The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-12-25
WESCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| IOdu DbHu ISSUE VI 3ltopV,VVb Wy q iil 80
majority at a special election,
The Manitowoc city attorney has
liquor licenses where the holder of the
license voluntarily surrenders the
same.
A proposed issue of $1,000000 in
bonds for the building of roads in
| Waushara county was defeated at
special election, The vote was 1923
for and LII against.
| Because of the large number of war
relics presented to the state historical
museum by returning soldiers, a room
in the museum is to be specially de-
| voted to war specimens, according to
the curators plans.
The Sheboygan board of education
| has decided that on account Of the
fuel shortage, pupils of the public
! schools will be given Chrihtmas va
ton of two weeks this year. Shoots
closed Dec. 10 and will reopen Jan. 5.
Luther C. Coon, Appleton, tender
d
| have fallen into the water early in the
morning when he went to work. Men
are dragging the river and cutting
thru the ice in an effort to find the
body.
Jack Lesser neglected to remove the
Montana license plate from an auto
mobile he is charged with taking from
Mrs. Amenda Nelson, Butte. Mont, and
he was arrested while trying to sell
the valuable machine TO a country
banker near La Crosse.
Howard White Thunder, member of
the Winnebago tribe of Indians, has
been ordered ny Judge Pomainyimv,
Grand Rapids, to be put to work
to raise $50, 10 replace furniture
which. it is alleged, he stole from
brother Indian. White Thunder, af-
ter selling the furniture, escaped. as
case will be dropped if he produces
the money.
A jury in circuit court at Stevens
Point assessed damages OF $500 against
the Consolidated Water Power and
Paper Co., in favor of Matt Hemmis
who sued for $14,689. He alleged
damage to his land in Plover as a re-
suit of raising the head of water al
Biron dam on the Wisconsin river
His suit included a claim for $4,000
for the loss of dam site below Draw
leys Rapids.
BY planting three acres Of sugar
beets on the farm, Supt T. H.
Moore of the Dunn county asylum
near Menomonie, secured enough
sugar to last year. Thirty-five tons
OF beets were sent to the sugar factory
at Chippewa Falls and $500 pounds
of sugar was received, Many farmers
are planning planting small fields of
sugar beets and having hem convert
ed into sugar for their personal use.
Fire protection for Outagamie
county farmers living on concrete
roads by the organization of a county
fire department with headquarters
in Appleton is being planned by the
Outagamie county highway commits
sion The plan includes the installa-
ton of a combination chemical and
pumping truck and a hook and ladder
truck The network of concrete roads
radiating from Appleton would make
il possible to respond to fire calls from
quite distance.
The effect of being gassed is now
being shown among the service men.
There are nearly as many dependents
drawing state aid for tuberculosis as
there are for wounds and nearly all
were gassed. The figures show Of $50
drawing state aid there are included
battle wounds, 116 or 80 per cent
tuberculosis, 80 or 81 per cent gas
mot tuberCular), A or II per cent
rheumatism, II or per cent; mentally
deranged, 40 or II per cent; other dis
abilities, 70 or Is per cent.
The coal situation in Wisconsin is
acute and George Olson, secretary OF
the Wisconsin Building Material and
Fuel Merchants association, who has
his headquarters at Oshkosh left for
Madison for a conference with Gov
Philip. A request will be made of
the governor to appeal to the federal
authorities to rush shipments of soft
and hard coal from the mines to this
state to relieve what promises to be
come a most serious situation.
Bring pan of your soil to be test
ed" is the word that g. S. RistoW,
Jackson county farmer, and II. w,
Ullsperger, farmer and light soils
specialist of Madison send TO farmers
who expect to attend the eight light
soils institutes in January The test
ing will determine whether or not the
soils are acid and what is the degree
of acidity so that lime may be APP
piled to correct the acid condition.
Where the soil Is acid legume plants
will not grow, and legumes and live
stock are the chief soil builders for
light soils. By growing legumes the
farmer can supply much of his own
feed for livestock.
The Winnebago Dairy Products Co.
is a new $4,000 corporation. lncorpo-
rators are George Maxey and Merton
Wright, Oshkosh, and II. b. Leithy,
Fond du Lac Nine retail and two
wholesale milk routes have been ac-
auired and a pasteurizing plant will be
operated
TO facilitate the payments OF month,
" bonus checks to students at the Uni.
yersity of Wisconsin who are regis.
tered under the soldiers educational