The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-07

Many OF the Rhinelander saloon
men have procured their licenses from
the internal revenue officials and will
begin the sale OF 2.75 per cent beer as
soon as supply can be obtained.
Gov. Philip has offered a reward
of $500 for information leading to ar
rest and conviction of the person who
fatally assaulted George Donley, a
Reedsburg business man, July 81
The highest price paid for farm land
in Dodge county was noted when Iowa
parties purchased the Pendall farm,
one mile north of Randolph, the 1870
acres selling for little over SCI 900 or
1925 an acre
The old Kloman mine in the Repub-
lie district has been secured by the
Bates Iron Company The company
will reopen some of the old shafts and
install exploring drifts to further test
the ore formation.
Capt. Thomas 4. Withrow, rs years
old and claiming to be a cousin of
Abraham Lincoln, by marriage, died
at La Crosse. He was a veteran of the
civil war and one of the pioneer steam
boat pilots on the Mississippi river
That interest in the development of
the pure bred Shorthorn business in
the southern part of the state is be-
coming greater is shown by the in
spection of leading Rock county Short
horn herds made by a score of breed
ers from Walworth county under the
direction of County Agent L. l.. Old
ham.
Charged with selling 2.75 per cent
beer without a city license, Oliver
Grant, Commercial hotel bar proprie-
! tor, will be arraigned in municipal
court at GAINESVILLE. A half-barrel of
the beverage was confscated by the
police as evidence This is the first
arrest of saloon keeper there on this
charge.
Negotiations were completed for in.
corporation of the Green Bay Sugar
Refining company, which will be capt.
allied at 100000 to engage in the
manufacture of beet sugar. The plant
will have capacity sufficient to produce
100000 pounds of sugar, 5000
tons of molasses and 1000 tons of con.
centrated stock food annually.
A $4,000 corporation to manufac-
ture iron policemen" has been form
ed by Charles A. Enslow, GAINESVILLE
attorney, William T. Aron and George
Z. Hawks, both of Lodi. Manufacture
will begin as soon as a location is
| found. The feature of the traffic reg
ulator is the fact that 1t will right it.
self automatically if knocked down by
car.
Mrs. Theresa Herring, 81, born in
SaXony Germany, died at Cross Plains
She came to America with her parents
when II. After arriving in Milwaukee
the family travelled in coaches pulled
by oxen to what is now Roxbury. She
moved to Cross Plains in 1869, when
she married the owner of the -four mill
there She is survived by five sons
and three daughters.
The wives of Joseph Fyett, Sr., and
Joseph Fyett, Jr., appeared in cir
cult court at La Crosse at the same
time asking divorces from their re,
spective husbands on the grounds o.
cruel and inhuman treatment. Mrs.
Julia Fyett was granted a separation
from the younger Fyett, but the court
was reluctant to grant divorce to the
latter's father and mother, adjourning
the case.
Notices of the special election to be
held on Sept. 2, at which time the peo
pie of Wisconsin will decide the sol
diers' bonus question, which was sub
mitted to a referendum vote by an act
of the 1919 legislature, were sent out
to all county clerks by Secretary OF
State Merlin Hull. The official no
/ tees contained copies of the bonus act
and call attention to the system TO be
followed in holding the election.
Edward Hines, of the Edward Hines
Lumber company of Chicago, has pur,
chased at Eau Claire the entire hold
ings of the Rice Lake Lumber com.
pany, including the mill property and
As, 600 acres of land. With Arpin land
recently bought by the Hines company
the Rice Lake mill will have fifteen
years cut of hemlock and hardwood,
/ The deal is considered one of the
largest in the north in several years.
Application has been made in Pro
bate court to file the will of Mrs. So
phie Gudden, Oshkosh woman PROM
nent in the local, state and national
organizations of the Consumers league
who did much pioneer work for the
betterment of working conditions
among women and girls. Her personal
property was estimated to be valued at
about 100000 and there is real estate
from which the revenues do not ex-
coed $500 year.
The Wisconsin Valley Electric Com
pany has offered to sell to the city of
Merrill the entire street railway equip
ment there for 81, providing the city
maintains and operates it. The com
pany states that the railway has been
A money loser and that it will be rec
essary for them to discontinue its OPP
Grafton when the franchise expires
this year. Rather than have the city
lose the use of the line the company is
willing to give it to the city
Gov. E. L. Philip is planning to go
TO Washington at an early date to ask
the railroad administration for spe.
cial mileage rates for soldiers attend
ing the big state reunion which the
Governor has planned for Milwaukee