The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-23

captain OF the sanitary ueldCnluent,
Eighth regiment, of the state guards,
has received his commission as major.
Benedict De Clarke, Beloit Bel
gian who fought with the Americans
in France and was taken prisoner, is
back in America again.
Among the soldiers announced by
the war department as having been
released from German prison camps,
are Martin Zygmund, Madison, and
Alvin Budlong, Marinette.
An amendment to articles of incor-
poration was approved by Commits
sioner of Banking Marshall Cousins
of the Bank of Fredonia, increasing
its capital from $4,000 to $4,000
The first load of hay taken across
/ the Peshtigo river this winter was
hauled few days ago by billy goat
driven by Francis Collard and Clar-
ence Payne of Marinette.
The Waupaca county board adopt
ed the county agricultural agent sys-
! TEN and engaged Paul O. Nyhus, for
mer emergency food agent who was
drafted in war service and left Wau-
paca last fall.
A memorial service was held at the
Oconomowoc Methodist church for
/ Private Allen II. Atwater, who died
on Nov. IL, armistice day, as re-
suit of wounds received in battle that
day. The sermon was given by Rev.
A A. Myers.
d. S. Tullar, Waukesha, has been APP
pointed by Gov. Philip as district at
torney of Waukesha county TO succeed
/ his son, Maurice, who died of intiu-
enza. There were many applicants
! for the place, including Assemblyman
John F. Buckley.
Col George c. Higbee, SO years old,
who came to Wisconsin in the early
days, died at his home in Beaver Dam.
He was a well known sportsman. He
took part IT, bowling tournaments
when more than so years old. He was
former postmaster of Beaver Dam.
/ Father Walter A, Beaudette, former
pastor of ST. Mary's church, Rhine
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| France since November, 1917, writes
that he will return in February He
was in the thick of some of the heavi-
est fighting and on several occasions
was commended by officers for BRAY
cry under fire.
Private Leon Holeowinski, of Rob
bins was killed in action Oct. II, ac-
cording to word received by the par
ents. Holeowinski was assisting 9TH
ers in carrying Frank Cairnes,
Rhinelander boy, off the field when a
machine gun bullet struck him in the
head.
The La Crosse Telephone company,
\ Independent, has purchased the prop
erty of the Wisconsin Telephone com
pany in La Crosse and also contract
\ ed to operate its long distance lines
after May / The merger of the tele-
phone companies is the first consum-
mated in Wisconsin since the govern
ment took over control of the utilities.
Lieut.. A. j. Crowns has arrived in
Grand Rapids from France Mr..
/ Crowns was an aerial observer. He
will resume the practice of law. Just
/ before leaving Europe Lieut.. Crowns
/ had the pleasure of meeting his hEoth-
\ er, Lieut.. George Crowns, who was
captured by the Germans at Chateau
I Thierry. George is expected home in
the near future.
| L. Marion Roberts, a resident of
Jefferson county for seventy-nine
years, is dead. Mr.. Roberts came to
\ Fort Atkinson from Fenner, Madison
county, New York, in 1899, where there
were but three logs left standing of
1 the old fortified barracks used by
Gen. Atkinson during the Black Hawk
war. He is survived by three sons
and three daughters
To act as mineral adviser for the
American delegates to the peace con-
[ ference. Prof. c. X. Leith, chairman
of the geology department, of the
University of Wisconsin, sailed for
/ Europe on Dec 81 with other repre-
sentatives of the war industries, war
trade and shipping board. Through
out the past year, Prof. Leith has been
! in Washington acting as mineral adj
wiser for these war boards and direct
/ ing their joint mineral work, with spe-
cial reference to imports and exports.
The Lebanon swamp, six miles
north of New London and containing
$500 acres of good soil, is to be
drained according to plans now ma
turing. This swamp was one of the
serious obstacles to the settlement of
the eastern part of Waupun county
as all goods came up the Wolf river
on boats and must be conveyed fur
Their by team. 1t is estimated that the
drainage will add 100000 TO the value
of the land.
Forty-nine soldiers from Eau Claire
county died in the war, according to
compilation made. Seventeen fell
in action, five died of wounds,
twenty-four of pneumonia and three
of unspecified diseases. Six commits
stoned officers, all lieutenants, are in
cluded in this list. Co. e of Eau
Claire has lost. twelve men by death
and the report is that only eleven
members went through the war with
out receiving a wound.
Kenosha's first Red Cross heroine
is home from France. For eight
months Miss Lillian Isermann has
been nurse at Base hospital No. %,