The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-27
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

officers.
A plea for constructive criticism
and spirit of cooperation with the
government was made by Burton e.
Nelson of Racine, district governor Of
the International Rotary clubs, in a
Joint meeting of the Green Bay Ro-
tary and Kiwanis clubs.
Julia Frost, who is between SIS and
100 years of age, and the oldest squaw
on the Lac de Flambeau Indian res
ervation near Rhinelander, has re-
turned from Madison where she was
released from a charge of bringing
liquor into the reservation.
Approximately $4,000 will be ex-
pended in the making of good roads in
La Crosse during the present year,
over two-thirds of this amount will be
put on main state highways connect
ing La Crosse with county seats of
adjacent counties.
A reception was held for Mr.. and
Mrs. Orson Wright at the l. 0. o. f.
hall in honor of their golden wedding
anniversary. Mr.. Wright is civil
war veteran. Both came to Wiscon-
sin with their parents in 1855, They
have lived in Mansion since 1892.
The employment of 400 men on
county road improvement is expected
to prevent a possible unemployment
crisis in Sheboygan county this year,
according to an announcement made
by County Highway Commissioners
George Ubbelohde, who attended the
Madison road school.
A ball given at Oshkosh for the
benefit of the new Army and Navy
club, by the Oshkosh chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, was a big financial success,
enough money being cleared to pur-
chase a Victrola and records for the
club.
A vigorous campaign to induce the
common council to bond La
Crosse for 100000 for erection of
school buildings, to replace unsani-
tary structures was launched at a
mass meeting recently. Election of
aldermen pledged to vote for the bond
issue will be attempted in each ward
in April
Frank Peck has returned to his
home in Stevens Point after being in
service in France for fifteen months.
He was in Battery A, Fifty.seyenth
regiment, and fought against the Prus-
sian guards in many battles. His
regiment suffered hundreds of casual
ties, but he came through without a
scratch.
An educational campaign on what
BOY Scouts do has been started with
the idea of raising fund of $4,000 for
organizing a council of Boy Scouts
in Winnebago county, with paid eX-
ecutive taking charge and training
sCoutmasters for various troops. Ma
tional Scout Commissioner Hazlett is
at Oshkosh to assist.
One of the largest real estate deals
developed in Winnebago county in
some time, was recorded by the regis
ter of deeds at Oshkosh when a 100
acre farm in town of Winneconne was
transferred to William II. Lean, of
that city, to the Wisconsin Canning
company of Winneconne village. The
federal stamps attached showed the
consideration was around $4,000
That the University of Wisconsin is
getting to be the institution it was
before the war is seen by the number
of foreigners now coming. The latest
arrivals are from India. They are NJ
Bahadan and b. II. Koorsheid of
Hylerabad, Dekkan. They will return
and do government agriculture work
there after three years of training
The men left Bombay Dec, 10, and
landed at San Francisco on Feb. 0.
The will of the late c. f. Latimer
Ashland, provided that if the estate
is over 100000, per cent of 1t goes
to tho city of Ashland for vocational
training, including manual training
and domestic science The estate Is
estimated at $750,000. Mr.. Latimer
made his money in north Wisconsin
pine and was president of the North
ern National bank He died at his
winter home in Chicago a month ago
following influenza
After long service in the health de.
partment of Oshkosh, Dr. A. II.
Broche has rendered his resignation
as city health commissioner. He
gave az his reason for bis act that he
has been offered more remuneratiye
position as director of the Waukesha
Moor baths. DR.. Broche was city
physician for about eleven years,
served as part time health commits
sioner for three years and has
been full time commissioner for al.
most three years, his present term
expiring May l. The salary is $2,400
year No action has been taken by
the commission council in regard to
a successor.
Miss Jane Butt of Viroqua, daugh
ter of Col. G. NJ Butt, has recently
been hostess for the American ON.
GERS club in Paris Miss Butt is q
Wisconsin university graduate anC
was dean of the normal school at San
Diego, Cal. Col. Butt was a former
state senator. She is Red Cross
worker
Near beer will be manufactured by
the merged Appleton breweries at
the plant Of George Walter Brewing
company as soon as the ban on using
ceriAin food nrndncts In making nom