The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-23
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
News of the Badger State Arranged
....... in Condensed Form 1900.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Beloit citizens are urging the APP
pointment of woman probation Off
Ger for the municipal court
The death toll in La Crosse county
in December during the height of the
influenza epidemic, was 127, twice the
normal number.
Rev. Joseph p. Rausch. recently or
dained, has been appointed by Bishop
Paul p. Rhode as assistant to Father
George Clifford of st. Patrick's church,
Menasha.
When a fireman at No. 4 station,
La Crosse, pulled a bell rope at s
p. m, the curfew did not ring. Fire
men found the belfry abaze and the
bell rope burned off.
Two were killed when work train
string of box cars on the main
track, Northwestern line, in the
yards at Rhinelander.
DR.. w c. Watkins, Oconto. who left
with Co. NJ and had the rank of cap
tain, was recently promoted to major.
He has been fulfilling the duties of
major for nearly year.
An armory, monument, memorial
club building, bridge across the Me
nasha river with memorial arch are
among suggestions as 10 what to do
for the boys of Menasha
Petitions are being circulated in Fox
river valley cities addressed to the
legislature urging enactment OF laws
which will permit removal of fish from
the waters of the Fox river and Lake
Winnebago by use of nets.
The William Sink Canning Co.,
Brandon, changed hands and will be
known in the future as the Brandon
Canning Co. The company will en-
gage in canning vegetables, dairying,
general farming and buying and sell
ing real estate. The capital stock is
100000.
The meetings of Wisconsin Farm
ers' week, to be held at Madison Feb.
to s, have been cancelled With
word from twenty counties that the
influenza epidemic is serious in rural
communities the college of agriculture
thought is unwise to hold statewide
meeting.
At recent meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Cheesemakers' association held at
Madison, these officers were elected:
Charles E. Reed, Thorpe, president;
j. L. Sammis, Madison, secretary; Z.
A, Ubbelohde, Glenbeulah, treasurer;
and J. A. Kalk, Sheboygan Falls, vice
president.
President Samuel Plantz, Lawrence
college, announced an anonymous gift
OF $4,000 to be used as scholarship
fund for soldiers wounded or crippled
in the war. An additional fund of
$500 has been given the college by
Miss Lucy Parker, Tomah, to be used
by needy students looking forward TO
the ministry.
Milo B. Jones, president of the Jones
Dairy farm of Fort Atkinson, and
known all over the United States as
maker of the famous Jones sausages,
died suddenly He was nearly 20
years old. Mr.. Jones, whose limbs
have been twisted by rheumatism for
shirty-fve years, has been in poor
health for several months past.
Capt. Ralph Perry, son of eX-State
Senator Mel Perry, Algoma, died Nov.
% of wounds received Nov. II. Capt.
Perry received a first lieutenancy at
40 off nrc' fro nj ~ OF
Fort Sheridan. He won his captaincy
through gallant action on the front
lines. He began his military career
as first lieutenant of Co f, Fifth Wis
eonsin National guards.
Frank Richmond, Knowlton, plead
ed guilty in circuit court at Wausau,
TO a charge of hunting without Ii
cense and was fined $50 and costs. He
said he would rather serve ninety
day sentence and Judge Reid instruct
ed the sheriff to put him to work and
collect his wages until the penalty was
satisfied, and if Richmond refuses to
work to put him on a bread and water
diet.
The better dairy cattle movement
in Portage county is to be given new
impetus by importation of twenty
pure bred Guernsey heifers, direct
from the island of Guernsey. Eight
are purchased by Robert K. Mcdonald,
five by G. w. Andrae, three by ID, f.
Gates, and four by j, w. Gunegan.
The latter, vice-president of the First
National bank, will use them in form
ing a COW club among farmers.
Meetings of the Wisconsin Butter
makers association, to be held at Eau
Claire Feb. 4 to 8, will be given large
ly to discussion OF reconstruction
problems of dairymen. The dairy
situation in postwar days will be pre-
scented by Dean II. l.. Russell, college
of agriculture. Il. II. Harrington, Wis
consin dairy school, will tell e. oppor-
tunities for disabled soldiers and sail
ors in the dairy industry. Two men
from the dairy division of the United
States department of agriculture, H..
II. Whiting and William White, viii
attend.
Dean Frederick Vance Evans,
Lawrence conservatory of music, and
Dr. Wilson S. Naylor, professor of
biblical history in Lawrence college,
arrived in Genoa, Italy, according to
a cablegram. They will do educa-
, tional work in the new Y. NJ. G.. A..
,tnivarsity for American soldiers