The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-02
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suffering from nervous DFedk-
down following shell shock, George
Burnside, Jr., Neenah, of the engi-
neers' corps, has arrived at New York
from France.
George Fullerton, well known Nee
nah resident, died at TT. Meyers,
where he went TO spend the winter,
following an attack of pneumonia. He
was sixty years old.
John Stanek, 81 years old, pioneer
mason contractor of La Crosse, died
after eight months illness. He was
born in Bohemia and had lived here
over fifty years.
Following information of the death
of her son, Corporal August B. Khan.
druid. Mrs. Ida Klandrud, La Crosse,
learned that Augustus twin brother,
had been wounded.
Rev. William j. Taylor, Oak Park,
ILL.,, has accepted the call as pastor OF
the First Universalist church in Wau.
sau, succeeding Rev. William Gould,
resigned last June to become farmer.
Mrs. Adelaide Bushman, Sc years
old, died at the home of her son, Will
liam Bushman, at Oconomowoc. She
had been a resident of Oconomowoc
more than seventy years, coming
there from New York.
j. E. Burdick, of Green Bay, was
killed and his wife and six year old
son were seriously injured when a
500 passenger train struck their auto
at crossing near Neenah. They were
enroute to Milwaukee.
Opposition to the uniting of the two
cities of Neenah and Menasha has
sprung up at Menasha following pre-
liminary steps to bring the cOnsolida-
ton about. The local press is antag
onistic to the plan.
Fred Perkins, who pleaded guilty
in circuit court at Wausau to charge
of larceny in the night time and was
sentenced to serve two years in the
prison, was given a stay of execution
by Judge Reid and paroled to the state
board of control.
AS John Emerson, farmer from
northwest of Beloit was about to sit
down to a Christmas dinner at the
home of his mother in Beloit he re-
cciyed word that his house was on
flre, when he reached his home it was
destroyed.
Destruction of blue prints and yalu-
able records brought the loss occasion
ed by a fire in the division headquar-
tiers of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad at Fond du Lac to $4,000,
The origin of the blaze has not been
determined.
Di. George Burman Foster, pastor
al the Unitarian church of Madison,
died at Chicago, DR.. Foster years ago
became the subject of controversy in
the Baptist church, the debate resting
Oh whether or not his theological
views were orthodox or heterodox.
District Attorney John Roberts,
Grand Rapids, was shot, but not seri-
ously injured, by Thomas Salisbury,
retired farmer Marshfeld, whose
mind is believed TO have become af-
fected by brooding over his antipathy
to several lawyers. Salisbury was
bound over. He was unable to furnish
$4,000 bail
Christmas gladness was changed to
sadness at the home OF Mrs. Freder-
lex Bull, Kenosha, when war depart
ment message announced that her son,
Martin p. Rawleigh, had died from
wounds in France. Another brother,
Richard Rawleigh, was with him
when he died. Young Rawleigh was
one of the first Kenosha men to go
to France.
A unanimous Endorsement of the
record of Judge Henry Grass, Green
Bay, was given by the bar Of Brown,
Door and Kewaunee counties, com
Drising the Fourteenth judicial cir
cult, in a memorial presented to the
Green Bay jurist during Il dinner in
his honor. The bar association mem
bers asked permission to submit his
name to the people of the district for
reelection in April, 1918.
The Rev j. r. OLeary, pastor of
Bacred Heart church in Manitowoc for
16 years, has been appointed by Bish-
Cd Paul p. Rhode to succeed the late
Rev. NJ. j. O'Brien as pastor of St
Patrick's church at Green Bay. He
has been a priest for twenty-nine
years, and served in the parishes of
Osceola, Fond du Lac, East Troy and
Manitowoc in the Green Bay catholic
diocese. The appointment takes effect
Jan. II.
A one-armed soldier hoped off a
train at La Crosse on Dec. 25 and
INDUCED in a little Christmas celebra
ton, cheered on by another veteran
on crutches. He did an impromptu
dance on the station platform. TO ev
erybody he shouted I'VE got the
kaiser and that's Christmas enough
for anybody" Bandaged heads looked
out of the car windows and cheered
him. II was a train load of crippled
veterans that passed enroute to the
reconstruction hospital at Fort Smell
ing.
An invitation has been received by
the Green Bay Association OF Com
merce to attend a meeting of Com
mercial club men to be held at New
Orleans, Jan. IL and 10, The officials
have been invited to make the trip in
a special car.
1t will take about a month for local
draft board to wind up their work and
dieband according to instructions sent