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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
SCHMIDT NOW A MAJOR

Last week Edward Schmidt, captain
of the local Company c of the Wiscon-
sin National Guard, received his com
mission as major in the guard. The
appointment assigns Major Schmidt to
command of the Third battalion of the
Twenty-seventh regiment, which in
cludes Companies |, X, l., and NJ, the
howtzer company and regimental
headquarters company, These com
panies are all located in the western
part of the state, but it is expected
that Major Schmidt will before long
have a command of battalion made
up of units located near home includ-
ing the local company which he has
brought to high order of excellence.
Capt. Schmidt was acting major, in
two-weeks' encampment last summer
Major Schmidt was lieutenant during
the Mexican border service in 1916, and
was at the head of his company when
it went overseas as part of the 32nd
Division early in the world war. While
overseas he was for a time on invest-
cation duty and visited Russia and
Germany. In active operations he was
wounded and gassed.
The promotion was well merited. As
an officer he is a credit to the service
and to his city.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
NUMBER 23
new RAILROAD RUMORED

A report from Fond du Lac this
week had it that Mr.. c. d. Smith, Mil
waukee capitalist and head of one of
the largest groups of public utilities in
the central west, including our local
street railway and the High Falls
power system, had announced that
next spring construction would be
commenced on a railway from Madi-
son to Sturgeon Bay, by way of Fond
du Lac, Kiel and Manitowoc. If this
story has any foundation the railway
contemplated is doubtless an electric
interurban line as this group already
owns several of these railways and has
large electric generating stations in
the territory and large supply of hy-
power available with
more on the Peshtigo river in process
of development. 1t would surely be a
fine thing for this section as both Kiel
to the southwest, and Kewaunee, Al
gonna and the Peninsula region to the
north are now accessible by rail from
Manitowoc only by a tedious, round
about journey If this route is actu-
ally projected it probably has in con-
temptation using the present Manito-
woc-Two Rivers interurban line as a
link.
The belief has been general for
some years that extending electric lines
was at a complete standstill, partly
because the rates allowed by law did
not furnish enough revenue in the face
of high cost of operation, and also be-
cause of the menace of motor Dus COM
petition and private cars.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
REAL ESTATE REPORT

List Of real estate sales for Manito-
voc county for week ending Nov. 25,
furnished by Manitowoc County Alb
Stract company;
William A. Priegnitz to Erwin Rude
beck, part lot 7, block 9, Two Rivers.
Consideration, 1880.
Albert LeClair to John c. Roecklen
and Erwin Schroeder, part lots and
6, block 2l, Two Rivers ConSidera-
tion 81; revenue stamps, 81.
Edwin F. Pleuss to Edwin w. Mey-
ers, lot IL, block 25l, Mantowoc. Con-
Sderation, ST. revenue stamps, 81.
Mary Wachowiacz to Charles Ziar-
mix, lot Q, block 299, city of Manto-
voc. Consideration, 81; revenue
stamps, soc.
Wisconsin Central Land company to
Charles A. Stretch, 1924 acres in sec
ton 25, town Of Manitowoc Rapids.
Consideration, $500.
Albert Wagenknecht ct al. to John
IIabach, part lots Q and 10, block II,
Hilbert & Smiths add, city of Kiel
Consideration, $4,000.
Justine Hickman to William West
phal. 3 acres in section 2l, town of
Meme. Consideration, 81.
Robert Kasbaum to Reinhold Barbe,
2h acres in section {, town of Liberty.
Consideration, 81; revenue stamps,
$3.50.
Anton Neuser to Frank Richter, lot
IL, block 29l, city of Manitowoc. Con-
sideration, 81; revenue stamps, $3.50.
The Wisconsin Textile Mfg Co. 10
George II. Freye, part lot s, block 90,
city of Two Rivers Consideration, S3,-
800
Marie Voekrodt to George Pagnier,
30 acres in section 25, town of Gibson.
Consideration, 81; revenue stamps, So
james Voracheck to Adam Pokoiske,
| part lots and &, block s5, city of
Two Rivers. Consideration, $500,
Alex j. Franz TO John Runge, lot H.,
block ls9, Manitowoc. Consideration,
Isl; revenue stamps, SS.
| Sheriff of Manitowoc Co. to Leland
| kreimann, so acres in section s, town
Of Schleswig. Consideration, $1,000.
Buchholz- -Schilling Realty Corp. to
Reinold Groelle, lot ia, Michigan
Heights Add, Manitowoc. Considera-
tion, 81; revenue stamps, soc.
Henry Crocker to Edwin Pfeffer-
korn. about 90 acres In towns Of Kos
suth and Two Rivers. Consideration
Isl5,ooo.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
Marriage Licenses

