The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-31
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The Sheboygan common council has
set aside an appropriation of $500 for
weekly band concerts in the city
parks during the summer.
Preparations have been made for
beginning the construction of a large
dry dock in Kewaunee by the Wiscon-
sin Shipbuilding and Navigation Com
pany.
The newly organized Neenah Build
ing Company has purchased 20 lots
upon which homes to relieve the
house shortage at Neenah will be
built.
Louis Schriber, vice-president of the
Old National bank, Oshkosh, has been
appointed Winnebago county sales
director for government certificates OF
indebtedness.
Enrico Rossi, merchant of Keno
sha, was arrested at Cleveland. He is
alleged TO have cashed several hun
dred dollars worth of bad checks and
then to have disappeared.
The S125,000 water works improve.
ment heads recently authorized by the
Eau Claire city council were sold to
the Harris Trust and Savings company
at par with accrued interest and pre-
MUM of 1922. tt
According to Chief of Police Straub
there has not been single person
confined in the Rhinelander Jail during
July. Prior to that time there was an
average of eight to ten persons inhab.
iting the lookup every day.
Robbers moved the safe of a Supe-
rior butcher shop into the ice box
where they blew it open. AS they
were escaping with 400 in loot they
shot and killed Patrolman Finley
Beaton. The robbers escaped in an
automobile.
Ninety per cent of business and pro
fessional men of GAINESVILLE favor the
return of the railroads to private own
ership with proper government super
vision. This was ascertained by ref
erendum of members of the Chamber
of Commerce. The vote was 266 to 10.
A three story brick bank building
will be erected at GAINESVILLE this fall
to be used by new banking "a Sc or
ganiZed by Merton G. Fish, Mnitewa-
ter banker, as president. There are at
present four banks in GAINESVILLE. The
building will be constructed so as to
allow for the addition of nine or ten
more stories in the future as occasion
warrants.
The Misses Margaret Southwick
and Sarah Buck, both of whom spent
ten months in war work in France,
have returned TO their home in Ste
vens Point The former young
woman was in Red Cross service ana
had been doing active work in France
from a week before the armistice was
signed up to the time of her leaving
for home. Miss Buck was in Y. NJ. c.
A. canteen service in France.
An Oshkosh man, Commander Earl
p Finney, of the U. S. S. Cheyenne. is
a member of the American navy forces
having part in the Mexican difficulties.
1t was launch from his ship which
was attacked a few miles from Tam
pico recently, Commander Finney has
been in the United States navy fol
eighteen years, since he was gradua
ted from Annapolis. He is the son OF
Mrs. E. Z. Finney, Oshkosh.
L. N. Levings has been a rural car
rier attached to the New Richmond
post office for sixteen years, and he il
driving one of the horses that he be
gan using when he took up his duties
in Uncle Sans postal service. This
horse, Montana broncho of no note
worthy breeding as horses go, has,
during those sixteen years, travelled
and carried the mail on rural route
No. 5, total of 100000 miles, a dis
lance equal TO about four times the
earths circumference. Mr.. Leving3
mileage amounts to 128,000.
A campaign is to be carried out at
Oshkosh 10 ascertain how many OF the
working men of that city desire to aC
quire their own homes. The move
ment is being pushed by the Associa-
ton of Commerce and if the survey
reveals sufficient interest steps will
be taken to organize a home building
association in which the wage earners
OF small means may purchase homes
on the installment plan in lieu of rent
1t is believed there are many who
would buy small homes if they could
do so without becoming financially
burdened.
Announcement has been made OF
hearings by the legislative trunk high
way commission to determine the loca
ton of three links of the projected
Minneapolis to Marinette trunk line
highway-the links from Amigo to
Merrill, Merrill to Medford, Medford
TO Chippewa Falls. Hearings will be
held at Amigo, Aug. 7; Merrill, Aug
q, and Medford, Aug. %. No hearings
have been announced to consider
routes east of Amigo From Chippe.
wa Falls there is an existing state
trunk highway to Hudson by way of
Eau Claire and Menominee.
Two of the biggest land deals of the
month in Oneida county were made
when the 100 acre farm of Walter
Kerber was sold to T. L. King of Iowa,
and the 400 acre tract belonging to
Jay Miller was purchased by Miller 4
Stouhl of Milwaukee.
There is no place like Wisconsin"
says Mrs. l.. L. VandervoTs who re