The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-07-01
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

| the largest creamery in the world,
broke its own record for butter pro.
duction during the week just passed.
Eighty hundred and forty tubs of but.
ter were manufactured during the
week, the heaviest day being when
$50 tubs of butter were made.
Neenah yachtsmen are making prep
arations to participate in the annual
regatta of the Inland Lake Yachting
association to be sailed commencing
Aug. l6 on Lake Winnebago. The his.
toric Felker cup race will be sailed
on Aug. II. The regatta is expected
70 attract more yachtsmen than ever
this year.
Supt Ernest Her of the Amigo
| schools has resigned lie has been SUI
| perintendent there for three years. He
expects to leave with bis family about
July / for Grinnell, Ia, to take up
other work, as it is his intention TO
| leave the teaching profession. The va
cancy has not been filed.
p. J. Zimmers, superintendent of
Manitowoc schools, who has excepted
a similar position at Boise City, Idaho,
is taking some of Manitcwccs best
educators with him. The latest to
| announce his resignation is w. F.
Wiesand, director OF vocational train
ing. who becomes assistant superin-
! tendent at Boise City.
The Manitowoc school board will
recommend submitting S750000 to
| 100000 bond issue to a vote next
fall for the purpose of financing the
proposed new high school building.
Even though the bond issue should
carry the building will not be started
until the board is assured that prices
are satisfactory.
Conviction on a charge of violating
! the espionage act does not cost Wis
/ consin resident his vote, according to
the opinion of Attorney General j. j.
! Blaine in letter to District Attorney
G. w. Lippert, Wausau. Mr. Blaine
| states that no authority has come to
his attention that holds the convicted
person loses his right of ballot.
A victory temple, to be built in honor
of Kenosha soldiers and sailors who
| fought in the World war, and which is
to be the home Of the Kenosha post
Of the American Legion, the Chamber
OF Commerce and the Trades and La.
! Dor council and similar organizations
was the project launched by the Ke-
nosha legionnaires. The plan will be
| lald before the various organizations
| IN the near future.
That higher education for boys is
| being recognized as imperative if they
are TO have a fair chance in competi-
tion with others in the business world
! was shown in the percentage of boys
and girls in the graduating class of
the Manitowoc High school. There
We're fifty eight girls and thirty-seven
boys. Heretofore the proportion has
been to /.
Rainbow division veterans of Wis
co1sin went on record at Appleton at
the first annual reunion indorsing the
four-told adjusted compensation plan,
including bonus provision, as advocat-
ed by the American legion and now
! before congress. The resolution was
adopted without a dissenting vote.
! Maj. Lothar g. Graef, Appleton, was
elected president of the Wisconsin
Chapter OF the Rainbow Division asso-
citation.
Fourteen carloads of dynamite have
been shipped TO Rusk county this year
TO be used in the great land clearing
contest that is now in progress. 1t is
claimed that this is a larger amount
OF explosives than has ever been used
IN single year by any county in the
state, for land clearing purposes. 1t
is five times as much as was used in
This county in 1917, and nearly half as
much as was used in the whole state
OF Minnesota last year, it is claimed
The Curran Farmers Telephone Co.,
which owns and operates rural tele-
phone system in the vicinity OF Taylor
and Hixton, Jackson county, applied
on May 20 for authority to increase its
rates. By an order issued the railroad
commission authorized the company to
charge SIS a year per subscriber
where the company owns and main
tains the telephone instrument and $l2
year where the equipment is owned
and maintained by the subscriber.
The Fox River Paper Co. has an
nounced its purchase of the Telulah
mill of the Kimberly-Cl Co. and its
plan TO convert the mill into a writing
paper plant. The new owner will not
gain possession of the mill until Jan
], 1921, but changes will be made dur
ing the summer months so that manu-.
iacture OF the new grade of paper can
be started without delay after the first
OF next year. Purchase of the mill
makes the Fox River company one
of the largest writing paper manufac.
turers in the United States. More than
100000 has been expended by the
Kimberly-Clark Co in repairs and i'm
proyements in the mill in the last two
years.
Herbert and Joseph Jicha, who con
duet a large dairy farm north of Ocon-
to, have purchased two pure bred Hol-
stein GOES from the Woodlawn Farm
Co, Sterling, H., which makes four
registered animals in their herd, all de.
scendants of the world famous sire,
King Sergis, which was sold for S175,.
600
Fifty thousand dollars, including her