The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-04-29
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State |
Arranged in Condensed Form


During the month of March twenty
three new Rusk county settlers UNI
loaded cars in Ladysmith. Eight of
the families came from Iowa, six from
Minnesota and the others from In
diana, Illinois, Nebraska and southern
Wisconsin.
Walter Erdman Won Kalinowski re-
nounced the title of baron in Madison
circuit court in order to obtain citizen
ship in this country. He came TO
America in 1914 as instructor in a
Madison school of music. He now is a
resident at Chicago,
Stockholders of the ONEIDA Motor
Truck company of Green Bay at their
annual meeting, authorized a new
stock issue of $1,000000 to permit in
creased production at the plant. The
company now will increase its output
to 200 trucks, monthly.
Mothers of Neenah are to be or
ganized to promote child welfare. Miss
Carol Sweet, representing the Child
Conservation League of America, is
there to promote the work, which is
expected to result in many innova-
tions along child welfare lines.
The ambition of the Rev. Father
Wunibaid, Capuchin missionary sta
toned at St Joseph monastery at
Appleton, to return to the Caroline
islands, from which he was driven four
years ago by the Japanese, is about to
be realized. Father Wunibald has been
ordered to go to Germany and expects
to be back on the Caroline islands
within few months.
Seidl of Marinette, and commanded by
Anton Olson, lost a propeller just out
side of Chambers Island They were
in a peculiar situation, being unable
to signal, and for over six hours drift
ed about in the lsy. At dawn they
made improvised torches out of ma
chine waste and thereby signalled the
lighthouse at Green Island and were
rescued by the keeper.
The Eastern Wisconsin Electric
company has requested the ShebOygan
common council to join it in petition.
ing the railroad commission to imme-
diately put into effect in that city a
new schedule of fares. The company
proposes to raise the cash fare on city
lines from 6 to 7 cents, but offset the
increase by selling tickets at fifty for
$3.50 or six for 35 cents, giving regular
passengers 5 cent fare.
Teachers at the Oshkosh Normal
school have not joined the American
Federation OF Teachers and indica-
tons now are that they will turn down
the proposition. Efforts were meeting
with fairly smooth sailing until a cir
cular letter was received by the teach
ers in which there was statement in
federated The teachers are up in
arms over the wording of the letter.
The convention for the Ninth dis
trict of the Wisconsin Federation of
Women's Clubs will be held in Depere
May q and %. Mrs Joshua Hodgins,
Marinette, will preside Delegates are
expected from Algoma, Amigo, Apple
ton, Crandon, Depere, Dunbar, Green
Bay Kaukauna, Kewaunee, Marinette,
Oconto, Peshtigo, Sturgeon Bay and
Wabeno. The club at Depere has pre-
pared an interesting program of enter
tainment and a large attendance is
anticipated.
The first arrest for sale of denatured
alcohol at Superior. resulted in the
sentence of Fred Smith to the Douglas
county workhouse for three months,
by Judge f. S. Parker of Municipal
court. Smith pleaded guilty to selling
denatured alcohol iE whiskey bottles.
According to Detective William Mead,
Smith purchased the denatured al
cohol for 1925 gallon and retailed it
in bottles at 81 pint. A five gallon
can and Is pint bottles OF alcohol were
confscated by the police.
Unable TO find a residence to rent
in La Crosse, which has been his home
for forty years, Frank E. Withrow
and wife have solved the housing
problem by purchasing a houseboat.
The floating home, purchased at
Winona, has five well appointed rooms
and a full equipped bath, with large
screened porches at either end With
the craft anchored opposite the city,
where telephone and electrical connec-
tons have been installed, Mr.. Withrow
announces his family will make it a
winter as well as a summer home.
Mrs, l.. c. Hahn, Racine, became ex-
ecutriX of the estate of Theodore w.
Johnson who died four years ago leay-
ing an estate valued at $4,000 now
worth $4,000, The property mostly
personal was ordered turned over to
Mrs. Hahn after Judge Michael Sheri-
dan of Milwaukee had examined the
final account of John d. Rowland, pub
lie administrator. Mrs, Hahn was
named in the will as executriX and
principal legatee The will was re-
fused to probate because of the claim
that the signature was not Johnson S.
Thirty thousand cords Of pulp wood
will be RATED across Lake Superior
this season from Nipogon bay to Ash
land. 1t will go to a pulp wood com.
pany at Appleton.
Authorities are securing western
Wisconsin in search of Melvin Olson
and George Chechovitch, 17year-old
boys, who escaped from the Sparta
state school in stolen automobile.
The Manitowoc council of the
Knights Of Columbus have now mem
bership of 500, following the initiation