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

Rev. Francis Ramps, pastor at Win
neconne, had his collarbone broken as
a result Of two other automobiles
crashing into his machine while on
his way to Appleton.
Men arrested at La Crosse on the
charge of trespassing on railroad
property are being indicted into the
army under orders of Judge Brindley,
before whom they were arraigned.
Daniel Higgins, GAINESVILLE hotelman,
paid a fine of $4,000 in United States
court at Madison. He was recently
convicted on a charge of furnishing
liquor to Camp Grant soldiers.
BY order of the department at Wash
lngton, the postoflice at Camp Robin
son has been closed and will be dis
continued for this season. All sol
diers at Camp Robinson returned to
Camp Grant.
Because La Crosse is threatened
with a big reduction in revenue next
year as a result of five breweries and
1870 saloons going out of business,
plans for the motorizing of the fire
department was abandoned by the
council.
A bumper crop OF potatoes is being
turned out in Waupaca County. Two
to 300 bushels an acre are reported.
The tubeTs are arriving at the Man
ava market on daily average of l.
500 bushels. Prices are $125 per hun
dred pounds.
Wisconsin's allotment of sugar for
October was cut 10000 pounds under
the September allotment, according to
announcement Of the state food ad-
ministration, Madison. The state is
allowed $4,000 pounds for all pur-
poses Tor October.
The Agricultural Engineering de-
partment OF the University of Wis
consin will place no limit on the age
or sex of the students who are to be
taught to operate farm tractors in the
three weeks course in December, it
was announced.
While working about a gasoline en-
CINE at his home in the town of Win
chester, Winnebago county, Harold
Johnson, sustained three broken ribs,
a broken jaw and an ugly wound in
his arm when a portion of his cloth
ing became caught in the fly wheel.
The Marathon county council of
defense has asked all timber survey
ors, hunters and others interested in
forest products TO keep a lookout for
available supplies of walnut wood.
necessary in the manufacture of air
planes propelers, shipbuilding, and
other war construction.
There were 1850 volunteer sub
scribers out of 1861, to the fourth
Liberty Loan in Brown county. These
volunteers subscribed $2,230,000 in two
-e.,s. Only 2,022 men and women are
delinquent to dale. and all will be
given a chance to subscribe at head
quarters of the committee.
The Wisconsin food administration,
Madison, within a few days will an
nounce prices on all cuts of meat sold
in Wisconsin meat shops. The price
must be posted in each market in
plain view of the patrons. The order
to grocers, 10 display prices on all ar
ticles offered for sale became effective
throughout the state on Oct. l.
Atty-Gen. Spencer Haven, Madison,
held in an opinion that a license to
sell cigarets does not permit selling
them to minors in Wisconsin and that
the sale to minors is prohibited by law.
In an opinion given to State Supt. c.
p. Cary it was held that the same in
dividual cannot hold the offices of
school treasurer and city treasurer.
Gov. e. l.. Philip speaking at the
Pepin county fair at Durand, alluded
to the great accomplishments of the
Wisconsin soldiers abroad and to the
way in which Wisconsin has assumed
leadership in all of the war emergen-
cies of the country. He said he was
proud of his states record in the war
and of the way the citizens had shown
their willingness to meet every de-
mand of their country.
Maj George A. Huntzicker, Marsh
field, who took two companies of the
state guard to Owen to assist in
searching for the Kruger brothers,
believes that neither Leslie nor Louis
Kruger We're home at the time Off
GERS were fired upon. Maj. Huntzick-
er, in Madison on business, declared
that he had been informed that ne-
the place for several weeks, and that
in June Louis declared he was going
to Mexico.
BY the application Of business prin-
ciples to its management, the Wiscon-
sin state prison, at Waupun, has be-
come more than sef-ustaining, as the
report for the year ending June 80
shows. The receipts of the prison
for the fiscal year were $402, 57961.
The operation and maintenance cost
was 1892, 60973, the increase over
previous years being due to the stead
lily rising cost Of living materials. In
spite of this the profit for the year is
$$109,9618S. The revenue from the
prison farm was $8,28741.
To prevent further spread of Span
ish influenza, DR.. G. j. Chloupek,
health commissioner, has ordered
nurses and attendants in hospitals at
Green Bay to wear gauze face masks.
This form of grip developed after four