The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-11
WISCONSIN news
Important Events OF the Week
Around the Badger State.

of the German M. e. church there.
The Sheboygan firemen and police
men asked the council for increases
in salaries of 20 to 25 per cent re-
spectively. The wages of bridgetend-
ers have been raised to $50 a month
and those of assistants to $75 a month.
While cutting hay on the marsh
three miles below Peshtigo, Fred Win
kler, had leg lacerated The mus
cles, tissue and nerves were badly
torn by mower Thirty stitches We're
necessary to close the wounds,
A two acre park for mill employees
and their families will be a reality al
Neenah in a short time. The Lakeside
Paper company is clearing a tract of
wooded land near their mill and will
erect thereon a dancing pavilion, band
stand, and other improvements.
Emil Otto farmer, near Kenosha,
hired a stranger, who worked for
eight days and earned the reputation
of being a quiet and unassuming fell
low" Now the farm hand has disap-
peared, as have also Mr.. Ottos auto,
some money and articles of jewelry.
Following an interview with Miss
Bertha Rosheises, who had rejected
his attentions, Gus Raber, Brodhead,
returned soldier, left her home and
was found shot in the chest with a re
volver. The bullet glanced from rib
and he will live. He said he did not
care to live unless she cared for him
Sylvia Easulis, Kenosha, IS, became
discouraged by failure to get a salts
factory job, so she went out in a suit
of her brothers clothes Discovery and
detention by the police followed. Her
brother came and explained that she
had no motive other than to get work.
On his promise to look after her she
was allowed to go.
When Ole Hanson, a big Swede
from Minnesota, attempted to buy
paper suitable "for making money" at
Neenah paper mill the police We're
notified Hanson. who had about 5000
on his person, thought Chief Watts
was a holdup man, and put up fight.
He was captured only after the chief
pulled a gun and fired three times at
him.
George Vollendorf, A, switchman
for the c. & n. w, was run down and
killed in the Calumet yards at Mantle
voc. The heel of his shoe caught in a
frog while he was setting cars, and
with the engine almost on top of him
he could not escape The engine
caught him. The engineer applied the
reverse lever and tried to stop but the
engine was too near.
The Teitgen block Manitowoc, a
three-story brick business building, in
the heart Of the city has been pur
chased by the two Odd Fellow lodges
for, $4,000 The city hall, a drug
store are on the first flood, with the
store and book store are on the first
floor, with the city council chambers
on the third floor The lodges bought
the building as an investment.
jeremiah Driscoll Y, Ashland, was
burned to death on his farm two miles
east of Highbridge. He lived there ali
alone, and was feeble in mind and
body. The supposition is that burn
ing coal dropped from his cook stove
and fell on the dry wooden floor A
neighbor discovered the burning house
and saw him lying on cot amidst the
flames, but could not reach him,
Among the experts composing the
mission to Armenia and the trans
Caucasus which left Paris recently I'M
der the leadership of Maj. Gen. j. G.
Marlboro, chief of staff of the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces in France
are Capt Stanley X. Hornbeck and
Maj Lawrence Martin, both of the
of Wisconsin faculty, ac.
cording to a dispatch from Paris.
State President j. N. Tittemore
American Society OF Equity, delivered
an address at Rhinelander on The
Future of the American Farmer in the
Making of the World before large
crowd. He congratulated Northern
Wisconsin upon the splendid progress
made in agriculture in recent years.
and prophesied dependence of the
world upon the farmers in the near
future.
The United States forest products
at Madison has been called
upon to make an elaborate exhibit OF
wood uses for New York state, and
has furnished a most unique demon
Of the forest. This is included in an
exhibit which is being sent to every
corner of New York state by the New
York State College of Forestry at
Syracuse which has started out to
to New York state the
need for close utilization Of It's lumber
resources. Warren b. Bullock, for
mer Milwaukee newspaper man, Is in
charge Of this work as director Of fer
est extension for the New York col
lege.
G. w. Erwin, Evanston, paid S25
and costs when he pleaded guilty to
speeding on the Manitowoc county
roads. He is said to have hit forty
seven miles an hour. He acknowl-
edges forty but said the officer taking
him to Jail led the way at better than
thirty-fiVe miles.
Eau Claire cigar manufacturers pre-
dict higher priced smokes II demands
for high wages served by the cigar
makers union and slated to go into
effect soon are met by the manuiactu-
rers. This is the second wage in
nrnaan demanded by nninn cignrmalt.