The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-03-20
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

been cut in the Wisconsin river at Ste
vens Point to fill the huge houses of
the 500 line.
School pupils will assist the She
boygan county history committee in
obtaining records of those persons
helped win the war.
The sum of $S3116 was paid to
thirty-eight mothers in Sheboygan
county who are drawing aid under the
mothers pension law The amounts
range from S35 down.
The Sheboygan association of Com
merce has recommended to the legis-
lature the passage of a law freeing
municipal and county highways from
unsightly advertising signs.
The Sheboygan Dairy Products Co,
| has erected an ice cream manufac-
turing plant at Clintonville. Its ma
chinery is of the most improved make
and its daily capacity 500 gallons.
The Newton local, American Society
of Equity, Manitowoc, has formed a
livestock shipping board and will also
erect warehouse for the storage and
sale of the produce of its members.
Edward Auster, the only Ashland
boy to be captured by the Germans,
has arrived home. He was captured
two days before the armistice was
signed after he had been wounded.
George Mcdonald was elected presi-
-, d.,
try & Pet Stock association. He is a
La Crosse breeder of poultry. The
annual show will be held Dec. to 8.
j. A. Beitz and C. l. Wells of Dun
bar have purchased 2,640 acres near
Goodman, Marinette county, upon
which they expect to conduct logging
operations. They were associated
with the Girard Lumber company for
many years.
Lake Winnebago ice will be used
during the coming summer as far west
as California. A crew of men have
been busy cutting ice for the Califor-
MIA Fruit Packers association, which
is being shipped to warehouses be-
tween Appleton and that state.
Winnebago county will assist in the
endowment of beds to the great Amer
lean hospital to be erected at Rheims
by the American Fund for French
Wounded. An effort will be made to
raise $4,000 and one means will be the
giving of a ball in Oshkosh in April
To eliminate jobbers and other mid
demen is the aim of a new associa
ton OF grocers at La Crosse. Thirty
five dealers agreed to the plan, which
provides for engaging one man to buy
for all members. Lower" prices tC
consumers are bound to result from
this plan" said Secretary Harry Tag
CART of the association.
Thirty-three patrolmen to take care
roads, have been appointed in Shaw
ano county, and it is estimated that il,
will cost the county at least $4,000
to take care of the roads the cominl
season. They get $125 to $14O I;
month with IS per month bonus i
Iney remain all season.
The imminent maple syrup harvest
in Marathon county promises to be
very satisfactory, according to resi-
dents who have made a business OF
gathering the sap in previous years
If weather conditions continue favor
able, record-breaking run" is pre-
dicted in Marathon county's large
tracts of sugar brush"
Schuyler S. Bundy, civil war veter-
an and first white child born in Lake
Geneva, ended his life in his home
there by hanging himself in his bed
room. Dependency, brought about
by continued ill health, is though to
have caused his deed. Bundy, who
was 70 years old, served in the One
Hundred and Fifty-third Illinois in
fantry during the civil war and was
prominent in G.. A. r. circles.
Advance payment of $153,935.70 as
state inheritance tax was made at
Marinette by the trustees of the late
United States Senator Isaac Steph-
enson, the date CHANGING to be the
first anniversary of his death. The
payment is the largest ever made in
the county and one of the largest in
the state The tax includes that OF
the Stephenson trust as well as the
estate. A large federal tax is yet to
be paid Marinette county will re
ceive TX per cent of the state tax.
1t will amount to about $1,000.
Possibility of transmitting certain
skin diseases from animal has been
referred to the veterinary of the state
department of agriculture, by DR..
Willard, WauZeka, Crawford county,
because of the number of cases OF
>ingworm, or BARRIERS itch, noted.
among farmers in his vicinity. In
vestigation revealed that almost all Of
these cases were found on farms
where the disease known as ringworm
in calves was present. This disease
which affects young stock, is found on
many farms in Wisconsin, and thru.
out the country. 1t is in no way Sc
lious to animals.
The jury in the U. S. district court
at Eau Claire, which has been hearing
the governments case against Christ
Hendricks, Tomah, charged with VIC
lating the espionage act, reported a
disagreement and was discharged.
The war between commercial ne;
fishermen and rod and line men OF
La Crosse county has come to head
in the form of an action against eight
of the former, charged with pulling a
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