The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-04
WESCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

"A. w. SWltzer, a farmer living ne AZ
Roberts, was killed while threshing.
He was caught between a power trac-
tor and the separator and crushed.
A new state bank is to be opened
at Leapolis, village near Clintonville.
This bank will be capitalized for $751;
600. A. N. Drummer will be cashier.
Miss Mary and Miss Hazel Lynch,
students of the Eau Claire Normal
School, established a record recently
by swimming three miles, the length
of Cedar Lake, in two hours.
Four Chinese boys, one Chinese girl
and one Polish girl are included in the
enrolment at Beloit college it was an
nounced. The largest class in college
history totaling nearly 200, will enter.
Prof j. T. Sleeper, long head of the
music department of Beloit college, re-
signed, and will be succeeded by Ray
mond H. Smith, graduate of the Uni
verslty Of Chicago, overseas man and
student at Bordeaux university.
George F. Wells, Corning, ~ Y, has
been named manager of the GAINESVILLE
chamber of commerce to succeed
Frank ]. Green, who will leave the
local office Sept Is, to accept sim
liar position in South Bend, Ind.
Henry Meyer Sr., aged 56, pio-
neer florist, died at his home in Ke-
nosha Mr. Meyer had been a florist
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years and was well known among the
flower men of southern Wisconsin.
Two unidentified men held up James
Deneen, La Cross police officer for
the Milwaukee railroad, in the yards
there. robbed him of his revolver, his
"shp," and his money and watch, then
fired shot at him as he was making
his way out of the yards The bullet
missed him.
Dr. NJ. Gerechter, Appleton, for 81
years rabbi at Temple Zion, has ten
dered his resignation and will leave
shortly for New York. Prior to com
ing to Appleton, he was for twelve
years at the head of the Milwaukee
synagogue. For number of years he
was instructor in Greek at Lawrence
College and has been retired on the
Carnegie pension.
August j. Mittelstaedt, Fond du
Lac butcher, who enlisted in the
quartermaster corps last winter, has
been selected to represent Wisconsin
in the Middle West steer skinning
and splitting contest at Peoria, ILL.,.
on Sept. IL, He will be pitted against
the champion meat carvers of the
troops from Illinois, Michigan, Ken
lucky, and California.
Rather than go to Rochester, Mimi
to undergo an operation, Albert But
scher, president of the Boyd State
bank of Boyd north of Eau Claire,
shot himself through the brain with
a thirty-eight caliber revolver. His
wife found his body near the house
He was sc years of age, pioneer res
ident and was one of the most popular
business men in that section.
The largest enrolment in the his
tory of the state university is expected
with the opening of the fall semester
on Oct. l. The regular edition of the
university catalog has been exhausted
and a second is now on the press
The largest previous attendance was
in 1916 when the registration totalled
5000. 1t is believed that this year it
will pass this figure by at least 1.500
The possibility of reviving a profit
able crop in Wisconsin is largely in
the hands of the farmers who intend
to buy seed peas. If they buy this
fall. seed of improved strains will be
available, says r. A. Moore, agronom-
list at the Wisconsin experiment sta.
ton. If they wait until next spring
most of the seed peas will be of the
unimproved strains, and the industry
will stand just where It has before
Ed. Nordman, Polar democratic
leader in the state assembly for
years, may be appointed state director
of marketing, the $4,000 position ere.
ated by the recent legislature, He
has strong backing by farmers and
is said to be acceptable TO Gov. Phil
ipp. Mr. Nordman was chairman OF
the agricultural committee of the
state council of defense during the
war. He served for many years as a
member of the state board of agri-
culture.
Hundreds of bushels of excellent
apples and crabs for canning are rot
| ting on the ground on the farms
along highways out of La Crosse.
! Short Of help and with a rush of fall
work. lozens of growers are paying no
attention to their apple crop Apples
! that hogs do not eat are left to rot.
| Ways and means of inducing farmers
to permit city people to travel in autos
to their orchards and pick fruit on a
percentage basis are being considered
by the agricultural bureau of the
| Chamber of Commerce.
The Young Peoples societies of the
| Danish Lutheran church of the Fourth
| District concluded their annual con
vention at Marinette with the election
of officers and the designation OF
Muskegon, Mich, as the place of the
1920 convention.
The amount OF pulpwood arriving in
the Fox River valley is greater than
at any time since last winter. The
| daily number of carloads runs all the
way from fifteen to seventy-five
which are distributed among the
mills at Appleton. Kimberly, Com
bined Locks and Kaukauna. The
wood comes from Ashland