The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-09-01
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

was 50 inches long.
The jury commission Of Kenosha
county in drawing the yenire Of jurors
for the trial of men indicted by the re-
cent special grand jury ordered that
the names of women voters as well as
men be drawn. 1t is possible that
mixed jury may be called to decide the
cases.
Charles p Haseltine, a veteran of
the Civil war, died at his home at
Ripon He was IS years old. During
the Civil war he served with the ia
nous Mercantile battery of Chicago,
and after the siege of Vicksburg was
commissioned first lieutenant for
mertorious bravery.
The Rev. Walter p Mehlberg of
Shawano, has accepted the pastorate
of ST. Johns German Lutheran church
in Washburn, The new pastor is
graduate of the classical course at Con
cordia college, Milwaukee, and the
theological course at Concordia semi
nary, st. Louis.
Thomas Tollefson former Superior
banker and county official of Burnett
county, was sentenced to pay fine of
81 600 and to serve six months at the
Milwaukee house of correction by
Judge c. Z. Luse in Federal court at
Superior. A jury returned verdict of
guilty to an indictment charging abu.
sive use of the mails.
Mayor A. c. McHenry, personal lib
erty candidate for the United States
senate in 1920, declares he is holding
his last Office. when my term as
mayor expires, | will be through with
politics" is his statement. Mayor Nc,
Henry proposes to continue the study
of law and will seek admission to the
bar.
Hundreds of people in Neenah are
suffering from an epidemic of intestin-
al influenza. The malady is of short
duration, lasting from one to two days,
but leaving victims in a weakened con
dition. Tests of the city water have
shown it to be pure. Physicians say
the epidemic is similar to that sweep
ing the state.
Secretary George A. White of the
Washburn board of education has re-
ceived word from Miss Pearl Banding
of ST. Croir Falls, stating that she
will accept the position Of superinten-
dent Of schools. For the last three
years Miss Banding has been super
visor of the teachers training depart.
ment in the Washburn schools.
To commemorate the one hundredth
anniversary Of the coming of Eleazer
Williams. the lost dauphin," and
delegation of New York Indians to
Green Bay, the Green Bay public muse
um has published a book on the life OF
the Oneida leader Deborah Martin,
librarian of the Kellogg public library
and one of the best authorities on Wis
consin history, is author of the book.
Settlers and farmers of Brentwood
were taught the use of picric acid at
special demonstration arranged by Lee
Stewart, manager of the Washburn
County Land Clearing association The
demonstration was held to stimulate
the work of clearing 10000 acres of
Washburn county land. Picric acid is
being advocated for land clearing pur-
poses in this county because 1t is 40
per cent stronger than dynamite and is
a cheaper explosive.
Lockjaw, caused by stepping on a
piece of pop bottle glass caused the
death of Delbert, 10 year old son Of
Albert Knipple, Green Bay. The lad
stepped on the broken glass Aug 4, in
hicting severe cut on his foot. A
physician was Immediately called and
the wound stitched A week later the
stitches were removed and the boy
was apparently recovering. Several
days later he was stricken with lock
law and removed to a hospital where
his death occurred
The state will be prepared to give
special care and treatment before win
ter to 234 shell-shocked and mentally
diseased soldiers in new quarters at
the Memorial hospital, Farwell's Point
overlooking Lake Mendoza at Madison.
Work is about to start on construction
Of the buildings provided for in the APP
preparation of $25O,O0O by the legisla.
ture. The hospital site is declared to
be the most beautiful in the state. 1t
is said to form an ideal home for those
suffering from mental disease, with
facilities available for all varieties of
sport and for gardening.
Gov. John ]. Blaine fixed Sept. as
the date on which he will hear a com
plant bled against Sheriff George Gar.
man of Eau Claire county, charging
that he failed in his duty in allowing a
jail delivery of two bank robbers. The
petition lodged against Sheriff Iarman
was submitted by a number of Eau
Claire citizens They demand an in.
yestigation and the removal of Gar
man. The two bandits that sawed their
way out of the county Jail were in.
voyed in the Augusta State bank rob.
berry on the night Of May II.
Wisconsin hunters are face to face
with a shortage of bird dogs with
which to enter the prairie chicken and
partridge season that opens this fall
for the first time in six years w. +,
Barber. chairman Of the conservation
commission, reports that practically
an of the experienced hunting animals
have died of old age, leaving sportsmen
unequipped to enter the field
p. b Haber, Fond du Lac newspaper
publisher and an officer Of the National
nm Posters association. suffered