The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-21
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The Menasha Woodenware company
has offered to deed to the city of Me-
nasha land along Washington street
provided the municipality will convert
it into parks.
Or. w. L. Thompson, Sheboygan, has
purchased an eighty-acre farm in
Fond du Lac County from Robert Nc
Claim for $4,000. He will keep a
herd of twenty-five cattle.
A social hygiene campaign has been
commenced in Wausau. Motion pic
lures will be shown, lectures delivered
in the schools and other methods EN-
ployed to make the campaign effective.
The Latex Tire and Rubber COM
pany, Fond du Lac, recently organized
here, has broken ground for its fac.
tory a two-story concrete structure,
60 by $50 feet, with a capacity of $50
tires day.
Henry c. Klein, Sheboygan, who
years ago was bell hop at Foeste Ho-
tel, has purchased the 100-room Euro
pean Transient hotel in Minneapolis.
He recently resigned as manager of
the Nelson hotel at Rockford, Ill.
Grocefs of Green Bay and the north
! eastern part of the state TO the num-
Der of 1888 have made purchasing con
tracts with the l.. L. Creasey co-opera-
tive wholesale grocery syndicate and
a wholesale house will be established
in Green Bay.
c. P. Crosby, well known lumberman
! of Rhinelander, has purchased from
the Gagen Lumber Company loo
acre tract of timber land near Gagen
The deal was the largest recorded
there this season and the considera
ton was $4,000.
When the Rice Lake Lumber com
pany at Rice Lake disposed of $4,000
acres OF land near Winter to the Ed
ward Hines company, the deal marked
the end of the Rice Lake company
which has operated in northern Wis
consin for almost forty years.
Application for an increase of
cents in the fare on the line between
| North La Crosse and Onalaska, three
miles, has been filed with the railroad
commission. The company asks per.
mission to charge workingmen 10
cents and others Is cents for the short
ride.
To discover a water moccasin play
! ing his forked tongue over his temple
as he fished near a high bank of the
! Mississippi river, was the experience
of Raj Johnson, La Crosse, automo-
bile man. He dived into the river and
escaped before the reptile could strike.
Mr. Johnson is sure, he says, that If
he Aad attempted to brush the snake
away as he would have a bug, he
would have been bitten.
After a search of several days, Chief
of Police O'Hare, Kenosha, has located
''Raky" Martini, alias John Crozone
vino is wanted in Kenosha on charge
of stealing bicycles and shipping them
! to Chicago. Martins wife and a girl
named Mildred Perry were arrested
here weeks ago on suspicion. Martini
was arrested in Chicago and is being
held until the Kenosha officials arrive
He has waived exTadition.
An effort is being made TO have the
old military road incorporated into the
which was one of the first routes OF
| travel, opened into northwest Wiscon
sin was built by the government about
| 1862 and ran from Oshkosh through
Butte des MOrtes, Young's Corners
Hortonville, New London, Clintonville
| Shawano, Keshena, and the Menomi
ME Indian reservation up to Post Lake
With approximately $4,000 in the
treasury of the Racine County Wan
Relief Fund, it is proposed to use thar
amount in the erection Of a county me
mortal hospital, provided that the
County Board of Supervisors will make
an appropriation of from $4,000 10
| 100000 and agree to maintain the
structure, which will be a memorial to
the soldiers, sailors and marines who
enlisted for service during the world
war.
That James Thompson, La Crosse.
who was defeated for United States
senator by /. l.. Lenroot, Superior, two
years ago, will enter again for this
place next year, is the belief of close
political friends He is accepting all
invitations TO speak at public gather
ings and is piling up considerable cam
paign timber in demanding that the
government take action to punish cam.
paign profiteers and stop gambling
in food commodities.
Miss Elizabeth Baker, Oconomowoc,
had the unusual experience of teaching
agriculture to 500 American soldiers in
the khaki university at Beaume,
France. After graduating in 1915
from the college of agriculture, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Miss Baker was
connected with the agricultural STAFF
of the New Jersey reformatory for
women. In 1918, she went overseas TO
work with the committee on rehabili-
tation of devastated France.
A $4,000 damage suit against c. j.
Schmidt Waunakee, has been brought
by Mrs. Frank Sadowsky, Madison,
who was injured, July 10. when car
she was in collided with Schmidt's au.
tomobile. Numerous external and in.
ternal injuries are alleged by Mrs.
Sadowsky.
According to figures from the city
clerks office the total assessed valua-