The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-05-27
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HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

About $50 employees of the Oshkosh
| Trunk Co., of Oshkosh, walked out on
a demand for 25 per cent increase
in pay and Saturday afternoons off
with pay.
| Seventy-two Holsteins were sold for
a total of $23,439 at the new sales pa
wa Falls, The highest price paid was
$40, the average 1925.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
erection of a conservatory at Sheridan
park was authorized by Adolph Ep-
stein, president of the Kenosha park
board, at meeting, The movement
has the approval of the board.
Practically 70 per cent of the lum-
Der industry in Wisconsin, Michigan
and Minnesota is tied up by the strike
of timber workers, according to C. O..
Young, organizer for the American
Federation of Labor, in charge of the
strike,
TIE Hackley-Phelps-B Lumber
company will Immediately begin the
construction of a large number of
modern homes in Phelps for the oc-
cupancy of their employees. These
venience and will be leased at nominal
rentals.
William W. Dillon, 60, of the firm of
Dillon Bros, owners of the Muscoda
garage, fell into an auto pit in dark
corner Of the garage and was SO seri-
cusly injured that he was taken to a
Madison hospital for treatment. The
mans lower jaw was fractured sew
eral teeth knocked out and his neck
! sprained.
The late Peter r. Thorn, formerly
superintendent of the Kimberly-Clark
Paper Co. of Appleton, who died sew
eral weeks ago in Hollywood, Calf,
! left an estate valued at more than
! 100000, according to his last will adj
mitted to probate in county court at
| Appleton. The entire estate was left
to the family.
Shooting craps had such fascina-
ton for Achilles A. Bleck that he took
! blank checks from printing Office at
Oshkosh and forged them to provide
| funds for the game. When brought
up in court on the charge of forging
checks of the Bergstrom Paper Co.,
Neenah. plea was entered that the
lad be placed on probation.
Henry Hudson, colored junk dealer,
who was shot to death at Eau Claire
| by Detective John Sather left an es-
tate estimated at more than $4,000.
Attorney j. C. Gilbertson appeared in
probate court for the wife and two
| daughters. who reside in Yazoo, Miss,
| Hudson came to Eau Claire over 20
years ago and nothing was known of
his former life.
When Mrs. Fred Pieritz of FIT, At
! kinson telephoned for doctor to come
and visit her son Orion, the boy went
up to the sleeping porch, took his faith
| er's revolver, and shot himself. He
! died before the doctor reached the
! home. The boy, who is only 16 years
old, had had difficulty with his high
school studies recently and had wor.
ried until he became sick.
Harry Arthur Mechling, 20 years
old, lifelong invalid of Spring Lake
township, was found sitting in his
wheel chair, dead, with a bullet in his
| head and a rifle leaning against the
chair. The loaded rifle had been
| standing in the corner of the room
against some books and it is thought
! the young man accidently knocked it
| over while reaching for a book.
Mrs M. w. Bowman of Durand was
! elected president of the Tenth District
! Federation of Womens clubs at the
| closing session at Chippewa Falls.
| Other officers named We're: Mrs. j. H.
Anderson, Barron, vice president; Mrs,
| j. d. Steven, Eau Claire, recording
secretary; Mrs. e. Phillips, Hudson,
treasurer; Miss Evelyn Goodrich, Du.
rand, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
j.. B. Mahle, Chippewa Falls, auditor.
Johannes Van Leischot, 35, assistant
millwright for the Kimberly-Clark
| Paper Co., at Appleton, was instantly
| killed at the Kimberly mill when he
was struck by travelling crane while
making repairs on the crane track.
The operator on the crane had been
warned that repairs were being made
on the track, but forgot his instruc-
| tons and sent the big machine along
the runway. Van Leischot was pinned
against a heavy beam.
There is on exhibition at the office
| of C. p. West, Oneida county agricul-
! tural representative, a hens egg which
| for size would win the blue ribbon any
where. 1t is 81 inches in circumfer-
ence from one end around to the other,
| 6l2 inches around the center, and
weighs a quarter of a pound. This re-
markable specimen of hen fruit was
laid by Plymouth Rock biddie owned
by Mrs. Robert Murphy, who resides
on a farm near Rhinelander. Mrs.
Murphy says that this particular hen
has been producing exceptionally
large eggs for several weeks past.
Official word from Washington places
the population of Rhinelander at
1854, gain of 1,017, or 1870 per cent.
Rhinelander is the county seat of
Oneida county and one of the most
northerly on the Wisconsin river II
is the center of the numbering in
| dustry in that section.
Henry w. Heider. of Barron who