The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-10-28
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| of Minocqua in Oneida county. The
route will accommodate about one
hundred farmers.
Uniform text books for the schools
of Manitowoc county were assured
| when the convention of county school
boards voted, 65 to %, to adopt the
plan. The new system will 60 into
effect soon.
Enrolment in the Green Bay pub.
lie schools show big increase. The
total registration is 4,554 students, A
feature of the registration is the fact
that 62 per cent of the scholars are
boys.
Nov. II, Armistice day, is to be OBJ
served in Fond du Lac with big
parade, followed by a dance in the
evening. Members of the American
Legion have sent kilograms to the
state commander and to Gov. Philip,
asking that Nov II be declared a holi-
day. Plans for the dance include a
popularity contest to select the most
popular young lady in the county, who
Will ledu the BIduu ubICI'
The assessed valuation of Fond du
Lac for 1920 shows an increase of %
per cent over last year The increase
is S4,852,S45, with valuation at S25..
887 $50 The present tax rate is go.
The report will go to the city com
mission, which body will fix the tax
rate for this year. Fond du Lac has
1,704 automobiles, an increase of $50
over year ago. The assessed yalua-
ton Of the autos is $1,163,52O A year
ago the valuation was S704165.
The power line extension, being
constructed from Green Bay to Stur.
geon Bay, will not be completed until
next spring. 1t had been planned to
have it completed Nov l. Due to de-
lay in shipments of material and sup
plies the work has been held up. The
entire 60 miles of poles are now set.
Besides Sturgeon Bay, Alboma, Ke-
waunee, Luxembourg Casco, Rio Creek,
New Franken, Forestville, Maple
wood and other smaller cities will re-
ceiye power from the extension.
Adjt. Gen. Orlando Holway, Mad
ison, is still making every possible ct
fort to secure the military record of
every resident Of Wisconsin during the
recent World war, and for two reasons.
First it is hoped to complete the rec
ord of the entire state at once instead
of waiting, as was done after the Civil
war, for years, and then it was next
to impossible to get a complete record.
Second, TO add to the great record
made by the state during the World
war
Mrs. John Bodin, aged As, was acct
dentally strangled to death at her
home in Superior when the belt of her
dress became fastened about her neck
When she fell from the porch. Mrs.
Bodin had left the house to 60 to the
back yard 1t is believed that she
slipped as she was about to step off
the porch and that her dress had be
come caught in the porch railing The
weight of her body brought the belt
up around her neck and she was
strangled before help arrived.
The division of markets strongly
favors cooperative associations among
farmers to aid in the solution of the
many serious problems which now
confront the farmer, and is doing all
it can to promote and encourage or
ganization. After a careful study of
the situation in this state the division
has reached the conclusion that the
recent move to unite the Equity So
ciety with the federal farm bureau in
this state gives promise of bringing
the best results in cooperative work
of any effort yet made along these
lines.
In spite of the fact that there is no
open season for partridge hunting this
year. and that there is heavy penal
ty for killing them, il is reported that
there has been greater slaughter of
the birds in Price and other northern
Wisconsin counties the last few weeks
than ever before The birds have be
come SO plentiful and are so tame that
it would require just as much skill
and furnish fully as much sport to
90 into barnyard and shoot down
flock of chickens. Some hunters
brag of bags of so and 60 partridges
in one day.
The state is gradually clearing itself
Of bovine tuberculosis from which il
is estimated that 25 per cent of tuber.
culosis among children comes through
milk from infected cows. During the
month of September the state depart.
ment of agriculture tested 179 herds
containing 4,2O1 cattle. Ninety-three
of these lots passed a negative or
clean test. This made net gain of
80 to the federal-state accredited herd
list. The federal government is co
operating with the state in the at.
tempt to stamp out the disease The
total number of state herds absolutely
free from tuberculosis, is 3G1. accord.
ing to Dr. j. S. Healy. During the
month 971 herds passed one negative
test. There are now under superyi-
sion of the department 1,G11 herds.
Plans for starting a community
store at Billings Park, by the Pro
ducers and Consumers Cooperative
association of Douglas county, were
perfected at meeting Of stockhold.
ers. Officials of the company declared
that more than $4,000 had been
raised Only persons holding stock
will be permitted to buy goods.
Nine mail routes have been estab-
lished in Stevens Point, an addition of
two, and the entire city redistricted