The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-24
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
- Around the Badger State.

John H. Michael, who left a leg
"over there" has been honorably dis
charged from the service and has ar
rived at his home in Neenah. He was
Q member of the Eighty-sixth Division.
81 Articles of incorporation OF the
Burnside Paper Company. new prof.
| ect at Neenah, have been filed. The
company is Incorporated at $4,000,
and will conduct a wholesale paper
jobbing business there, 'm,f gu
Frederick w. Coon, So, editor Of the
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter, died at
| Edgerton after long illness, Mr..
Coon was a graduate of the University
| Of Wisconsin and spent practically his
whole life in newspaper work in this
state. n t.I4y X, s.sl Nh Id. .h...fl. "''
A large amount of pork, half spoiled,
| shipped into La Crosse by packing
firms, was condemned by DR.. w. w.
Armstrong, city health commissioner.
The meat was found in La Crosse
shops, Kerosene was poured over it,
and IL was burned. va 1923. .l ......
A party of officials of the Wisconsin
Telephone Company visited Mantle
voc on a tour of inspection of plants
in the state and it is reported that
while there gave assurance that some
thing would be done in regard to a
new exchange building for that city.
Members of the coast guard at the
sKewaunee station do not view with
favor the bill in congress seeking to
consolidate the coast guard with the
navy. The coast guard is composed of
picked men, superior, it is claimed, in
many respects, to the men in the navy.
The Central Labor Council has sub
mitted the proposition for a general
strike, tying up all industry in She
boygan, in sympathy with the tannery
workers, who have been out on strike
more than month, to a referendum
vote of the individual unions. The
vote will be taken by secret ballot and
communicated to the central body.
% The Rock county board of supervis-
ors through a special committee, has
bought ITO acres of the Hemingway
farm Just south OF the county poor
farm on which to built a Rock county
tuberculosis sanatorium. The county
will pay 5000 an acre for the farm or a
total of about $4,000. Final posses
sion and deed will be given the
county April 1, 1920. If'e
Cyrus c. Yawkey of Wausau has re-
ceived a commission from Gov. E. l..
Philip as colonel of infantry of the
Wisconsin state guard, Col. Yawkey
was first commissioned as captain of
Company c in August 1917, and pro-
NOTED TO major of the First Battalion,
Tenth Infantry, in May, 1918. Col,
Yawkey is one of Wansaus most in
tluential business men. al, ..l'l
Rhinehart Meyers, well known
Rhinelander lumberman, was arrested
by Stephen j. Gwide, conservation
warden on the charges of using a net
in the Some River In court Meyers
entered plea of guilty to the charge
and was fined $50 and costs. Arrests
for violations of the state fish laws
have been frequent in Oneida County
this summer and conservation ward.
ems are kept busy.
ID Drivers of ice wagons at Beloit are
on a strike because of publicity given
weights and charges by w. NJ Won
Lone, food inspector, that shori
weights were common and b boycott
was threatened against those who
complained The drivers say the allie
CATIONS are unjust The ice companies
are supplying hospitals and service Il
houses where there is illness, but the
city is greatly Inconvenience.
rs w. G. .Maxey of Oshkosh has closed
a deal for the sale of the City Gas
company's plant and extensions 10 c.
o. Somdahl of Fort Wayne, Ind Mr.
Somdahl has already taken possession
and plans important improvements
After closing this deal Mr.. Maxey still
owns two water plants and one gas
plant. At one time he controlled four
teen untilities, including the Amigo
water works, now municipality owned
TIE Eau Claire .Airplane corpora
ton, G.. II, Wood and l.. S. Mcdonald
incorporators, booked engagements for
exhibition flights by its aviators at a
number of Wisconsin fairs this fan
and the aviation school which the cor
poration plans, to conduct will be
opened within six weeks. The Joyce
farm, eighty acres of level ground
used by Ensign Grace as a flying
Held, has been leased by the corpora
lion for it's school .eH 7.tlt ..
Kenosha, South Milwaukee and Cud.
shy suffered as result of the strike
If 100 men at The plants of the Wis
,onsinf Gas and Electric company, Ra.
cine, many of the manufacturing
plants as well as several homes de-
PENDING upon the gas furnished by
! that concern, The gas in reserve
,anks has been exhausted with the re-
ult that the mains were shut off
homes WITH gas .Anges, and relying
Ipon these afm hhome cooking were
nard hit when the supply was shut Of
v Results of a hatch of ninety eggs.
lset under six hens of Mrs Daniel
IKunkeI, Oshkosh. it Is believed have
made d record which others can ain
at for years Every one of the eggs
Dfoduced baby cmck ana an ale a,
healthy condition ~ I.,
The sanatarium to be built on the
Pennoyer site will be a memorial to