The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-05


June IL to 10. inclusive.
AS the automobile has replaced the
driving horse in the city so is the trac
tor replacing the pillow horse in Outa
gamie county. 1t is estimated that
there will be 100 in use there this
summer.
There is a job for every Thirty-sec.
ond division man in La Crosse, accord
ing to w. r. Phillips, director of the
federal employment bureau. He lined
up jobs for the returned soldiers be
fore they arrived.
A new wage contract was entered
and builders The scale is So cents
per hour for the FIRST year and 70
cents for the second year The men
had been receiving so cents.
La Crosse police are looking for
three stylishly dressed young men who
have been robbing consignments OF
silk shirts enroute to La Crosse mer-
chants. They were seen leaving one
box car, from which twelve shirts
were taken.
Kenosha school children will aid in
the cleanup and paint-up campaign by
picking up all pieces of paper or ref
use in parks and along highways. The
children pledged themselves to help
liz keeping Kenosha the cleanest city
in Wisconsin.
Commercial fishermen are making
big hauls of rough fish along the up
per Mississippi, and highest prices
known are being paid. Hauls of 5000
to 10000 pounds of carp and buffalo
are common between La Crosse and
McGregor, Ia.
The body of George A. Mack, Supe-
rior, returned soldier, was found near
Calvary cemetery by party of Y. M
C. A. mixers. An empty acid bottle
was found close by. Mack had sent
his mother letter telling her where
she could find his body.
A ten weeks course in "The Case
line Automobile" which was started
in March in the Oshkosh district by
the University of Wisconsin Extension
division, now has 100 persons enrolled.
Weekly classes are held in Fond du
Lac, Green Bay, Manitowoc and Ap-
pleton.
William Doerlinger, w. F. Goodrich
and H. II. Long have been appointed
members of a special committee to
arrange a program for a Fourth of
July celebration at La Crosse in honor
of returned soldiers and sailors. A
fund of $4,000 is being raised for fire.,
works.
With the death of Mrs. Eva Scobey,
WATERFOWL, 1902, the oldest resident Of
this portion of Wisconsin has been
taken. She was born in Poland and
lived in WATERFOWL since 1865. Her
husband died thirty years ago. Up to
three days ago she was caring for her
garden.
The Manitowoc knights of Colum-
bus decided to erect either a two or
three-story building for the lodge. II
the two-story plan is adopted it will
be a clubhouse only and If the other
plan is adopted a business block Will
be erected with the lodge hall on the
third floor.
Five hundred and fifty members of
the Sheboygan United Leather Work
ers' union struck, demanding an eight
hour day and more wages. One hun
dred and ninety were employed by
the American Hide and Leather Co,
$50 at the Badger State Tanning Co.
Present wages are 1925 to s4.25 a
day.
A university postal station, to han
die the mail of the University of Wis
consin, will be established near the
campus during the summer as a
branch of the Madison post office.
Because of the volume of mail for the
university and its students and facul-'
ty, postal authorities decided that a.
university station is needed to relieve
the central postoffce.
Superior schoolmen. clergymen, and
many others are stirred over meas.
ure pending If the legislature which
makes intluepzn a quarantineable dis!
ease and provides for the closing Of
certain places to control influenza
epidemics. The complaint of the.
schoolmen and clergymen is that the
proposed law would close schools and
churches, while permitting saloons,
poolrooms, cigar stores and similar
places to operate,
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ Moore, Kenosha,
widow of Col Webster Porter Moore,
willed practically 100000 to st. Mat
thew's Protestant Episcopal church.
Her will, filed for probate, leaves $15,-
600 of the estate to the Kenosha hos
pital. The remainder Of the $4,000
goes to the church. Thirty thousand
dollars becomes an endowment memo
rial to Elizabeth and Charles O'Neil,
parents of Mrs. Moore, her brothers,
and former husband Orlam Calkins.
Men engaged in clearing the road
development tract on the Wisconsin
river, near Biron, Oneida county, have
been finding exceptionally fine Indian
relics in the marsh lands. Scarcely a
day passes but two TO five arrow heads
are discovered, some of them being
nearly perfect. An OK shoe, made from
wornout file, has been picked up.
This tract was logged about forty
years ago, but 1t was many years be-
fore that when Indians roamed there.
A class of 125 candidates were initi-