The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-11-20

applicants.
One Of the first cement block barns
TO be erected on a farm in Portage
county has just been completed on the
Chef GARDINER place in Buena Vista
The building covers ground space 34x
62 feet and is adjoined by new silo
of cement blocks.
BY ignoring the faculty ruling which
prohibited the cutting of classes on
the Friday and Saturday preceding the
annual class rush., 200 freshmen and
sophomores at the university may be
barred from final examinations and
given no grade for the semesters work
in classes that they missed.
Employees of one of the largest in
dustrial plants of Oshkosh are work
ing out a system to solve the high cost
of living. The 1900 workers at the
plant have been buying foodstuffs by
wholesale in carload lots. Teams
owned by the employing concern haul
the products to the homes OF the work
men.
Raymond Thoreson, II, usher at an
Eau Claire movie theater, learned of
his adoption and the fact that he had
two brothers killed in service overseas
from a letter from the war department
asking him to report at st. Paul. The
boy was adopted when year old and
had supposed his foster parents to be
his own.
Z. Il. Claflin, Mauston, thinks if
Jerry Van Huizen, owen, can claim
to be the champion bean grower of
Clark county with a 6-pound bean, Mr.
Claim can easily claim the champion
ship of the state. He has giant New
Guinea butter beans grown from Seed
weighing 1712 pounds and measuring
forty-one inches in length,
More than half as much snow has
fallen at Superior this winter as fell
during the entire winter of 1888,
according to records kept in the city
hall. The total snowfall so far is 10
inches. AT the end of last winter %
inches were recorded for the season.
October and November of last year
had a snowfall of but Ola inches,
The $4,000 breach of promise YER
dict that a jury gave Norma Guerke,
20, Green Bay, against Walter f. Kiley
former packing house official, was con-
firmed by Judge N. J. Monahan. Miss
Guerke alleged that on Kiley's prom
Use to marry her she had received his
attentions on various motor car trips,
and that he then refused TO marry her.
The First Presbyterian church at
Manitowoc was left $500 by Miss Har-
riet Bacon, 81, former resident, who
died at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Bacon
bequeathed her life savings to relig-
ious institutions. A Cambridge church
also gets $500 Years ago she was a
school teacher at Manitowoc. She is
survived by an invalid sister in Yer
mont.
Gov. E. L. Phillip has called a pri-
mary on December s, and a special
election on Dec. 10, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the refusal of the house
of representatives to seat Victor l..
Berger as representative from the fifth
district Berger may run for re-elec-
ton Democrats and Republicans are
endeavoring to unite on a nonpartisan
candidate.
Special efforts are being made TO
spread the organization of Boy Scout
patrols throughout Marathon county.
In Wausau are several troops, the
largest having a membership of Al,
The purpose is to establish and main
tain a county council with skilled
executive in charge to select and train
scout masters The movement is meet
ing with enthusiastic response
AS the result OF a largely attended
meeting of riparian land owners at
Oshkosh, it was decided to cooperate
with the water power. users of the
Fox river valley and prepare a joint
petition to the war department asking
that the level of Lake Winnebago be
lowered eight inches in the spring to
take care of the high water and to use
eight inch flash boards on te Men
asha dam in summer months to give
the paper mill owners sufficient power
to operate their plants.
The state highway commission gave
notice of three additions to the Mon
roe county system of roads. One is
made a part of the La sse-Cashton-
Ontario highway, towns of Portland
and jefferson; one on the Ontario
Wilton-T omah road connecting with
the Sparta-Mauston road town Of
Ridgevlle and one on the Sparta-Cat-
aract-Black River Falls road. A dis
continuance Of the Sparta-Camp Rob
inson road as part of the state trunk
system, was also made.
Reinhold Rozinsky, Manitowoc, I'M
der sentence to two years at hard la
Dor for evasion of payment of $40 per
month toward support of his two
minor children, and who was ordered
to pay an increase of $50 per month
when he asked fore modification of
the original order, lost out on his hab
Gus corpus proceedings also. Judge
Kirwan remanded him to the custody
of the sheriff During the time that
Rozinsky is in Jail all of his earnings
over and above his keep go to the sup
port of the children.
Menasha Police have failed to find
any clews to the identity of two men
who forced an entrance to the home of
Herman Lueckenbach, bound and
gagged Mrs. Lueckenbach, and tied
her fast to d steam radiator, and ran
sacked the house. All the men OBJ
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