The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-03-13
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

pdy OulCtI, WIN spent clShtVCh
months in service, has been promoted
70 major.
The second welcome home supper
,or returned soldiers and sailors of
La Crosse county will be given at the
la Crosse Chamber of Commerce
March 20.
| A $4,000 home" will be built by
| Superior knights of Columbus. A
committee, including real estate men
and contractors, has several sites un'
Ter consideration
John Welleniz, farmer near James
Vile, narrowly escaped death and his
new auto was completely demolished
when struck by an auto truck laden
with lumber and by street car.
A huge road building program will
be carried out in Portage county dur.
ing the summer months of 1919. The
SUM- of $4,000 will be spent in the
construction of improved highways.
| Marinette county as taken 100 adop-
tons of the 1870 orphans allotted to this
county The adoptions have been
.aken largely by the pupils OF schools
Who have given socials to raise money.
The Hortonville pond, probably the
| largest millpond in the state, will be
stocked with rainbow trout, according
to Mark S. Catlin, chairman of the leg
| islative committee of the Wisconsin
Fish and Game association.
! The Beaver Dam board of education
voted to increase teachers salaries
and give a bonus of $50 to those who
show advanced efficiency Women
teachers in the high school will re-
ceiye from $3.50 to $3.50 per year.
The state conservation commission
has decided to try the propagation of
eel in Green Bay. Arrangements
have already been made to plant a
carload of young eel in the waters of
the bay near Marinette this spring.
Horam Lawrence killed a wolf near
his home within the city limits of
Grand Rapids. The animal had been
seen several times, but was thought
to be a dog. More wolves are report
ed in the neighborhood and an organ
lied hunt may be held.
Petitions asking the La Crosse com
mon council to bond the city for $780,
600 for junior high school on the
north side and a new ward school are
being circulated. For the first time
in history the enrolment at the high
school has passed the 1000 mark
The clerk of court OF Manitowoc
| county is doing a rushing business fill
| ing declarations for first papers
| twenty-one having been filed within
three days. During February twenty
nine declarations were filed. In many
instances the declarers are men who
have been residents here for more
than quarter of a century.
John Nolen, Boston landscape art.
are joining the federation of factories
| Of Sheboygan county and will ship
cheese to headquarters at Plymouth.
John holden, Boston landscape art
| ISL WIN went w La AlOG0t W lay OuA
city plan, has been summoned to
| GAINESVILLE to perfect a housing plan
for which 100000 has been raised
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Kaeding, Mar
| blehead, pioneer residents Of Fond du
Lac county, celebrated their golden
| wedding anniversary with six OF then
eight children present. besides grand
children and friends, Miss Milly Kaed
ing, a daughter, is serving with the
American forces in France; Albert, a
son, is in government service in Seat
| tie.
The Scott mansion property in
Merrill has been purchased by the
city and will be remodeled and made
into a modern hospital, The building
was built about twenty-five years age
by Thomas b. Scott, prominent north
ern Wisconsin lumberman, who in
tended it for his home, but his death
occurred before the building was
completed.
A fourth paper mill is to be built
| in Green Bay next spring, it was an
nounced by A. e. Cofrain, who is tc
be general manager of the Fort How
ard Paper company. The capacity
will be fifteen tons day. About 10C
people will be employed. When the
new mill is in operation the total val
ue of the product of the four mills
will be about S4,000.O00.
A joint committee, three appointed
by Mayor d. b. Reinhart, Merrill. anc
three by Joe A. Chilsen. chairman Of
| the county council of defense, are
making arrangements for celebrating
| the return of soldiers from the war
| Definite plans for the celebrations
| have not been made, but il is thought
| that the fifat celebration will be hello
on Memorial day, another on July 4
and another during the early fall
when practically every Lincoln coun
ty soldier will have returned to his
home.
Workmen who are not American
| nor desire TO become American citi
zens are being discharged AT Superior
Shipbuilding Co.'S yard. to give room
for Americans or deClarants. Sol
ders especially are given preference
The characterization census has SC
far shown that 500 men employed
were neither citizens nor decarant.
and seventy refused to become Amer
lean citizens. Men are applying il
large numbers at the clerk of court.
Office A similar census is 10 be TAX
en- al the Globe and Whitney Broth
ers yard.