The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-04-15


tered into the service at Beloit, Mai
Colon II. Ball of the United States
army was in charge, More than half
of the men enlisted, saw army service
Corp. Benjamin II. Buck, Wausau
for many years member of Company
G., Third regiment, Wisconsin Ma
tional guard, received notice that he
has been awarded a DISTINGUISHED
service cross for heroism while in
service in France.
Ice packing the intake TO the tur
bne engines of the Great Northern
Power Co., Superior, shut off the cur
rent to the city and left street car
stranded on the crossing of The Omaha
railroad tracks. A truck pushed the
car out of danger. Street cars were
idle and electric lights were out Of
commission several hours.
Shareholders of the Washbun
County Agricultural society and
committee of the county board of su
pervisors met together, and it was
voted to sell the county fair grounds
stock to the county at par The
grounds probably will be placed in the
hands of a committee of farmers and
the county will back an annual fair
More than 100 Wisconsin herds of
cattle, totaling 1857 head, have passed
the first negative test for tuberculosis,
according to Or. ]. S. Healey, repre-
sentative of the federal government in
tuberculosis eradication in Wisconsin,
Holstein herds lead the list with 49,
the Guernseys are second with AZ
herds, Jerseys have s, and short
horns, 8.
The public schools of Ashland will
cost the taxpayers about $4,000 more
this year than last, owing largely to
the increase in teachers wages which
was made The average raise is %
per cent, The minimum salary in the
grades being fixed at $1,000, and the
maximum S1,350 High school teach
ers will receive from $1,000 to 81 1900,
and the superintendent salary was
fixed at $4,000
Dr. Joseph Schafer. new supcrin
tendent of the Wisconsin State Histo
ical society, has arrived in Madison
from Oregon TO take over his new du
ties. Dr.. Schafer is the fourth super
intendent of the society his predecos-
sors being Lyman c. Draper, Ruben G.
Thwaites and Milo Quaifs. The So
ciety has made DR., Quaife editor of
the society's publications and Dr.
Schafer head of the administrative
end of the society.
That the owner of land surrounded
by property of others and to which
there is no road, cannot be arbitrarily
refused a highway outlet by the town
board upon application made accord
ing to law, after he has exhausted all
efforts to purchase a way in and out
of his land, was the decision of Judge
e. c. Higbee in circuit court at La
Crosse. The suit was brought by
Oliver Bervik against the town board
of Hamilton, and the decision marks
the termination of a controversy eX-
tending over period of two years
TO care for tha dead as well as the
living is the self-imposed obligation of
the Farmers Mercantile Supply Co.,
Elkhart Lake, a cooperative, to its
customers and stockholders, the latter
nearly 200 in member. The furniture
store owned by the company has an
undertaking department and its man
ager is a licensed embalmer and fu
neral director Implements, lumber
fuel. food, in fact, everything its farm
er stockholders need except groceries
and dry goods are handled by the co.
operative, which did business OF
more than s15O000 last year Through
this agency the farmers also sell stock
and grain.
During 1919. total of $l,659,6S4
was paid to injured workmen in Wis.
consin as compensation, according TO
the industrial commission, Medical
aid in these cases cost employers
S491 ,007 and total benefits were 3d.
144,691. This does not include medical
aid paid in cases in which the disabl-
ity was less than seven days and in
which, consequently. no compensation
compensatable injuries amounted to
at least $1500G0 more During 1919
there was a decrease of 1874 per cent
in the number Of compensate injuries
reported. The total cases reported
Were 17,207 and the total cases settled
1896.
A new chapter opens in the interest
ing story of the Fairchild & North
western railroad, with The news that
the Jones brothers will pay the
freight" In other words II. +. and II
A. Jones, the largest buyers and ship
pers of farm produce along the west
end of the line. which has been closed
since the government returned the
roads to private ownership leased en-
gines, cars and the right of way from
to Cleghorn and will operate
as individual owners and not as d
common carrier, Passengers will not
be carried nor freight other than
their own. The road temporarily be
comes an industrial proposition with
schedules. A crew will be hired as
desired
Adolph Haese sold his farm of 100
acres. one mile from the village Of
to Anton dip for $55000,
receiving that price for the bare farm
with commitment II mnkoR a mice OF