The following is list of the marriage
licenses issued by the county clerk the
past week.
William Stephsny and Hildegard
Burkart, both OF Manitowoc; Harmed
Day and Frances Zarnek, both OF Man
itowoc; John dip and Freida Bubolz,
both OF Reedsville; Gerald Zander OF
Two Rivers and Bess Sterba OF Kell.
nersviIle; Harry klug OF Green Bay
and Liela Strodthof OF Mishicot; Ar.
thur Folletz OF Manitowoc and Anna
Ruether OF Mishicot; Erwin Sickuranr
OF Sheboygan and Elva Klessig Of Cen
tervIlle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
Number of Illiterates. 1920.

out this blot on our nation?
Equality of Opportunity in Education
for Every American Boy and Girl
/. The mere chance of place of birth
often determines whether n child shall
have an opportunity to acquire that
most elemental educational opportu-
nifty, the ability to read and write.
2. If boy or girl is born in a coun-
try community he has four times the
chance Of reaching adulthood lacking
the ability to read and write that he
would have had il born in city.
3. The 1920 federal census shows
that there were nearly 100000 native
born ilIiterates in our country that
were the direct product Of inadequate
rural schools.
4. In one state, in 1921, seventy
school districts levied no school tax
with the result that "many schools
were not opened at ALL" Another state
survey shows that, on the average
country children receive "less than two
thirds as much elementary education
as city children"
What is your state doing to guaran
tee to all the "unfettcred start and q
Cair chance in the race Of lifeY
The problems given above are Illus
trativs of those that American Educa
tion Week will bring before the nation
and the facts are such as should b'
known to all.
American Education Week offers al
opportunity to bring clearly into vie"
educational questions that are Of ma
tional concern. This may be done mos
effectively only if definite facts arr
available for use in the pulpit AM
| newspaper and on the platform an
screen. The outstanding facts shoul'
be known TO the teachers Of the ma
tion. and Il is to be their task to Sc
that these facts are made general
| available for use before December
arrives.
Below are given some of the subject
| listed in the program that has bee
prepared for American Educatio
Week accompanied by facts bearin
upoff them;
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
OBITUARY

Sister Mary Daniel, a member of the
Order Of st. Francis, Alverno, died
Wednesday at the home convent at Sill
yer Lake in this county The informa-
ton brought sorrow to the many peo-
pie who have come to know her
through her years of service at the
local Holy Family hospital. Sister Dan
iel combined the highest efficiency as a
nurse and devotion to her calling with
gentleness and winning personality
that made her memory linger with
gratitude long with the patients who
came and went during her many years
of ministraton. Here was life of
consecration that she loved, and the
joys of the sacrifice gladly made under
vows of life time of service in her
masters service the worldly minded
will never understand.
Sister Daniel was born at Algoma
forty-seven years ago, and has been a
member of the order since her youth
She is survived by a brother and one
sister She has been incapacitatedS for
active duty for about two years by i'll
ness.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
ITEMS FROM The PILOT FILES
FIFTY YEARS AGO

The following is a list of the jurors
drawn for the December term of 1872,
of the circuit court of Manitowoc
county: f, Hecker, George Reindl,
Samuel Whitney, Michael Wagner, Jo-
seph Chloupek, Adam Handle, Nicholas
Schuster, l.. Dooney, Nicholas Horner,
II. A. Aldrich, Carl Wernecke, Gott-
freid Kunz, Ulrich Kunzweiler, Joseph
BartoSch, +. A. Bean, II. Mcleod, Alois
Addelman, Gottlieb DAIMLER, John Wer-
ner, James Fardy, Joseph Maloy, Dom
inic Schneider, Adam kremers, Adol-
phuS Hudson, A. ID. Jones, Thomas
Peppard, George Goldie, Niles Kund-
son, NJ Michaelson, lver Iverson, A. C..
Pool, Nicholas Phillips, Alanson Carey,
VIM. Playfair, c. h. Zorn, C. w
Morse.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
EDUCATIONAL
By LILLIAN l.. CHLoUPRK
The Nations Physical Incompetence.

