The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-11-18
BADGER STATE NOTES.

Grand Rapids.-The county board
has decided to purchase forty acres of
land for the Wood county asylum, ap-
propriated $4,000 to be used on the
Trunk line road being built between
Marshfeld and Grand Rapids, and put
up $500 to pay the expense of an ex-
hibit at the state fair.
Hartland.-John c. Stevens, ST. died
at his country home here. He was
born in Tapow, England, and came to
plumber in Milwaukee and retired in
1895.
Merrill.-The county board has ap-
propriated $500 for advertising Lin
coin county during the coming year.
The sum of $500 was also appropriate
ed by the board to erect signboards
along the l18 miles OF state highway
in this county.
La Crosse.--Leo Hardell, 3, Patch
Grove, tried to catch the horse upon
whose back his father had often put
him The animal gave the child a
kick. fracturing his skull and causing
ieath.
Sturgeon Bay.-Charles Rosen-
green, an escaped inmate Of the asy-
lum for the incurable insane at Pesh
tigo, was captured at Sister Bay by
sheriff Osmussen. He has been miss
ing since last May.
La Crosse dead Mans Crossing"
near Wilson, on the Northwestern
railroad, said to be the worst in this
section Of the state, is being removed
and the highway run under the track
rs subway. sixteen lives have been
ost at Dead Mans crossing in the
asst twenty years.
New London The explosion of a
pail Of benzine in the plant of the
Wisconsin Seating company resulted
n Roy Case and Alvin Much being
BADLY burned.
Bayfield, Bayfield, will have a
,reamery here in the spring, the
stockholders deciding to incorporate
with a capital of $4,000 Officers
elected were: NJ b. Johnson, presi-
dent: Olaf Anderson, vice president;
". S. Powell, secretary, and A. Will
<inson, treasurer
Sturgeon Bay.-Thirty-four rural
school teachers in Door county are
eligible to bonuses provided under a
recent law ranging from 81 to So a
month. depending on the length Of
time they have taught in the same
| district.
Washburn. Hunters who have
| been in the woods the last few days
say the female deer are wise to
| the law passed at the last session of
the legislature. They seem to under
! stand they will not be fired at Hunt
ters say does and fawns are plentiful
this fall. but that buck deer are
| scarce.
Grand Rapids-Mrs. w. T. Jones OF
this city entertained at "child's'
! party There were six ladies present
including Mrs. Jones, the youngest of
whom was "a and the oldest So The
total in years amounted to ass for
| he six ladies'. Mrs. Jones is one of
the early residents OF this county, and
lcr friends were some of her child
hood friends
Washington The following Wis
ronsin pensions were granted lantha
| e Graham Tomah, s12; Sophie II
Mills. Black Earth, $l2; Malinda II
HYATT, River Falls, $12; Mary ]
wood. Darlington s12.
Neenah Archie Benjamin ant
Edward Stecker, bookkeeper and col
loctor at the local Office OF the Wis
consin Traction, Light, Heat anC
Power company, are being held her,
under $1,000 bonds. awaiting a hsar
ing on charges of embezzlement. Thu
amount alleged to have been embe7
zled is in the neighborhood of SO 500
Shawano. Mrs Albert Raforth
who confessed to giving her mothe
fly poison, which caused her death
was examined by a commission ap
pointed by Judge Goodland OF Apple
ton and found insane.