The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-06-10
WTSCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Lambert is director.
The nineteenth annual state con
vention of the Knights Of Columbus
will be held in Chippewa Falls June
p and % Each council in the state
will have a representation of two dele
gates, a total of 100,
Eugene Allie, Mantowoc, county
supervisor, is dead at his home in Two
Rivers. lie was q retired fisherman
having had large interests in that line
until two years ago when i'll health
forced him to give up active life.
j. +. Rolfe, formerly the New Lis
bon school superintendent, was chosen
by the Grand Rapids school board tc
succeed w A. Baldaur as principal OF
the high school there Mr.. ROlfe is
a graduate of the La Crosse State Nol.
nal and the University Of Wisconsin
The Daily northwestern leading
newspaper IN Winnebago county, has
increased It's advertising rates. An.
nouncement of the increase was made
public through an advertisement car
ried by one of the firms affected by
the increase. It was presumed that
the shortage of print paper occasioned
the increase.
The body of William Goetting, tele
phone lineman foreman, who wae
drowned in the Mississippi river
south of La Crosse when he reached
over the edge of a boat for a foatinc
oar, was fou9d half mile below the
point where he plunged into the river
five days after the accident. William
Huebner, who found the body, received
$50 reward.
Clearing the bar at feet 6i2 inches
a freshman girl broke the woman's
high jump record at the University
of Wisconsin and failed in but three
quarters of an inch Of attaining the
American womans collegiate recon
established at Vassar in 1911. Anothel
freshman, Esther F. Mainland, OsE.
kosh, cleared the bar at 4 feet Al.
inches.
\ total of 74O Bachelor degrees havs
been conferred during So commence
ments at Ripon. The senior classes
have grown in size from four member
in 1867, to IS in 1910, and again As ir
1913, the two largest classes in the
colleges history Seven foreign lands
and 81 states in this country have
Ripon alumni within their boundaries
according to records.
Appleton is to have a new 20O-bed
hospital as a result of a two-day cam
paign TO raise $500 600. The hospital
Will be built by the Franciscan sister.
of st. Louis The new hospital will
be the largest in the state, outside Of
Milwaukee. 1t is said the total cost
will exceed 100000, The Franciscan
sisters have agreed to assume all oh
legations in excess of 100000.
Mrs. Arnold Mas, 65, a pionee
resident of Juneau, was drowned il
Rock river while fishing. The ageC
woman went out alone in a boat Shor
ly after she had starting fishing, scr
on shore noticed that the boat was
empty. He secured another boat anG
found his mothers body underneath
her boat, held near the surface by the
anchor rope, which had become en-
tangled about it.
Charles Fritz and A. Gatenkonk
two employees of the Dunnebacke Feed
Co, of kenosha, were killed when the
truck in which they were riding was
struck By a northbound passenger
train at the Park street crossing. The
men were thrown from the truck
against the moving train and both SUI
fered severe fractures of the skull:
They never regained consciousness
and died on the way to the hospital.
Or. f. c.. Haney of Watertown has
the United States public health sery-
ice and will have supervision of the
federal health work in a number OF
Wisconsin counties which will com
DlIEG lllt w dttl Wv IL Nloll lSls 1 / iAilli
features of the work are the eXamina
ton and treatment of discharged sol
diers and sailors. DR.. Haney succeeds
Or. l.. H. Nowack, also of Watertown,
who asked to be relieved of the duties
some time ago.
The Wisconsin supreme court in an
opinion by Justice Eschweiler held
that sheriff appointed to fill a va
cancy was ineligible to succeed him
self. The question came up in the
case of S. j. Johnson Barron county,
Sheriff Johnson was appointed by Gov.
Philip TO fill vacancy and in the
1918 election was elected to the office.
The constitution provides that sher.
ifs shall be ineligible for two years
next succeeding the termination OF
their office. Johnson was held by the
court. however, TO be the lawful sheriff
because he was appointed in 1917 and
no one had been elected since that
date. lie will hold the Office until an
other appointment is made or until
the next election.
An eight truck motor ammunition
train is beng organized in Crandon by
u. ]. Scory Many exseryice men
are existing and it is expected to fill
the full quota of So men within a few
days. Wabeno and Soperton, in For
est county, are organizing infantry
companies
The directors of the Marathon Coun
~ Agricultural society have voted &c
hold county fair the last week in
August without horse races. Because
no provision had been made for i'm
proyement of the stock pavilion and