The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-02-12
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pleaded not guilty in municipal court
at Rhinelander.
The Marinette board of education
has petitioned the city council for an
addition of $4,000 to the school budget.
The money is to meet the increased
salaries of the teachers
| Wolves are numerous on the marsh
west of Plainfield. George Ngle, Jr.,
| shot large grey wolf of the coyote
species near the j. A. Stumbo farm.
The bounty is $40 and the hide is
worth 500.
Mr.. and Mrs Philip f. Rose, of
Oshkosh, were married fifty-nine years
ago, Feb. 8, They did not celebrate
the anniversary with any special event,
however, as Mrs. Rose has been ill
for several days. The family came to
| Oshkosh in the early sixties.
Miss Corrine Lawton, Fort Atkinson,
and Fenwick Pugh, Racine, have been
selected to play the leading roles in
| the annual class play to be put on by
! students of the dramatic classes at
| Lawrence college in the spring The
play chosen is Sheridans comedy,
| The Rivals" Fifty students took
part in the tryouts for the characters.
The members of the Sheboygan fire
| department have asked for another
raise in pay of 20 per cent The
| present salaries are: Chief, $3.50: as
sistant chief, $3.50; electrician, $3.50;
captains, $115; lieutenants, $112.50;
third year men, $110; second year
men, sos; first year men, $102.50
Postmaster L. J. Evas has submitted
/ plan to the Marinette city council for
| remembrance of Marinette heroes
| who fell in the late world war. He
| suggests that for each one who paid
the supreme sacrifice an elm tree be
planted on Carney blvd, the citys
| best thoroughfare, and that a brass
plate bearing the record of the hero
| the tree memoralizes be placed on it,
Mr.. Thompson, state rural school in
spector, in an address delivered at
Durand, Informed the citizens that un-
| less the city takes steps not later than
! the annual school meeting, in July,
! TO build new schoohouse, state and
county aid will be withheld from the
! school and that it will then be unlaw-
full to charge tuition. Plans are be
ing made to build the schoolhouse.
! That a horde OF rats infesting ware
houses and other buildings in Rhine
lander is destroying large quantities
! OF food, is the statement made by
| deputy state food inspector, G.. A.
| SeVis, AlgOma. Citizens are aroused
| by the report and the Rhinelander Ad-
yancement association has called a
meeting to determine some course of
action in Kidding the city of the pests.
The three babies of Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Sldmmer, Kenosha, died within
a period of five days, Louis, Jr, 4
| year old, was the last 10 be taken.
Death came following pneumonia and
influenza. The day before his death,
John, , years and 8 months old sue
cumbed to an attack of the same dis,
ease and fortyeight hours earlier,
Mary, l year and months old, had
died of whooping cough.
AT a meeting of the Dodge county
highway commission it was decided
to employ eight more patrolmen for
the roads in that county. Last year
twelve patrolmen were employed. The
salaries for the patromen for the com
ing year were fixed at $lG0 per month
with bonus provisions A large
amount of new machinery has been
purchased for road building in Dodge
county.
The agronomy department of the
College OF Agriculture at Madison has
shipped four bushels of Scotch field
peas to be planted on any one farm
er's land in Barron county as demon
stratiOn. The peas are to be given
to a farmer with the understanding
that he is TO return four bushels in
the fall. These four bushels will be
put out with another farmer the com
ing year, the plan being to introduce
better grade of pedigreed grains.
Mr., and Mrs August Selsemeyer of
Sheboygan observed their sixty-fourth
wedding anniversary with quiet fam
lily reunion, Both We're born in Ger
many and emigrated to this country
al an early age. The couple was maj
Tied at Sheboygan Falls and later
moved to Sheboygan, whore for a time
they conducted the Washington house
a popular boarding house. MIR. Selse
meyer was assemblyman from his dis
trict in 1881.
The city of Horizon is petitioning
the state rate commission for an in
crease in water rates over the present
minimum rate of 81 per quarter for
tYe-eighths-inch meter. No change in
the minimum rate will be asked. The
water plant of the city is under mu-
nicipal ownership, and since its in
stallation five years ago has been self
sustaining. The present jump of kero-
sene will not allow a sufficient margin
TO keep the plant selfsustaining, and
an increase in water rates is asked.
The Chase trophy, offered by John
Il. Chase OF Oconto, for courtesy and
discipline in annual competition be-
tween the companies of the Ninth in
fantry, Wisconsin State guard, was
awarded to Company Il Of Sheboygan
by Atty. f.. Il. Bowler, al a banquet at
tended by members of the company
and citizens.
% s GOndpll a nrnminenI resident