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tarts Monday11. HOMECOMINGMadison, Wis.—Beit_ Hilbert*, one of lhe most prominent and popular athletes of the institution, has been appointed chairman of the 1924 Home-Coming at the University of Wisconsin, Nov. 15. wlien the Iowa football game will be the big attraction.Hilberts, a Junior from Jefferson, Wis., is the Ideal athlete. In the first place he is a good student about whom there Is never any question as his eligibility to complete: tall, slender, with plenty of spring in his muscles and a heart which knows r.o defeat. He made a r.air.e for himself in the Conference last year when as a sophomore he took third in the half-mile In the conference meet which was won by Vallely, his team-mate, in 1:55:1.But Hilberts is not only an exceptional balf-miler, be runs a fast quarter and also a mile. In fact he is above the average in any run from 100 yards to the mile, and is a most valuable member of both one and two mile relay teams. In addition he Is a members of the University “W” Club, of the Athletic board and is president of the Junior class. He will spend the spring vacation working out plans for the biggest and best. Home-Coming celebration every held at Wisconsin.vill:ity■re-ms»cbmg*♦ + ++***♦ + *♦ + + + ++♦♦ ♦++ The People’s J* Safety Valve J*+ *.!,+++++++++♦♦**+♦ ++CITY SUPERVISOR OF RADIO LEAGUEAmateur radio stations la She-Press-Telegram:Since taxi drivers were mentioned by Alderman Hinze in the council meeting the other night, I think it is no more-than proper than that his impression of their driving should be corrected.Almost anybody In Sheboygan will agree that the taxi drivers of this city are *oor«- careful than the average man or woman driver. It is their business to be careful as well as get their passengers to the destination asked for. The record of only one taxi-driver accident In the last several years will bear out this contention.I think I am making no misstatement of fact when I say the driver* are behind anv move-boygan are attaining a statewide and national Jmprotance in the work they are doing, aceordiug to Willis Wick, 300 Huron avenue, who has Just been appointed City Manager for the amateurs of Sheboygan by the American Radio Relay League.Regular traffic work is being done by the stations of Mr. Wick and Garrett Barrett. 222 Michigan avenue, and they have relayed an average of 75 messages a month during the past winter. Both of these stations and the station 9HS of Lawrence Pfeiler, 1S10 N. Fifth street, handled a number of important messages during the last sleet storm when all ordinary means of communication was cut off.The station of Mr. Wick, 9BMU, has been made an official relay station of the American Radio Relay league by R. G. H. Mathews, of station 9ZN, Chicago. In the last issue of QST, the official organ cf the American Radio Relay league. Station 9BU was reported heard In Mexico City, Mexico. This transmission was accomplished when Mr. Wick was using four 6 Watt tubes. He now Las a transmitter employing a fifty Watt tube, radiating five amperes on a wave length of 190 meters.Garrett Barrett is rebuilds his entire transmitter and expects also to build a transmitting and receiving station on Chambers Island iWa summer. He has already applied for a license for this station. The young men in Shcboyggan and both Wick and Barrett on Chambers Island expect to keep In nightly communication this summer.Chambers Island is located cn Green Bay, where tho Barretts have a camp for summer use.K P LEAVE EARLY SUNDAYFOR K. P. TOURNEYTwenty bowlers and about fifty others of the Knights of Pyrhlaalodge of this city will leave at 7 a. •n 'Cnnrtov on 3 RnpMlll MiJwftllkftO
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Sheboygan Press Telegram
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Apr 12, 1924
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