The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-20

There is a shortage of women help
in La Crosse, according to W. R. Phil
lips, head of the Wisconsin office of
the employment service.
Peter Tobasin, farmer of Coleman,
Marinette county, has completed a
large new barn. He tarred it on the
exterior instead of painting 1t.
The Green Bay Association of Com
merce is planning auto freight service
to points not reached by rail Dairy
and farm products will be handled.
Maiden Rock men have contract
to cut 500 carloads of ice from Lake
Pepin, which is to be resorted to since
lakes farther south have not frozen
this winter.
| Another Appleton man, Prof. L. B.
Rogers OF Lawrence college, is plan
ming on entering the Y. NJ. C. A. re-
serves abroad. He expects to leave
within short time.
James H. Hankinson, ousted by the
Racine county board as superintend-
ent of the poor farm, has filed claim
for $2,0S3, alleging breach of contract.
A lawsuit is expected.
Charles Schueller of the Town of
Center Outagamie County, has pur-
chased a farm of $50 acres in the
Town of Greenville for $21, 900. This
included all personal stock.
Lyman w. Sayer. "a, former mem
Der of the state Legislature and mayor
of Ripon, is dead. He is survived by
his wife and four children. Mr.. Sayer
was in the legislature from 1893 to
1899 and mayor of Ripon from 1916 to
! 1918 He was born in Wausau and
was buried there.
Corp. George Bouril, of Manitowoc,
who has twice been reported dead in
the casualty lists and once reported to
have had both legs shot away, has ar
rived home and while not fully recov-
cred from wounds received at Chateau
Thierry and in the Argonne Forest,
is very much alive.
Adelbert d. Thorp, one of Door
county's pioneers, died at his home in
Sturgeon Bay. He was "a years old.
He came to Wisconsin in 1S48 and to
Door county In 1874. He held the Of
fees Of county clerk, county treasurer
and sheriff and represented the county
in the assembly in 1882.
The Wausau Farmers Cooperative
Packing company will be dissolved
and the stock taken over by the Wis
consin Packing company to be organ
lied Feb. %. The present stockhold-
ers will have first choice in the pur-
chase of common and preferred stock
The new company's capital will be in
creased to $450.000.
Old-style launching festivities, with
fair sponsor and breaking of a cham
payne bottle across the bow as the
ship glides down the ways are gone,
at least at the Superior Shipbuilding
company's yard, where the freighter
Lake Fraichure was launched without
ceremonies. The company has abol-
ished the old custom, officials state
officers of the Baptist Young PEG
pies association of Wisconsin met in
Manitowoc to complete plans for the
annual state convention to be held
there for four days opening July /.
President A. w. Giesecke of Sheboy-
gan, and Miss Kirschman of Milwau-
kee, met with the Manitowoc commit
tee of the Kossuth Baptist church.
Paul o. Olson, Wausau, was bound
over to United States district court at
Madison for trial by Court Commits
sioner Riley. He is charged with US
ing the malls to defraud. The com
plant was made by Postal Inspector
John A. Oniles, Wausau, who alleges
Olson has victimized cheese and but.
ter makers for several years to the
amount of $4,000 or more.
At meeting of Ashland business
men it was decided to build a $4,000
addition to the Y. NJ. c. A. building
with a swimming pool and filtration
system, also sleeping rooms. A com
mittee of five headed by c. II. Werden,
with the state secretary, will report
plans for drive to begin a week
hence. The present structure is worth
$4,000. The business men pledge
$4,000 as soon as the addition can be
added.
An examination for men who desire
to specialize in weather bureau work
will be given by the United States
civil service in Madison, March r.
The opening is especially for univer-
sity men and leads to positions as in
vestigators of upper air movements, of
meterology and climatology, in rela.
ton to agriculture, horticulture, and
crop growth, of engineering problems
of rivers and foods and of meteriolog.
zeal instruments.
Ben Carl, Merrill. of the Carl Broth.
ers company, escaped death from a
bite of tarantula which was in
bunch of bananas. Carl was bitten on
the finger. He rushed to meat mar.
ket and was about to cut off the finger
when a bystander interfered, tied a
cord about the finger as tourniquet
A doctor, who was summoned, scraped
out all the poison. 1t is claimel that
had he been bitten in the palm of the
hand death would undoubtedly have
followed, the poison of the tarantula
being so deadly.
When the Independent telephone
company bought out the plant of the
Bell Co. in La Crosse, it added 800
subscribers to the Independent list,
paying $33,919 for the plant, with