The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-05-15

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Hanson farm mile north of Plain
view, La Crosse county.
The central division American Red
| Cross, has asked the home service sec
ton of Oshkosh chapter to act as host
of a regional conference of home serv-
ice workers of fifty chapters May %.
Homecoming at the university will
| be celebrated with a baseball game be-
tween Wisconsin and Chicago June "a,
Plans are under way to bring back a
number of diamond stars to represent
Wisconsin.
Instead of wasting fertilizer from
stock yards by dumping it where it
cannot be used, the Milwaukee Rail
road Co, is offering the fertilizer to
La Crosse gardeners and farmers who
care to come to the cars to get it.
Two hundred determined La Crosse
| citizens, representing every walk of
life and practically every industry in
the city, are in a campaign to get
800 members for the Chamber of Com
merce to sign threeyear contracts.
The biggest picnic of farmers of
| Winnebago county ever held will be
the effort when the Winnebago County
Holstein Breeders association gathers
on June IS on the farm of Geo. Plum
mer on the Oshkosh-Winneconne road.
1t was planned to have about 1000
discharged service men of La Crosse
county march on Memorial day at La
| Crosse. This will include United
States soldiers, sailors and marines
and others who have served in the Ca
madam forces.
Plans for a royal reception at La
Crosse for Cos. B. and M, old Third
regiment, w. N. G., in France, known
as the One Hundred Twenty-eighth in
! fantry and OIpe Hundred Twenty-first
Machine Gun battalion, were outlined
at a meeting of former guardsmen.
event there since the boys came home
from the Spanish war
Thirty tractors took part in the first
big demonstration ever held in Wis
consin. The exhibit was held at the
Tilden farm at Delavan, Walworth
county. More than 1000 persons at
tended. Each tractor plowed three
acres of land. Fuel consumption, speed
and mechanical efficiency are to be
considered in making the awards. l..
l.. Oldham, of Elkhorn, was in charge
of the demonstration.
A third major has been detailed as
member of the staff of the military
department of the University of Wis
consin. The student regiment and r.
o. T. C. now has the largest staff of
high ranking officers ever maintained
by the government at the university.
Maj John S. Wood is commandment,
and his two assistants are Maj. John
Keliher and Maj. II. Y. DeIIority, who
has just been detailed.
An advanced step in religious in
struction for the youth of La Crosse
was taken when the leaders of down
town church schools adopted plans for
a religious day school TO begin at the
close of the public school season and
continue for two weeks with sessions
each morning except Saturdays and
Sundays. There is to be no tuition
charge on sectarian discrimination.
Teachers will be employed on salary.
The traffic club of the Association
of Commerce is seeking better car
service for Green Bay. An application
has been filed with the Wisconsin Pub
lie Service Co., asking that the trolley
schedule be changed from a fifteen
to twelve minute basis, that owl cars
be run from the railroad stations, and
that extra service be furnished during
the rush hours. The company has
promised to give the matter consid-
GRAFTON.
1t is expected that SIS acres of oats
and barley in Waupaca county will be
free from smut this year as a result
of treating work being done by County
Agent Paul Nyhus. Farmers request
ing that their seed grain be treated
are being served by the county agent,
who visits them with a treating ma
chine in a motor car. With a conserv-
alive estimate of per cent loss due
to smut, the treatment will bring to
the farmers a saving of about 1000
bushels of grain, representing say
ing of $500 at soc per bushel
Paul II. Pagel, Kaukauna, com
menced atcion for $4,000 against the
director general OF railroads for in.
juries sustained while working in the
roundhouse Summons and complaint
were filed by his attorney. Mr.. Pagcl,
according to the complaint, was ia
jured while loading cinders into a gon
dola car with a bucket operated by "a
crane and chain. owing 10 alleged
defective mechanism, bucketful OF
cinders was dumped upon him, causing
him to fall fifteen feet. He struck on
his shoulder, and was cut upon the
head. He suffered two fractures OF
the spine on the right side of his
neck Two ribs were fractured, his
back and shoulder severely injured
and he suffered internal injuries.
Twenty Missouri farmers from Cape
Girardeau Mo, are in Fond du Lac
county buying cattle for shipment to
that state This is their second excur
sion in this county having been here
early In the spring on similar expe-
dition Samuel M. Carter, Cape Cir
ardeau. heads the delegation. He has
bought fifty heifers out of an importa-
tion OF 400 head OF Guernseys from the