The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-07-22
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

Owing to inability to secure kitchen
and dining room help the Galloway
hotel, Eau Claire's present leading hos
telry, has been forced to suspend its
dining room facilities and is no long.
er serving meals.
St James English Lutheran church
OF Marinette, new congregation, has
completed plans for the erection of a
new edifice to cost 100000, Work viii
start in the fall The new church will
be of the English Gothic type.
The Evangelical church association
Of Seymour celebrated it's lftieth ami
yersary. -Four former pastors and
three former members of the congre-
cation, who are now ministers. were
guests of honor Thirty clergymen
took part.
Thomas A. Delaney. federal prohibi-
ton officer for Wisconsin, announced
that he would not be candidate for re-
election to the assembly for the Green
Bay district. He says that chasing of
violators of the eighteenth amendment
will take all his time.
The carpenters strike, which threat
ened to tie up building conditions at
Kenosha, came to an end when the car
penters dehed the business agent of
the building trades council and went
back 10 work. The strike was started
in an attempt to organize common la
borers.
Cider and fruit juices, nonintoXicat-
ing in fact, and not necessarily one
half of per cent, can be made in your
own home, the federal prohibition com
missioner for Wisconsin announced,
No definite mention is made as to
what extent of alcohol is permissible
in the cider and fruit juices, excepting
that it must be mountaineering in fact,
and not necessarily one-half of ! per
cent.
A committee, consisting of Roger G.,
Cunningham, city attorney of James
vile; d. e. Mowry, manager of the
Madison Chamber of Commerce. and
j. G. Swift city clerk of Darlington,
was appointed at a meeting of repre-
sentatiye8 of the cities of southern
Wisconsin to petition the Northwest
ern and Milwaukee roads for better
passenger train service to and from
Milwaukee.
A fierce battle between his Airedale
dog and timber wolf that ragged for
nearly an hour was ended when Will
liam KoTb, who resides at Carpenter
lake, nine miles east of Eagle River,
killed the wolf with d club. Both ami
mails were severely torn in the fight
which ragged in the early hours of the
morning. Korb asserts his dog would
have killed the wolf even If he had not
come to its assistance.
Five keepers Of Marinette saloons
who were refused license to sell bey
erages of less than one-half of / per
cent alcoholic content, paid fines of
$50 and costs for opening their places
without the necessary permit They
were Mike Snyder, Axel Johnson, Al
bert Behrendent, John j. Levy and w
j. Frederckson. Three of them con
duct hotels. Twenty dealers were
granted permits to sell malt bever-
ages.
Indications point to an immense crop
of blueberries in the north woods this
season. The absence of damaging
trosts early in the spring, when the
plants were in blossom, gave promise
of a big yield and later growth bears
out the assumption that there will be
plenty of the wild berries. Last years
crop was the largest in years. Thou
sands of quarts were picked by home
people and many parties from down
state made special trips to the berry
fields to gather the fruit.
T. T. Pyburn, Washbun, was re
elected president OF the Wisconsin
Rural Letter Carriers association, at
its annual convention held at Merrill
Henry Gollen6eck, Beaver Dam, was
elected vice president; ". G. Arle,
Sturgeon Bay, secretary, and Chester
Granger, Sheboygan Falls, treasurer
A. c. Powerweltz, Merrill, and Harry
Garland, Beloit, were elected delegates.
to the national convention, which will
be held at Dallas, Tex. The next state
convention will be held at Sheboygan
After over three months of dssen.
sion and negotiations, the building
trades strike in La Crosse has ended
Five hundred men have gone back to
work. While no announcement was
made concerning the new agreement
1t is understood the carpenters receive
IN advance from 72H to 80 cents an
hour, the hod carriers and common
laborers are granted a small increase.
with a nine hour day and Saturday
afternoons off, and other unions go
back to work under the old wage
scales. Lines will not be drawn so
closely by the union men on the ques-
ton of working with nonunion men,
according to the new agreement.
-Four cows belonging to Mike Car
tier, a farmer near Epson, were cleo
trocuted during an electrical storm.
Five of Carriers cows took refuge
against a wire fence during the storm.
-Four were instantly killed when light
ming struck the fence some distance
away.
Albert Porter, SO years old, was in
iured at Beloit, probably fatally, when
he was pinned in the running gear of
a light wagon, in when ne was seated,
and dragged 300 feet before his team
of frightened ponies was halted in a
rnnaWaY. His hin was fractured and