The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-10

rum WtSlDy lOT several CSIlllS, Adb
entered the automobile business at
Kenosha.
The Grand Rapids Street Railway
company is permitted by the railroad
commission to discontinue the sale of
six tickets for % cents and to charge
a straight scent fare,
The sum of 100000 has been with
drawn from state banks by State
Treasurer Henry Johnson. The
amount is needed for road work and
other state activities.
While any mature deer may be
killed in Wisconsin this year, the con-
servation commission will protect all
fawn. Notice to this effect was mailed
to game wardens and county clerks.
Green Bay BARRIERS have advanced
the price of shaves from Is to 20
cents. The price of haircuts went
from 80 to 40 cents. Fifteen cents has
been the cost of shave for dozen
years
The first Wisconsin woman to be
mentioned on the official United
States casualty list is Nellie NJ. Ding
ley of West Ashland. Miss Dingley,
nurse, died of disease in a French
hospital.
A meeting of the dairy farmers Of
northeastern Wisconsin, will take
place at Green Bay on October 10. b.
II. Rawl, chief of the United States
dairy division, will attend and discuss
dairy and livestock situation.
A. G. Burg, Wausau, agent for Mar
athon county, is urging all potato
growers in the county to exhibit sam
pies of their potato stock at the pota.
to show TO be held in Milwaukee, Nov
20 to "a.
Madsons No 1922 in the draft lot,
terry is Ambrose j. James, who for
months has been doing his bit" He
is one OF the leading increase food
production" experts of the University
of Wisconsin.
A picture of the kaiser and his six
sons, taken from the home of a Rhine.
kerosene and burned before 1000 PEG,
pie at the close of a Liberty Loan
meeting
Two new state guard companies
have been mustered into service, the
Thirty-siXth at Middleton, under com
mand OF Capt. Ii. c. Ruenzel, and the
Thirty-seventh at Waupaca, under
command of Capt. Roy Holly.
The Herald and The News, Mantle
woo, daily newspapers, have been con
solidated as The Herald-News and
will be issued from the Office of The
Herald. George McFarlane, formerly
with The News, becomes city editor
The combined circulation is 5000
The paper will occupy new office
building and will add new equipment
Milk was advanced / cent per
quart and cream 4 cents "A quart by
Green Bay milk dealers. Milk went
from 10 TO IL cents apd cream from
a. TO As cents quart Higher cost
in doing business since last winter
and the increased prices which deal
crs Will be obliged to pay farmers are
gwen as reasons for increasing the
cost to consumers.
Miss Esther Ashman of Appleton
has joined i'll the ranks of Appleton $
women who are taking the place of
men called into the service. She ac-
cepted a position with the local gas
company as meter reader 1t is eX-
pected soon that all positions in
meter reading will be lilled by wrmen
Miss Ashman is the second meter
reader to accept position in Apple
ton.
a disastrous fire occurred in a farm
ing district just outside the De Pere
city limits. The tire destroyed the
barn OF Charles klipstein and the sea
sons crop OF unthreshed wheat and
oats any many tons of hay. The high
wind carried the fire to the farm of
M. Corneilssen, and burned his barns
with the gathered crops. The district
school house and the barns of Tneo-
dore Koecken We're destroyed The
total loss will be about $4,000, with
about $4,000 insurance.
Twelve firms have been penalized
by the state food administration for
failure to obtain license for opera
ton OF creameries or cheese factories.
Among those invited to contribute $25
to the Red Cross are the Brooklyn
rot / aIy -,
Cooperative Creamery association,
Kingston; Oxford Creamery, oxford
Steiner Bros. Creamery, Mansion; Mt.
Horeb Cooperative creamery; Lindina
Cooperative creamery; Lindina
Cheese factory, Mauston Wauwatosa
Creamery, and for fragrant violation,
the lola Cooperative Mercantile co.
was requested to pay 800
The total valuation OF all property
in this state, real and personal, for
assessment purposes for the year 1918.
was announced by the state tax com.
mission at $3,846, 2G3.74i Upon the
figures credited for the various coun.
ties will be based the amount Of state
taxes to be levied next year upon each.
Real estate is valued at $3,O45. $50, 229.
and personal property at $500, 58O,515.
The total assessment shows IA com
paratiyely small rise over the figures
for 1917, the increase being $238, 1888,
800. Milwaukee county's new assess
ment is placed at $693,8l2, 4O3. an in
crease Of $43,188,155 for the year.
For the first time since leaving Ash.