The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-12-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

the twenty-eighth annual exhibition OF
the Western Wisconsin Poultry asso-
citation, La Crosse.
w. M. Ellis, Endeavor, received
cable from his son, Lieut.. Robert II.
Ellis, Seventeenth Aero squadron,
who has been a prisoner in Germany,
stating that he has arrived in Paris.
The r. d. Lang Manufacturing Co,
Racine, suffered loss of 100000 when
crossed electric wires caused a fire
which swept the entire upper part of
the main two story factory building.
Work on the new service flag at the
University of Wisconsin is being
rushed by women students. The name
of each student now in military serv.
ice will be embroidered on a star be.
fore it is sewed on the huge service
flag
Erected at a cost of $4,000, La
Cross county's tuberculosis sanatori-
UNI, twelfth in the state is open for
patients. With accommodations for
forty patients, the sanatorium is now
treating thirty-five and has waiting
list which will tax the capacity.
Eight hundred students and the fac
ulty of the Beloit high school plan
carnival, the p. oceeds of which will
be turned over to the war relief fund.
1t will be held Dec 20. 1t will include
play motion pictures and animal
show and side shows
Andrew Frank, of Fox Lake, shipped
forty-five Holstein cattle TO Fond du
Lac. They sold for nearly $4,000
One 7-months bull brought $3.50, and
four 2-year-old heifers brought $500
each. The milcb cows were sold at
prices from $3.50 to $3.50, and g.
weeks-old heifer brought 500.
When f. H. ]. Schmit, Fond du Lac
Eighty-sixth division, was brought into
the operating room in a hospital in
France, the nurse assigned him was
Miss Genevieve Dyer, from the old
home town. who helped him celebrate
his birthday. He writes that when the
peace news became known, Nov. II,
the hospital was "a wild place" Sol
diers, sick and we'll sang all day long
Green Bay business men. acting
through the Wholesale Credit Mems
association, have filed objections to
the revenue bill as prepared for pas
sage by congress They feel that
while the bill is framed for the pres
ent emergency, it should be listed to
the present year, and that new bills to
fit the conditions as they may arise
in the future should be passed for the
succeeding years.
The Wisconsin Dairymen's conven
ton at meeting in Menominee elect
ed officers as follows: President, Geo.
McKerrow, Pewaukee; vice-president,
A. j. Glover, Fort Atkinson; secretary
treasurer. Paul c. Burchard, Fort At
kinson; directors, Math. Michels,
PEBBLES; j. Q. Emery, EdgertQn; +. c.
Jacobs, Elkmound, and G.. II. Everett,
Racine. The association adopted reso-
lutions favoring league of nations
to enforce peace.
To aid worthy and needy students,
especially returning soldiers and S.
A. 4. c. men, who wish to remain in
college, the University of Wisconsin
regents voted to devote $4,000 to ad-
ditional scholarships this year. They
established Nifty scholarships of $75
each and fifty of S25 each for under
graduate student residents of the
stale These will be followed by fifty
l, IL a., %
years.
Turning willow bolts into wooden
legs for disabled soldiers is one of the
latest activities of the federal forest
products laboratory. University of
Wisconsin, AT the request of the
army surgeon general the laboratory
is experimenting on artificial season
ing of willow. This process turns out
willow thoroughly seasoned in from
sixty to seventy days, whereas the
natural process takes from three to
five years. Willow is the best wood for
wooden legs.
That Wisconsin farm boys are
coming back TO take up their work
on Wisconsin farms is the message of
G. j. Galpin, assistant professor of
agricultural economics, University of
Wisconsin, who has completed a sur.
yey of the subject in Dane county.
That Prof. Galpin is recognized as an
authority on this subject is indicated
from the fact that the United States
government has just sent 1900 copies
of his recent book on Rural Life to
Y M. c, A. huts in France.
The Wisconsin Dairy-men's associa.
ton, in session at Menominee, adopt.
ed resolutions calling upon the legisla.
ture to enact laws against teaching
and foreign language in the grades of
public or private schools, and provid.
ing that the basic language in high
schools and colleges be English, and
teaching of any foreign language shall
be incidental thereto. These resolu'
tons form a part of memorial TO the
late ex-Gov. Hoard. 1t was felt that no
other permanent memorial would be
as appropriate as such law.
Dr. Albert Hayden, IS, for thirty-dve
years prominent and active physi.
clan and surgeon of southwestern
Wisconsin, died at his home in Shulls-
burg He was well known in state
and county Decorate circles.
The first American university TO es-
tablish separate department OF
Amprica nization la the University of