The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-11-20
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| neld, was arfalSneu Deiofe JusIlce "A
L. HOLSTER and pleaded guilty to
trapping skunks out of season. He
was fined $50 and costs
Fromm Brothers of Merrill were
paid nearly $4,000 for $500 pounds of
ginseng, the largest crop ever raised
in the United States. The crop was
harvested on a two-acre tract.
The state board Of health warns the
public that small pox is increasing and
that the safest course is to apply gen.
eral vaccination. One hundred and
thirtythree cases are reported.
The Holt Lumber company, which
recently purchased 2,642 acres of tim
Der land in Forest county, will build a
railroad through the tract and put
several large camps in operation.
The N. B. CASTOR & Sons Scale
Works, established in Beloit in 1872
has been taken over by the Gardner
Machine company and is to be reor-
ganized and capitalized for 100000.
Because of lack of two days in the
notice time of the Racine election on
$2,500,0O0 highway bonds, the election
has been held to be faulty and void.
A new election will be held, probably
Dec 16.
While ducks are wary in Lake Win
nebago. thousands of birds rest on the
river within the city limits of Neenah,
where il is against the law to modest
them Old hunters say the ducks are
becoming dedicated"
John Mainville, Amigo, who was ac-
quilted of the charge of numbering
Frank Parsons, still faces the charge
of attempting to kill Mrs. Anna Lille,
Parsons housekeeper. No date for
the trial has been set.
A new phase of the recent gambling
house holdup case at Kenosha came up
when Judge Tully announced that he
would ask some other judge TO hear
the case of Samuel Jacobsen, charged
with operating the gambling house
Mrs. Il. II. Van Ostrand was elected
president of the Wisconsin chapter of
the Service Star association at the
closing session of the convention at
Madison Mrs. Van Ostrand was one
Of the leaders in the movement to or
ganize the war mothers of the state.
Green Bay voters stood by the com
mission council in a special election
on the question of aldermanic VS..
commission form of government. The
vote was 1890 for the commission and
1,GS3 for the aldermanic plan, ma
iority of 707. The bond issue of $45,-
600 for a site for a municipal dock was
passed.
When the county board of Eau
Claire assembled for the fall session,
a notification from the state building
inspector was read. in which the coun
ty poor farm building was condemned
as beyond repair or remodeling. If it
is not torn down and new one re-
built the institution will be closed by
the state year hence.
State wide interest in the matter of
supplying hot lunches to school chill
dren has been aroused as a result Of
dietitians establishing the relation pc
tween the poorly planned, cold noon
meal and poor health and low scholar
ship on the part of the pupils Bar
ron county schools are working for
better record on the hot noon lunch ,
The past summer has been a great
season for watermelons and muskmel.
ons, showing that Chippewa county is
admirably adapted to the production
of this succulent fruit Garden sass
growers and farmers had wonderful
results from planting few hills Of
watermelons this year. These Yege-
tables grew and thrived almost with
out cultivation.
b. J. Mckay, logging foreman for
the n. LudngtOn Co, Marinette, who
was injured in the woods by falling
tree. has been awarded $4,000 by the
state industrial commission second
time. On the first award, the insur-
ance company appealed and the cir
cult court sent the case back to the
commission for reconsideration. The
commission found as it did the first
time
In Superior court Judge S. L. Perrin
granted a peremptory writ of man
damus for restoration to their posi-
tons and back pay for the whole pc
riod while off duty in the suit of II
members of the Superior police de-
partment. Judge Perrin held that
their removal had not been in good
faith, but was an effort to evade the
law by discharging men without
charges, or hearing the compainants,
one of whom is a sergeant, one de.
teCtiye and ten were patrOlmen.
They were discharged May 20 by di-
rection of Mayor Baxter after the pas.
sage of an ordinance providing for
cutting down the police force by IF
teen men
Arnold Meluitz and Abe Solsky, con
fectioners of Superior Wis, were
found not guilty by jury in the
United States district court at La
Crosse. They were charged with VIC
lations of the wartime prohibition act
and We're the only Superior defendants
10 be acquitted
Joseph Nekelewicz and wife, Katie,
of the village of Pulaski near Green
Bay, both over 10 years of age were
bound over for trial on the charge of
arson after their preliminary hearing
The old couple are accused of having
set fire to their residence in Pulaski
to obtain insurance money on it,
Work is under way clearing the site