The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-10
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

IOmoDleS, cOmmlIleu a large nunDeI
of thefts in Rusk county
An appeal has been made by farmers
living near Black Creek to the Uni
versity of Wisconsin for assistance in
checking a malady which is binding
their cattle.
The American Leather Specially
Works has been organized at Sheboy
gan with capital of $4,000. 1t man
ufactures gloves. mittens and leather
specialties.
Frank Greek, Villas County, soldier
just returned home from France, has
valuable gold watch which he took
from a German officer whom he killed
in hand TO hand fight.
SLAVES and haircuts are difficult to
obtain in Racine. Fifty journeyman
BARRIERS refused demands of $40 a
week and go per cent over s28 re-
ceived for work, and a strike resulted.
While drilling a well on his farm at
Hollandtown, near Appleton, Henry
Fasbender struck oil at the depth of
230 feet. He is investigating to de-
| termne if there is enough to pay to
| gather it.
A move is on in Oshkosh to Aur-
| chase the links of the Algoma Country
club and dedicate the property as a
public recreation place, particularly to
make golf popular democratic game,
instead of a pastime for a comparative
few.
Prof G. ]. Galpin, University of
Wisconsin college of agriculture, for
eight years in charge of the farm
work for Wisconsin, left for Washing
ton to apply his efforts to the nation
as a whole. He will direct the divi-
sion of farm life studies.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
rates of the city water works in Mer-
rill was authorized by the Wisconsin
railroad commission. The company
asked a 90 per cent increase. The
commission also announced decision
permitting the Auburndale Telephone
Co. TO increase residence rates from
81 to S1.25 and business rates from 81
TO $3.50 a month.
Out of Ais cows in the Dodge Coun-
ty Cow Testing association, tested in
the thirty-one days ending May 81, 113
cows each produced 40 pounds of but
teTfat or over, 81 of them being over
so pounds of butterfat. The high COW
for the month is a grade Holstein
owned by William Kaugenbach, Bur
nett. She produced 1,762 pounds Of
milk and GIG pounds of butterfat.
Paving over an entire wardrobe
thieves who broke into the residence
of Michael Arbush, Stevens Point, Sc
ems apparel for their loot. A dress
two georgette waists, mildly, and
crocheted corset cover were taken
Members of the Arbush family, includ-
ing two daughters to whom the stolen
articles belonged, were sleeping in an
other part of the home when the theft
was committed.
Chief Justice John B. Winslow, Wis
consin supreme court, has been mott
fed by the Belgian delegation at
Washington that the decoration of a
commander of the Order of the Crown
will be conferred upon him by the
King OF Belgium. This honor is
awarded to Judge Winslow because of
| services rendered to the cause of Bel
GUM in the United States during the
war Judge Winslow was active thru
out the war delivering addresses in
behalf of Belgium.
Never was there such a profusion Of
white clover bloom in Darlington, La
| fayette Co, as this summer Every pas
ture and dooryard is white with frae
rant blossoms. White clover is a
heavy producer of that clear, white
and unusually sweet honey that meets
with such ready sale. Later in the
season the bee works on the blossoms
of buckwheat, also laden with sweets
which produces a yellow and dark
colored honey, also very tasty. Last
winter a large number of hives OF
| bees failed to survive the winter, ow-
ing to the absence of these honey-pro-
ducing flowers. This season promises
an unusual crop of honey.
Hot weather, combined with root
rot, resulted in light crop of early
peas in the state. Neither the wealth
er nor the rot alone is the cause OF
pods failing to fill, for plant patholo-
gists who have inspected fields report
early peas doing fairly well on soil
where the crop has not been grown
for the last year or two. In the nine
years which the Psychologists of the
| Wisconsin Experiment station, Madi-
son, have worked with the root rot
disease, it has been demonstrated that
the only way to handle the rot and
blight is to practice strict rotation OF
crops. Peas should not be planted on
fields that show rot this year
Gov. Philip reappointed as mem
bers of the state board of medical eX
aminers Drs. G. II. Ripley, Kenosha;
II. w. Abrahamson, Appleton; G. w
Rodecker, Holcomb; ]. M. Dodd, Ash
land.
After being killed, buried, wounded
and gassed, Steve Bernard Schwebke
Grand Rapids, returned home to show
the folks that he is just as alive as
ever. although a slight limp IN his
right leg bears the evidence of Ger
man machine gun bullets which he
stopped in Belleuu woods and at st
Mihiel, while fighting with the Sixth
regiment OF marines.
Al Curtis returned soldier WAS in