The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-30

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Cavite. Philippine Islands.
Lieut. Philip La Toilette, son of
Senator La Toilette, has returned to
the University of Wisconsin, after
army service in Oklahoma. He COM
pletes his college course this year.
Capt A. l.. p. Dennis, formerly pro-
fessor of history in the university, is
the fifth Wisconsin faculty man to be
ordered to the peace conference at
Paris to assist the American staff.
! Neenah and Menasha will cooper
ate in the erection of a monument,
costing $4,000 for the soldiers and
sailors. The monument will be erect
ed on the dividing line between the
two towns. This was definitely de-
cided upon.
! January q marked the eighty-fourth
birthday anniversary of Moses Hoop
en- Oshkosh dean of the Winnebago
/ County Bar association. Mr.. Hooper
was born in Maine. He came to Nee
nah in 1857 to practice law and re-
moved to Oshkosh in 1858.
A. z. Schantz, Appleton, who was
member of the band aboard the flag.
ship Pennsylvania, which escorted
President Wilson to France, arrived
home after being in the navy for near
| ly two years. He was one of the first
Appleton young men to enlist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Torger Olson, town of
Cady, Vernon County, celebrated Sun.
day, Jan. 16, the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding Mr.. Olson is SO and
his wife IS. They were born in Ger.
stad, Norway, and came to this coun-
| try in 1862 They have four children.
The fight of the MantowGc milk
dealers before the attorney general
has not brought any results and they
have been compelled TO pay the de-
mand OF the farmer for $410 hun
dred weight. AS a result the price of
milk has been raised to Is cents per
quart.
The university extension division is
preparing a booklet, Suggestions and
Programs for Community Centers, TO
aid Wisconsin public entertainments.
The bureau of civic, commercial and
community development is prepared to
help organize community center work
3" hereyer there is a demand.
Alex Lawson, one of Sturgeon Bays
Oldest residents died at Forestville.
he had made his home in I:oor coun-
~ for forty-nine years and was "a
years old, having been born in Glas-
gov, Scotland. He leaves large fam
! lily of children, grandchildren and
great grandchildren.
A 4-year-old COW, recently tested for
seven days, owned by Walter H.
Wieckert, living near Appleton, made
the following record; 1894 pounds Of
milk and 1884 pounds of butter. Her
best days milk was 80 pounds, or an
quarts of milk. During the fifteen
days test she produced more than her
weight in milk, being 1850, and the
weight of milk 1868.
What promises 20 be an interesting
event in Appleton frcm the viewpoint
of about fifty Appleton boys who are
members of various basketball teams,
| is TO be held in the form of a city
amateur tournament in which eight
| basketball teams will participate.
Games are to be played every Thurs
day night and asbeautiful trophy will
| be awarded the winning team.
Members of the Rock County board
of supervisors are arousins sentimel'
of a highway building program which
will make necessary a bond issue of
over one million dollars. The board
mas not taken official action but it is
hoped to get it before the meeting
next April. If the bond issue is made
possible, Rock county will start 10
build eighty-one miles of concrete
| highways.
Administration of the draft in Wis
consin cost a total of S510,227.57, ac-
cording to figures compiled by Maj
h. A. Fitzpatrick, Madison, state draft
administrator. This item is being paid
by the federal government, and in
cludes all expenses incurred in oper
alton of the draft in this state. Many
| of the board members did not receive
salaries, although they were permit
ted to draw them if they desired.
Nearly 56,000,000 bushels of grain
we're received at Superior elevators
between aug. /, 1918, and Jan. l, 1919,
according to the Wisconsin grain and
warehouse commission. OF this, 49,
/ oh
made up 41,0CJ,000 bushels of the
amount received and nearly 91,000,000
of shipments. The showing is a rec
ord for many million bushels, at
least 80 per cent
One hundred and fifty women en-
ployed as stitchers by the Chicago
Rubber Clothing company, Racine,
walked out when notified their wages
would be reduced about one-half. For
he last eighteen months the company
mas been manufacturing cloth rubber
coats for the war department. With
The close of the war contracts We're
Cancelled and the company returned to
the manufacturing Of garments for
civilians, which resulted in the wages
of the stitchers being reduced from
$3.50 to $3.50 day.
Ladysmith has been made a divi.
4 sion terminal on the Chicago division
Z of the 500 Line. Many railroad men
{ will make that place their headquar.
tiers and the company will erect a
large roundhouse there.
Outlines of plan for a Liberty
suiIding to be built by popular sub