The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-05-20

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A still was found hidden behind the
/ furnace of house in Kenosha in a
raid by police and federal officers.
Shebet Kostak, tenant of the house,
was arrested.
C. T. Dryz, Chicago, arrived TO com
mence operations at Pioneer lake,
near Eagle River, where he intends to
start his fox farm. He will ship in
about 20 foxes for propagation and
sale.
The body of Mrs, Henry Min, who
jumped from bridge into the Flam.
beau river at Ladysmith on the night
of April %, was discovered floating
near the paper mill 1dm, half mile
down the stream.
Details have been completed for the
state convention OF Eagles, to be held
in Oshkosh June T. s, and TO- 1t is
expected that delegations of Eagles
and ladies will be present from prac.
tically every aerie in the state.
At a special election on the question
of abandoning the commission form OF
government in Menomonie, the result
was as follows Yes, $50; no, 4S9.
The commission form has been in
force in that city for eight years.
Owing to the impossibility of max
ing freight shipments because of the
switchmen's strike, the Barron cream
cry of Brentwood, is shipping butter
by express. The first large shipments
were three tons of butter to New
York.
At a meeting of the Minocqua town
board of supervisors it was voted to
chucks and gophers once each month.
Claims for bounties will be acted on
at the regular meeting on the last
Friday of each month.
Eight wolf cubs, captured by uni.
versity students, will have to be killed
unless $64 is raised to save their lives.
The boys are anxious to get the boun-
ty provided by the state. This means
that the cubs will have to be killed.
Madison citizens interested in the
cubs have suggested that they be
turned over to zoo.
Consideration of requests for addi-
lional appropriations which may be
transmitted for the legislature will be
given by the board of public affairs
just prior TO the special session, it was
decided at the board meeting in the
office of Gov Philip at Madison. This
action will give more time for the
preparation of the requests and the
data to accompany them.
The personnel of the general com
mittee to have charge of the forest
products decennial celebration, July
Is and 16, has been announced by the
Madison Association of Commerce
and the forest products laboratory.
This committee is representative of
the scores of scientific professions and
wood-using industries interested in
and served by the laboratory,
Adlar S. Horn, publisher of the Ce-
darburg News, was appointed post
master of Cedarburg. The appoint
ment was the result Of an examina-
ton conducted by the United States
civil service commission at which
there were six candidates Mr.. Horn
was assistant postmaster and at the
death of his father, Postmaster Alex
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acting postmaster.
A wedding in which several Grand
Army people figured took place in
Marinette. Thomas Powers, a veteran
of the Civil war and three times mar.
ried previously, took as his fourth
wife, Mrs. Louisa Cole, widow of a
Civil war veteran. The ceremony was
performed by Rev Bill of Menominee,
also a G. A. r. man. The groom is
"a years old and pensioned employe
of the Northwestern railway.
Door county's cherry industry from
the time the land is cleared of stumps
through the period of cultivation,
spraying time TO harvesting and haul
ing TO market, will be shown through
out the United States and Canada and
in foreign countries in motion pic
lures. At present the movie men are
taking films Of the tractor in cultiva-
ton. In blossom time they will re-
turn and later when the fruit is ready
for picking.
William Howard Taft, former presi-
dent, gave an interesting talk in APP
pleton on the political topics of the
day. Mr.. Taft attacked the general
primary law as one of the worst things
ever enforced on American people, de-
claring that any person with leg
muscle and lot of money" can be
nominated regardless of his qualinca-
tons for the Office he is seeking. The
address was heard by over 1000 peo-
pie in Lawrence Memorial chapel
Granting full demands of the work
men who went on strike a month ago,
the Monitor Brewery at La Crosse, is
again in operation. Under the agree
ment negotiated with the Brewery
Workers union, the Monitor company