The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-03
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

knocked TO the ground ana dragged
several feet by heavy locomotive
Mrs. Sena Jorgenson, GAINESVILLE, aged
woman, miraculously escaped death.
William C. Schumann and his wife
Mrs. Grace Schumann, Rhinelander
died after a weeks illness with intlu'
enza and pneumonia, One child sur
wives.
Louis Willard, Jr., Peshtigo, a wire
less operator in the radio corps,
writes his parents that he and com
rade were the first American sailors
to enter Metz.
From a single days lift fishermen at
Little Sturgeon recently shipped 5000
pounds of fish, the largest lot brought
in this season, to Chicago. The fish
were mostly perch.
Ray Nj. Funk, former Waukesha
county clerk, was sentenced TO seven
years in prison by Judge James Thorn
as. He pleaded guilty to embezzling
$4,000 from the county.
The postmasters of Marathon county
have organized in a county league to
cooperate with state and national
leagues of postmasters. Frank Leusch-
en- of Marathon is president.
The Rev. A. Parker Curtiss closed
his ministry as vicar of st. Marks
Episcopal church, Oconto, and left for
Peekskill, n. Y, where he will be res
ldent chaplain at Mt. st. Gabriel
DR.. Z. T. Case was elected president
of the La Crosse District Dental So
ciety at the annual meeting attended
by about seventy dentists from nearby
cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A total of S57 applications, includ-
ing seventy-seven discharged soldiers
and sailors, We're placed in positions
by the United States employment serv-
ice in Green Bay between March l and
March %.
Capt. Edward Dayton, Kenosha, is
to bring back a score of motor trucks
from Hembach, Germany, to Mar
settles, France, and has been given
seventy men with which to accomplish
This, according to letters to local
friends.
In the near future six or seven gov
eminent tugs will be launched at the
ship yards at Sturgeon Bay. The
Universal Shipyard has three large
l50 feet wooden tugs ready of launch
ing and the Lathem & Smith company
has four.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hirschinger,
Baraboo, celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary during the past
week. Because of not being in the
best of health they passed the day
quietly. The aged couple have been
residents of this community since they
were married
Methodist ministers from FIT. Atkin-
son, Whitewater, Beloit, Fall River,
and GAINESVILLE, in conference at James
Vile, laid plans for the great cente-
nary movement of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. Bishop Charles G. Nit
chell and NJ c. Thomas, St. Paul area
campaign director, also attended the
conference.
Indications are that lumber mills in
Oconto county will cut more lumber
this year than in many years past.
The Oconto river and its banks are
piled high with millions of feet of logs
of the best hemlock HARDWOOD vari-
cites, and with the mills running full
blast it looks as though 30,000,000 feet
of logs will be cut.
st. Patricks Catholic church, James
Vile, will erect a $4,000 parochial
school. Plans are being drawn. A
campaign to raise money is in prog
ress. The assessment plan is being
used with success. The new building
will be two stories with basement and
central heating plant for the church,
school, and convent.
Five hundred shopmen of the Fed
eral union, Madison, voted to strike
with 1900 machinists who propose to
go out. The vote was practically
unanimous and a telegram asking for
permission from the American Feedra-
ton of Labor, with whom they are
allied, was sent to Frank p. Morrison,
secretary, at Washington.
For the third time in the last several
weeks the "hu" has been placed in
effect at Bancroft. Many of the vii
age residents are afflicted with the
disease and no public meetings are
permitted. The schools were closed
whep more than half of the students
were absent because of illness. The
quarantine will be maintained until
health conditions materially improve.
More than $1,0OO,0O0 worth of dairy
products were shipped from Langlade
county during 1918. Cheese ship
ments totaled 100000 pounds, and
butter shipments approached 100000
pounds. Many thousands of cans OF
cream were shipped from stations OF
this county. Latest government fig
ures credit Langlade county with
10000 mich cows The county has
twenty-three cheese factories and five
creameries. Thousands of acres OF
land are still in timber or undeveloped
for farming.
Wisconsin farmers increased the
area in cultivated crops in 1918 BY
$4,000 acres over 1917. The tota
acreage in cultivated crops in 1915
was 8,783,000 acres, compared will
| $685., 900 acres in 1917.
II. l.. Stein. Kenosha, says he is the
owner of the smallest dog in The
world. This distinction for Kenoshi
| ,au,a with tho advent of q TOW bIacl