The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-03-25
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged In Condensed Form

recently the city council passed an
ordinance which prohibits selling soft
drinks without a license. The new Ii
cense costs $50,
The first arrest under the new She
boygan dance hall ordinance prohibit
ing the presence of minors after 10 p,
m, was made when A. b. Sharp, rro.
prietor of roller skating rink, WIS
taken into custody.
Charles Rock, employed in his broth
er's sawmill near Van Dyne, was seri-
ously injured when caught in saw
One arm was almost completely sew
cred at the shoulder and one side was
gashed by the saw,
The new town of Rat River in Mari
nette county has been formed. 1t was
carved from the town of Athelstane in
the southwestern part of the county
This will give Marnette a county
board of nine members.
Ozaukee county is going to spend
$4,000 in road maintenance this year.
-Four miles of concrete highway also
will be constructed. Recently large
consignment Of road machinery was
purchased by the county.
The West Wisconsin Telephone Co..
serving Glenwood City, Cylon, Elmer
aid, Downing, COnnersyille, Forest and
Springfield, has asked the railroad
commission to increase its rates %
cents per phone month.
Oscar A. Oleson, for several years
connected with the state insurance
commission, was appointed by Com
missioner Plat Whitman as chief
deputy commissioner, succeeding T.
W. Kubasta, who resigned recently.
The Rev. Hans Sagen, pastor of the
Norwegian Methodist church at Mon
dovi is dead at an Eau Claire hospital
following an operation for appendl-
citis The Rev. Sagan was one of the
best known clergymen in the WisCon-
sin conference.
The city of Plymouth plans big
paving program for 1920, regardless of
the prevailing sentiment against mu-
nicipal improvement on account OF
high prices. The program includes ten
streets which will be covered with
concrete for total Of several miles.
c, N. Maurer, graduate of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, has been APP
pointed motor engineer to the state
igh igg 10 fol 10
place of Walter Alexander, res gned,
who has gone to Milwaukee to become
manager of the Union Refrigerator
and Transit Co
Paving costing $l45,000 will be laid
this year at Manitowoc The city
council voted bond issue for that
amount to carry on its program of
street work for 1920. At the same
time, the aldermen approved a com
mittee report outlining about three
and a half miles of pavement to be
laid IN 1921.
The Sawyer residence, being moved
across the river from Menomonie to
Marinette, broke through the ice and
sank in five feet of water. About two
weeks ago the moving began, but run
ners, on which the house was being
moved. cut into the ice and were
frozen in. All efforts TO move it were
in vain. The house will be torn down
William Hardell, one of Rhineland,
er's wen known lumbermcn, has dis
posed Of his interests in the Rhine
lander Box and Lumber company to
w. A. Curtis of Chicago. Mr., Hardell
company and served as secretary and
treasurer He will engage in the land
and logging business with offices in
Rhinelandcr.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, candidate
for Republican nomination for presi.
dency Will visit Appleton and the Fox
river valley early next month, accord
ing to information received at Apple
ton by Fred Felix WottenGel candi.
date for election as Wood delegate
from the Ninth congressional district.
Mr. Wettengrl is now organizing a
Wood club in Outagamie county
William ONcil son Of Mayor O'Neil
of Chippewa Falls. formerly captain
in the American expeditionary forces.
was found not guilty Of charge OF
pointing and aiming a revolver when
tried in municipal court by jury OF
six business men as an out growth OF
the fisticufls between the mayor ana
Editor George T. Dee Of the Chippewa
Falls Herald. in the latter's office.
Peter Jacob and Joseph Schwerbel
Of WATERFOWL were awarded $3.50 dam
ages against the Rubicon Grain and
Mailing Co. in the circuit court al .m
neau. The complainanls charged that
the company accepted their grain and
did not sell Vg'il loss had been oc-
casioned for the owners, owing 10 "A
drop in the market They charged
negligence in handling the grain.
while the defendant company cited the
car shortage as The cause of the grain
not moving II is expected an appeal
will be taken to the supreme court.
Boys, someone is trying TO slip
bootlegging stunt over on u.s." said
Postmaster d. f. Blewett, Fond du
Lac, when he discovered liquid oozing
from "A package in the parcels post.
Eager hands tore The wrappings from
The package ms de was dead liz.
ard packed in ice
Between Crandon and White Lake.
along the Wisconsin e Northern rail.
road, there are $4,000 600 feet Of logs
ready to be hauled to the mill The
greater share of this timber was pur