The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-08-04

mated at $4,000
Miss Lenore Towle of Merrill is the
/ first Lincoln county teacher nominated
! by the county superintendent OF
schools as a member of the countys
delegation of eight to attend the
teachers camp at the state fair in
/ Milwaukee,
Gerhard Grauer was ordained a
minister in St Paurs Lutheran
church, Wausau, his father, the Rev
T. c. Grauer of Wausau, and his UNI
Gle, the Rev. c. L. Grauer of Fond du
Lac, having charge of the service.
Miners employed at the Florence
iron mine, at Florence, have been
placed on a three-day week basis,
and another wage cut of 10 per cent,
effective Aug. 1, has been made, ac-
| cording to announcement from the Off.
ces of the Florence Iron Co. The men
have been working five days a week
The cooperative market movement
was given new impetus in Barron
county during the past week when
nine of the cooperative livestock ship.
| ping associations of the county be-
came members of the Federation of
Cooperative Livestock Shipping asso-
citation selling on the South St Paul
market.
! A $4,000 fire caused by spontaneous
combustion, destroyed the farm build
ings, tenant house, barn, granary, tool
shed, implement buildings, this years
crops of hay and newly threshed
grain, and all last years grain, on the
Ray Gile and George Borst farms,
seven miles southeast of Clinton June
ton.
A Red Arrow club, composed of all
members of the Red Arrow" divi-
sion, Neenah. was formed there with
35 charter members. The club is atfil-
lated with the national organization.
Local men are planning to attend the
national reunion of the division at De
troit, Aug. 2S to 80.
Telephone rates at Waupun, Oconto
3 Sails, Greenville, Mellen and Wausau
were increased by order of the Wis
consin railroad commissioner com
mission directed the Northwestern
Railroad company to acquire addition
al right of way in the town of Fitch
burg, Dane county, in order to do away
with dangerous crossings. 1t also in
creased the electric rates at Weyer
hauser.
The bodies of two more Eau Claire
war heroes were buried with full mil
itary honors They were Sergeant
Charles Quigg and Matthias Kneer
Quigg died in a hospital in France on
Dec. 2, 1918, after seeing service with
Battery c, One Hundred and Twenti-
eth artillery. Kneer, who was mem
Der of Company f, One Hundred and
Twenty-seventh Infantry, was killed in
the battle of Roncheres.
About so priests and 100 Catholic
laymen from out Of town attended the
Silver jubilee mass held at st. Pat
rick's church. Neenah, Sunday, July
"a, in celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the ordination of the
Rev. George A. Clifford, pastor of the
Neenah-Menasha parish. Impressive
services marked the event. Father
Casey, Maple Grove, conducted the
mass Father NJ H. Clifford, Oshkosh,
brother of the celebrant, acted as dea-
con, and Father Fitzmaurice, Apple
ton, acted as subdeacon.
Creation of the town of Harding in
Lincoln county removes the Copper
school from the town of Scott and
leaves six school houses in the lat
ter town, one of which has been con-
demned. Unless steps are taken the
present year to rectify matters, the
town will again be minus the seven
tenths mill tax comprising the larger
share of its school aid from the state.
1t is possible that when settlement is
made with the new town, that the
town of Scott will build one state
graded school to serve all its territory
Buildings authorized at the univer
sity and normal schools by the last
legislature for the coming biennium
total $713,6S3, exclusive of transfers
authorized for the university general
hospital. Gov Blaine exercises a veto
power over expenditures of these
funds. 1t is believed that practically
all of the grants to the normal schools
will be allowed and that construction
will be started shortly. Appropria-
tions at the university for lands and
buildings total $473 500 and and at the
normal schools $340,3S5. OF the nor
NAL school grant $2500OO is for a new
east wing to the Whitewater institu-
ton.
Arthur Lube, 35 years old farmer
six miles west of Colby, was shot and
instantly killed in the presence of his
| 10-year old daughter, by George Hab-
ecker, also a farmer. After killing
| Lube, Habecker took off his shoe,
placed the muzzle of a shotgun in his
mouth and pulled the trigger with his
toes. He was killed almost instantly.
The shooting is said by neighbors to
have resulted from the fact that cat
tie belonging to Lube had strayed into
the Habecker pasture. Lube left his
home to drive the cattle back on to
his own land and was met at the fence
by Habecker with shotgun. After
few words, Habecker fired.
Miss jeanette Schields, teacher in
Wausau schools for 80 years, with no
absences from duty during that pc
riod, is dead at the age of 81 years,
due to extreme heat. After giving up