The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-31

Of a farmer near Beloit died from
burns received starting a fire with
kerosene.
Eugene Taylor, Ashland, was -ap-
pointed to the newly created Office of
superintendent Of pulpwood sealing, by
Gov. Philip.
Miss Peluta DuMez, Cashton, left
the United States, enroute for the Phil
ippine Islands, where she has a two
years contract in the schools at Ma
nilla.
Charles Riser and Jacob Meinzer,
La Crosse fishermen, were arrested
fined $50 and costs. Their motorboat
and nets were confiscated at Caledo-
mia, Mimi, for illegal seining
BY majority of 294 votes the cleo
tors of Florence county voiced their
approval of the proposition to bond the
county for 100000 for the construc-
ton of new roads and repairing of old
roads.
Gas rates effective at Appleton June
80, 1919, have been continued indeh-
nitely by the Wisconsin Railroad
Commission, on application of the
Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and
Power Company.
Maj. Gen. E. f. McGlachlin, Stevens
Point, decorated by the United States
government, was awarded the croix de
guerre with palm, by France. He
is son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. McGlach.
lin of Stevens Point.
Many crates of raspberries are
shipped from Marshall during the
small fruit season and the yield this
year is a record breaker. Besides the
crop of tame berries, the surrounding
woods are filled with wild raspberries.
Oconto county will hold its annual
fair Sept. %, a. % and 20. Mayor J..
B. Chase, for many years. secretary Of
the fair organization, refused the Of
fee, and William J. Tinker, member
Of the county board and secretary Of
the American Society of Equity Of
Oconto county, was elected in his
place.
Interesting sidelights on the Wis.
consin home of Miss Frances E. Will
lard, noted temperance worker, and Of
her father, while the family occupied
farm near GAINESVILLE, are given in
the latest number of the Wisconsin
Magazine of History published quar-
terly by the Wisconsin Historical So
ciety.
Miss Constance Hayes, formerly SUI
perintendent of the Willowbrook San
atarium in Kenosha county, was re-
Gently cited by King Peter of Serbia
for her splendid work in organizing
the campaign in that war ridden
country against the spread of tubercu-
losis, according to authentic word re-
ceived in Kenosha.
On the appeal of X. L. Hatch, state
director of extension work in behalf
of Montana. and Wyoming cattlemen.
Oconto county, thru its county agent,
placed $4,000 acres of land in the
northern part of the county as pasture
land TO help save cattle dying from.
starvation. This is all cutover land
and much of it is seeded.
To show citizens of Green Bay how
some of the money subscribed to vari.
Gus Liberty loans has been used,
Navy day. has been arranged for
Aug. A. The captured German subma-
rine UC-97, several navy hydroplanes,
a navy baseball team, band and the
six-reel moving picture, The Making
og Sailor, will be shown.
The city of Kenosha lost a legal
fight when Judge Belden, in the Cir
cult court handed down a decision sus-
tanning the injunction of residences
along the Burlington road which re-
strained the city from longer using
the famous Burlington road dump.
Kenosha officials are now on a search
fer some place to dump the refuse OF
the city.
Portions of Brown and Manitowoc
counties are overrun by Canadian
thistles, and farmers report that fields
never before infected have been fairly
filed with the pest. The attention of
county and state authorities has been
called to the situation and deter.
mined campaign will be made to eradl.
cate the weed before the seed has
been carried through the surrounding
country.
Winnebago county is practically free
from the hog cholera, although the dis
ease is causing considerable Darn in
other parts of the state According
to G. A. Sell county agent, Winnie
bago has been kept comparatively
free of the scourge for a number of
years by vaccinations and disinfect.
ants. He says the cholera is more
common where there are large herds
of hogs. In Winnebago county, few
herds exceed thirty or forty pigs.
Adjt. Gen. Holway has issued orders
for the preparation of QUESTIONABLE
blanks which will be sent to all Wis
consin service men, asking whether
they would take advantage of an offer
of higher education at state expense
and securing data upon their educa-
tional qualifications. A decision will
then be made as to whether a special
session of the Legislature shall be
called to enact a bill similar to the Nye
free education bill, which vase vetoed
by the governor
More than 1000 people attended the
funeral of Thomas II. Hanna, former
mayor and Democratic leader of Ste
vens Point. Mr. Hanna met death by
agnhVxiation while taxing a hath IA HE