The Nations Physical incompetence.
l. During the World War 1850, 800
men served in the United States army,
and l,340,623 were rejected from gen
eral military service because of physi-
cal disability.
2. Twenty-nine per cent of our
young men physically unfit to fight for
their country! More than one man in
every five between the ages of 20 and
80, when man is supposed to he at
his best, physically incapable of meet
ipg his country'S call
3. The annual national loss from
preventable diseases in our working
population is $780, 100000. There is
experimental basis for the statement
that this loss could be materially re-
duced and leave a balance above the
cost of prevention of at least 81 ,0OO,-
100000 "A year.
4. Gross ignorance of the simple
rules of health and hygiene" costs the
nation each year sum nearly twice
that spent for public elementary and
secondary schools.
Is your state guaranteeing to every
American child a strong body ready to
answer the call of peace as well as of
war?
The Teacher as Nation Builder
|. a recent estimate shows that only
one-ffth of the teachers of the nation
have an education equal to the stand
ard of preparation recognized in all
civilized countries as constituting the
bareSt minimum for elementary school
teaching.
3. Our teacher-training institutions
prepare but fraction of the number
of new teachers needed every year.
3. A sufficient number of teachers
can he obtained each year only after
the bars are let down and thousands of
immature, unframed tranSients are
granted "temporary" certificates to
teach.
What is your community doing to in
sure its most precious natural resource
its well-trained and com
pctent teachers?
llliteracy as Blot on Our Nation
/, In 1920, 100000 persons con
fesScd that they had had no schooling
whatever and could not read in any
language.
2. One fourth of the men who re-
sponded to the draft call could not
read an American newspaper or write
IA letter home.
3. or our lliterateS, 81 per cent are
native born. Over 100000 of our il.
literates are white and the offspring
of white native-born parents.
t. The number of illiterates in
creased between 1910 and 1920 in
twelve states. Every state in the union
numbers its illiterateS by the thousands
North as well as South.
Number of lllterates, 1920.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
SEVEN FARM MEETINGS

Manitowoc county is to have seven
farm institutes the coming winter, the
largest number ever held in the county
in one season.
Mishicot was not on the original list
but the progressive citizens of the
neighborhood made a petition for an
institute and had their request granted.
The four days meeting scheduled for
Kiel includes a cooking demonstration.
County Agent Smith was largely in
strumental in the generous recognition
given to Manitowoc county. Local
committees in the various communities
are already organizing. The county
agent and county nurse, Miss Gerhards,
are cooperating to make the entire
series a success. The following is a
list of the places and dates of insti-
tutes;
Kiel-Decembe 5-6-7-8
eedsville-January "a.
ersylle-January Sc.
Mishicot-January 9-l0.
St. Nazianz- January 1l-l2.
Silver I.ake-January 1917.
eveland-January 1919,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
WAITING AT THE CHURCH

Mr. Horschak, local man employed
at the Shipyards, was to be married on
Dec 2 to Miss Lucille Gallagher, of
Racine. The wedding bells will not
peal out on that date as the pealing
took place at Waukegan Monday as
she became the bride of Leslie Evans,
who came from California in a hurry
and bore away the prize. Horschak had
home all fitted up here and was to go
to Racine for Thanksgiving and re
main over for the ceremony next Sat
urday. 1t appears now that Evans, a
former sweetheart away out in Cali
fornia, from whom the girl had been
estranged, had been carrying on n furi-
Gus campaign to get back into her af-
foctions, and when he learned of the
projected wedding he wired wait till
| get there" He arrived Monday and
the two fed to Waukegan and were
made one. The local man received a
message from his hance Of her inten-
tions and hurried to Racine, but young
Lochinyar had borne away his prom
iSed bride. The young man left yir-
tually waiting at the church is reported
as saying that the elopment Is better
now than after his marriage.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

Birthday parties are becoming quite
frequent and popular. We did not have
the space last week to mention the fact
that we attended one of these pleasant
gatherings, with a majority of the
county board week before last, at the
residence of our register, Mr.. John
Franz, where we found pleasant and
Joyous company assembled. We were
served with most everything good to
eat, and all the drinkables we were
able to walk away with. We rather
like those parties.
The other night the friends of Mr..
Fred Schroeder, having found out that
he had been born about forty years
ago that very night, told the Saenger-
bund, who came round and serenaded
him, after which Prof Bielings' instru-
mental band happened round, and
played tune or two. We are told
that Schroeder did not let one of his
friends leave his premises until they
had ate and drank with him, and
promised to come again,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

