The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-02-26

John B. Winslow, chief justice of
the Wisconsin Supreme court will I'M
dergo an operation at the Mayo hospi-
tai in Rochester During his absence
Justice r. B. Siebecker will preside.
After an investigation, representa-
tives of the state board of health,
which had been appealed to by Henry
| Napuk, ordered the scarlet fever quar-
antine removed from his home at
Neenah.
Several farmers in the vicinity of
Randolph were caught with watered
milk and paid fines and costs of ap-
proximately $40 each. One Randolph
factory was short about 400 cheeses
during the past month, which led to
an investigation.
| EX-Gov. James o. Davidson, who is
spending a few weeks at his winter
home in Florida, has sold his Madison
residence on Wisconsin avenue to O.
N. Luraas. The sale will exceed $751;
600. The Davidsons have not decided
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their home in Madison.
A new condensery has opened at
! Mayville The process is to powderize
whole milk and it is said by authorities
on milk that if this proves a success,
il will be the biggest thing in milk of
| the present day So far there has not
been a process of powderizing whole
milk as the other powdered forms are
skinned milk.
During the present year 1921, ZOO
will be expended on new roads and
| road Improvements in Forest county,
About $4,000 is available for the fed,
eral trunk system and 100000 will be
| spent on the road from Crandon to La,
ona. With this sum available, Forest
| county will have one of the finest high
way systems in upper Wisconsin
What is said to be the largest prices
ever paid for cutoyer lands in One'd2
county was recorded at Rhinelander
when Brown Brothers of Waupaca
purchased from F. E. Parker, c. Eby
Cassan state road, near Rhinelander.
The consideration was $4,000 or at
the rate of thirty-fye dollars per acre.
A check for S1,4O1, received by Aug,
ust Heinemann. Waterloo, for the to.
bacCO raised an five acres of land last
summer, is proof that Wisconsin to-
baccO growing pays. Taking advan.
| tage Of the recent warm spell, Mr.,
Heinemann marketed his crop with the
Liggett & Myers Co. at WATERFOWL, re.
ceiving II cents a pound for the leaf
The price received last year was IS
cents pound.
Several decoy letters. each con.
tanning 81 bills, marked for Identified
ton proved the undoing of William H.
Hook, Oshkosh mail carrier for part
of the business district of that city,
postofice inspectors assert. When
confronted with the evidence he is
said to have confessed that he had
been rifing the mails for more than
two years, but claimed his depreda.
tons did not exceed $500.
With his spinal chord completely
severed and a piece of his vertebra re
moved by an operation. John Sobotta,
As, a farmer living near Arcadia. eats
two or three hearty meals each day at
a La Crosse hospital, although attend
ing physicians say he has small
chance to recover. Sobotta was struck
by falling tree, the force of the i'm.
pact breaking his neck. He has a wife
and six children.
The village of Melvina Monroe
county has installed unique lighting
system, in that all the power for street
lighting as well as for business houses
and residences is furnished by a good
sized farm electric lighting system
The owner and operator, Vincent Ma
shak, owns a farm outside the village
limits, on which the plant is located.
The experiment of furnishing the
power for all necessary lighting to the
village including street lights, is, to
date. successful.
The Wisconsin Live Stock Insurance
company, capitalized at $4,000, is in
corporated under the Wisconsin laws,
to insure against the loss of live stock
by death, disease, accident, theft,
lightning and cyclone. 1t is another
important movment in the live stock
development in the state. L. p. Mar
tiny, noted Poland China, Guernsey
and Percheron breeder of Chippewa
Falls, is president and f. N. McGee,
Madison. formerly underwater and di-
rector Of the Michigan Live Stock In.
surance Co., is general manager.
On March l the Wisconsin State
Conference of Social Work will inaug
urate new departure in public and
social welfare work Under budget
estimated at $4,000 for the year, an
expert executive secretary will begin
at once to organize the state, down to
the smallest rural community for dis
covering and meeting such problems
as those concerning neglected and de-
pendent children, delinquent girls and
women, feeblemindedness, public
health and many others. The program
is. first, study of local needs, then dis
trict conferences through which an
educated public opinion will be formed
TO compel the needed reforms A state
canvass is now starting for the funds
for this work,
The TomahaWk city council has or.