The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-07-08
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


few minutes her arm had swollen to
twice its normal size
According to reports made to the
| war department, the Wisconsin Ma
tional guard on June 80 consisted of
| 4,630 men and 175 officers, all OF whom
| had been teGeIany inspected.
Lafayette county's health bill for the
| year OF 1919 was $212G0, according to
! announcement from the health board
at Darlington The board also reports
377 births and 21O deaths for 1919
! Pleading guilty to a charge Of sell
ing liquor containing more than one
! half Of ! per cent of alcohol, II c.
Millaer, proprietor of Central Park at
Kenosha, was fined 500 and costs.
According to tentative approval
| given by the state board Of health at
| its senli-annual meeting, the fifth bien-
NAL conference OF health officers Of
Wisconsin viii be held Sept. $3.50 in
Madison
The new tissue paper mill of the
Peshtico Pulp and Paper Co, has
| started operations at Peshtigo, 1t is a
/ half million dollar plant backed large
| ly by Green Bay capital, Ray Mead
Grand Rapids, is the superintendent.
Clark county boys, who are raising
| hogs. held meeting in Neillsvilla and
organized an association, Harry
/ Thompson, Of York, was chosen prest-
dent. Clolic Vine. oil Granton, vice
president and Emil Lease, Of Pine
/ Valley, secretary. 1t is planned To
have several meetings during the year.
! The members of the club own 90 pure
bred pigs.
The Bar association of the Seventh
| judicial circuit met at the Grand View
| hotel at the Chain O. Lakes, WaupaCa,
and elected the following officers:
President, Llewellyn Cole, Clinton,
Vile; vice president, W. Z. Wheelan,
Grand Rapids; secretary, B. f. Meyer,
| Marion, and treasurer, L, d. Smith.
Waupaca, A banquet was served al
Grand View, Judge W. F. Owen,
stevens Point presiding.
Muriel Long, q, prominent young
man OF Lancaster, was drowned while
1 going to the rescue of Richard Rand.
.riend with whom he was swimming
| .u the Wisconsin river. Rand vae
saved Rand was caught in a whr-
( rooi and shouted to Long TO get a boat
and help him out Instead, Long swan
I 20 Eand's assistance He was caught
in the same pool and sank, never r.s-
! ing to the surface Rand battlcd the
current and finally managed 10 swim
out.
Neil Joseph, Green Bay restaurant
nan, was found not guilty en- charge
Of manufacturing Intoxicating liquor in
Green Bay municipal court, Federal
prohibition agents testified that not
only still and a quantity of moon
shine were taken in raid on his
home, May %, but that mash was cook
ing in part of the still at the time Of
the raid The defense testified that
the alleged still was used as bath
tub for Josephs daughter and was in
that use at the time the raid was
made.
La Crosse has officially been desie
mated as station on the air mail
route between Chicago and the Twin
! Cities, according to notification re
ceiyed by Postmaster 0. r. Skaar from
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Otto Praeger, Two automobile trucks
which will be utilized to convey mail
between the landing field and post Of
fee, have been shipped to La Crosse
from Indianapolis, and the city has
been notified to build d hangar on the
field in accordance with government
specifications
The 100 houses built during the war
by the shipping board for the employees
of the Manitowoc ShiybuilGing Co, al
Manitowoc, and recently bought from
the government by the company, have
been sold again. They have become
the property Of the Manitou Realty
Co at the price of $4,000, or about
half the cost The contract of sale
provides that rents shall be reduced to
$25, $2S and $32 for 5, 6 and 7-room
houses, respectively and that employees
OF the shipbuilding company be given
thirty days to buy the homes at $500
$3.50 and $4,000
That a gravel pit owned by one gov.
ernmental organization cannot be
taken by the state by its right of emf
neut domain was the substance Of a
ruling of the attorney general to the
state highway commission. Manitowoc
owns gravel pit outside its corporate
limits and the state has been unable
to make satisfactory arrangements by
which il may use the gravel for a
trunk highway near which the pit lies
The question was asked If there were
some way by which the state could oh.
tain the pit in case no satisfactory
mutual arrangement could be reached
The answer was in the negative,
+. S Englebrecht, a farmer living
near Conover, suffered severe injuries
in an accident while repairing belt
on a portable sawmill. In reaching
for the belt, Englebrecht's right shout.
der came in contact with the circular
saw, inficting deep cash that re
CURED fourteen stitches.
Fiftyfve employees of the city Of
Green Bay have been granted 10 per
cent increases in salaries by the city
council The increase affects the po-
lice, fremen, deputy city clerk. city
stenographer, city nurse, health of
fcer, bookkeeper OF the street depart
ment, janitor and city weighmaster.