The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-02

ever known in this locality.
Rats chewing on matches caused a
fire which destroyed the $4,000 sum-
mer home of b. l.. Mcqueen of Pitts
burgs on Loon Lake, near Rhinelander.
The Minnesota Wisconsin Light and
Power Company has petitioned the
State Railroad Commission for per
mission to increase gas and electric
rates in La Crosse.
To give all of his time to federal
income tax problems for Kenoshans,
Joseph Custer, United States revenue
department, has opened headquarters
in the post Office there
The Neenah Civic Association is to
lease a tract of land adjacent to the
southwestern limits of the city which
will be equipped as a flying field and
landing place for aviators.
The wreckage of the Green Bay
Aero Club airplane was loaded on
board motor truck at Amigo for
transportation to Green Bay. The en-
CINE and radiator are practically in
tact.
J. G. Lewis, Amigo, has been ap-
pointed chairman for Langlade Coun-
ty for the Roosevelt memorial fund
campaign. Fred l.. Berner was APP
pointed publicity manager for the
county,
Kenosha women have organized a
college club, which is to encourage in
terest in higher education among the
young women of Kenosha, Former
goods now living there are eligible to
membership.
Charles Euchera, Wausau, is, lost
his right hand by the accidental dis
charge of a gun while hunting ducks.
His boat was fast in the mud and he
held the gun by the muzzle while
pushing the boat.
A 24-hour strike of tailors was end.
ed at La Crosse when the men re-
turned to work under a contract which
calls for a SIS increase in the cost of
making a suit of clothes. Every tai
lor in the city had walked out.
The federal health service has sent
out a warning to the public, directing
attention to the fact that one of ten
persons over 40 dies of cancer, and
declaring that the disease is increas-
ing despite the fact that it is durable
if treated early. Pain rarely gives the
first warning, the circular says
Mai. Gen Edward f. McGlachlin,
commander of the First division in
the world war, visited with his parents
at Stevens Point He then went TO
Camp Funston, Kansas, to command
the Seventh division. Gen. McGlachlin
was accompanied by his wife and
daughter, Elizabeth, who had been Wis
iting in New York and Washington.
Work on the $4,000 federal trunk
concrete highway between Eau Claire
and Chippewa Falls has been brought
10 a stop because cement shipments
have failed and it is feared that this
piece of road, just a little over half
done, will not be completed before
| cold weather halts operations, 1t is
claimed that the shortage of cars is
responsible for the interruption in the
shipments.
Complaint was made to the railroad
commission that the digging of drain
age bitches near the outlet and the
dredging of a portion of the outlet of
Lake Como, Walworth county, has re
suited in lowering the level of/that
beautiful little lake Is inches. and that
the lake was being ruined. The com
mission directed that the parties re-
sponsible build dam to maintain the
waters at normal level
DR.. Maynard A. Froney, Racine,
whose automobile struck Harry Main
land, resulting in DEATH was bound
over for trial on a charge of fourth
degree manslaughter. The defend
ants attorneys asserted that the vic
tim of the accident had stepped in
front of the coming automobile, when
he stood at the roadside where an au-
tomobile was being repaired. They
denied that any carelessness was
shown against the physician.
A test case to determine the validity
of the state law compelling the label
ing of all butter made in whole or in
part of whey cream, as whey butter
is to be made of the action brought
under this law again j. II. Howe,
Langlade County cheese maker Trial
of the case has been set for Oct 81
It's outcome will be of vital interest to
butter and cheese makers all over
Wisconsin and it is expected that the
Wisconsin Dairymen's Association
will take an active interest in the de
Tense
The Milwaukee Electric Railway e.
Light Co. will extend a power line
from Burlington to Union Grove and
furnish electric lighting to the village
Of Union Grove and summer homes
and hotels at Eagle and Brown lakes,
as well as to farm homes. The public
utility company filed for record 45
easements on property over which to
extend the power line, and which will
connect with the companys right of
way in Burlington Later the power
| line will be extended to Racine, Great
| ing loop between Milwaukee, Racine
and Burlington.
Activities Of the Watertown Red
Cross chapter during the war have
been written into a volume by Mrs. f..
| Il. Woodland and is in the hands of the
printer. Appeals have been issued for
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