The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-19
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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Waupun is seeing one of the great.
| est house building seasons in its his
under construction. Contracts for FIVE
more were made and fifty new homes
| will be built this year.
Harold Ten Eyck, Balsam Lake, in
the Superior circuit court was found
guilty of obtaining 50 by representing
himself as a Red Cross agent. The
sentenced pronounced by Judge w.
r, Foley was 5000 fine or six months
in Jail.
The Northwestern Engineering
works, Green Bay, will launch four
boats before July /, according to an
announcement by an official of the
company. The concern is now work
ing overtime to keep pace with its
program.
Declaring that disorderly conduct in
the city parks had made the places
centers of vice rather than pleasure,
Chief of Police Owen O'Hare issued
an order stating that no person will be
allowed in the parks of Kenosha after
$50 p. m.
Some Green Bay saloon keepers dc
not think wartime prohibition will be
come operative at the close of June
Applications for renewal of liquor IL
censes were made by twenty-seven sa-
loon keepers, about one-fourth of those
in Green Bay.
After fifty years of continuous serv.
ice as proprietor of a grocery business
in Beloit Oliver j. Stiles has sold his
interest to his partner, L. ]. Rogers
and retired from commercial life. In
point of service Mr.. Stiles is the oldest
business man in Beloit.
An addition of SIS per month has
been made to the salary of every
teacher employed in the public schools
of Watertown. The increase adds So
600 TO the cost of teachers salaries
for the coming yea The total mum
Der of grade teachers is twenty-three
and thirteen instructors are in the
high school.
Mic Simond, Appleton, has com
menced work on a cheese to weigh
$4,000 pounds, the largest ever under
taken in Wisconsin. 1t wAl require
sixty factories and seventy-five max
ers, the hoop will be seven feet high
and ten and a half feet in diameter.
The cheese is for the national dairy
Ahow to be held in Chicago in October
The city council has petitioned the
State Highway commission to erect d
concrete bridge across the Wisconsin
river at Grand Rapids The bridge
will be 49S feet long and will replace
the present structure which has been
in use for fifteen years. The cost is
estimated at 100000, aud will BE-
| taken care of by the state paying one
third, the county onethird and the
city one-third.
For the first time in Wisconsin the
assessors are collecting statistics as
to the number of hens Lamont, one
of the smallest townships in Lafayette
county, first to make returns, reports
that within the township are $500
hens. In this township there are H.
275 acres and population of 511. Al
this ratio there must be at least $780,
600 hens in Lafayette county. The
raising of poultry is generally left to
the women of the household, while
the men work in the fields.
With a simple service that included
prayer and a brief commemoration
of his life, former United States Sena-
tor John c. Spooner was laid to rest
at Forest Hill, Madison. The services
were held at the Baptist church, the
Rev. d. d. MacLaurin officiating. The
ceremony at the grave was in charge
OF the Masons, Senator Spooner hav-
ing been a member of the Madison
chapter for fifty-two years. Men repre-
senting the nation and the state gath
cred at the Baptist church to pay their
final respects. Civil war veterans, leg
islators, members of the university
faclty, justices of the Supreme Court,
state officials and many old neighbors
and friends of the family were pres
ent
Some idea of the tremendous
strides Rock county is making along
agricultural lines can be gained from
a brief statistical statement issued by
b. G., Packer, director of immigration,
Wisconsin department of agriculture
This statement shows that since the
last census in 1910 the county has
added 1871 acres or nearly twenty.
five square miles in leading crops. The
Increased acreage was most noticeable
during the war when the demand for
foodstuffs became greater than ever
before in history and a nationwide
campaign to increase production was
inaugurated. Farmers everywhere CO.
operated in the movement To what
extent Rock county farmers participa
ted is evident from the increase in
acreage in the last eight years.
The Rev. Father T.. Malkowsh.
priest at st. Hyacinth's church, Anti
go, has been ordered transferred to
Two Rivers by Bishop Paul Rhode of
Green Bay diocese. The Rev. Mr.
Malkowski has been in Amigo three
years and was very popular.
The soldiers and saiolrs of Algoma
were pleasantly surprised at a ban
quet given in their honor, when q
purse of $1,000 was presented by M
w. Perry and p M. White. With the
gift was a note from the two donors,
saying that the money could be used