grand Rapids, Wood county,
and shot him in the chest because he
refused to bring prosecution he de-
sired.
A cooperative business school will
be opened in Superior during the sum
mer for a six weeks course in manag.
ing, bookkeeping and clerking in co.
operative mercantile establishments,
according to decision of the Coop
erative Central Exchange. The idea
is to produce uniform Management
and accounting in all stores affiliated
with the exchange, which has now
purchasing power of $2,500,000 an
nually.
Increases in salaries approXimatine
$4,000 or 1874 per cent over those
paid last year were granted public
school teachers of Green Bay. The adj
vances average $3.50 year for prin-
cipals and 500 year for teachers.
The teachers asked increases aggre-
eating S45,S50 including a bonus Of
500 for this years work. The bonus
and another demand of the teachers
for five days sick leave allowance
with full pay were not considered by
the board.