Mr.. Miller of the firm of Miller &
Reid, of the Appleton Post, was at the
Windatc house on Tuesday last. For
a Radical, we reckon he is more than
an average, and for good nature-why
ne is brim full
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

Capt JAS. w. Cuyler, of the L. 5. A.,
left our city yesterday for his home in
Milwaukee, having been up north to
Ahnapee closing up harbor improve
ments for the season. He reports the
work on the Ahnapee harbor as fairly
advanced for their late beginning.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

Harry Gauthier, for years a black
smith with a shop on North Seventh
street, died suddenly at his home on
Buffalo street Monday night, a victim
of heart failure Mrs. Gauthier was
aroused by the heavy breathing of her
husband but was unable to arouse him
and before other members of the fam
lily could be summoned, he had passed
away.
He was born in Canada and was ~
years of age, and had resided here for
many years. He was married II years
ago to Amanda Lesperance, who with
three children survives, two of the chill
dren Mrs. l.. Mandel and Raymond
Gauthier residing here. The where
abouts of second son Frank, are un-
known to the family.
The funeral will he held from Sacred
Heart church this morning
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Died, at Clark's Mills on November
%, 1897, Mr.. Thomas Thornton, of ty-
phoid pneumonia after an illness of a
few weeks Deceased was born in Ire
land on Jan. 25, 1881 and was in his
9th wear. He immigrated to Canada
with his parents in 1912, and removed
to Wisconsin in 1881, settling at Cato,
where he resided up to the time of his
death.
He served twenty years as member
of the school board and seevral years
rs treasurer and chairman of his town.
He also served three terms in the Wis
consin assembly in the years lS6i-77-
rs. He was a man highly respected by
all who knew him. BY the older resi-
dents of Cato, especially, he will be
sincerely mourned. His wife and five
grown children survive him.
Rev. and Mrs. Hougen celebrated the
N1ll anniversary VI lh'ii hIh' ''"b' WI
Monday night last.
Peter Feller of Newton died on
Thursday of last week. He was 76
years old and settled in Newton in
1855.
Rev. T.. Rostcrholz of Clay City, Ind,
and Miss Lille Esch of this city were
married on Thursday evening last
A pipe organ with pneumatic action,
l6 stops, was put in the Catholic
church of this city this week, the work
being completed Yesterday, The organ
was built by w. Schulke of Milwaukee
and cost S2,Os0. 1t will be used first
at the sacred concert and organ re
ctal which is to he given a. the church
| on the 26th Of this month,
The matrimonial business Of Rev
Mr.. Christian of Milwaukee has in
creased immensely since he performed
the marriage ceremony for Robert Lin
coins daughter People who want tc
marry, and are bit sentimental 9TH
chief factor in enlanglements of thi
kind) look up the minister who per
formed the ceremony for Abe Lin
coins granddaughter,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

Hermann, Trestek x Co, were
awarded the contract for improving
Clark street from Goth street to the
corporation line The work will be
prosecuted during the winter. The
contract price is Sl,725'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

John Sherer Of Manltowoc Rapids
sold Herman Guetschow IL acres of
land for $4,000. Evidently the value
Of suburban property is coming up.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

August Behm, aged II years, died
Sunday morning at his home on Clark
street. after long illness. His wife
died last month. The deceased was
born in Germany, and came to Amer
lea, settling in Manitowoc while still a
Young man. For many years he was
ship carpenter foreman at the local
yGrla. retiring about seven years ago.
He is survived by two daughters and
two sons, Mrs Gustave Wedig and Will
liam Behm, Milwaukee, Mrs. Emil Pill
ger and Otto Behm of this city.
The funeral was held Wednesday
afternoon from the German Lutheran
church, Rev. Machmueller officiating
Interment was in Evergreen cemetery
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

A large crowd Of young people gave
Willie TorriSon a surprise party last
night. the occasion being the anniver-
sary Of his birth.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30

DOfh VINO nHu ndu no ScnOOllnR Wndl-
soever in any language, and who total
ly lacked the ability to read was l,763,-
74O.
g. In 1920 the number Of foreign
born who could not speak English was
l,tsS,9ss.
4. In 1920, 36,39s,95s, or 81 per
cent, of our population were either
foreign-born or were the offspring of
parents one or both of whom were for
eign-born.
What is your State and community
doing to help our immigrants to be
come Americans National Journal
of Education.
We gratefully acknowledge the use
of the above clippings which were COM
piled by Miss Alice Brady, president of
the Manitowoc County Teachers Asso-
citation, for press use during American
Education Week, Dec. . to 10.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-30
Help the Immigrants to Become
Americans

/. The number of foregn-born resi-
dents in our population is increasing,
As shown by the federal census the
facts are as follows
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-02-17
DoDGED PROFIT TAXES.

