The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-16
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they, Green Bay, for song compost
ton entitled for Freedom and Right.
August A. Baumann, 76 years old,
is dead of pneumonia. He settled in
the town of Berlin, Marathon county,
when the locality was wilderness.
Andrew ]. Bolger, postmaster at
Minocqua, was arrested by federal
agents, charged with embezzlement of
post office funds. He was indicted by
the grand jury in La Crosse.
If Commercial club plans carry, a
dynamite plant to manufacture explo-
sives and supply them to settlers at a
low price to aid in development of
land will be located near Superior.
Consolidation of the two Wisconsin
revenue districts and transfer of the
headquarters of the western district
from Madison to Milwaukee is being
considered by the revenue depart
ment.
More than three times as many
foxes were killed in Langlade county
in 1917 than in 1918. Bounties were
paid on thirty-two as compared with
102 in the previous year. There were
nineteen bounties paid on wolves.
Harry Bickle, one of the four sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Orvin Bickle of Fort
Atkinson, who are yin service, writes
his mother he is back from four or
five days Imprisonment by the Ger
mans.
Patrons of the Gas company at La
Crosse received word that a rehear-
ing has been ordered of a decision by
the state railroad commission increas-
ing the local rates The decision was
given by Judge Stevens in Dane coun-
ty circuit court.
The Ashland county board has yot-
ed 100000 for tri-county tuberculosis
sanatorium on the shores of Chequa-
megon Bay. Bayfield, and Iron coun-
ties have made appropriations making
the total fund now $4,000. The site
has been purchased.
Asserting claims based on squatters'
rights, descendants of Frank Lem
ieux, an early Indian resident on the
site of Superior, have started suit
against the United States Steel corpo-
ration, contesting its title to land and
dock frontage worth several hundred
thousand dollars.
With the close of the convention of
the Master Builders association of
Wisconsin in Green Bay announce
ment was made that Racine had been
selected as the 1920 convention city.
All officers of the association We're re-
elected. w. d. Williams of Milwau-
kee was elected to a trusteeship, re-
placing H. c. Keller of the same city.
Charles Nagler of the town of Hull.
Marathon county, who was arrested in
October charged with failure to reg
lister as an alien enemy and making
pro-German utterantes, and detained
in a Wausau Jail, was taken to an in
ternment camp at Fort Oglethorpe, by
a department of justice officer. Nagler
is married and owns large farm in
the county.
Four hundred birds We're placed on
exhibition at the annual poultry show
\. o,..~..o.4 county, ned at Fort At
kinson. Many poultry men from out
side the county brought exhibits. Ed
ward Preuse, Fort Atkinson, won first
prize on his White Wyandottes; DR..
Green, Horizon, on Black Orping-
ton, and J. F. Meuller on Rhode Island
Reds.
]. II. MCCLELLAN, attorney of Green
Bay and former municipal judge of
Marinette, has been promoted to Sc
nior lieutenant in the navy. At the
outbreak of the war he turned
his yacht, the Killarney, over to the
government and was placed in com
mand of her. He did patrol work at
the 500 locks and was there made
legal aid to the commandant at Great
Lakes.
The state board of education has
recommended a law for reduction Of
the departmental Office force by per-
hitting the calling in of specialists
from outside the state, a law for sup
plying the central Office with all pub
LEGATIONS sent to state educational in
situations and a third law to add a rep
resentative from the state board of vo-
cational training to the state board.
Changes were also authorized in the
auditing systems of state educational
institutions.
An overheated furnace in the base
ment of the general store of Milton
Runge caused fire which threatened
the entire village of Franksville. near
Racine and caused loss estimated at
over $4,000 The Runge store with a
large stock of merchandise was com
pletely destroyed as was the Wood
man hall building, saloon and resi-
dence of Emil Britzman and four
small homes. The Gutknicht hotel
was threatened when the large barn
nearby caught fire. The village is
without fire protection. Snow drifts
prevented the Racine fire department
apparatus from reaching the village.
VIM Purdy, Madison, composer of
ION Wisconsin," is dying of tubercu-
losis. Madison Is raising a bill
Purdy fund.-. that will be for the ben
eft of the sick writer and his wife and
baby. Dean S. II. Goodnight of the
University of Wisconsin Is receiving,