The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-03-20

county. He has held the Office for four
years.
Kenosha's loyalty to worthy causes
was evidenced in the report on the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS relief campaign.
Kenosha's showing is well over 100
per cent
When the drive was started for
French War orphans, Oneida county
was given quota Of fifty-one. At
present sixty-five adoptions have been
reported.
AT the registration for the spring
primaries, $50 Sheboygan women were
put on the poll lists. They will vote
on school commissioners and on a site
for a new high school,
Register of Deeds Schmitt of Keno.
sha has become so busy recording
and attesting discharges for returned
soldiers that he petitioned the Red
Cross for clerical assistance.
c. H. Collins, La Crosse, is being
doomed for grand sentinel of the
grand council United Commercial
Travellers. The state convention will
be held in La Crosse in June.
Sergt. Max Thalke, wounded in &C.
ton while leading his men over the
top in the last big drive of the war
and who was later decorated by Gen.
Pershing, has arrived at his home in
Menasha.
Miss Matte Mcmillan, Amigo, as
sistant principal of the Langlade
County Normal school, announced her
candidacy for county superintendent
A. NJ. Arveson, the incumbent, will not
again seek the office,
Oconto celebrated fifty years of ex-
istence as city by continuing in its
regular routine of business. Plans
for big celebration were discussed,
but it was put off until the members
of Co. M, Thirty-second diMsion, get
home.
County Agent Merton Moore of
Shawano and County Agent Amund-
son of Oconto county have arranged
for a two days demonstration course
in a number of different places in the
two counties. The first was held at
Galesburg, March 10 and IL.
The theft of automobile batteries,
tires and accessories from the plant
of the Mitchell Motors company, Ra-
cine, resulted in the arrest of seven
foremen of the company and of one
manager of an automobile repair shop.
1t is alleged that foremen connived
with certain testers of automobiles to
carry away the batteries and tires and
sell them to dealers in Racine and
other cities.
Lewis Gruselle, Green Bay soldier
treasures an aluminium comb, a gift
rom the Red Cross, more highly than
any relic of the war. He believes the
comb saved his life, as it deviated a
piece of shrapnel, in its course, as it
penetrated his lung. Six teeth of the
comb were bent by the shrapneT. A
norse was shot from under him In the
Argonne fighting. Officers and men
near were killed by the explosion of
the big shells.
Work on drainage bitches to re-
claim 100000 acres of swamp land
southwest of Neillsville will start as
soon as weather permits. The bonds
have been sold and nothing seems to
stand in the way of the Improvement
The work will be under state supervi-
ion and will be paid for from the pro
ceeds of long term, low interest bonds,
the cost being ultimately paid by the
land improved. The work will take
about two years.
Bud Kenyon, Eleva, Trempealeau
county, socialist orator, was found
guilty by jury in United States dis
trict court at Eau Claire on three
counts of an indictment charging VIC
lation of the espionage act and was
sentenced by Judge A. l.. Sanborn to
one year in Leavenworth prison.
Kenyon, among other things, is alleg-
ed to have said that Liberty bonds
were not worth a cent and that the
fight with Germany was rich mans
war.
Holstein breeders of Wisconsin
view prohibition on July l as the
opening of new demand for milk
and its by-products. Breeders in con-
vention at Fond du Lac were told to
prepare for it. F. G. Swoboda, state
director of the Better Wisconsin cam
paign, cited the experience of states
which have had appreciate increase
in sale of milk and buttermilk with
the spread of prohibition. Lacteal
fluid he said will to a great measure
take the place of the favorite glass of
beer.
h. +, Schneider, Amigo, well-known
restaurant man, plans to erect a four
apartment building, taking the first
move to break the housing deadlock"
in that city. Every rentable building
and apartment in the city is occupied
Milk in Superior must contain az
per cent butter fat instead of 8 per
cent as heretofore, according to an
ordinance adopted by the city com
mission. 1t is contended that the
farmers milk, sold to distributors, con-
tains an average OF 3.S per cent, and
is reduced to per cent before dis
tlibuiion.
Viroqua voters at the spring cleo
ton will decide whether or not to
bond the city for $25OO00 for a city
hospital.
Capt. Herman B. Rupp former com
mander Of Co b, Third Wisconsin in
fantrY WAS decnrafed with a Crniv do