The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-26
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

Wllllam CordeS, residing near
Honey Creek, La Crosse county, sui
fered the loss of forearm and severa
fingers on the other hand while cut
ting wood on his farm with a circular
saw.
Mrs. jeanette Schunk, Madison, is
seeking a divorce from Godfrey
Schunk, alleging that in the two years
she has been married to him, he has
never taken a bath, nor washed his
feet She also accused him OF cruelty
and inhuman treatment.
Principalship of the Outagamie
county training school at Appleton
was rejected by Arthur G. Menting
county superintendent of schools
when the position was offered him by
the training school board. A dozer
applications for the position made
vacant by the death of John e. Hale
have been filed with the board.
Waupun public schools made an en-
viable record in sale of Thrift and
War Savings stamps, and may hold
the record for the state. Supt. L. F.
Smith of the public schools said ST.,
210.S5 has been reached at the end OF
the school year. That sum represents
nearly $40 per pupil from kindergar.
ten through high school.
Nellie Kruger, Oconto, asks $4,000
damages from DR.. G.. r. Hickey, Green
Bay dentist. The plaintiff alleges that
piece of filling from one tooth was
swallowed by her while under an ana.
esthetic. The filling went into her
lung causing an abcess and tubercu-
losis, she alleges. Expert medical
testimony has been taken in the case.
The Ashland Home Telephone Co.
property was sold at sheriff's sale to
O. G. Roehling, Chicago, as follows
Ashland plant, $4,000; Mellen ex-
change, $500; toll line between Ash
land and Mellen, $3.50. The sale did
not include the switchboard and other
equipment of the Home Telephone
Co in Ashland, as they are held by a
chattel mortgage for $685..
Due to increased cost of conducting
mission work, the Lutheran Brethren
church convention, held at Superior,
decided against adding to the number
of missionaries in the field next year.
Construction of one or two buildings
at the church's Bible school in Grand
Forks, N. D., was authorized and it
was decided to start fund for the
needy within the denomination.
Dissemination of farmers to expert
ment with fax raising is responsible
for abandonment of the plan to estab-
lish fax ginning factory in Appleton.
DR.. j. B. Grove, Chicago inventor of a
fax gin, who was endeavoring to pro
mote the factory, has gone to Oregon,
where he has been promised support.
He offered to erect d factory, financed
by local people, if farmers would agree
to raise 1000 acres of fiaXseed eacE
year.
Kenosha teachers have announced
that they are about to form a chapter
of the proposed Wisconsin state
teachers organization which will be 2
part of the American Federation Of
Labor After a long fight for higher
wages, the teachers managed to gel
a raise from the school board and now
the educators consider organizing thai
the next time an emergency present!
itself they will be able to cope with
the board.
More than 100 acres of vacant lots
within the city limits are being farm
ed by La Crosse residents. The use
of lots was given freely by owners.
More than 200 people from Portage
and adjoining counties attended the
picnic of the Central Wisconsin Jer-
sey Breeders association at the farm
of G. C. Springer near Keene. The
best Jerseys ever exhibited in the
county were on display A stock
judging contest featured the program
According to Postmaster Gustav,
Keller, Appleton, who attended the an
nual convention of the Wisconsin
Postmasters association in Milwaukee
the amount of thrift and war savings
STAMP cashed in Wisconsin up tc
June l was only Is per cent of the
amount sold and the amount casheG
ia Outagamie county was only 61a pei
cent of the sales. The maturity value
of the stamps sold in Outagamie
county during the year 1918 was $774,
$50.
Maj George d. Whiteside, Plover
near Stevens Point, fromer assembly
man, has been awarded the medal o.
honor by the French government, fol
distinguished service in hospital worl
in France. He is still on active duty il
France. After twenty months il
France rs an ambulance driver for tn,
French government. Charles Nc
Creey, Stevens Point. has returned
decorated with the French croix d,
guerre. He is one of three brothers
who were in the world war.
The industrial school board of An
Ergo has voted to establish a voca
tional training school and the secre
tary has been directed to engag
teachers and obtain equipment. Three
and possibly four teachers will b
hired
Grocery stores of the Fox river va
ley will close each Wednesday after
noon during the summer months,
was decided at a meeting of the Fo
River Valley Grocers' association
Merchants in other lines will be r,
questet to take similar action. TIL
closing RUE becomes effective July