The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-06-06
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

third Liberty Loan.
Employees of the state prison at
Waupun will receive an increase of 10
per cent in wages, beginning on July 1.
With The Meaning of Americas
Entrance Into the War;" as his sub
ject, Elroy McFaul of Wausau won the
state oratorical contest. Nine con-
testants spoke
great service flag containing more
than 100 stars, representing students
who have enlisted in war service, was
unfurled from the roof of the main hall
OF the University.
The Amigo rainfall in May was S.06
inches, according to records of the Of
fetal weather observer, being more
than the rainfall of the same months
in the two previous years.
Seyenty-six claims for compensation
have been made since May II by
farmers of Fox River valley to tor
nado insurance company of Neenah for
damage resulting from recent storms.
The Telelaget, an organization COM
posed of Norwegians in this country,
will convene June 13 and IA at Chip
pewa Falls, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
North Dakota and Iowa representa-
tives are expected.
Riparian landowners along the Fox
River will petition the government to
have the gates at the Menasha dam
kept open until the flood stage of wa
ter subsidies This was decided at a
recent meeting.
The right eye of Victor Czech, 8, of
Berent was removed at the hospital at
Stevens Point. A piece of % shell had
penetrated the boys eyeball, when he
attempted to force the shell into
rifle with hammer.
Judge j. M. Becker of Monroe, was
arrested and brought to Madison and
arraigned in federal court charged
with prohibited talk under the espion.
age act He pleaded not guilty. Bail
was fixed at $4,000.
Nine events, six for Is targets each
and three for twenty targets each,
constitute the program for the first
annual registered trapshooting con-
TEST lOI inc w duodu bull bluD OAA gun
day, June %.
At the first consignment sale held
by the Walworth County Holstein
Breeders association at the fair
grounds at Elkhorn eighty head of
pure bred Holsteins sold for $15,340,
an average of $191 per head.
While Charles Hale was driving a
fence post which was being held by
Mrs. Hale, at their pasture in Little
Grant, the axe which he was using left
the handle and struck Mrs. Hale on
the side of the head, inflicting a pain
full wound.
Rev. Francis Laslow, So years, pas
tor of the Polish Catholic church at
Red Granite and for many years rec
tor of ST. Josephat's Polish Catholic
church at Oshkosh, died at ST. Agnes
hospital, Fond du Lac, after an attack
of pneumonia.
Red Cross national headquarters
made a public announcement of Wis
consin's splendid record in the Red
Cross drive. Wisconsin was assigned
a quota of 81 100000, the amount sub
scribed being $2,250,000 or nearly ST.
100000 in excess of the quota.
The Jenkins Machine company, one
of the largest industrial plants of She
boygan, and among the leading ma
chine works of Wisconsin, will built a
large addition to its present plant as
a consequence of the large expansion
in business of its war order machinery
department
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ziemer of Ma.
pies have given six sons to service of
the nation in war. Otto, Charles, Ger
hard and Emil Storm, sons of Mrs.
thinner by her first marriage, are sta
toned at Camp Dodge. John Ziemer
Is with the One Hundred and Thirty
fifth infantry at Deming, N. NJ, and
Harry Ziemer, II years old, joined the
navy few days ago.
A report issued By Deiry and Food
Commissioner George j. Weigle shows
the growth of the industry in the two
year period of 1915 to 1917. There
has been an increase in the value of
dairy products of the state of $50, 000,-
900 in that time, while the output of
cheese factories and condensares has
more than doubled. The value of
dairy products in Wisconsin in 1917
was $3.50, 235, 914.72.
Wisconsin will have the worlds larg-
est wild bird and animal breeding farm
and it may be located in Marinette
county The Wisconsin GEOLOGICAL
Park company, composed of many
leading business men in Wisconsin
and Illinois, has filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary of state
and plans are under way for initial
work in connection with the project.
1t is capitalized at 100000. Upwards
of $4,000 acres of cutover timber land
in the northern part of the state have
been acquired by the company, whose
ultimate aim is to cover more than
hundred sections.
Villas Willard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
p. ]. Willard, Amigo, has been COM
missioned second lieutenant at Camp
Joseph Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla,
and has been ordered to report at New
port News, Va.
The will of the late ex-Congress-
man S. A. Cook, which has just been
admitted to probate provides liberal
sum for the various G. A. r. posts in
the cities of Neenah and Menasha and