The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-11
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The town of Bear Bluff, Jackson
county, claims itself the banner re-
publican town" in the state of Wiscon-
sin. 1t cast fourteen votes and every
one was for Harding and Coolidge.
Over 100000 pounds of parcel post
mail was handled at the Green Bay
postoffice during the past month, &C
cording to Postmaster w, l.. Evans
report for October. A total of 23,462
parcels passed through the station.
This is a 20 per cent increase over
September
A temporary successor to Mayor
Elmer S. Hall of Green Bay, who has
been elected secretary OF state, will
be appointed by the council to hold
office until the spring election. This
will eliminate the expense of special
election and it is within the state laws
covering the commission form of gov
eminent.
A training school for nurses, affiliat-
ed with the st. Mary's hospital, will
be opened in Superior by the Wiscon-
sin conference, Catholic Hospital as
| ISOLATION, as soon as final arrange.
ments for housing and instruction can
be made. A three-year course, lead
ing to a graduated nurses diploma,
will be offered.
Farmers near Brentwood are petit
| tioning state officials for a complete
test of cattle in this section, to de-
termine the healthful condition of
| cows. The test will be made for tu-
| berculosis. The test is not desired be
cause there is any known disease, but
farmers desire to know the condition
| of the cattle in that section.
The village of Crivitz provides at
public expense hot lunches for all chill
dren transported from rural districts
to its consolidated school. The county
| school superintendent of Marinette
county, in which Crivitz is located, has
started a movement for hot lunches at
noon for the children of all schools, at
the expense of the parents.
The cold weather has doomed up
the fishing industry at Green Bay and
the fleet of trawlers are reporting
| good catches. Due to heavy out of
town orders but little of the fish is
available for home consumption, 1t
+ is reported that many Of the local fish
houses are three weeks behind on
their shipping orders.
Farmers in Brown county are trying
to cut down the high coal bills. Wood
cutters are in great demand, due to the
fact that farmers who are owning
wooded acres are clearing them up
and using the cutting for fuel 1t is
said that the sale of coal to the farm
ers in that community has dropped out
90 per cent during the past two
months.
After buying three young men their
suppers and giving them money with
which TO provide a room for the night,
Olaf Lee, Superior, a Norwegian la
borer, was robbed of $3.50 by the men.
Lee met the strangers, who declared
they were hungry. He took them to
cafe and later showed them about
the city. When they left him for the
night he found that they had relieved
him of his pocketbook
B. C. Christensen, Trout Lake, has
been appointed chief ranger of the
state forestry department to succeed
K. M. Weaver, who was lately assigned
mission. For several years Mr.. Chris
| Hansen has been in supervision of the
| forestry departments nursery at Trout
| Lake, and is thoroughly familiar with
the duties of chief ranger Trout Lake
| will continue to be his headquarters.
Following a heart attack which he
| suffered while downtown on election
night, Charles h. Spindler, for forty
years identified with business interests
of Manitowoc and member of the
RMnhardt Brothers & Spindler type
foundry firm of Chicago, died at his
home in Manitowoc. Mr. Spindler,
who was reputed to be Manitowoc's
wealthiest citizen, passed his seventy
ninth birthday June 20. He was a
civil war veteran and was active in
affairs of the local G.. A. r. post.
A slump in export trade, due to the
low rate of foreign exchange, has hit
the condensed milk industry. The
Juneau plant of the Libby, Mcneil g.
Libby Co is curtailing its product and
Instead of condensing is Swimming the
milk for shipment to butter manufac-
! turers. The management decided on
this course rather than closing the
plant temporarily. A return to con
densing will be made as soon as mar
ket conditions warrant.
Miss Fern Scott Was elected regis
Ter Of deeds at Eagle River by a plu-
rality of 500 votes and carried every
precinct over her Democratic oppo-
nent, w. Morris Miss Scott is a
graduate of the University of Wiscon-
sin, leader in several clubs and has
taught Latin and German in several
high schools of the state She has
been deputy register of deeds at Eagle
River for some time and for the last
two years has had complete charge Of
that Office
The first contest in the new legisla-
ture will be over the speakership,
Riley S. Young, Walworth county,
speaker of the house at the last SEES
sion, will again be a candidate for
! that Office. He will be opposed by