The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-23

Samuel Jones, farmer, living in
Giles coulee. near La Crosse. is eating
strawberries daily. which he picks in
his patch, II is the latest crop of
berries TO be picked around here.
The Stevens Point w. c. T. u. has
declared war against the boy cigarette
smoker The organization has petit
toned the school board and teachers
of the city to assist in eradicating the
evil.
Oconto county's 1919 corn crop is
one of the greatest in the past 20
years, according to the country agri.
cultural agent Absence of killing
frost during September is responsible
for excellence in quality. The report
assures plenty of high grade seed corn
in the country for next year.
In spite of the steel trust strike
fmore than 40 cargoes of iron ore have
gone out of the Ashland port in the
last IA days. Included with the ore
carriers have been number of steel
trust freighters. AS compared with
October year ago ore shipments
since the strike began are rs per cent
of normal.
The Wisconsin Railway, Light and
Power company has been ordered by
the state railroad commission TO build
line at La Crosse from West avenue
down Badger street to Fourth street
and over to the main line on Main
street, within six months after author
ization by the common council The
firm will abandon a line on West ave.
nue. six blocks long.
Twins were born to Mrs. George
Huelsbeck OF Jacksonville, Fla. fol.
lowing a Caesarean operation per.
formed at an Appleton hospital.
Mother and children are well, the sur.
geon declared. Caesarean operations
are common, but surgeons say the
birth of twins following such an opera
ton is a rarity and the case is espe-
cially unusual because there were nc
fatalities
A squash weighing 11S pounds,
crowded its way into the Citizens Ma.
tional bank at Stevens Point at the
harvest week exhibition. The bulky
guest was placed on pedestal IN the
front window, where ii shut off the
light from the front office. The squash
was raised by Mrs. E Razner, Stevens
Point, and is six pounds heavier than
one shown in the local pumpkin show
year ago.
Armin Eimendorf, Madison, mem
Der of the University OF Wisconsin,
Forest products laboratory staff, has
invented paper-testing machine
which will record the resistance power
of every kind of paper. This inven
ton is one of the most valuable in
the paper-making industry. as ii will
supply data concerning the strength Of
paper such as has not been easy to
obtain heretofore.
Although three OF the bandits who
staged the spectacular raid on the
Palace gambling den, operated at
Kenosha. by Sam Jacobson, and re
lieved the tables. roulette wheel, safe
and 140 gamblers of their cash, rings
and securities. now rest in the jail
there under complete confession, po
lice OF Chicago are searching the Hi
nois city for two remaining members
of the bandit gang, who succeeded in
making their escape. taking with them
the booty of the raid.
Two Rivers factories which have
been closed by a strike for several
weeks are running again and il is con
ceded that the strike is broken, al
though the unions have not agreed
for their members to return TO work.
Many OF the union men are back al
their old jobs. however. while Others
have gone elsewhere for employment
Plans have been made for the erection
Of five hundred new homes there, but
work OF construction will not begin
until IL becomes certain that the
strike trouble is entirely over.
Eight thousand acres in the towns
Of Mt. Pleasant, Caledonia and York
Vile will be improved for agricultural
purposes by the building OF drain
age canal to be known as Hoods
Greek Drainage district. Plans for
the proposed work, to cost tens OF
thousands of dollars, have been adopt
ed. The main canal will be FIVE miles
long and these will be scores OF miles
of laterals. Work on the Improvement
will begin in the spring, all assess
ments for benefits and damages hav'
ing been adopted by the court.
Only half as many students are TAX
ink studies in the German language
at this semester al tie university as
there were when the United States
entered the war ,inspite Of the fact
that registration at the university this
fall, breaks all attendance records
Records at the university show thai
755 were taking work in German in the
fall OF 1917 In 1918 the number had
fallen to 275 and this fall 1t is 800
In 1917 the department had II full or
part time professors and instructors
In German. The department now has
six on full time and one on half time
The Wisconsin war history commits.
sion created by the last Legislature
met at the executive offices and or.
gan,zed Gen. Charles King, Milwau-
kee. was elected chairman, and John
Gregory, Milwaukee, secretary. ON
ces will be maintained in the capital.
Emerson Phelps of Stevens Point,
aged u years, met instant death at
Custer station, six miles east of there,
when he was struck by an eastbount
stock train and thrown underneath the