The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-08-26
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Thieves, making their getaway in al
automobile truck headed for Winona
broke into the creamery at Galesyill,
and stole 800 pounds of butter valued
at S165.
The Rotary club drive at Rhine
lander for Boy Scout funds ended will
| $4,000 raised Arrangements will b,
made for a salaried scoutmaster t
take charge of the work during tn,
coming year.
Rustic Resort at Pine lake has beer
purchased by Stein and Adams O
Clintonville who viii replat the grounC
and improve the lots and make tn,
place a most attractive and interesting
camping ground.
Mayor S. G. Perinier. City Clerl
Thomas Wight, Aldermen Joslin anC
Stoltz will represent Rhinelander a
! the convention of the Wisconsin,
League of Municipalities which will BE-
held in La Crosse in September
c. B. Lester and H. A. Whippler o.
Madison are being considered for ap
poinment as secretary of the Wiscon
sin free library commission to sue
coed NJ. S. Dudgeon, new public Ii
brarian for Milwaukee.
Herman Martin, 20, met death by
electrocution at the Booth Campbell
retail lumber yard warehouse al
Marshfeld, where he was employed
! Martin attempted to change the loca
ton Of an electric light wire. His
death was almost instantaneous
Virgil Gustin, IS, of Tunnel City
Monroe county, is a hunter Of proves
and accuracy of aim. He shot anC
killed a large fox which had, durins
! the season. killed more than 100 younG
chickens from his fathers coOps The
youthful hunter not only saved the
family flock Of chickens, but has re
ceiyed the state bounty Of sac.
The Holstein and Guernsey Breeders
association of Waupaca county viii
have a publication of their own with
which to promote the interests Of pure
bred cattle The first issue will ap
pear in September and will be six
teen page publication. The new
magazine will be issued under the
ediJorship of James II. Dance, county
agricultural agent of the county.
Harry Zimmerman, machinist in
the Omaha shops at Altoona. Eau
Claire county, remembers Ponzi, the
| coupon financier, when he was q
| prisoner in the federal prison at At
! lant& where Zimmerman was then a
| guard. Ponzi went by another name
or several, at that time, Zimmerman
said, but he recognized his picture at
once and recalled him as being
"shrewd but crooked"
The Rev. Oscar Montan, Tonwood
was elected president of the Ogema
| district of the Luther league at the
| business session held at Merrill John
| Burman, Bessemer, was elected vice
president; Miss Eva Swedberg, Rhine
lander, secretary; Miss Esther John
son, Wausau treasurer and Miss
Emma Worland, Wisconsin Rapids
clerk, to prepare and file the sta
| tistical report.
According to the American Con
tractors resume of building statistics
from large cities for July compared
with the same month for the previous
year, Sheboygan took first place in the
state in the gain in building constuc.
ton and is second only to Milwaukee
in the total amount Of construction
work authorized. The total amount is
$500,824 against 81, S19 for July, 1919
or gain of 60.4 per cent.
John Stevens, pioneer -four manu-
facturer of Neenah, whose death oc.
cured in that city Aug. 5, was a man
of considerable wealth, according to a
petition filed in the probate court at
Oshkosh. The decedent was the pos
SCISSOR Of personal property of the es-
timated value of $4S5OO0 and real es-
tate from which there is an annual
revenue of S2,050. The petitioner,
John Stevens, Jr., of Appleton, asked
that he be appointed executor of the
estate.
Charging that he was without cause
or pTovocation, taken to the common
Jail in the city hall and held incom-
municado for nearly forty-eight hours,
despite his requests for counsel or the
use of the telephone, II. L. Brown, a
railroad employe, has brought suit for
SIS 900 against Patrolman Blain Thomp-
son and Night Desk Sergt John p.
Vending, La Crosse, alleging false
Imprisonment. Brown was arrested
as a "peeper" suspect, according to
the police.
Barron county has again come to the
front as a fruit.raising section, worthy
of note. During the cherry season,
the Sullivan farm near Barron was
one of many to produce excellent cher
ries. Now the apple crop of that
county seems to occupy the center of
the stage. Apples from last years
crop, produced on the Perry Wicklow
farm at West Dallas, are nearly as per
feet now, both as to frmness and
flavor, as the day they were picked
These apples were of the Malinda
variety.
At its regular meeting the Sheboy-
gan city council by adopting a com
mittee report, placed the matter of
bonding the city for 100000 for new
bridge on North Eighth street in the