The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-08-12
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

To pay the increased wages needed
by the employees of the Madison Rail
way company, no increase in the rates
is required, according to the decision
OF the Wisconsin railway commission
The commission confirms award fol
increased salaries made by the Statt
board Of Cancellation.
The hull of the steamer +. & p. NJ
No 3, which sank in Ludington harbol
last fall was towed to Manitowoc and
is in drydock for survey. Until it is
positively known what shape the boat
is in plans for rebuilding will not be
made. The No. 3 belonged to the old
black feet, owned by Capt, John Smith
and others of Ludington.
A self-confessed deserter from the
navy, giving his name as Salvatore
! Alfanate, gave himself up to II. B.
Warner, in charge of the navy recruit
ing station at Ashland. He was locked
up until orders were received to have
him taken to Great Lakes station,
where be was taken by Walsh Of Su.
! perior, in charge of the station at that
place.
a social survey of Neenah and Me
nasha, covering general conditions,
health, housing and sanitation educa.
| ti0n, recreation, family welfare and de.
| linquency, has been undertaken by the
| Twin City Red Cross chapters The
| information obtained will serve to CO.
! ordinate relief work and serve as a
guide to all organizations working for
| civic betterment.
State fremen concluded their thir.
! teenth annual convention at Green Bay
with the election of Louis f. McGnlen.
Appleton, president; George c. Han
son, La Crosse, vice PRESIDENT ole
Norman, Superior, secretary. John H.
Kratz, Manitowoc, treasurer, and
Clarence E. Gillian, Racine, member
Of the executive committee, succeed
ing Charles F. Hennessy of Milwau-
kee
The Jacquet Motor Car Co. has filed
articles of incorporation here for $780,
GOO, and plans to erect a factory in
Manitowoc to manufacture cars AL
fred Jackson. Francis kadow and j.
g. Kamschule are the incorporators
This years potato crop will be the
largest in the history of the state, and
prices will be about half of what they
were last year, according to officials
of the division of markets.
As a result of q campaign that has
been carried on for many months, the
Grand Rapids city council voted to
change the name to Wisconsin Rap
ids. The change was demanded be-
cause of the inconvenience and trou.
bic experienced because mail was often
directed to Grand Rapids Mich. or
mother city of the same name in Min
pesota. The change is effective after
publication OF the ordinance.
More inquiries into the death of Her
man Singer, Madison, barber, who was
found dead in stone quarry, are to
be made. The coroner's jury rendered
a verdict that he had come to his death
a manner unknown to this jury" and
recommended an investigation by the
proper authorities. Dist. Atty. Roman
Herman minated that there was at
least one person suspected.
After an -ig-lt-day hunt, Ashland
county's wild man." who gives the
name of Charles Mills and claims Rus
STA as his birthplace, has been cap
tured and is now locked in Jail at Ash
| land. For four years Mills has lived
the life of a hermit in the deep for
ests near Glidden. Complaints from
| farmers OF the theft of provisions and
small articles from their homes
caused the hunt for him TO be started
The Daily Equity News will be pub
| lished at the plant of the Chippewa
Daily Press at Chippewa Falls, accord
| ing to announcement made by August
| Ender, editor and manager of Chip
pewa Daily Press. Arrangements for
the publication of the Equity News
were made at conference between
| ]. N. Tittemore, members Of the Wis
consin Equity bureau and Mr. Ender,
who will continue publishing his own
paper, while acting as editor and man
ager of the new Equity Daily.
Many Wisconsin women are un-
aware that they are entitled to vote
Tor presidential electors this fall, re-
gardless of the ratification of the fed
eral suffrage amendment. The Wis
consin legislature passed an act which
| confers this right. 1t was approved
on Feb. %, 1919, and became a law
when published on March s, 1919. AS
a result of this fact there are more
than 100000 women over q years of
! age in the state who are entitled TO
vote for presidential electors, If rati-
fcation talks place before the Septem-
Der primaries, women will then have
the right to vote for all officers at
election time,
The expected increase in coal re-
Ceipts did not come in July as was
expected so far as the port of Ash
land is concerned. Only So per cent
OF the normal receipts have been re-
ceived so far this season, comparing
receipts with the first four months OF
1919.
Eleven young ladies and two men
! of Oshkosh were forced to spend the
night on Lake Butte desAMorts in an
open launch when the propeller of the
boat became tangled in weeds. They
finally drfted to Leonard's point and
| from there were brought 10 their