The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-10-21
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| 10 SlU u gay. tIeNlouo W ~ 'Ah''y
election this year the clerks received
IS a day They claim woman suffrage
has doubled their work and therefore
they are entitled to double pay.
The vocational school of Fond du
Lac has completed plans for a course
in commercial law The purpose Of
the new course is to teach the fun.
damental principles Of law which are
of interest and help to business men
and all men who aspire TO control or
manage any business entalllng deal
ings with others.
Sugar beet shipments are now arriv-
ing at the plant Of the Green Bay Su-
gar Co., Green Bay Due to delay in
construction, the refinery is not ready
10 start operations, but, according TO
Supt w. L. Corey, the plant will be
running before the last of the month
More than 5000 tons Of beets are now
stored in the companys warehouse
here
The Lincoln Canning company Of
Merrill has received one carload Of
Early Alaska seed peas and is await
Ing a carload of Adyancers. The two
carloads, containing a total OF 1000
bushels of seed peas Will be enough
10 seed 500 acres Most Of this has
been fall ploughed and viii be har.
rowed and dragged next spring before
it is put into crop, in order to assure
as big a crop as possible for next year
Federal agents in Marinette were
disappointed when they searched the
| schooner Edward Lee which arrived
from Canada They had waited for
the schOoner's arrival three days and
nights on a report that a man who
had collected considerable money for
the purchase and importation Of Ii
Quor had his cargo of booze aboard the
boat The boat carried a very dry
cargo Of lumber.
Employing printers Of the Fox river
valley, from Green Bay to Fond du
Lac, formed the Fox River Typothetae,
a branch Of the United Typothetae Of
America, at a meeting in Appleton
Twenty printing plants We're admitted
to membership. The organization is
making arrangements for Installation
OF standardized cost accounting sys-
TENS In all member Offices.
The assessment returns for Wal
worth county place the valuation OF
property to be nearly S7000OO0O. This
is an increase OF nearly $400O,O0O in
the last year Automobiles number
| five hundred and ninety-seyen more
than in 1919. The assessed valuation
of WaIworth county bank stock is
| Sl,O59523, with the city Of White.
water, $3255OO, in the lead
Farmers who took part in Rusk
county's $1,0OO,O0O land clearing con
test, which added 5000 acres TO the
county's tillabIe land, will hear the
list OF prize winners Nov g. at ban
queL in Ladysmith During the cam
paign. which began last April and en-.
rolled more than 300 farmers, 100000
pounds Of dynamite were used in blast
| ing stamps. The need for develop.
ment in Rusk county is clearly shown
by the fact that only per cent of a
possible IS per cent of tillable land
is now under cultivation.
The STANCE private park with 500.
| 900 Improvements, has been donated
to the city Of Merrill The park con
sists of seven acres of Choicely kept
park surrounded by lagoons of the
Prairie river It's many trees are ex-
cellently arranged, some in an avenue
and others scattered about 1t has
long been "A fayorite outing place for
church picncs and private parties to
which use it was generously loaned by
its former owner, A. II. STANCE. The
| gift was unanimously accepted by the
council.
Louis Radiker, a farmer 81 years
Of age, performed two noteworthy
feats during the recent Rusk county
fair; He brought a display Of yege.
| tables. grains, and fruits from his own
farm. grown entirely by himself, con.
8t5ting of about 1850 varieties, which
constituted the entire township exhibit
| for the town of Richland; he also took
his first ride in an aeroplaue Harry
D. Crewd5on, the aviator who has
made 1000 flights, said that Mr..
Badjkor was the oldest passenger that
De had ever taken for a fight,
The Wisconsin Certified Seed pots
~ association has orders for seven
carloads of certified potatoes. to be
shipped during October They all go
10 Galveston Texas, and all are OF the
Early Triumph variety Five carloads
go from points in Barron county and
The other two from Marnctte county
The price Is $26J per hundred pounds
Bishop Paul Rhode of the Green
Bay diocese confirmed a class Of 20C
a.. S. Johns church, Amigo and dedi
Gated the new 81. James church al
White Lake The Rev. Father j. S
Landowsky is pastor OF the new
church
State Treasurer Henry Johnson is
planning to pay 100000 of the stat,
civil war debt The 1915 session Of
the legislature provided for the grad
ual payment Of this debt and 1t is be
ing reduced each year by about $500.
600 Mr. johnson said that applca
ton Of the state land Office called foi
loans by the state school districts anl
municipalities amounting TO Sl,200,OOO
The annual meeting Of the Wiacon
sin State Grange will be held in Nee
nah on Dec. Z, and 8 Civic bodie.
are cooperating in arranging details
for the reception Of the ylsitinl