The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-24
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


View has been named county nurse OF
Bayfield, county.
The Rev. Owen Roberts, Pa.
toka, Ind, accepted call to the pas
torate of Grace Presbyterian church,
Green Bay.
The Brown County Medical society
pledged support to the free dispensary
project which welfare organizations
propose to establish in Green Bay.
Miss Charlotte Edwards, matron of
the hospital at the Wisconsin Veter-
ans home at Waupaca for the last
seven years, has rendered his resig-
nation.
Farmers near Glen Flora, Rock
county, have organized a cooperative
store, which will be open for business
within short time. A capital stock
of $4,000 is being subscribed.
The sale of 100 Plymouth Rock
chickens on the farm of A. c. Gibbs,
near Hancock several days ago netted
$175. An auction sale was conducted,
the proceeds amounting to $4,000
Sylvester Wheeler and Wallace Rem
wick, convicted of stealing an auto
mobile belonging to Joseph Wind
hauser, were sentenced at Green Bay
to serve five years in the reformatory.
Michael Russo, Kenosha county
farmer, was released on bonds of 500.
He is charged with having sold Ke-
nosha butcher the carcass of a dis
eased COW, He will be tried under
The pure food law.
The manual training class of Rhine.
lander High school has begun work on
fifteen chairs to be sent to devastated
regions of France The boys have just
sent the Red Cross twenty-five crutch-
canes for convalescents.
The Brown County Red Cross chap
ter will resume its class in home by
giene. There is an acute need for
nurses and the Red Cross will under
take the work. Mrs. r. L. Cowles is
chairman of the campaign.
Edward Schuster, Denmark, was
awarded the $4,000 contract to build
the concrete extension on the Cedar
Greek, one of the main links in the
much travelled tourist route from
Green Bay to Door county CHEEKY dis
tIict.
j. G. Moore, horticulturist at the
experiment station, Madi-
son, backs the truth of the proverb,
haste makes waste, as far as planting
nursery stick is concerned. Mr. Moore
care and plenty of time in
The planting.
Two hundred and severty-two APP
pleton High school students have
signed up to conduct war gardens dur
ing the coming summer. The list in
cludes 128 freshmen, seventy-three
sophomores, forty-nine juniors, and
twenty-five seniors.
More than $250,000 will be expend-
ed on street paving in Superior dur
Ing 1919, according to City Engineer
3. A. Banks. The program calls for
blocks of paving, mostly
more than six miles, besides
being sever and concrete sidewalk
The annual fair of the Sheboygan
Count Agricultural association will
be held Sept. 3, 4, and this year
Horse racing will be a conspicuous
feature. Farmers from various parts
Of the county are planning to enter
arge exhibits of products of the soil
and livestock.
f. G.. Swoboda of Amigo, for five
years agricultural agent for Langlade
county, and for the last two years SUI
Dervisor of agricultural agents in six
cen northeastern Wisconsin counties,
has contracted with the Marathon
county agricultural committee to
serve as county field agent for two
fears, beginning May l.
The need for carpenters at James
lille is the greatest in history. Con.
FACTORS are appealing to other cities
or men to aid in the construction
work just beginning throughout the
lily. One hundred carpenters can cas-
ly be used, said C.. Hayes, local con-
.ractor. The employment bureau of
he Chamber of Commerce has calls
or fifty carpenters.
Motoring in Portage county while
intoxicated becomes a most expensive
amusement as the result of a decree
ust announced by Judge John A.
Murat, Stevens Point. Any person
ound guilty of driving an automobile
while intoxicated will be fined not less
han $50 and costs in my court here
lfter," Is the statement which Judge
Murat has made to the public.
Waldo r. Arnold, Kiel. who served
With the American forces in France,
las been appointed instructor in
journalism in the A. E. f. university
It Beaune, France, where more than
5000 soldiers are students. Mr.. Ar
lold was graduated from Kiel high
chool, studied journalism at the Uni.
'orsity of Wisconsin, graduated and
vas employed on the editorial staff of
The Milwaukee Journal, where he re
NAMED until called to the colors.
Irwin Harris, first Green Bay soldier
o lose a leg in the war against Ger
many. returned home on a thirty-day
through. He will return to Washing
on for discharge, and then go to work
Il the Detroit post-ofIice, where Uncle
sam has found job for him.