The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-06-17


Madison. She succeeds Mrs. Frederic
Schoss, Philadelphia.
The physician by airplane is the
novel, up to date method employed by
DR. Carl Schneider in trip from Free
port to Monroe. The actual flying time
for the distance was 16 minutes, less
than a mile minute. The rail and
wagon road distance is considered to
be about twenty-five miles
Miss M. Ada Turner, for over six.
teen years physical director and state
! field director at the school for the
blind at GAINESVILLE, has been appointed
as training assistant for blind soldiers
under the federal board vocational
education law. She assumed her new
duties at once. Her field will be Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Mrs Almena Ives was granted a
divorce from Raleigh Ives, now serv.
! ing two-year sentence in Waupun for
the Staying of Herbert Loehr. The de
cree was granted on grounds of cruel
!
court at Ripon. The Ives murder case
was one OF the most sensational trials
to come up in Fond du Lac.
Ten-year.old Mary Willard of Mani
towoc was lost The police were mott
! fed and a city-wide search started. 1t
developed that the child had gone to
an entertainment with her grand
mother and the latter had left her in
the opera house. The child had fallen
asleep and the grandmother returned
home, forgetting all about little Mary.
The home of John Laskowski near
| Beaver caught fire in the roof The
owner, with his two daughters,
Frances and Matilda succeeded in saw
ing the structure. The two girls
mounted the roof and acted as a
bucket chain in throwing water on the
flames, the father passing the water
The FIRE was eXtinguished with small
loss.
st. Vincents hospital, the first of
three large hospitals TO be built in
Green Bay, has added a nurses train.
ing course in order to provide the in.
stituton with additional trained
nurses. Lectures and clinics will be
features of the new course This hos,
pital was started in 1883, and it's build.
ings now occupy one-half of a city
block.
Several members of Lawrence col
lege faculty and a number of students
are preparing TO spend the summer in
Chautauqua work in the middle west.
The first to leave Appleton will be an
octet of men from Lawrence Glee
club, who will tour several states un-
der the management Of one of the
largest Chautauqua companies in the
country.
The price of an acre of land for the
sod on it was realized by Georgia Ella,
farmer, when he sold the sod on ten
acres near Burlington to Milwaukee
ans for 500 an acre. The concern is
cutting the sod and hauling it to Mil
waukee by truck. The high price was
be found near Milwaukee that was
free from dandelions.
Dale Dickens, young man, 10 years
of age, was fatally injured in the
North Unity mine, when boulder fell
on him. The unfortunate lad was
brought at once to the hospital at
Platteville for treatment, but he lost
consciousness from loss of blood and
passed away few hours later. Both
limbs were horribly crushed and in.
ternal injuries caused his death.
! Among the relics of the Register of
f, Deeds office of Green Bay is a deed
written in French by Robert Irwin,
Jr., November 10, 1928 The deed was
filed by Monsieur Dominique Du
Charme of Brown county, territory of
Michigan, and records the sale of sew
eral thousand acres of land, pur,
chased from three Indians for the
grand sum Of three barrels of rum and
one barrel of tobacco.
University brains competed with
childhood memory in the music mem
DRY contest and demonstrated that one
has little advantage over the other
and il is merely a question of remem.
bering the names of tunes. Although
a number of university students hand.
ed in perfect papers, their superior
intelligence failed to bring them above
little Emma Endres, Madison, aged 8
whose paper contained not a single
given the grand prix of $40, while no
adults were awarded more than SIS.
The advertising work of one of the
largest and Oldest advertising agencies
in the country will be taken over by
the University of Wisconsin next fall
and combined with the advertising
courses now given at the university
The J. Walter Thompson firm. which
has been conducting for several years
two-year training course to educate
its workers for its various branches
has requested Prof. f. H. Gardner
head of the advertising course at the
university, to take over their trainine
course and develop it along with ais
courses into a thorough advertising
training
Mrs. Cordelia Truax, aged 90, lalC
the corner stone of the First Congre
eational church at Eau Claire. Mainly
through the large gift Of Mrs. Trua,
the erection of the $4,000 church
building in It's entirety is possible a
this time.
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