The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-25

More than a hundred applications
for citizenship papers at Sheboygan
are ex-soldiers and sailors who are be-
ing granted their full naturalization
privileges upon presentation of honor
able discharges.
Glasses in home nursing. being con
Quoted in Darlington and at points
throughout Lafayette county under
auspices OF the Red Cross. are being
largely attended and unusual interest
taken in the work.
The first hunting casualty of the
season occurred when John Schaefer
Menasha, river foreman, was shot in
the neck when hunter shot over the
top of the rice in the local swamp
Mr.. Schaefer will recover.
New one-man cars will be run in
Beloit after Oct. l, according to T. NJ.
Ellis, Beloit Traction Co. A seven
minute service schedule will also be
inaugurated on both loops Carmen
will get a raise from As to so cents an
hour
Lawrence college at Appleton open
ed with a record-breaking attendance
in sight. There are $50 male students
who cannot get rooms in the dormito
ries or fraternity houses. Five mem.
bers have been added to the conserva
tory faculty.
Fifty Greeks of the Sheboygan col
ony are planning to depart for their
former homes in Greece. Three have
already left and the others expect to
follow soon. Most of the Greeks who
will return to their families in the old
country will bring them to America
At the institution of a knights oil
Columbus Council in Rhinelander
fifty new members were initiated by
the degree teams of Wausau and An
tigo councils. Twenty-eight old mem
bers were transferred into the local
council from lodges of other cities.
G. M. Householder, state superin
tendent of county agents for northern
Wisconsin, who was engaged as agent
of Oneida county to succeed w. d
Juday notified the county board
that he will not accept. Mr.. House
holder has been appointed on the
state immigration commission in Mad
ison.
Robert Rieben was killed in a cavein
at the pit of the Waupaca Sand &
Gravel Co, at Amhurst. Another
workman was buried but was rescued
The first cavein carried the men into
the pit and a second followed, cover
ing Mr.. Rieben to such depth that i,
took an hour and half to recover hi,
body.
f. f. Kress and George M. Danke
both of Neenah, pleaded guilty al
Oshkosh to the charge OF adulteratine
butter. Each paid a fine of SIS anu
costs 1t was charged that they mixed
with the butter IAN inferior and
cheaper substance, namely. water Sc
as to lower and depreciate and injuri
ously affect its strength, quality and
purity from S2.5 per cent OF butterfat
to 1886 per cent of butterfat, SO that
it tends to deceive and mislead the
purchaser and consumer"
The strike situation at Two Rivers
has resulted in the issuing of cal
for a special session of the ManitowoC
County Board to take action With re
gard to deputies for the sheriff. 1t Is
reported that the factory owners are
clamoring for reopening of theiI
plants owing to the large exodus OF
working men from the city of Two
Rivers. The latest reports place the
figure as high as 500 that bave already
secured jobs in other cities, Racine
Kenosha, Milwaukee. GAINESVILLE ana
Hartford. with some few going to
Clintonville.
The declaration of intention on the
part OF Anton Leonard Hanson, alias
Anton II. Bergdalen, and ole John
Bygstad, both of Eau Claire, to be
come citizens of the United States
were cancelled and an order entered
by Judge James Wickham in the cir
cult court there forever debarrinp
them from becoming citizens OF the
United States on the ground that they
claimed exemption from the draft be
cause of being aliens OF a neutral
country, thereby proving their un
worthiness, their utter disregard OF
the duties of those contemplating cit
izenship. Thirteen, including five sol
diers, We're granted citizenship.
Approximately 2O,750 carloads of po
tatoes will be shipped from Wisconsin,
this year. according to an estimate
made by the Wisconsin cooperative
crop reporting service, based upon
the condition OF the potato crop on
September / CARROTS are estimated
at 700 bushels each. The commercial
potato acreage is estimated to be g5
per cent OF normal. and the prospec
tive yield. based on September l con
dition, 50 per cent of normal Las
year 25,510 cars were shipped from
stations within the state Shipments
in year of full normal production
are estimated at 81 300 ears The po
tato crop in Wisconsin suffered q
slight decline in August Weather
conditions in general were more fay
orable than during July, but consider
able damage was caused by insects
particularly the leaf-hopper and blight
is also reported in a number of sec
tons
The Oshkosh Fraternal order Of