The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-03-06

and world traveller, died at Orlando,
Florida The body was brought to La
Crosse for burial.
The opening of public milk depot
in La Crosse caused retail dealers to
reduce the price from II to 10 cents
a quart. 1t is selling for 8 cents a
quart at the depot.
According to the report of A. j.
! OMelea, county director, the sale of
War Savings certificates and Thrift
stamps in Oneida county during 1918
amounted to $191,703
Frank l.. Koppelberger, theater
man, and Frank r. Schwalbe, will
erect a 100000 moving picture thea
ter in La Crosse, with seating ca
pacity of 1900 persons.
Mrs. Michael Heigl, 81 years old, the
oldest resident in Winnebago county,
died while sitting in a chair. She was
born in Vienna and had been a Nee
nah resident for sixty-three years.
James E. Sanders, Oshkosh pioneer
resident, died at the age of II, after
an illness of ten days with pneumonia.
For many years he was general agent
for Milwaukee and Chicago newspa-
pers.
Teachers in Manitowoc grade
schools have filed a petition with the
school board asking that the increase
denied them last fall be paid as a
bonus. A 20 per cent increase was
asked for.
over 1000 soldiers passing through
Marinette have been served with re-
freshments during ten weeks. The
total cost of this service was over
\ $500, ard it is borne by the county
war board.
Andres Urmanski and Fabian Kol-
ter, of Wausau, both Ia years old, We're
sentenced to the state reformatory at
Waukesha for entering homes, de-
stroying property and carrying away
articles of value.
The United States Tractor company
is the latest addition to Menasha's
list of industries. The plant is now
being moved from Chicago, following
the enlistment of Menasha capital in
the corporations business.
William Reiter, an. employee of the
Observation-Disclosures Light and Power
company, Eau Claire, received serious
cuts to his eyes when gas meter he
was repairing exploded. The accident
occurred in the company's shop.
Hugo Roeber, Milwaukee, 81 years
old, was sentenced to ten years in
Waupun. when found guilty by Munic-
ipal Judge A. c. Backus of an offense
against his daughter Hattie, at the
time she was 10 years old. Roeber de-
. MED the charge.
Miss Hannah Murphy of Wausau-
kee, who received a fractured nose
and other painful injuries when she
tripped on a loose steel gutter plate
in cement sidewalk, asks the Mari
/, nette town board for $50 damages and
the doctors fees.
Judge Tully wants to appoint a
probation woman for Kenosha county,
/, but is handicapped on account of the
fact that there are no applications for
The position. He has prepared ques-
, ,ionnaire, showing just what he re-
/ quires in the line of a probation Off
. Ger.
The Racine county Jail was the
q scene of a wedding ceremony, one
without decorations or music and with
: Thomas Hahn, justice of the peace, of
e ficiating. The parties to the cere-
mony were Mrs. Emily Gissel, SO years
old, mother of six small children, and
: Steyan Kikosicki, "a years old, who
. was a prisoner.
George X. Nooyan, son of Mr.. and
Mrs N. Nooyan of Appleton, died OF
pneumonia at Allrich, Germany, Feb
{ II. Just few hours prior TO receiv.
ing the telegram the father received a
, letter in which George related his ex-
periences i'll the army of occupation
He apparently was in excellent health
when the letter was written.
Attorneys of the northern part of
the state have adopted resolutions
, favoring the division of the circuit,
which now includes Douglas, Wash
burn, Burnet, Barron and Polk coun-
ties, and make one circuit of Douglas
county alone. In case this is done
Judge James Robbins of Rice Lake
will be the candidate who will be in
dorsed by the bar. Judge w. X. Foley
of Superior is now judge of the pres.
ent district.
Two inmates of the Fond du Lac
Catholic Home for the Aged persisted
when the home was destroyed by fire
Three We're injured, one probably
fatally, and score of others suffered
from exposure when they were forced
to fee into the cold clad only in their
night clothes. Sister Patricia did he
roice rescue work until her arm was
fractured and she was taken TO the
hospital After she had helped many
OF the inmates to safety she entered
the building, which by that time was
mass of flames, and found the body
of Mrs. Weinard. She continued her
attempts until she was injured. The
fire was discovered in a clothes chute
I shortly after many of the old people
had retired. Before it could be
. checked 1t had spread to all parts OF
the building. The home, which was
r under the care of the Sisterhood OF
} ST. Agnes, was three story structure
1t was erected by the late Henry
Boyle. 1t was valued at 100000.
7 r. G. Sawales, secretary and treas