The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-19


years, S,436 acres have been put under
cultivation.
Lightning had been unusually fatal
to cattle near Platteville. Irwin Loui
lost twenty head, Bryan Trenary two
and ], c. Hill two.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson, mother of
Publius V. Lawson, Menasha, well
known historian and writer, died from
infirmities due to old age.
Camp Grant authorities are denying
furloughs to all soldiers intending to
visit GAINESVILLE, because of the ease
with which they obtain liquor there,
Kenosha lodge, /. o. o. F.. bought
home for Mrs. Anton Pingetore, wife
of the Kenosha patrolman who was
murdered by the Brass Mill robbers
last March.
The Manitowoc County Guernsey
Breeders association will hold its an
nual picnic, June 20, at the farm OF
George Kiel, Whitelaw. A number of
outside speakers will attend.
Lieut.. Clarence Lindegreen, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Lindegreen, Rhine
lander, has returned, honorably dis
charged from the aviation service. He
was Rhinelander's only army air pilot
during the war.
Scenes depicting the activities of
service men during the war are to
faaturo tho naIahrat ton of nodpa and
jefferson counties July 4, when a two
county reception for the returned
service men will be held at Water
town in Riverside park.
Ninety-four Kenosha saloon keepers
have filed applications for renewal of
their licenses with City Clerk George
Harrington. This leaves only six who
have not filed for renewals and each
of them has announced that he will
enter another business after July /.
The La Crosse Interstate Fair asso-
citation purchased from the state bar
racks, mess hall and lavatory erect
ed for the La Crosse Normal school
s. A. T. c. during the war. The bar
racks will be converted into a poultry
exhibition house on the fair grounds.
David H. Shannon, prominent APP
pleton business man for nearly half
century, is dead. He died on his Saith
birthday anniversary. Mr.. Shannon
came to Appleton in 1875 and until his
retirement few years ago was prom
inently identified with several mer-
camille and manufacturing establish
ments.
The annual banquet of the La
Crosse high school alumni assumed a
war aspect when Miss Mary Evans
told of her experiences as a member
of Base Hospital No %, near Bor-
deaux, France. Lieut.. Raymond
Grams told stories of negro troops he
led over the top, and Harry Roget
gave "reminiscences of life in the
navy.
Wisconsin has been officially desig
mated by the commissioner of internal
revenue as one of the states in which
child labor permits issued by the state
authorities will be accepted as com
plying in every respect with the pro-
visions of the new federal child labor
tax law. Official notice to this effect
was received by the industrial com
mission.
Five thousand houses in three years
is the new goal established by the
housing committee in charge of the
building plans for Kenosha. Report
Of the committee was favorably re
ceived by the directors of the Cham
Der of Commerce and the $1.000,000
Kenosha home building corporation
provided for in the plan is getting I'M
der way.
Ledger F. Reed, Kenosha boy who
enlisted in the aviation branch of the
army, has been selected to carry out
the aeronauic program at the. home
coming soldier celebration July 4, S
and 6. Reed, graduate of the Keno
sha high school, will perform all of the
stunts known 10 aviators, in a Curtis
plane. The homecoming committee
voted $4,000 for the celebration.
Going through the war with all its
dangers and arriving home safely
only to see his brother who had re-
manned at home killed by an auto ac-
cident, was the experience of Lieut.
Frank Johnson, Superior. When Ben
Johnson, the brother, alighted from
street car, he was run down by an
automobile and almost instantly
killed. The driver was arrested.
The funeral of Ed. S. Human, of
Oshkosh, formerly city comptroller,
was held at the Masonic temple un.
der the auspices of the lodge of which
he was a prominent member and past
master. City officials attended in a
body and the flag on the city hall was
at half mast. He was resident of
Oshkosh for more than fifty years and
one of it's best known citizens. Death
was due to pleurisy.
Emery o, Ackley. Brandon, still hale
and hearty, never having INDUCED in
liquor or tobacco, nor i'll a day in his
life, recently celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday anniversary. MI
Ackley walks down to the village cen.
ter every day to do his marketing and
chat with friends. His garden, plant
ed every year. ia a model for neatness
He has a daughter, Miss Elite, with
whom he makes his home; a son,
Charles, Minneapolis; three grand
children and several great-grand-chil.
dren.