The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-07
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

NbiS NllC SAINT anu lIldl III is Only III
keeping with the high cost of living.
The High Falls Company of Mani
towoc is to extend its lines to Kel
nersville and the village will install an
electric lighting system. The foul
mill there will be electrically operated
Word has been received by Judge G
f. Smith of Rhinelander that United
States Senator Irving l.. Lenroot
would visit Rhinelander the first part
of September to speak on the league OF
nations.
Prof. Frank Kleininheing, authority
on sheep raising from the state agri
cultural college, spoke at the Crescent
school house at Rhinelander before a
large number of farmers on the posi-
bilities of the sheep industry in north
ern Wisconsin.
The tractor demonstration and farm
ers' picnic held at the state expert
mental farm at Ashland Junction was
the largest meeting of the kind ever
held in Bayfield, county About 1000
persons attended. Professional tractor
operators gave demonstrations.
The assessed valuation of three La
Crosse breweries was reduced $780,.
600 by the board of review, following
a hearing attended by manufacturers
of La Crosse. Prohibition legislation
1t was agreed, had caused a large re.
duction in the revenues of the plants
The largest drainage project in the
history of Oconto county was started
there, when contractors began digging
the Lena-Stiles drainage canal which
will be fifteen miles long, twenty-four
feet wide and eight feet deep, and will
be built at an estimated cost of 500
600. 1t will reclaim 1000 acres of ricn
land.
Dr. w. c. McPheeters, formerly of
Wesleyan university, will head the
English department of Lawrence col
lege, Appleton, succeeding DR.. NJ. L.
Spencer, who resigned to head the
school of journalism in the University
Of Washington, Seattle. DR.. Nc
Pheeters was recently discharged from
the army.
When District Attorney Easton
Johnson, Elkhorn, heard a rumor that
bootlegging was going on at Delavan
lake, he got busy and before twenty
four hours elapsed, had the goods. E.
Kicker pleaded guilty and was sen
fenced to Jail for six months. Mr..
Kicker is proprietor of the Log Cabin
Hotel at Lake Delavan.
The George Walters Brewing Com.
pany, Appleton, is manufacturing 2.75
per cent beer and it will be placed on
the market. The company began the
manufacture Of near beer last May.
and will continue making that prod
uct. Nearly every saloon in Appleton
is selling 2.75 per cent beer which is
shipped from Milwaukee.
John Schmilke, former salesman for
the Standard Oil company at Rice
Lake, has purchased the Charles Sale
ice business. He worked for the
Standard Oil company for seventeen
years. Capt. John McCullum, who re-
turned from France with the machine
gun company, will be the Rice Lake
agent for the Standard Oil company.
Gov. Philip has appointed Peter
Eimon of Superior to the University
Board of Regents to succeed A. p.
Nelson, resigned. Mr. Eimon will
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1928. The reappointment of Hugh
McEwan, Fond du Lac, as a member OF
the Board of Examiners in OPTION.
etry was also made. He will serve
until Aug 8, 1924.
The repairs on the Sioux river
bridge on the state trunk highway
system, three miles west of Washburn,
have been completed and the bridge
improvements cost about $500. The
Bayfield, county board has decided
that the next money expended upon
this part of the road would be for the
construction of a steel bridge.
Possibility of solution of the mys-
teIy surrounding the finding of body
on the lake shore just south of the
Racine county line, doomed up, when
George Kelberger of Kenosha attempt
ed to link up the disappearance of his
son, George Kelberger, Jr., more than
four weeks ago, The coroner probably
will order the body exhumed that this
clew may be definitely established or
rejected.
The police and sheriffs forces are
at work in search of two holdup men
who entered the confectionery store
of e. W. Gelayargue, ITO Washington
avenue, Racine, and at the point of re-
volyers held up the proprietor and
three customers, getting away with
SS5. Men in the store were so fright
ened by the threats Of the holdup men
that they made no report to the police
until several minutes after the robbers
had escaped 1t is believed that they
made their escape in an automobile
Petitions for a special election or
the question of abandoning the com
mission form of government to return
to the ward form are being circulated
in Superior Mayor Baxter blames
enemies for the movement which he
declares originated in the under
world.
The recent heavy rain throughout
Winnebago county has been called
the million dollar rain" by farmers, as
II saved the corn, late potatoes ant
truck gardens and will make fal
seeding excellent. The wheat crop il
not as heavy al expected, due to rust
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