The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-01-01

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use of the horse and bob sleigh on
their freight service between Burling
ton, Lake Geneva Elkhorn and Della
van. The heavy snow made it impos-
sible to get through with the motor
trucks.
The old tannery which has been an
eyesore in Medford for II years was
sold by George Harder, Rib Lake, to
Harry Hurd, Merrill. The deal in
Cludes % acres of land and a large
concrete building The new owner
will start a box factory,
Joseph B, Treat. former state sena-
tor and leading figure in Wisconsin re
puolican circles, died at his home at
Monroe, aged 81 years. He was the
father of Brig. Gen. c. G. Treat, Mr.
Treat was chairman of the republican
state committee in 1898.
Capt l.. L. Kelly, Blair, who served
in France in the medical corps, re-
ceived notification that he had been
commissioned by the war department
a major in the medical section of the
reserve corps of the United States
army. He is dentist,
Glasses in craftsmanship and home
nursing will be organized in the Eau
Claire night school. A registered Red
Cross nurse will give instruction in
preventive medicine and nursing. The
craftsmanship course will be in response
to requests from clerks
Cheesemakers of Manitowoc will
bring suit against the state to test
the law standardiSing use of milk in
cheesemaking and prohibiting use of
skinned milk. The decision came
with the arrest of cheesemaker for
alleged violation of the law.
In the poultry show at Watertown
many Fort Atkinson fanciers carried
off prizes. Earl Roberts was judge
Mr.. Roberts, born in 1862, began keep
ing poultry when he was II, His farm
probably carries more varieties of high
class quality than any in the world.
When Peter Pliska was arrested al
Stevens Point on a charge of drunken
ness on his person was found qua1.
tity of homemade whisky consisting
of denatured alcohol diluted in coffee.
He entered a plea of guilty in munic.
ipal court and paid fine and costs
OF $50. He was picked up by the
police many blocks from home. He
had consumed one-third pint of home
brew.
Julius Bogwilo, on trial in the Cir
cult court at Kenosha for ten days
on a charge of numbering his wife.
Mary Bogwilo, on May 5, was found
not guilty because the jury enter
tanned a reasonable doubt as to his
sanitay at the time of the commission
of the offense. Judge William O.
Quinlan, who was on the bench,
promptly committed Bogwilo to the
state hospital for the criminal insane
at Waupun.
The first case of its kind was placed
on record at Menasha when John
Hanson, town of Neenah farmer, re
ceived a check for $1S5 to cover the
value of a horse which met its death
due to fright from an aeroplane last
summer. Mr. Hanson filed a claim
against the United States Aeroplane
Advertising Co., by whom c. K. Pork
land, pilot of the plane was employed.
Settlement was made through the
Travellers Insurance Co.
The newest wrinkle in whisky steal
ing was uncovered at GAINESVILLE by
police when three boys, employed by
the city to read water meters, con
fessed to the theft of seven quarts OF
"Old Taylor" and "Pebbleford" whis-
ky. They had made three separate
trips to one home claiming mistake
had been made in meter readings and
each time carrying out part of the for.
hidden stuff under their oyercoats,
All are between 16 and Is years old.
After surviving the wreck of the
Tuscania, serving till the end of tn,
war with motor corps in France, c.
Vannedam, 2S, Eau Claire, returned TO
his peace-time job as brakeman and
lies between life and death in the Rail
way hospital at St. Paul. One leg has
two fractures, the other, one; his jaw
is broken and his head badly cut. III
the gray of early morning he fell from
the bridge across the st. CroiX river
at Hudson, thirty feet to the ice. His
parents live at Marshfield.
julius j.. Goetz, Milwaukee, trustee
of the Perfex Radiator Co., Racine, in
an affidavit, denies every allegation OF
mismanagement, ineffciency and neg
lect of business, and submits iinan
cial statement showing that under hi.
management the company was SUE
cessfully operated up to Dec. 10, whe.
there was dissension among employe
Mr. Goetz declares that he refused
accept the trusteeship after being dis
charged as receiver, because of bust
ness affairs in Milwaukee, but he &C
cepted the position after urging by the
creditors committee. He will not re
sign unless charges against him have
been retracted unless ordered to do sc
by the court
Pleading guilty to shop lifting, Mrs
Fred Shara, Eau Claire, mother OF
three children, was fined $50 and costs
in Municipal court. Another charge OF
petit larceny resulted in her beine
bound over to Circuit court for trial
Bail of 5000 was furnished by hel
| father.
! Paul Gunderson, who was in Alas
i ka twenty-five years, arrived in Mari
nette uuannounced and called at the
home of his sister, Mrs. j. II, Franske