The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-05-08
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

A new concern hHOWh do INC NiyO
tai Creek Corporation Dairy company
is building a large cheese factory near
| Irma, Lincoln county.
| An intensive campaign for the or
| ganization of all machlnists and shop
| workers has been inaugurated by the
La Crosse Trades and Labor council
| George Wilson, aged 81, one OF the
| pioneer settlers OF Sheboygan county,
| from whose father, David Wilson, the
| town OF Wilson derived its name, died
at Sturgeon Bay.
| More than 300 delegates came to La
| Crosse to celebrate the Tooth anniver-
| sary of the odd Fellows. A. Wey-
hansen was the oldest member in at
| tendance, having joined in 1852.
The Kohler company of Sheboygan
| has announced that it will pay every
enc of it's employees 10 per cent Of the
total wages and salaries earned in
| 1918, as a Victory bonus. A special
| bonus will be paid those men who
were in the service.
Plans to place the La Crosse fire de-
partment on a two-platoon basis, as
approved by the recent city referen-
| dunn, received a setback when Chief
F. c. McGlachlin informed the city
council it would take thirty-one addi-
| tional men at a cost of $4,000.
The Fort Howard Paper Co, Green
Bays newest paper mill. has obtained
river frontage site on Fox river near
the southern limits of the city. A
plant, costing about S250,000,000, will
be built Immediately The completed
plant will employ about 200 men.
Lamoine Kassabaum lies in a hospi-
tai at Eau Claire with bullet hole
recover. While walking home he
recover. While walking home he
stumbled and fell while twirling a re
volver on his finger. The bullet missed
vital organ by hairs breadth.
William H. Rohr, an early merchant
and former mayor of Watertown died
at age of 76. He served as postmas-
ter under President Cleveland, and
was an early superintendent of
schools. He also served fourteen
years as clerk of the court of Jeffer-
son county. He was a prominent
mason.
Lieut.. John Culnan, former Mari
nette newspaper man, who was award
ed the distinguished service cross for
heroism lighting with the marines at
Chateau Thierry, is on his way home.
While in Germany, Lieut. Culnan was
in charge of a troup called THE Ma
rne Troubodours" who gave perform
ances for soldiers, presenting one OF
his own plays.
Special arrangements for accommo-
dating discharged soldiers going from
Camp Grant to their homes in Wis
consin and Minnesota have been es
tablished by the GAINESVILLE Y. M. G. A.
A lounging room is provided together
with writing materials Cots have
been placed in a separate room. Dur
ing the last four weeks more than 100
soldiers have spent the night at the
"Y'.
A patriotic ambition which Forrest
Houlehan of Stevens Point has cher
ished during nearly two years of army
service has been fulfilled in France, In
his recent promotion from sergeant to
the rank of second lieutenant. Re
iected as an officer candidate at Fort
Sheridan, he enlisted in the national
guard as a private, and after many
months of service overseas has won
his commission
That the reds" would not find Osh'
kosh to their liking is to be Judged
from the position .dken by Mayor A.
c. McHenry, head of the commission
form of government. That organized
expression of bolshevism l. w. Wism
or any other form of lawlessness
would be met with all the force Of OPP
position at his command. should 1t
seek to develop in Oshkosh, is the as
surance given by Mr.. McHenry.
David +. Sayre, aged 81, probably
the oldest member of the Psi Epsilon
fraternity in the country, died at his
home in the town of Porter, near
GAINESVILLE. He was admitted to the
bar at Paterson, N. j., in 1874, coming
to Wisconsin five years later He held
many Rock county positions and was
elected representative in the state leg
islature in 1873. He rode on the first
train driven from Detroit to Chicago.
A Walworth county Holstein COW,
Walcowis Ollie Mooie owned by
Nathan Dickinson & Son, Lake Gene
va. has the worlds record. She Is the
| Youngest of any breed to make a rec
ord of more than 1000 pounds of but
| ter in year. and in fact the fourth
| Junior twoyear-old of the breed to en-.
ter the 1,000pound list. Figures on
this COW, as sent out from the adj
vanced registry Office at Delavan, rec
ords made at two years twenty days
of age follow: Butter, days, 2737
pounds; milk, days, $685. pounds;
| butter, 80 days, 1869 pounds; milk, 30
days, 2,229S pounds; butter, 365 days
1.O10.6S pounds milk, 965 days, 81,
569.7 pounds.
The state railroad commission or
dered ten-minute service on all lines
of the Wisconsin Railway and Power
Co. In La Crosse. Street cars on out
lying lines are permitted to operate
with one man.
Dr. w. Il. Nelson, Kenosha, city fooC
and dairy inspector refused to gran
licenses to a proprietor of a butche
shop and a milk dealer, and held NJ
| apnlications of fourteen other dealer