The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-05-29
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


Floyd Hanson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ole Hanson, the only Neillsville man
who won the distinguished service
cross, has returned home,
T. e. Henderson, who has been SUI
perintendent of the Neillsville schools
for several years, has resigned to &C
cept a similar place in Dodgeville.
The employees of the American Elk
press Co. in Sheboygan have received
raise of $25 a month and their hours
have been reduced from ten to eight
Joseph Schafer, Marshfield, who has
farm in the town of Mcmillan, was
stricken of apoplexy while planting
corn and was found dead in the field
A class of more than ninety mem
bers was initiated into the Knights of
Columbus at Darlington. The initia-
ton was followed by a program and
banquet.
Ten policemen will be added to the
Kenosha force, bringing the strength
up to thirty-fve officers. The move
has the hearty approval of the COM
mon council.
The Kenosha board of supervisors
appropriated $4,000 toward the wei
come home fund, to be used to defray
expenses incurred for the celebration
arranged for July A. 5 and 6.
Mrs. Margaret Wehrer, 70, resident
of La Crosse county since 1851 and
one of the first settlers on st. Joserh's
ridge, died as a result of broken hip
suffered in fall FIVE months ago.
Peter Zweifel, 81, Spencer. veteran
If the Civil war, was found dead in a
chair in his room in a Spencer hotel
Three months ago Mr.. Zweifel lived
at the Milwaukee Soldiers home.
Tom Bernitis, who stole enough ar
ticles from Hassan Ferris. La Crosse,
to start a small dry good store, said
he was intoxicated, but he was sen
fenced to one year in prison by Judge
Brindley.
The cemetery and park board of
Manitowoc will endeavor to curb the
Sunday funeral habit. A rule will be
adopted prohibiting Sunday funerals
except upon permission granted by the
health officer.
Katherine 6 years old, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hanson, Wheaton,
Eau Claire county, is dead as the re-
suit of burns received when her cloth
ing caught fire from brush her father
was burning.
Fire which broke out in the Nc
Donald block Stevens Point, on the
public square as an aftermath just at
the close of the homecoming celebra-
ton for soldiers, caused damage esti-
mated at $1,000.
With her son 20 miles off the United
States coast, en- route home from
France, Mrs. Mary Evenson, 65, died
at her home in Onalaska. For thirty
years she has been a mother to nearly
every sick person in Onalaska.
The farm of j. b. Mathews & Co,
formerly known as the Wilkinson farm
in Ashland county, is planted entirely
to wheat Eighty acres was sowed to
winter wheat last fall and the remain
der 153 acres was sowed to spring
wheat.
The thirty-eighth annual convention
of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors
and Embalmers' association will be
held at Appleton, June "a to &c. More
than 800 undertakers are expected.
An elaborate entertainment program
is being prepared.
Miss Flora May Ellis, teacher of ply
steal education for women at the state
normal school, Stevens Point, has re-
signed to accept a similar position in
the normal school at Hays, Kas. The
new position carries an increase OF
more than $500 in salary.
The Wisconsin Parts company is the
name of a corporation organized il
Oshkosh and capitalized at 100000
The company will be the successor to
the f. b. Hayes Machine corporation
1t will be devoted to the manufacture
Of rear aXles for trucks.
The death of Mrs Robert Williams
Sr., Wild Rose, 70, was the first loss il.
the family. She was the mother of
twelve children, eight boys and four
girls, all living She is also survived
by her husband to whom she has been
married over sixty years. OF the
twelve children, the oldest is SO and
The youngest 35. The eight sons acted
as pallbearers at their mothers fu-
neral
w. j. Dougan, Dairyman, has given
The product Of a pureblooded Guernsey
COW, Marie of Sarnia," for five years
10 the First Methodist church of Be
,oit, as a gift towards the missionary
'und, which the Methodists are rails.
ing, Mr.. Dougan estimates that the
COW will yield the church $500 pen
year and that her services will be
worth 81 900 to the movement The Be
lott Methodists have more than
pledged their quota of $4,000.
One hundred prelates and priests,
Bishop Rhode, Green Bay and Bishop
Koudelka, Superior were among those
At Menasha to take part in the golden
Jubilee, marking the fiftieth anniver
sary of Father Andrew Seubert's serv-
ice as a priest.
While drilling a well on a farm 40,
FAR from Peshtigo, an artesian well
was discovered forty-eight feet down
throwing a gallon of water minute
This is something unusual in this part