The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-11

The Nineteenth annual reunion and
picnic of the Racine and Kenosha
county civil war veterans was held
in Racine Labor Day with 200 veter-
ans and their wives present.
One of the most unusual marriages
on record at Ladysmith occurred when
| Leroy Cox and Eva Brown, well
known in that city. went out with
crowd OF friends for days picnic and
were married by Rev. Fisher.
The Waterloo and Danville roads
leading from WATERFOWL into Dodge
county are being placed in fine condi-
ton by the highway commissioners
of Dodge county The work is to con-
tinue through the towns of Portland
and Elba.
Four operations in a single family
in one day happened to Mr. and Mrs,
Frank Heller, Montello. Their four
children were brought to Portage to
the st. Saviors hospital, and their
tonsils were removed. The patients
are all doing nicely.
Several farmers near Tomah began
| cutting corn, new early record. The
crop is a fine one and most of the
corn is beyond danger of frost. For
the past week, the thermometers have
gone down to within seven degrees OF
freezing every night.
The Marathon county chapter OF
the American Red Cross has received
large, fully equipped, automobile
ambulance and it has been placed at
! the disposal of residents of Marathon
county, and surrounding country
Calls will be answered night and day
| H. S. Crosby, Rhinelander secretary
of the post of the American legion,
was elected as one of the two dele
gates from Wisconsin on the national
executive board. Kirk White post com
mander of the Rhinelander post, is a
member of the state executive board
The Thunder Lake Lumber Com
pany, which recently purchased the
| large Robbins timber holdings and
sawmill in Rhinelander, are making
extensive improvements in that
plant preparatory to one of the big
gest lumber cuts of many seasons.
Rendered speechless last February
while serving in the army, Carl Kron
macher, town of Arson farmer living
near Chippewa, was most agreeably
surprised when his voice returned to
| him while working in the field. He
had forgotten that he was speeches.
when he found occasion to yell at his
| horses and was startled when he
could speak as well as ever. His voice
has not troubled him since.
At a meeting of all Eau Claire high
school and grade school teachers at
the opening of schools, City Super
intendent w. A. clark, emphasized
| the Importance of the work Of
Americanization as part of the school
curriculum and urged them to develop
methods that would be the most eff
| fective and far reaching; also to work
along lines that would tend to com
bat the present feeling of unrest at.
tendant upon the afterthe-war recon
struction.
The Wausau Rotary club will OBJ
serve the anniversary of the adoption
of the constitution of the United
States, Sept. II. A night meeting
will be arranged. Monday, Sept Is,
the club will entertain Harry b. Grad
dick, district governor, at which Rota-
rians from Merrill, Stevens Point and
| Grand Rapids will be present, On that
day a trip will also be taken to Marsh
field to deliver a charter to the Ro-
tary club, recently organized In the
evening there will be a banquet at
Marshfeld
Patrons of rural telephone lines in
western Wisconsin are stirred over
the ruling of the railroad commission,
effective Sept. l, that limits free eX-
change service to the immediate com
munity in which a patron resides. Toll
rates are in effect if one desires to talk
to a farmer who lives two or three
miles away Under the old system,
patrons could talk to friends over
wide expanse of country at fat
monthly rate. Another hearing will
be asked of the commission, in an eff
fort to modify the ruling.
The biggest farm under one manage
ment in Portage county has changed
hands. 1t is known as the j. =. Malik
place in Linwood, and has been sold
by A. +. Dafoe to Albert r. Brandt
and c. NJ Healey, Chicago. The farm
comprises $50 acres, three-story
brick and stone dwelling, supplied
with all modern conveniences, large
barn and other buildings. The trans
fer includes all crops now growing on
the place, livestock and machinery. It
includes 100 acres of potatoes, largest
patch" in the county.
Martin Worden, So, Adell, was run
down and instantly killed by an auto
mobile driven by his son. Grin, near
Beechwood The aged man was walk
inn along the edge Of a narmow road
about quarter of a mile from his
home when his son and a friend came
along in his car The elder Worden
was apparently not in danger, when
without warning to the Automobiles
he turned directly in front of the ma.
chine. lie was hurled to the ground
with such force that he sustained
fracture at the base of the skull.
While canning peaches, Mrs. Peter
Roy, Fond du Lac, found a small piece
of cardboard imbedded in peach
stone. 1t bore the number a..
1t is probable that a new banking in.