Samuel Untermeyer's revelations of
the methods used by the General Elec-
trio Company t. evade profits taxes
and income taxes give added force to
the attempt of progressive senators
for publishing of income tax returns.
The most important method used,
according to MT Untermeyer's figures,
was to charge Off excessive deprecia-
ton The 1920 expenditure for build
ings, machinery, and equipment, for
instance, amounted to S31, 300 ,496, and
more than half of this had been de-
Quoted from the profit statement OF
that year
The accountant for the company ad-
mitted that so per cent of the entire
earnings for 1919 and 1920 had been
written off and that in 1918, Of the
SCI 100000 expended for improve
ments, s18,000,00o had been deducted
from a current income.
"And the profits were decreased to
tEat extent?' asked Mr.. Untermeyer
yes" the witness replied.
Vast amounts of profits were thus
hidden away during the war and since
against the time when the excess
profits tax would be repealed and the
income taxes reduced. Here we find
the explanation of the haste and anx-
iety of the G. O. P. machine for action
on these two matters. Stockholders
were clamoring for a division of the
spoils which could not be divided with
the government in position to take
a large part by means Of the excess
profits tax and the higher income tax
rate.
Now that the excess profits tax has
been repealed, We shall from time to
time hear Of large melon cuttings
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-02-17
SHOOTS ELS HEIGHBoR AND
THEM TAKES OWEN LIFE

Circle Banner: A dispute over a bust
ness deal involving $3.50 resulted in a
homicide and suicide which brought wo
to two surviving widows and nine small
children on Tuesday of last week near
Bloomfield, when John .Lapp shot I'll. G.
Brody, better known as Pat" Brody,
and few hours later turned rs pista1
on himself.
It appears that Lapp some months
ago had borrowed money from Brody
and gave him a chattel mortgage on his
wheat crop. Brody later sold the mort
gage to a sister, who recently foreclosed
the same and seized and sold the wheat
which Lapp had delivered Ito an nele-
vator in a nearby town. Lapp con-
tnded that the cost OF foreclosure was
$3.50. was too high, and as all the grain
he possessed had been sold under the
mortgage, that he was entitled to receive
this alleged overcharge from Brody
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-02-17
THE
WILLNTON TANNERY
East Broadway Phone 27-F-S
HI;
$1,000 CARS ASSESSED IN
MONTANA LAST YEAR
Sheridan County Has 1,ol6 Cars with
Total Value Of S21s,aas. Silver
Bow Leads State

HELENA, Jan. 19-Although there
We're assessed in Montana in 1921. far
greater number of automobiles than had
been assessed in 1920, the valuations of
these machines were placed at a much
lower figure and the increase in the total
assessment was not in accord with the
growth in numbers.
In 1921 total of $1,000 automobiles
was discovered by the assessors in 81
counties of the state, an increase of T.
TAO over those assessed the previous
year
In the number of cars returned for tax
alton Silver Bow county led with 5,875.
Cascade county came second with 3,273,
While Treasure county returned the
smallest number, 1856.
The largest increases Were shown by
Missoula county, 1902: Silver Bow, SIS,
and Cascade, $40.
The total assessment upon these auto
mobiles for 1921 was S18,885,292, an in
crease over the previous year of s229,2 49.
SILVER Bow county's assessment was So
1s7,165, with Cascade county second, ST.
636,670, and Missoula third, $1,32S.842.
The average value per car for 1921
was $373.S4, as compared with an aver
age OF S409.49 for 1920. In average vaIu
atoms Fergus county ranked high with
$651.5O. Lewis and Clark second with
562.1e; Lincoln third with $52667, and
Cascade fourth with $500. McCone coun
ty gave the lowest average, s194.67.
The tabulation of the figures of the
1921 automobile assessments, as com
piled by the assistants to the state board
OF euualizafi0n follows.