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Newspaper
Manitowoc Times
Location
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1929
Page
8
A city seeks to end radio disruption by a trouble shooter policy. Citizens urged to cooperate with officials, test devices at home, and avoid personal objections. Readers are invited to share comments with the editor to improve harmony and efficiency in handling interference.
City Manager Donnelly endorses Wisconsin health department recommendations urging all municipalities to check cross connections between municipal and private water supplies. He warns that sucker fish may be typhoid infected as Two Rivers reports severe deaths from the outbreak caused by polluted river water entering city supply. The city has followed recommendations and officials say the typhoid epidemic is over.
The Two Rivers Rotary club may attend the district conference in Oshkosh in May if it accepts an invitation from Oshkosh Rotary speaker Michael Cerrall at the Monday luncheon. After remarks by Carroll, Eckley and Meargin performed a brief business ethics sketch. Wilbur Dickson proposed replacing serious discussion with fire and police board control under city manager oversight, echoed by the Wisconsin Chief of Police Association and the Wisconsin Paid Firemen’s Association. Chief Schroeder noted current good relations with the manager and doubted changes, citing past city turnover under new mayors and opposition to revoking the “sporta system.”
Health Campaign 18 aims to curb tuberculosis among young women led by the Junior Service League. Vocational school girls directed by Mrs. Leslie Lohman and instructor Evangeline Hurley present an How to Sleep demonstration in the display windows of Beduhn and Goetz furniture store.
The senior class selects roles for the play Man or Mouse directed by Prof. H. Winn. Tryouts are Thursday April 4 with faculty judges to choose the final cast, Winn reserving last pick. Returning seniors with prior one act play experience include Milarpa Tangen Dale Wagner Norbert Schroeder Charles Maigatter Paul Freye Elvira Zermuehlen Wine Magle Calvin Tomaschefsky Francis Schultz and Harlan Althen.
Washington high school students will see a casun basketball clash this week Wednesday afternoon as the junior class faces a faculty team that has practiced for many moons. Observers note faculty members trained every Saturday in the gym, despite protests of limited practice time.
Director W B Jones reports plans to refine marching steps as spring arrives. Drum corps from last year helped test candidates Roland Hippert and Norbert Schroeder who performed well, Hippert a junior and Schroeder a senior with prior drill at Fort Sheridan C M T C. City Manager Donnelly announced street sweeping begins with 1929 crews.
District Attorney Lyman Fischer spoke two hours to a vocational night class on Conditional Sales and Chattel Mortgages. A. A. Kritschke reported the Vocational school president. L. B. Larkin set next Monday for the final session.
The 1928-29 Purple and Gold squad voted to abolish the single captaincy and adopt a two captain system for each game. The change drew student discontent but passed with only two dissenters, reflecting a trend toward the Wisconsin model of co captains in college basketball.
The town watches a contested Second Ward school board race as Mrs. Arthur Baetz runs against Fred C. Luebke, with Eva Raete and others prior female candidates noted. VFW aims to appoint delegates for 1929 poppy sale while Donnelly handles a runaway milk wagon incident on Washington Street.
In Two Rivers Debysh records show 400 dogs belong to Pat Mee, who tours Washington Street on a pedal tricycle with a pack of canines trailing. The passage humorously toys with counts of dogs and residents, while noting Pat’s public antics near the Empire theater. Other locals like L. Splitt and C. Fresis are also mentioned in brief notes of visiting or transacting business.
The school board convenes Wednesday night in City Hall for a session to hire teachers for the coming year. The Bishop Kahlenberg controversy may be raised. A school site committee meeting to choose a site for a new South side school is postponed to April 3. Local officials, board members, and recreation department staff will attend, followed by a luncheon and a bridge game with prizes awarded to Julia Althen and Christine Althen. Radio interference and a uniform building code are topics at a Wisconsin building inspectors meeting in Milwaukee. Kenneth Gauthier of Two Rivers will attempt to advance to the state spelling tournament at Manitowoc Court House Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Caroline Thoms Bischoff, 70, died Monday at 11:10 am at her sister Mrs. Lawrence Karkow’s home in Manitowoc after a complication of diseases. Born October 29, 1855 in Two Creeks, she married Andrew Bischoff in 1886 and lived in Two Rivers before moving to Manitowoc in 1925, then returned to Two Rivers before joining her sister in Manitowoc weeks ago. She leaves a sister, seven nieces, ten nephews. Funeral 1:15 pm at the Karkow home, 3:15 pm at Twenty-sixth Street, Manitowoc, with service at St. John’s Lutheran Church at 2 pm conducted by Rev. W. G. Haase. Interment in Pioneer’s Rest cemetery.
Two Rivers fishermen, meeting at Carron’s shed, affirmed no action until opponents push through legislature proposals. They oppose broad commercial measures and stress net mesh size limits and species catch restrictions, signaling potential legislative clash if bills advance.
A scrambled schedule lists Wis deficits and Minnesota games, with clubs like Cosy Corners Independents Baraca, St Josephs Play Boys Lutherans and Cardinals Bruins fielding matchups. Boy Scout troops 1 3 and 4 also meet amid municipal league plans and proposed bills affecting local activities.
The American Legion post empowered a committee to book free attractions and plan the fireworks for the July celebration. Ade Walters was named chair of the grave decoration committee. Legionnaires hosted Veterans of Foreign Wars and joined in a Hamilton band concert with selected songs.
Ninety one children of St Luke's Catholic Church received their first Holy Communion at the 8:15 a m service with parents present. Names listed include Claude Burrard Agelbert Jacklin Arnold Jarquartz Eugene Kaonetsk Earl LeClair James Lando Donald McDonald and many others from the parish.
Mary LeClair reports from Milwaukee where Quin Ryan will give a speech tied to a Follies event at the Milwaukee Business College. A Movietone film at the Elks clubhouse features Notre Dame football stars and Knute Rockne friends. The event is sponsored by Two Rivers Motor Co Studebaker Lions Club and a local benevolent association. Rev. Robbins W. Barstow will speak on Life stabilization after three showings at 7 30 8 30 and 9 20.
The 1929 officers of the Royal Neighbors hosted the 1915 officers at the Odd Fellows hall on a Saturday evening. Banquet covers laid for thirty. Welcome address by Mrs Anna Wukelich. Mrs Mabel Buege responded. Several short addresses followed and a delightful program with five hundred was played later.
The Hamilton night school ends its second term on Thursday with 12 national courses available. English citizenship math and bookkeeping are offered alongside sewing, home crafts, clothing, and drafting. Some classes conclude by Christmas while others run to June, with business law and plumbing continuing under local sponsorship.
Police search for missing G1 woman Miss Nava T schefsky who vanished after a marriage plans. Husband reports she left home for Mazowiecki parents’ house as Chief Schroeder investigates. Other notes mention Mrs Peter Siaby’s recent stay in Two Rivers and unrelated local life events.
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