The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-11-13
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


special election. This means that $50
miles of sixteen foot concrete highway
Will be built in Brown county within
the next five or six years.
Representatives of the Wright Di-
rectory CO., Milwaukee, are completing
work on the new GAINESVILLE directory,
which is expected to show popula-
ton of 10000, an increase of some g.
900 since the census of nine years ago.
Otto Johnson, farmer in the town of
Willow Springs, Lafayette county, has
had dam fixed on spring near his
house and power is furnished for
lighting both the house and barn, as
well as furnishing excellent fire pro-
lection.
The University league, women mem
bers of the faculty and wives of fac
ulty men, met 500 strong at lunch
con at Lathrop hall and adopted a
petition to Gov. Philip. urging action
to effect an increase in the pay of uni
versity faculty members.
That the high cost of living had no
effect on the demand for marriage H.
censes is evidenced by the records of
Co. Clerk A. E. Bourn of Portage Co.
During October as marriage licenses
were applied for, beating the previous
high record of AZ in June
The largest bean ever grown in Ra-
cine county is being displayed bv
George Chaussee at his home in Ra-
cine. It was raised by him in his gar
den. The bean, known as the Neu-
guine butter bean, weighs fourteen
pounds and is three feet high.
II. F. Pohland, formerly register of
deeds of Kewaunee county and known
as the father" of the cheese industry
in the county, died at Auburn, Ore.
Mr.. Pohland, native of Sheboygan
county, became prominent in Oregon
as banker and business man.
The Rev. B. S. Steadwell, La Crosse,
president of til Worlds Purity con-
gress, will attend the third Worlds
Christian Citizenship congress, at
Pittsburgh. He is chairman of thu
congress committee on social impurity
This is the first conference of this or
ganization since 1913.
The 1920 state fair will be held or
August 80, 81 and September l, 2, 3
and 4, practically two weeks earlier
than usual, according to the decision
reached by the state fair advisory
board. The Wisconsin fair will come a
week before the Minnesota fair and
during the same week with the Iowa
fair. Bad weather during past exposi
tons is the occasion of the change.
Martin c. Stanek. IS, from Yuba
Richland county, won the Plankinton
Packing CO., trophy prize at the junior
live stock exposition held at Madison
The animal was then placed on sale
and sold for rs cents pound. The
weight is $50 pounds. The buyer was
W. T. Rote, Wonewoc, and the animal,
a Hereford calf, will be exhibited at
the international stock show at Chica-
go.
During the civil war an historical
record was kept of every member OF
Co. II, Third Wisconsin regiment, Civ
ing complete description of the 209
members. At the close of the war the
book fell into the hands of James
Driver a member of the company anu
has since been one of his treasured
possessions. He has presented the
time-worn record to the Lafayette
County Historical society
1t was a bad day for the Paul Hey
tens family, Superior in United States
district court at La Crosse. Paul was
found guilty in ten minutes of selling
whisky. His wife Jared similarly
Paul was fined $500. His wife was
fined $3.50 Marshal Frank O'Connor
relieved Heytens of 189 quarts of
whisky, found on his place in the SUI
perior cleanup campaign. The whisky
was on display in court.
Northern Wisconsin potatoes anG
other agricultural products will be in
competitive exhibition at the midwest
horticultural show at Des Moines, Ia
The Badger state will feature upper
Wisconsin potatoes. Door. Baraboo
and Bayfield, counties apples and
upper Wisconsin garden produce
The products will be in competition
with other products from all points
between the Mississippi and Denver
between the southern boundary of Ar
kansas and the Canadian boundary.
Although the official map of the
Wisconsin highway commission, show.
ing additions to the trunk line high
way system, has not yet been pub
lished official notices published in
the state papers, and remarks of high
way officials give assurance that the
Minneapolis-to-M arinette road will be
part of the trunk line system. This
road. as nearly as can be ascertained.
will extend from Marlnette TO Pound,
and across northern Oconto county to
Amigo, thence west to Merrill and
Medford, through Cornell to the S.
'Croix river.
Although only 40. Matt Tryba, town
of Allan, Portage county. is the father
OF Is children, II of whom are girls
and six boys.
WHY'S Johnson, 10, Sturgeon Bay
was killed when a yulcanizing appara-
tus, with which he was working, ex-
ploded His body, when recovered by
firemen was burned beyond recogni
ton The building burned
J. e. Engquist, cashier Of the First