The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-05-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

| county board asks that aliens De
forced to remain at home during the
home coming celebration planned for
the Rhinelander company.
Twenty-Five patrolmen and nine
crews are working on Sheboygan
county's highway. This county leads
the state in highway improvement. ac-
cording to reports from the state high
way commission.
Despite the fact that the big bond
issue for highways failed to carry in
the vote at the last election, Winnie
bago county will lose no time in start.
ing two important pieces of road build
ing to cost $150,000.
BARRIERS in La Crosse will receive
$40 week and 60 per cent of all bust
ness over $50 hereafter. Employers
agreed to the new scale and threat
oned strike has been averted. BARRIERS
heretofore received SIS a week.
The Dells Paper and Pulp Co, Eau
Claire, and the 400 union sulphite
workers and papermakers who have
been on strike for eleven days, have
come to an agreement and the plant is
now in operation. Under the agree
ment, the plant remains an open shop.
Wage increases were granted.
Oddfellows of Wisconsin are max
ing elaborate plans for the celebration
of the centennial anniversary of odd
| fellowship in America during the sew
enty-third annual convention of the
grand lodge of Wisconsin in Green
Bay, June 2, 3, and 5. The Rebekah
assembly will hold its thirty-fourth an
nual session on the same dates.
Elaborate preparations are under
way for the annual state convention
! Of the Fraternal Order of Eagles
which is scheduled to be held at APP
! pleton on June 10, IL and II. Large
delegations are coming from most of
the cities in the state, and indications
are that the convention will be one of
the largest in the orders history.
The La Crosse Telephone Co., an in
dependent concern, which bought the
Bell system a few weeks ago, was
granted an increase in rates by the
| SldlC ram Odu COIlllllSSlOu DuSlACSS
phones went up so cents a month and
the ordinary house phones were in
creased Csc per month. Increased cost
of operation was given as the cause OF
the increases.
The twentyfourth annual conven-
ton of the grand temple of Pythian
Sisters will be held at Sheboygan June
| 10, II and IS. The supreme chief,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson, Wood
| fords, Me, will be a guest. All the
| thirty-four temples in the state are
planning to send delegates. Mrs.
Louis c. Meyer, grand chief, Sheboy-
gan, will preside.
A jury in the Racine circuit court
awarded $1,000 in suits for $4,000
brought by ex-Postmaster Hiram J.
Smith and his wife against the Vel
low Cab Co. In October, 1918, Mr.
and Mrs. Smith were returning from
Milwaukee in an automobile. 1t was
alleged the Smith car ran into a taxi
of the defendant company, which was
being run on the left side of the road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith were hurled from
their seats and injured
Believing that a meat shortage is
imminent in the near future, Tomah
citizens have gone into chicken rails
ing on a general scale. Nearly every
backyard supports a flock of young or
old fowls, and the tendency is for still
more. Eggs and broilers should be
plentiful later on, while the sale of
other meat should show a noticeable
decline if present activities are con
tinued. Many backyard poultry rails.
ers have reduced their living expenses
considerably during the past year.
Thirteen revenue stamps of IS each
decorated a deed recently recorded in
the office of Register of Deeds Ed |
Larson in Stevens Point. The deed
transferred 1000 acres of land in the
Portage county drainage district from
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher of Peoria,
H., to Rudolph II. Hicken. At the
legal rate of 81 per thousand the
stamps represent a $65,000 transaction. |
The value of the stamps was greater
than on any instrument previously
filed in the registers Office in this
county.
The annual spring Holstein Fresian |
Breeders association sale at the stock |
sales pavilion at Waukesha netted the !
second highest average on cattle of |
any sale ever held in the state except |
the National Dairy show at Milwau !
kee. The average was figured out at
$407.03 a head, a total of over $4,000 |
for the III heads sold. The highest |
single price was $500 for a months |
old bull, Baird Brothers Nockdair Su |
perbus Supreme. The next highest
was Pabsts Korndyke Cornhower 5 |
months old, $2,425. The top prices foi |
cows were Aitken Brothers. Segis |
Pontiac Burke, sister of the highest |
living record COW in the state, 81 200 |
and Baird Brothers. Nockdair Segis |
Lottie, from sister of the Aitken COW,
"a 2-year-old, also at $1,000.
Loss of revenue through abolishine |
saloons in Superior is more than off |
set by increase in fines collected by |
the Municipal court, chiefly through |
prosecution of liquor vioaltors Dur
ing the year ending May /, $S1, 900 had |
been collected, exclusive of the part OF |
the fines belonging to Douglas county. |
Even by deducting the $4,000 which |
has constituted the income during the |