The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-09-30

towns in grading and grayeling
stretches of sand.
Charles Comiskey, Chicago baseball
magnet, is making extensive improve
ments on his farm and resort property
on Dam lake in Villas county The
main lodge is being remodeled and a
lighting system installed. Several
hundred feet of shore will be con
structed. Mr. Comiskey purchased
the tract last spring and it is one of
the finest estates in the entire upper
Wisconsin lake region.
The Neenah Civic associations good
roads committee has gone on record
as opposed to the Townsend bill, pend
ing in congress, which would remove
federal aid for state highways and
place the building OF improved roads
in the hands of a federal commission.
A good roads campaign is being con.
Quoted in Neenah in cooperation with
the state association.
Green Bay paid tribute to one of its
World war heroes when Paul A.
Poquette was buried with full military
honors in Alleouz cemetery. Poquette
died from wounds received in action at
Anglers, France, while serving with
Battery B of the One Hundred Twenty.
first heavy field artillery His was
the first body of a Green Bay man to
be brought back from France.
The attorney general officially
turned down the plea by the city of
Superior to State Treasurer Henry
Johnson to advance the Municipality
balance Of the funds due the city Nov
l. Superior hard pressed for funds to
meet municipal obligations, presented
the proposal of loaning it money at s
per cent which it expected to receive
from the state as its share of the rail
road terminal tax.
During a severe electrical storm
James Harrison, Middle Inlet. Mari.
nette county, sought refuge under a
tree. The tree fell and he was struck
He was four miles from his own home
and three-quarters of a mile from any
house. Regaining consciousness he
walked to the nearest home. No one
was at home, but he entered and
crawled onto bed He was found by
a farm hand, who summoned aid. His
scalp was severely lacerated.
There has been a decrease during
the past year in the insane population
of the state, according to a report is
sued by the state board of control.
One year ago there was a population
of 1856 in state institutions and 1884
in the county hospitals. The report
today shows that there are 1,407 in
state institutions and 6,S05 in the
county institutions. While there has
been an increase in state institutions
there has been corresponding de
crease in county institutions.
Upon his return from Madison,
where he attended a preliminary hear
ing of the Manitowoc street car fare
increase case, before the state railway
commission, City Atty. Kelley recon-
mended to the city council that an ex-
pert be engaged to go over the books
Of the traction company before the
public hearing takes place in Mani
towoc on Oct. II. At the hearing next
month the city through its citizens,
will present evidence purpoTting to
show why the company should not be
granted an increased fare.
Declaring that he feared that senti.
ment in Madison is too strong against
Matthew b. Lynaugh, Madison police
man, charged with first degree murder
in connection with the shooting Of
Carl f. Jandorf, university sophomore
May 49, to assure him a fair trial at
Dane county, Judge Hoppmann, of the
superior court, granted change of
venue. The case will be tried in the
circuit court at Jefferson before Judge
George Grimm. The date for the trial
was not set, but tentative arrange
ments were made for holding 1t in No
vomber.
Finley w. Goodrich, mayor Of
Durand, died at a hospital in Eau
Claire of abscess of the brain. He
was AZ years old and had been mayor
for three years. He was Mason and
prominent in activities Of the Congre-
gational church. He was associated
with his father Philo Goodrich, in the
furniture and undertaking business.
Convicted of having stolen house
hold goods valued at 5000 in Neenah,
Mrs. Verona Target was sentenced to
a term OF six months at hard labor in
the county jail Her husband, Edward
Target, escaped from the Jail while
awaiting trial on a similar charge.
Because they claimed exemption
from military service under the select
i've draft system during the war, three
foreign born residents OF Brown coun.
" were denied final citizenship papers
in Green Bay by Judge Henry GRASS
and Americanization Examiner Daniel
son.
The Cornell Wood Products Co,
makers of the famous Cornell wood
board at Cornell, Wis, is building
large addition to its plant The firm
In erecting As dwelling houses for its
employees, and plans to build so add
t!anal ones next spring.