The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-08-31
Nesvs Notes of Wisconsin

eligible lists of the civil service COM
mission for positions In the state EN-
ploy are announced as follows: DR..
A. 3. Berger, Jefferson, medical as
sistant at state tuberculosis sanato-
rum at Wales; T. M. Ward, Soldiers
Grove. teacher-guard at the Green
Bay reformatory; John b. Kent,
Grand View, night engineer at the
school for the blind, GAINESVILLE; Rich
ard Heating, Pulaski, guard at the
state penitentiary. Waupun; Lee
Thompson, Madison, helper at the
capitol heating plant; l.. J. Nuschol-
ski, Arcadia, janitor at the capitol;
Alice Carey, Madison, clerk and book
keeper in the office of the state board
of normal regents; Mrs. Sophia M.
Briggs, Madison. temporary assistant
actuary in the Office of the insurance
commissioner.
Madison. The state training
school for nurses, organized in Sep
TENDER, 1910, at the state hospital
at Mendoza, has proven success.
A course of thirty-six weeks is given.
After a probation period of two
months, to test their fitness for the
work, pupils receive $40 per month
with an increase of 81 every three
months until the maximum is reached
for the position in which they are
placed If superior ability is shown,
the pupil may be advanced to a bet
ter position with an increase in sal
airy. All employees get room. board
and laundry free.
Madison.-In response to a request
from District Attorney Kirwan of
Calumet county, Attorney General
Bancroft has delivered an opipion
that If butchers In that section of
the state are selling meat from
lumpy jaw cattle to patrons, as al
legged, local boards of health have the
power and are expected to prevent
the sale of unwholesome food instead
of the district attorney.
Fond du Lac.-WhiIe preparing
breakfast on gasoline stove at her
home, Mrs. Sarah Kimball, a widow.
aged 60, was probably fatally burned
when the gasoline flooded the stove
and she attempted to carry the blaz-
ing utensil from the house. Her
clothes caught fire and she was taken
to the hospital In critical condition
with the lower part of her body a
mass of burns
Appleton.---It is rumored that the
500 Will take possession of the Wis
consin and Northern railroad, which
has just been granted certificate of
convenience and necessity to con-
struct the line from Shawano 10 An
pleton and Neenah.
Rhinelancer. Work on the new
dam on the Tomahawk river was
started under the direction of the
Wisconsin Improvement company
Madison. Wisconsin Indus
trial commission Is sending out blank
reports to the 5000 EMPLOYEES M
five or more persons in the state
who are required to report all acct
dents to their employees to the COM
mission. Thus far 10000 employes
are working under the new compen-
sation act.
WausaI. Andrew Zachek liz the
owner of hed which laid an egg
that weighed quarter of n hound
II Is about twice the size OF an or
binary egg The hen Is a cross be-
tween a Redcap and Bun Cochin.
Madison. - The Wisconsin state
civil service commission has an
nounced n competitive examination
for candidates for first assistant at
torney general at salary of $4,000
a year, to succeed A. G. Titus, who ia
sick. In October examinations will
be held throughout the state for local
income tax assessors. salaries $500 IA
$4,000.
La Crosse. "A boy. possibly a
week old. wrapped In tho finest nj
baby clothes. was left on the door
step of Mrs. Frank eagle by a fish
ionably dressed woman