The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-03
WISCONSIN News
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


the palm of his hand scraped from the
bones when his hand became caught
in planer.
The Appleton Building and Loan as
ready for operation. Assistance will
be given home builders by loaning up
to rs per cent of property valuation.
Forty-three pure-bred Holstein cows
were sold at a public sale at Rice Lake
for $12,9SS The high prices weresthe
result of the purebred sire campaign
conducted by the Sheboygan County
Holstein Breeders.
Herman Schelk, Marinette, has be
gun an action against the town of Ste
phenson for compensation. While he
was engaged in road work he was
shoe in the eye by a hunter. He lost
the sight of the eye.
Brig. Gen. F. c. Marshall, former
Darlington boy, who has been in com
mand of the Second Infantry brigade,
First division, United States army in
English infantry brigade of the army
of occupation. Gen. Marshall's moth
er is resident of Darlington,
The Boy Scouts of Tomah under
Scoutmaster George H. Willet, turned
out enmasse TO complete the job of
cleaning the old log pond. Water was
turned in and the first swimming in
Tomah's community pool was done.
Further improvements will be made on
the property. including a baseball
ground.
The $4,000 highway bond issue
authorized by the county Board has
been sold to the Citizens National
bank, Appleton, which bid $7,506 pre-
MUM for the bonds. The sum {
$1S0,000 together with a bond issue of
$4,000 authorized last fall, will be
expended this season on the high
ways of Outagamie county.
Leaving their hotel to buy soft
drinks in a confectionery store saved
the lives of three La Crosse boys IL
the tornado at Fergus Falls. The boys,
Merritt Gibson, Edwin Wittenburg
and Albert Dehler, left the Grand no.
tel, which was destroyed in the storm.
just a few minutes before the catas.
trophe. THE Candy Kitchen" a few
blocks away, where they went to OBJ
tain refreshments, was unframed.
George H. Clausen, Pleasantvill
farmer, convicted in the United State
district court last March for violating
the espionage act, by seditious utter
ances against the president, is in Jail
having been arrested by a fedora
agent on his failure TO pay the fine OF
$500 assessed against him by Judge
Sanborn, He was given three months
in which to pay. He will now serve
six months in the house of correction
A carload of matted milk wa
shipped last week to the relief agen
cies in Armenia and Syria, the dona
ton of William j. Horlick, Racine, tt
the cause of the sufferers in those
lands. 1t will 80 by way Of the Medi-
teranean and Constantlnople. The do
nation was made through the Patriots
Fund committee which raised Racinc'S
quota of $4,000 in the national drive
for $30,OO0,OO0 for Armenians and s.
rians.
Some fine farm lands are being OF
fered for sale within the limits of tn
Bad River Indian reservation neal
Ashland and prices are said in some
cases to be not over $40 per acre
Nearly 200 Indians on the reservation
have Certificates of competency" from
the government which means that
they can handle their own affairs
without government supervision. 1t il
the lands of these that are being OF
fered for sale.
For the first time in the history OF
the fruit industry Of Door county
strawberries are being canned exten
sively. The canning is being carried
on at the large plant of the Fruit
Growers union, Sturgeon Bay. 4
large force of men and women will b.
employed in the cannery during the
cherry season, which follows closely
after the strawberries. 1t is expected
that picking of cherries will start i'm
mediately after the fourth of July
The cannery will also start the same
time.
The town Of Wiota, 298S0 acres, the
largest township within Lafayette
county, has cheese factories every 2 or
miles, Swiss and limburger predomi-
mating. The underlying foundation Is
limestone rocka and the water from
the springs and wells is as clear as
crystalline secret of producing such
excellent cheese. The Lycan factory
in the northwestern corner Of the
township, recently sold its output of
April Swiss cheese for IS cents per
pound, the ecord-breaking sale of the
year. There are 3,322 cows in the
township.
A round table discussion and a
course on the problems of Americana
nation Will be conducted at the sum
mer session at the University of Wis
consin by Prof Don G. Lescohier.
The first prosecution under the new
state law relative to unfair competi.
ton in Wisconsin closed in Marathon
county circuit court at Wausau when
jury found Fred w. Meen, Rhine
lander, guilty on four counts He was
charged with discriminating between
different communities by BUYING
cream and butter fat in one place at