The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-17
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

The drive for $4,000 for the Ash
land Y NJ. c. A. has ended with a full
subscription. The entire amount was
raised in less than one week.
BY the will of Miss Bertha Lyman,
Rosendale, real estate in that village
is bequeathed to the Rosendale M. f.
church The estate is valued at 49,
500.
The Wausau Radio club has been
formed in that city with ten members,
who have been in United States serv-
ice. Neal Cook is temporary presi-
dent.
Safe-blowers secured $50 from the
Consumers Lumber and Coal company
offices at Portage. The office is loca-
ted about one block from police head
quarters.
The Belle City Oil Co., capitalized
at s650OOO and promoted by Racine
business men, has been organized.
Options have been taken on 344 acres
OF land near Cement, Ohio.
A junior marine corps division will
be organized in Green Bay soon.
Twenty youths have signed their
names to the roll. Sergeant E. A.
Treu is organizing the boys.
Through A. F. Cake, secretary of
the Jefferson County Holstein Breed
ers' association, cooperating with a
Minnesota county agent, a car of JEFF
ferson county Holsteins was shipped
to Minnesota.
Kenosha merchants contemplate in
stallation of electric burglar alarm
protection. The association decided
that steps must be taken tc protect
merchants against robberies that have
been frequent for the past month.
The Wittkopp Furniture company,
Plymouth, is exhibiting a library table
made by John Kleefisch of that city
containing 316,360 small pieces of
wood. 1t consumed the leisure hours
of the maker during four years to fin
ish it.
The Armenian Ice company of
Neenah has refused an offer of $751;
500 for their entire 1919 crop of ice,
made by Chicago concern. Had the
firm sold, ice would have been ex-
tremely scarce in Neenah during the
coming summer.
The housing situation in Green Bay
has reached a critical point. Dwell
ings are at a premium and the real
estate agents are flooded with appli
cants for flats and homes. The Asso-
citation of Commerce has undertaken
TO relieve the situation.
Kenosha's first venture in munich
pal ownership of an electric light
plant is proving success. The first
report of the plant which is in opera
ton at the pumping plant of the water
works. shows a saving to the city of
several thousand dollars annually.
The Northwest Engineering Works,
Green Bay, will launch four boats be-
fore July 1, according to an official.
This plant is working overtime. Its
production during the past four
months ranks well up among the big
gest yards on the Great Lakes.
Because he did not buy any Lib.
erty bonds or war stamps or help any
of the relief organizations during
the war with Germany, citizenship pa
pers were denied Charles Zimmerman,
Wausau, by Judge A. H. Reid at
term of Circuit court in Lincoln coun-
ty.
Lawrence college students are up
in arms over the ruling of the student
senate that they must wear green
caps and arm bands Occasional in
fraction of the rule will cause trial
with a penalty of being barred frem
participating in a picnic at Clifton,
May g.
The garden campaign in Green Bay
is off to a splendid start. Joint as
sistance by the city council, Associa-
ton of Commerce, and others enabled
use of every vacant lot. Every school
will have it's garden plot and prizes
will be given to youngsters who make
the best showing.
Capt. Joel B. Moore of La Crosse.
former Normal school teacher, re-
Gently decorated with the Medal Of
st. Ann in Russia, has also won a
Croix de Guerre, according to a mes
sage received. He is believed to be
the only La Crosse soldier who has
won two foreign decorations.
Valuable plans for the new st.
Maries church, Kenosha, have been
lost in the mail, and construction is de
layed until they can be found The
plans were ready for submission to
the officials when mailed in Chicago
last week, and they have not been
seen since. Tracers have failed to To-
cate them.
The Marathon county roads and
bridge committee will recommend to
the county board the building of a
piece of concrete road to connect
Wausau with the village of Schofield,
the cost to be $4,000. The road may
be extended to Rotschild, if the cost
price of $4,000 is guaranteed. This
will be the first concrete road in Mar
Rthon county.
Reliable figures show that during
1913 there were shipped by cheese
dealers at Plymouth 100000 pounds
of cheese to every state in the union
and large amount for export.
Plymouth, Wis, is now the largest
cheese center in the world.
Fred Higgins. tried by a Jury in cir