The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-14
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

and municipal bathing beach are be
| ing planned for the Menasha city park
The Soldiers and Sailors club of Be
lott maintained by the Red Cross since
the soldiers have begun to come home
will be discontinued shortly.
1t is planned to establish a branch
of the internal revenue department al
Oshkosh. Burt Williams, internal rev
enue collector is working on the prop
| ostion.
For the first time in the history Of
Sheboygan county fairs, airplant
| flights will be featured at the annua
| farming exposition at Plymouth, Sept
| 4, 5 and g.
Baraboo is facing an ice famine &C
| cording to the report of the ice deal
ers who say that they have only
enough ice on hand to last to the enc
| of August.
The Kenosha City Council will Ii
cense the saloons of the city to sci
! Misunderstanding alcoholic beverages as
a result of the action of the city ia
| theirs at their regular meeting.
The State Bank of Wabeno will form
a consolidation with the new bank tC
| be organized in this village. The CAPT
| tai stock of the State Bank will be in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kruger made
trip from Sheboygan to Paterson
| n. j., TO meet their son, Paul G.. Krue
ger, aeroplane mechanic, who just re
| turned after serving a year in France
The La Plant Choate Stamp Ma
chine Manufacturing company, Cedar
| Rapids, Ia, has established a branch
distributing house in Rhinelander
William L. Raven is in charge of the
new business concern.
Maj. A. j. Shimek, the first Mantle
voc county physician to enlist when
the United States entered the war who
has been in service overseas nearly
two years, reached Newport News en-
| route to his home in Manitowoc.
l.. p. Whitcomb has been reelected
| director of industrial education al
| Oshkosh at a slary of $4,000 Thu
work of the industrial board of educa
ton and the board of education proper
is combined under the one director.
Gus and Peter Hedeen, Rhinelander
| found an old copper spear which had
| stuck in the tire of their automobile
and punctured it on the Eagle rivel
road. The spear is "a genuine old In
dian relic so hard that the finest file
hardly touches it, 1t was evidently
dragged to the surface by road ma
| chinery.
Stoughton is to have a health clinic
campaign conducted by the Dane coun
| ty chapter of the Red Cross and the
University of Wisconsin. The clinic j.
to be directed by committee of rep
| resentatives of business, education
women's organizations, physicians ant
other interests of Stoughton. Tn,
council has appropriated $1,000 for its
establishment.
A girl baby about 10 weeks old wa
found abandoned in an ice wagon
Racine The baby was placed in I;
box surrounded by package of cream
of wheat a bottle of milk and a box 0
| crackers. Attached to the baby's cloth
ing was a note which read PLEASE
feed me on cream of wheat, milk ant
| crackers" The baby which had sil
toes on each foot was taken to ths
Maternity home.
The opening of a cooperative gro
Gerry store is being planned by the Uni
versity Employees Association, an or
ganization of stenographers, clerks
janitors, and other employees of the
University of Wisconsin who are no
members of the Institutional staff, II
the plan is carried out, it will be bu
another addition to the cooperative
enterprises carried on by the associa
ton for the benefit of its members.
Every member of the family of Dr.
c. B. Clark OF GAINESVILLE includin.
Mrs. Clark saw active service in tn,
war. DR.. Clark returned from France
after having been in the medica.
corps service for fifteen months His
twin sons, Harry and Charles enliste,
when they were 10 years old and went
overseas with the Prairie division.
The mother had charge of a hostess
house in a southern cantonment The
return OF Dr.. Clark marked a complete
reunion OF the family
Dodge county is probably the largest
cheese manufacturing county in the
United States, according TO a recent
report of Dairy and Food Commission.
er G. j. Weigle. Wisconsin now has
$500 cheese factories, 1000 creamer
les and ~ Londensories. Growth OF
the dairy industry within the last few
years has been phenomenal according
to statement made by Mr.. Weigle
The commissioner has predicted that
within a few years Wisconsin us the
leading dairy state of the union, will
be producing more than $100,000,00O
| in dairy products annually.
County Agent Martin Hoppert has
| discovered the presence of hog cholera
ON several farms in Dodge county. DR.
Purcell of the national bureau of ami
NAL industry has arrived to make in
vestigations and order guarantees
Vaccination is recommended as a solu
ton of the problem.
There is project under discussion
among employers of girls in manufac
| turing institutions of Marinette, &c