The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-13

uary of La Crosse.
H. Merkley, Neenah, retired farmer
formerly of the town of Neenah, Is
dead. He was 81 years of age and vet
eran of the Civil war
At a special meeting of the common
council it was voted to motorize the
Beaver Dam fire department. The APP
paratus will be installed within sixty
days.
The new $4,000 addition to the APP
pleton pastoflice building is still pos
sibility according to letter which the
postmaster received from Washington.
Data is asked for
Louis o. Wissman Appleton, assist
ant cashier of the First National bank
for four years, has been elected cash
Ter to succeed George H. Utz, who
dropped dead few days ago.
John Aide, blind man, and his
brother, Heuben Aide, both of La
Crosse, are accused of stealing cloth
ing and watch from a hotel keeper
and were arrested in Winona.
L. b. Carton, Sheboygan, president
of the Carton Toy company, has been
named by President Plantz of Law
renee college as delegate to the
Great Lakes peace congress.
The first reception and banquet
for returned Manitowoc soldiers was
given at Woods hall on Feb. II, The
event was given under auspices of the
women of ST. Boniface church.
Dr. George c. Rutland, Milwaukee
health commissioner, who was tc
speak at La Crosse, Feb. 4, in the in
terests of the child welfare clinic, has
indefinitely postponed his visit.
Manitowoc county has sent five rep
resentatives to the state road school
at Madison. They are County High
way Commissioner Frank Muth, John
Schetter, Ferdinand Schneider, Steven
Zenfalla and Orvil Breuer.
Representatives of Chicago ice com
panies were at Lake Winnebago look
ing over the prospects of cutting ice
for shipment to Chicago. Ice has not
been shipped from the lake to outside
points for twenty-five years.
The first Outagamie county soldier
to be wounded in France is now in the
United States. He is Mitchell Gorrow
son of Mr. and Mrs. e. M. Gorrow OF
Appleton. He arrived in Camp Mills,
N. Y, few days ago.
Gustave Huette, Sheboygan, founder
of the Falls Machine company, has
disposed of his holdings and is now
devoting most of his time to his Of
fee as chairman of the Sheboygan
county chapter of the Red Cross.
Oshkosh is soon to have its second
wholesale candy factory. The Anker.
son-Hansen company, wholesale gro
GERS, have organized a $4,000 com.
pany, and will start making chocolates
and other sweets within few weeks.
A term in the state Teformatory at
Green Bay and another at Waupun
made little impression an Erick Smith
of La Crosse, so Judge Higbee of the
circuit court gave him seven years at
the states prison for forging check
for SIS.
Owing to a request from Beloit col.
lege for postponement the Appleton
Beloit High school debate has been
postponed to Feb %. Beloit has been
crippled by influenza and her final eX-
animation will come about Feb. IA, the
date originally set for the triangle.
The middle finger of the left hand
pulled off at its socket and other parts
of the hand badly lacerated as a re-
suit of being caught between a wagon
wheel and the box were the injuries
received by Henry Nooyen, Appleton,
driver for the Riverside Fiber com.
pany,
Five of the big eight" members OF
the army who left Appleton seventeen
months ago, returned. Edmund Ross
mesel, Roy Myse, John Rechner
Steve Schaefer and Roy Row, are
home, while Henry Hoffman, Oliver
Schmidt and William Fries are still
in France.
Many Appleton persons commemo
rated the first anniversary of the sink
ing of the transport Tuscania, with
more than a dozen Outagamie county
men on board off the coast of Ire
land, a year ago Wednesday, Feb. s.
Nine Appleton men were on board but
all were saved.
Notwithstanding the fact that he had
made confession, Edward Miller, ac
cused of the burglary of the Kaufman
barber shop, at Manitowoc, was freed
by a jury. Miller, on the stand in his
own defense, said he made the con
fession to shield some girl companions
Miller's home is at Amigo.
Z. G. Simmons, prominent Kenosha
manufactures, was appointed chair
man of the recent committee created
by the city council to welcome home
Kenosha soldiers. The committees
were announced by Mayor Joachim
and plans were started for real jubi
lee when the boys come marching
home"
Sheboygan has launched an Ameri
canization drive to interest the $500
aliens to secure their naturalization
papers. Competition is on between
factory heads to secure a one hundred
Nor cent American force of employees
Committees have been appointed in
each ward and all aliens will be paid
personal visits by influential citizens.
The ri Kappa Alpha fraternity OF