The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-12-11
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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The Stevens Point council elected
John N. Welsby mayor to succeed
w. F. Owen, who becomes county
Judge in January. Mayor Welsby
holds Office until April.
The Rev. S. Cookson, for three
years pastor of the First Methodist
church of Menasha, has resigned tc
accept the passionate at Wautoma
His successor has not been named.
Byron Mcdonald. foreman at the
plant OF the Dells Paper and Pulp
company at Eau Claire. is minus one
foot as the result of getting the mem
Der caught in the spokes of wheel.
p. w. Sherwood, Appleton, is new
chairman o: a movement to work fol
passage of bill in congress changing
the department Of the interior into a
one called department OF public
works.
Complaints that gambling fever
seems to be epidemic in Eau Claire
has impelled the city council TO put
under ban all games Of chance, includ'
ing dice, punch boards, cigar slot ma
chimes, etc.
After pleading guilty to statutory
charges, Willard Bailey and Mrs. Eta
Tackett were sentenced by Judge A.
B. Goodrich, Amigo, to prison terms
of a year and nine months and two
years, respectively.
Bound copies of the 1919 session
laws are now ready for distribution
according to M. f. Blumenfeld, super
intendent of public property. One
copy Of the laws is given to each
member of the legislature on written
application.
The Marinette and Menominee fire
tux is frozen in at Sturgeon Bay. The
tug towed the schooner Mary Cook To
little Sturgeon and while laying in
port there over night the harbor was
frozen over solidly and theg were un
able TO leave.
Charles Crabb, Milwaukee, Sigma
Chi senior was voted by students ia
be the best looking man in Beloit col
lege and Miss Dorothea Hickok, Ian
caster, most beautiful coed. Prof
Marion Hedges was declared TO be the
most popular faculty member.
Grandma Sjolander, 95. acted as
bridesmaid at the wedding of her
granddaughter. Miss Laura Marie
Sjolander and John Stewart Reid
manager of Hotel Medford. Milwau'
kee The ceremony took place in the
home of the brides parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Sjolander. Onalaska.
Roy Kacerovski, in charge when
Inc steamer Virginia was converted
into the troop transport Blue Ridge
At Manitowoc, has been appointed
fleet engineer of that district and will
have charge of all ships owned by the
navy department including the Ger
man submarine. Mr.. Kacerovskl has
gone TO Chicago TO begin his new
work.
The use of United States army aero
planes to expedite the work of eradi
eating the menace of white pine bills
ter rust from the forests of northern
Wisconsin is suggested by State Ento
mologist s. B. Pacher, who for some
time past has been working on vari
Gus methods of stamping out the bark
disease, which Is threatening the
Badger white pine output.
According TO figures given by T. A
Polleys, tax commissioners of the
Northwestern road, Wisconsin farm
land values have risen fully so per
cent in the last ten years. The aver
age value was $4125 an acre in 1908
and is now $64. Dane county farm
land rose from $3.50 to $136.75. Land
in Milwaukee county. highest in
the state is worth S604.25 an acre
Racine county land is second
$l7375.
In order to give the city of Green
Bay a larger representation on the
Brown county board of supervisors.
the city council is considering a plan
of establishing twenty wards, instead
of the fifteen precincts into which the
city is now divided. The present IF.
teen precincts comprise only eight
wards. and the city's representation
on the county board is eight, while
there are twenty-seven towns and vii.
lagos, and the city of Depere repre-.
scented on the board
The office of city treasurer is hard
to keep filled in Stanley. With the
resignation of Tom Foster and the APP
pointment of Lawrence V. Broughton.
the books and city purse 90 into the
hands of the third man TO have charge
of them within te two-year term
ship at the spring election in 1918
Early in 1919 he resigned because his
personal business demanded his time.
Mayor G. II. Chapman appointed Tom
Foster, who kept the work little less
than year. Recently his resigna-
ton was accepted.
Edwin l.. Huebner, Beaver Dam
letter carrier, has a way of beating
the high cost of living. He planted q
city lot to popcorn and has just har-
vested and sold IL for $4S As, net. AT
this rate ar acre planted to popcorn
would net $l93S0
Mayor Elmer S. Hall. Secretary
Frank H. Smith OF the Association OF
Commerce. and Herman Greiling. all
three OF Green Bay, are in Washing
ton to attend the rivers and harbors
convention They will endeayor to In