The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-06-03


signed and will enter business. The
position will be filled by j. II. Lasher,
principal of Thorp schools.
Because of the high cost of building
materials and labor difficulties, the La
Crosse common council postponed I'M
til next year the erection of two new
school buildings, to cost 100000
The body of George II, Shemels was
taken from the Fox river by Edward
PAIL. Shemela, who worked on the
heaters in the Combined Locks paper
mills at Kaukauna, disappeared May
| IA.
Farmers in the eastern part of the
state are planting their corn and say
that although the cold weather has
made planting late, they believe that
warm weather and a late fall will in
sure a good crop,
A ooroner's jury investigating the
deaths of Mrs. Magdalena Koss and
Jacob Soukop at Wausau, returned
~yerdict in which it was stated that
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! then committed suicide,
Trustees of Kemper hall, an Epis-
copal school at Kenosha under direc-
ton of the Sisters of st. Mary, an
nounced payment of the bonded in
debtedness of 100000 at the fiftieth
anniversary of Founders day
You're a liar" called out L. Shaw
of Gary, Ind, at an officer in the mu-
nicipal court at Kenosha, who charged
Shaw was speeding. Fine him SIS
and s25 for contempt of court" or
dered Judge Tully. Both fines were
paid.
The airship "Kenosha" had a bad
opening of the season when Lerger
Reed, its pilot, fell 1000 feet in it. The
plane landed in a plowed field and
Reed jumped just in time. The pro.
pellers were badly damaged and Reed
slightly injured.
The present trunk highway, which
runs from Eagle River and Three
Lakes to Crandon, will be extended to
Laona, Wabeno and Green Bay. This
will give Crandon two state trunk
! highways and will increase travel
through Forest county so per cent.
County Judge r. 4. Richards of
Monroe county has instituted an ad-
| iustment Of his court machinery to
save time for farmers who are called
as jurors They need not report in a
! body, but must come in only when
cases for which they are called are
to be tried, The farmers are in the
midst of the rush of planting
Two-year scholarships in Lawrence
college were awarded Paul Freiburger,
New London, and Harold Scoring, Sha-
wano, for winning first places in the
annual interscholastic competition in
oratory and eXtempore speaking con-
Quoted by Lawrence college. Thirty
three boys, representing seven Wis
consin high schools, participated.
Licensing and regulation of the auto
| bus lines operating between Neenah
and Appleton may result from the war
/
the traction interests. Traction rep.
resentatives have demanded that the
! bus lines be placed under the same
regulations and restrictions as the
street car company is subjected to.
Thieves, who probably concealed
/ themselves in the high school at Chip
pewa Falls, during a dance. broke into
the Office of c. F. E. Nelson and it is
believed that school money banked
earlier in the day was sought. Finger
prints on the library table were photo.
graphed and will be examined by ex-
perts Finger prints of all the boys
in the high school We're made.
Edward Mcleod, 3S, Hurley lumber
jack, confessed slayer of 5-year-old
/ Gwendolyn Sherman at Powell, Wis,
was arraigned before Circuit Judge G.
n Risjord at Ashland, and after plead
/ ing guilty, was sentenced TO life i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary.
Talk of lynching, that spread rapidly
among the angry people of the district,
led to the removal of Mcleod 10 Ash
land and his speedy arraignment.
The Marnette park commission, re-
Gently created, has started its work to
beautify parks and create new ones.
Postmaster Leo J. Evans and George
Waiter have volunteered to plant elm
trees throughout the entire length of
the Carney Blvd parking, over a mile
in length. Small parks in the lower
end of the city are planned and more
pretentious work will be done along
nette, and on Stephenson Isle. midway
between Wisconsin and Michigan.
Without ceremonies, the last boat
contracted for by the government with
the Mantowoc Shipbuilding Co. was
launched Before the launching it was
known as Hull No. 116. Now it is the
Sioux City, named in honor of the
Iowa city. The ocean going craft will
burn oil for fuel. 1t is the thirty-fifth
vessel to be built by the Manitowoc
Shipbuilding Co. since war was de-
Clared in 1917. Thirteen of these
boats were requisitioned after build.
ing, including craft built for Norwe-
gian interests. On Oct, s, 1917, the
first boat built in Manitowoc for war
purposes left that port
During a heavy rain which caused
high waters in all the streams, Mrs.
Isaac Best, near Viroqua, lost her life
by drowning. While in a buggy with
: her son and husband, the vehicle was