The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-01-22

granted an increase of 10 per cent to
teachers effective between Jan, l. The
increase will be paid as bonus to all
teachers who remain the rest of the
year.
Two Rivers had added to its list of
achievements with the founding of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks No. 1880 with eighty charter
members George Anders was elected
exalted ruler.
For the first time in the history of
the congregation, ST. James parish,
Manitowoc, is out of debt through the
$1,000 gift from the late John Schuette.
All of the churches of Manitowoc have
expressed their thanks for similar
Gifts.
Andrew Searls of Grand Rapids,
grand old man Of the cranberry in.
dustry in Wisconsin, was reelected to
the presidency of the Wisconsin State
Cranberry Growers association at the
closing of the twenty-third annual con
vention at Madison
Four tow boats and nineteen barges
for transportation work on the upper
Mississippi river are now in the course
of construction and may be ready for
service this year according to word
sent to Capt w. A. Thompson of the
river improvement service at La
Crosse.
Oliver +. Remey, Milwaukee, secre
tary of the Wisconsin state fair, has
been selected by the Massachusetts de-
partment of agriculture to discuss
THE Agricultural Fair" before the
Massachusetts farmers convention in
Boston the latter part of January
Wisconsin has for several years held
first rank in yield of tlaXseed to the
acre, according to the state bureau OF
crop estimates. The five year average
yield is 10.7 bushels to the acre. In
1919 the $500 acres grown in the state
averaged 1Oi2 bushels. In 1918 the
acreage was 1900 and the average
yield II bushels.
The first boys and girls bee club in
Wisconsin has just been organized at
under the direction of
teacher in the public schools who is
himself one of the leading beekeepers
of Sheboygan county. Each of the
eleven members has from one to five
colonies of bees. The contest will be
in production of honey and care OF
the bees,
Mich cows brought 1910 head at
an auction held en- the farm of James
Griffith, town of Mt. Pleasant. This
is the highest price ever paid for milGh
cows at a public auction held in Ra
cine county. Chickens, springers and
old hens, brought 81 each, double the
amount ever before offered and at 4
time when farmers are bringing chick
ems into the market.
Neenah, Menasha and Appleton are
planning to conduct vigorous cam
paign of propaganda against the pro.
posed shifting of the Yellowstone
Trail tourists route west of there
which would result in cutting off the
three cities. A district meeting of the
Yellowstone Trail association is to be
held in Oshkosh next month and the
protest will be voiced there.
The Union Cheese company, in
corporated at $4,000 will soon begin
10 manufacture some three miles from
Eau Claire, Fifty Union farmers are
stockholders. Each farmer will haul
in his milk to be paid on a butter fat
basis. A factory 2SX44 feet has been
built and equipped with modern ma,
chinery. Eight hundred cows will fur
nish the milk. 1t is strictly fan M
ers' concern.
BY a unanimous vote a resolution
of confidence in Mayor Fred Baxter
and a pledge to stand by him in his
efforts TO clean up the city of superior
were adopted at meeting of the in
terchurch council A total of 66 men
at the meeting represented IA OF the
city churches. Chief of Police Vincent
McKinnon has been suspended pend
ing the outcome of the hearing before
the police and fire commission.
Two Anzac soldiers, wearing uni,
forms of the Australian military forces
and representing their government, as
well as the agricultural colleges of
New South Wales, are visiting the
University of Wisconsin to study the
methods used in its
agricultural education. During their
stay in this country, they will inspect
the agricultural colleges of several
in this, country and
Canada.
An old fashioned typewriter of one
of the earliest vintages, was recently
added to the collection of the State
Historical museum at Madison. 1t
was built by the Hall Typewriter com
paay of Salem, Mass, under patent of
March l, 1881, and was the property of
the late Rev f. G. Updike, Madison.
The machine is about two inches high,
fifteen inches long, and six inches
wide The paper is inserted on a roll
under the keyboard, and the letters
are imprinted by flexible lever which
moves over type inset on fiat key
board above the paper. The machine
was operated slowly and was prob
ably used only for important letters,
documents and papers which required
permanent record.
l.. ]. Jones, Spooner, has been ap-