The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-10
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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Herbert f. Jones was elected Judge
of Oconto county, unopposed. He is
the seventh oldest in point of service
in the state, having served continu-
ously since 1898.
The La Crosse Underwriters asso-
citation pledged assistance to soldiers
in converting their wartime insurance
into other policies as outlined in the
government plan.
The Bissell Lumber company's saw
mill in Tripoli, Oneida county, is be-
ing enlarged The company owns suffi-
cient timber there to keep the plant
in operation twenty years.
When Gustave Book, Sheboygan,
Forty-ninth infantry, returned after
eleven months of service in France,
he brought a German iron cross and
belt which he took from prisoner.
The Sheboygan employment bureau
is confronted with big demand for
farm laborers and domestics. There
is plenty of work in the Sheboygan
factories and prospects of big bust
ness this summer loom up conspicu-
ously.
Monroe county residents have adop-
ted 232 fatherless children of France
in the campaign that started in April,
1918 A total OF $S,t68 was subscribed
by individuals, churches and organiza-
tions. The count more than doubled
it's allotment.
A S4500,000 automobile branch
plant of the General Motors Co., is to
be built in GAINESVILLE, according to an
announcement by w. c. Durant, presi
dent and general manager. He said
the company would build new plants
to cost $37OOO,O00.
Commercial fishermen at Two Riv-
ers effected an organization for their
protection and mutual benefit. 1t will
fight legislation detrimental to the in
terests of the industry and it will ask
for the first state convention of COM
mercial fishermen.
The city council has passed an or
a site and building of municipal hos
pital in the city of Viroqua. The body
has full power to authorize $4,000
bond issue unless a petition by citi-
zens for a special election is de-
manded.
The Four Wheel Drive Auto com
pany at Clintonville has decided the
establishment of a Canadian factory.
This factory will be at Kitchener, On
tario, formerly known as Berlin. 1t
is understood that the company will
begin the manufacture of trucks there
Immediately.
A Belgian war cross, gift of King
Albert, was brought home by Sergt.
Arthur Skinner, Kenosha. He carried
ammunition to Belgian soldiers thru
German fire, saving the line in the
Mouse, Chateau-Thierry sector July
25. He was wounded, and received
the cross in a hospital.
John Hanousek, Amigos wealthiest
citizen, is displaying in the windows
of local store trophies of his hunt
ing trip in Alaska. last year, just
mounted by a taxidermist They in
clude heads of moose, caribou, noun
tain sheep, and skins of the gray tim
Der wolf, the rare black timber wolf,
lynx, and wolverine.
Notwithstanding the restrictions
placed upon cupid by the marriage
laws of Wisconsin, he has been active
in Sheboygan during the last three
months, he shows greater activity
with every succeeding month. In Jan
uary there were thirteen licenses is
sued; in February, twenty-one, and
in March, thirty-six.
Instead of one-cent reduction, La
Crosse street car patrons are to get
slip of paper with each carfare, good
for a penny in case the supreme court
upholds the circuit court decision
against the siX-cent street car rate.
The company filed a bond with the
court to insure the rebate in case the
verdict goes against them.
The inspection of wood played a
great part in manufacture of aircraft
at the beginning of the war. The for
est products laboratory, Madison, pre-
pared a handbook for inspectors and
conducted short training courses in
wood inspection. There is now pos
sibility that similar courses for rep
of manufacturing plants
in the wood using industry will be in
stituted.
A movement to build a greater rep
utation for Sheboygan county for
herds of cattle, has
been started by County Agent M. j.
Hoppert Conspicuous signs, printed
in yellow letters on a black back
ground, are being fastened on every
farm gate where there is pure bred
bull, which reads: Pure Bred Bull
Used on This Farm" More than 100
of these signs are displayed through
out the county and orders have been
placed for more.
Robert Hurley, Racine, defeated
for reelection as alderman from the
Fifteenth ward, served notice on the
city canvassing board for recount.
Hurley was defeated by Bernard RE
scr, supervisor from that ward, fol
lowing bitter campaign. Hurley was
defeated by four votes.
An annual increase of $4,000 for
teachers was voted by the Beloit
seool board and all teachers now in
the employ of the city were recon-
mandar for rpappointment Six