The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

Paving operations will be Inaugural
ted in Green Bay to construct nearly
three miles of asphalt payements on
six streets.
Wausau woodsmen, who have re-
Gently returned from northern sec.
lions of the state, report that deer
are not plentiful and that hunting will
be the most unsatisfactory in years.
Four boys of Amigo their ages
ranging from IL to II years, have con
fessed a series of robberies to the po-
lice. All have been bound over to
the upper branch of the Municipal
court.
During the two months in which it
has been in operation, the Sheboygan
public milk dispensary, conducted by
the Red Cross for children, has served
20,365 little tots with pure milk at l
cent per half pint.
To combat the high cost of living
the Holt Lumber company of Oconto
Is considering the establishment of a
general store for the benefit of the
employees of the company. Goods
would be sold at cost.
The annual hunters reunion Of
western Wisconsin will be held at
GaIesville, Oct. 1919. Fox hunting by
day and coon hunting at night will
feature the gathering One day will
be devoted to special events, in which
dogs will run for prizes.
Presbyterian clergymen and lay
men from all parts OF northern Wis
consin and upper Michigan were in
| session in Florence for a few days at
their Lake Superior presbytery. The
mortgage on the Florence church was
burned during one of the meetings.
Chief of Police e. M. O'Connell of
Plymouth is in receipt of letter from
Colin Thompson, acting British vice
consul in Chicago, which may lead to
solution of the mystery surrounding
the death of the man who was found
with a bullet hole through his head
near the Rudolph Simmer farm in
Plymouth two months ago.
To protect Wisconsin against un
sanitary conditions in the fish bus
ness at and near Green Bay, where
100000 pounds of fish are stored an
nually for consumption in the state, a
new inspector has been decided upon
by dairy and Food Commissioner
George j. Weigle. G. A. Servis, now
in the chemical department. has been
appointed to the post
President II. A. Brown of the Osh-
kosh Normal school was at Madison
in the interests Of the two year col.
lege course at the local Normal, which
will be resumed after having been
withdrawn from the curriculum last
year, Two year college courses will be
available in commerce, journalism. en-
gineering, letters and science, pre-
medical law and agriculture.
The Oshkosh Musical club has been
completed by the election of Clarence
e. Shepard, president; Mrs. w. p
Wheeler, vice-president f. M. Kar
mes, secretary, and f. A. Labudde
treasurer The club will sign con
tracts bringing to Oshkosh John Nc
Cormack and his company on Oct 2S
Miss May Peterson on Nov. Is and
Lazzari and CAM in December.
The Chamber of Commerce of Wau
sau has sent out questionnaires to
residents to learn the number of PEG
Pile in need of homes, of those who in
tend to build or buy, and of the mum
Der of vacant lots for sale. When
the results are known, II is probable
COMPANY will be formed with sufli
cient capital to buy lots, erect homes
and sell them on installment basis
A gasoline launch from Chicago with
a cargo of eighty.one cases of Milwau
kee made beer, drifted ashore at Zion
City when the engine became dis
abled. The Zion police force at once
confscated the cargo and arrested the
crew of two men who manned the
boat, which hailed from Kenosha and
was said to be en- route to Chicago. a
dance hall operator of Chicago is said
to be the owner of the launch.
Thomas Brom, ~ years of age, and
his brother, Frank, S. sons of Michael
Brom, of Dousman, were drowned in
Dutch lake when they became panic
! stricken when the two small RATS
! from which they were fishing drifted
out into deep water Both boys be
coming frightened when they found
they could not touch the bottom of the
lake with their fish poles threw them
selves into the water
A petition, containing 1857 names,
has been filed with the Green Bay
city commission demanding that a
date be set for a special election on
the question of abandoning the com.
mission form Of government and going
back to the old aldermanic rule.
There are sufficient names attached
to the petition to comply with the law,
and it is practically certain that the
question will be submitted to the
voters within sixty days. An active
campaign will be inaugurated by both
| sides
The first shipment of sheep to
leave Iron county for the Chicago
market left last week. Nine carloads
comprised the special train with 1900
sheep. The sheep will be unloaded
south of Milwaukee where they will
be fed and kept until placed upon the
Chicago market.
The Masonic fraternity OF Clinton