The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-30
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The balance in the states. general
fund on Sept. 80 was $2.659, 926.S3, &C
'cording to the quarterly statement is
sued by Secretary of State Merlin
Hull. The balance June 80 was S.
391,505.97.
The La Crosse Housing corporation,
organized to meet the need for homes
there because of the addition OF sever
al new factories, broke ground for the
first three of rs houses which will be
erected this fall
Cherry trees are in blossom in La
Crosse for a second time this year,
in the yard of A. j. Miller. Straw
berries are ripening in city gardens.
Fred Fillmer, Ettrick, picked five
quarts of ripe berries for the family's
Sunday strawberry shortcake.
Concordia Singing society, organ
lied in 1860, Sheboygan county's old
est must, Il organization, will cele-
brate its sixtieth anniversary, Feb. 8,
1920. Plans have been made for
concert on that date. Prof. Theodore
Winkler is director.
A night school is to be opened at
the Amigo high school building on
Nov. 4. Courses will be given in
bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting,
cooking, sewing, shop mathematics,
machine, drawing, cabinet making and
citizenship for foreigners.
painter at the mill of the Falls
Manufacturing Co., Oconto Falls, was
at work on the 225-foot smokestack,
when his graphing hook fell and
crashed through the roof. The watch
man, August Honschel, was struck by
the falling hook and was killed.
Gertrude Ryan, Argyle, is con
vlnced that there is no place like her
southern Wisconsin home. Early in
September she went out to South Da-
kota to teach. She is back home The
drinking water she could not stand or
get used to, so she just had to come
back to her old Wisconsin home and
get a good drink once more.
Residents of Kenosha along the
route of the motor bus feeders to the
city car lines cheered the large bus as
it made its initial trip Two buses
have been placed in service, one hav-
ing a capacity of sixteen persons. The
trucks carried fifteen passengers to
the street car terminal during their
first two and half hours in service
Manitowocs two public utility
plants-water and Acknowledgements
a profit of ST. ,S5498 during the fiscal
year ending June 80, according to the
report made by the utilities committee
of the city council to the state com
mission. The water department, says
the report, netted $30,146.40, while the
electric light plant shows a profit OF
$41,70S5S.
Louis Ruehl, former detective for
at La Crosse on a charge of man
slaughter for the death of Fred Zun-
Ser, an employee of the road, March
10. Mr.. Ruehl was acquitted of a
charge of numbering ]. B, Schomers,
who was with Bunker Mr.. Ruehl shot
both men, testifying that they at
tackled him.
The Beloit common council APP.
proved the establishment of munic-
ipal coal yard for sale CT fuel to the
people at the lowest possible prices.
Mayor j. A. Janyrin was instructed to
name a committee to devise ways and
means to put the project in operation.
Suggestions were also made as TO hay
ing municipal market to cut down
the price of ioodstuffs.
That Mayor Baxter, Superior, has
not the legal power to cut either the
police or fire departments was the as
sertion made by Attorney w. P. Craw
ford, representing plaintiffs in man
damus proceedings instituted by
twelve discharged policemen against
the city. The attorney also accused
the mayor of not having acted in
good faith and that the cut was not
made as a measure for economy. but
for personal reasons.
A report by the Wisconsin indus
trial commission upon the work of the
public employment bureau in Milwau-
kee during the year ending June 80.
shows that S6S55 applications for
work were filed and that there were
1882 calls for help, S4,62S references
to positions. and 5S.S7S verified place.
ments. In September, 1919, registra.
ton for help totaled 1889, calls for
men $3.50, number referred to posi-.
lions 1879, and verified placements
4 ,439
Mrs. Howard Teasdale. Sparta, !
wife of the former state senator and |
father of many Wisconsin statutes ad- |
vancing eugenics and to suppress
vice. is planning to attend the next
Worlds Women's Christian union
convention, which will be held in Lon.
don, England, next April She was
elected as delegate from Wisconsin |
at the recent state w & r u. oon |
Vention in Oshkosh. MRS. Teasdale |
also is a state musical director of the |
W c. T. u.
The w j. Nuss Lumber a. Supply |
Co, Fond du Lac. new wholesale and |
retail lumber company, bought the
o. G. Steenberg property. The new
capitalized AT $4,000. is |
owned by w. j Nuss. formerly of She
boygan. and Walter NJ Burke. former
ly of kenosha
When one of the pupils of the Smith |
public school at Oshkosh became i'll
with smallnnx a wholesale VAGINA.