The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-04-06

island, near Berlin. Mr.. Kruger, who
was born in Germany, came to Amer
lea as youth and settled on Big is
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore M. Phelps,
for As years residents of Berlin, cele-
brated their sixtieth wedding annver-
sary at Red Granite where they have
been spending the winter, Their seven
children were at home on that day,
Three children have died.
While 1t is reported that many fish
in northern lakes of the state have
been killed by the heavy snow on the
ice, which prevents air reaching the
water, fishermen on Lake Winnebago
say that the ice has been kept so well
open this year that no loss has been
sustained.
Despite heroic attempts at rescue by
their parents, Clarence and Ernest, 5
! years and Is months old respectively,
only children of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
! Gilbertson were burned to death at
Oxfordville, near GAINESVILLE, in a fire
which RACED their home. The fire
started when the parents were at work
in their barn.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. II.
Trip of Park Falls narrowly escaped
! asphyxiation and an infant child lost
/, its life, when they were left in the
! house where an oil stove was burning.
!, Gas from the stove had overcome all
= three when the mother returned, but
prompt medical aid saved the two
older children.
AS result of the protests of hook
and line fishermen in Vernon and La
/ Crosse countless who complained that
commercial fishermen were robbing
the streams of game fish, the conser'
walton commission of Wisconsin has
issued orders stopping SEEMING in prac.
tically all waters in the two counties,
! Hereafter seiners operating between
Genoa and Trempealeau must confne
their operations largely TO the main
channel of the Mississippi river.
During 1921 there were $3.50 regis.
trations for work at the United States
employment bureau, Sheboygan, az
cording to report just filed by Miss
Martha Miller, superintendent. Dur
ing that same period of time 2,437
employers registered for help. OF
those who asked for employment, 1896
were referred and 1712 were given
positions. Recent figures indicate that
the employment situation, never ser
ious in Sheboygan, has improved and
that few are out of work
William F. Phueger, Manitowoc.
widely known drug salesman, has com
peted his fortieth year on the road.
In 1873 Mr. Pfueger began working
for a wholesale drug firm and in
March, 1882, made his first trip as a
salesman. With the exception Of four
years during which he was engaged
in the aluminium Business he has been
employed by the same concern. The
aluminium business necessitated his
being on the road frequently, so his
record of two score years is practic
ally unbroken.
The fact that farmers and settlers
can now obtain 10 cent dynamite is
giving new impetus to land clearing
operations in northern Wisconsin.
Last year 10000 acres of wild land in
Washburn county were cleared, follow
ing a big campaign. The 1922 drive
in Washburn county and other nearby
counties has already opened and il
has been decided that the Stacker
srumps are doomed. Sawyer county
will clear 1000 acres this year and
Washburn county will clear at leasi
10000 acres.
Two men were drowned and &c
narrowly escaped the same fate when
a paper mill Golfer dam at Biron, foul
miles from Wisconsin Rapids, gave
way before sudden rush of waite
in the Wisconsin river The IL men
were constructing new grinder pit
below the Golfer dam at the Consol
dated Power and Paper Co. mill, when
The dam broke, sweeping 10 of then
: into the tail-race, cutoff from the
millrace. Two men escaped the flood
by dashing UP a stairway leading from
the pit.
Panic reigned IN the Union Congre
gational church, Green Bay, when a
bomb was thrown into the midst OF
an audience of 500 persons gathered
to hear William L (PussyfooD John
son, world famed prohibition reformer.
deliver his address on THE New In
dia" One woman tainted and a gen
eral break was made for the nearest
exits with those on the platform doing
their utmost to quell what promised
to be a dangerous stampede. +, G..
Walker ran down the aisle and grasp.
ed the smoking tubular bomb and
! started back when it exploded in his
hand. Investigation proved that ii
was an amateurist model-a small tin
can filled with black powder which
however, might have caused serious
damage had it exploded, as evidently
intended. 1t was evident from the ac.
ton Of the bomb that the handling
had shaken its contents causing it &c
explode in much the same manner as
fire crackers will occasionally fizzle
Although the church filled with smoke
and odorous fumes from the exploded
powder 1t was a notable fact that not
more than ten people left the build
ing. Mr.. Walker was slightly burned
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