The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-03-31

last few months,
At the meeting of the GAINESVILLE
council, resolutions were adopted ask
ing the secretary of the treasury to
I investigate the calims of GAINESVILLE
and sites offered for one of the hos
pitfalls for disabled soldiers.
Word was received in La Crosse Of
the death at Salem, Ore, of Capt
Daniel Webster, 81, former county
judge of La Crosse county, He was
first lieutenant in the first Independent
battery that went to war from La
Crosse in 1861. He left La Crosse in
1890 to live in the west.
Plans to organize teams of canning
experts in the Brown county schools
have been Endorsed by the supervising
teachers and steps will be made to put
the scheme into effect Immediately Il
is said that the fair association will
offer handsome prizes for the best pro
duction.
The public economy" wave which
struck Superior a few weeks ago
reached a new high mark when Mayor
Fred Baxter introduced a resolution
placing nearly all of the clerks in the
city hall on half time and half pay,
abolishing three more city jobs, and
cutting the salary of the city comp
troller to $1,700.
A tri-county picnic for the members
of the Guernsey Breeders association
in the counties of Fond du Lac Green
Lake and Winnebago, will be held at
the Lone Tree farm at Green Lake,
Thursday, June 2. The picnic is to
precede the annual joint two-day sale
of Guernseys, which is held by the
Winnebago and Fond du Lac breeders,
The sale is set for June and 4.
The suit of Rollo Rambo, formerly
society leader of Kenosha, against
Warren Peck, Los Angeles millionaire,
for 100000 on a charge of alienation
of the affections of his wife, Mrs.
Eulalie Rambo, was settled for $l2,-
500 according to dispatches received
in Kenosha. Mr.. and Mrs. Rambo be
came reconcied and are to live in
Spokane.
A divorce was granted to Mrs.
Pauline Raasch, Fond du Lac, who has
been married for over twenty-five
years, in an uncontested action before
Judge Richter The husband, Chris
Raasch, was found guilty of cruel and
inhuman treatment and of using
abusive and threatening language. Set
Element was made for $4,000 Mrs.
Raasch will also receive the household
furniture.
About twenty Sawyer county settlers
south of Lexington near COuderay
have formed a farmres' telephone COM
pany and will erect a ten mile farm
ers' telephone line at once. The line
will run from Lexington south into the
Meteor settlement and be a great help
to those people. Settlers have moved
in rapidly the last couple of years i'm
that section. The line will connect
with the long distance of Lexington.
To aid needy students in earning
their way through college, 207 loans,
totaling S11,141, were made last year
bv the regents of the University Of
Wisconsin from loan and trust funds.
The loans averaged $50 person. The
university has 20 loan funds for this
purpose. Fifteen of them, totaling
$4,000, may be loaned out entirely
and then reloaned as the money is re-
paid by the recipients. Five OF the
loan funds, totaling S2O,454, are trust
funds whose income only may be
loaned out.
After failing to effect a reconcilia-
ton with his wife, who, it is said, was
on the point of suing for a divorce,
and having also failed to end his life
by drinking carbolic acid, Thomas
Chester Buck, AZ years old armed him
self with two bottles of poison, a razor
and a gun, made an attack on the
home of his mother-in-law, Wisconsin
RAPIDS, where his wife had taken
refuge. opened fire on the family, prob
ably fatally wounded his wife, Olive,
"A years old, and then placed a gun
TO his mouth and killed himself.
Miss Marie Davies, 25 years Old
whom police believe to be Miss Marie
Dodal. formerly of Mount Pleasant, Ia,
was found suangled to death in her
candy shop in an outlying district Of
Superior. Police believe robbery was
the motive for the crime. The cash
register and the girls purse had been
looted The body of the young woman
was bruised, her clothing torn, and
other evidences Of struggle We're APP
parent in the shop. A handkerchief
was bound tightly about her neck
Another handkerchief had been used
for gag
The prospect of an early spring is
bringing many calls for help from
farmers to the II free employment
Offices conducted by the industrial
commission. In the first two weeks Of
March 396 calls were received for
farm hands and 347 men were sent to
farm positions of whom 24O were re-
ported back by the farmers as having
been hired. The largest number OF
farm placements were made by the
employment officers at La Crosse,
Madison, Milwaukee Oshkosh and
Wausau, and there was brisk de-
mand for farm help also at the Offices
at Green Bay and Sheboygan.
Farmers in the vicinity of Fiied
have organized a cooperative cheese
z,,.,,,,,, committee of five has