The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-09-30

ing work and will buy dynamite in
carload lots at SIPS hundred
pounds.
Fire, believed to have started in the
boiler room, completely destroyed the
plant of the Seymour Woodenware
company in Seymour, causing loss
of about $4,000, Plans for rebuild
ing We're started before embers had
cooled off
An unusually large tobacco crop is
being harvested by farmers of Monroe
county. The big county acreage is
about cleared and the tobacco safely
house in sheds where it will hang un
til early spring Many fields have an
exceptionally fine crop and prices for
the best weed promise to be higher
even than they We're last year
Work has commenced on the cree
ton of high and graded school build
ing at Argyle which win cost in the
neiehborhood of $4,000 Bids We're
advertised for some months ago but
all We're rejected, Since then the
plans have been altered, the cost re-
duced, and satisfactory bids recesed
and the contract let.
Twenty cans of lingering trout, be
tween 10000 and 100000 have just
been planted in the branches OF the
Evergreen river in the eastern part of
Lmglade county. They came from
the ST. Croix hatchery il charge of a
guide and were planted with the as
sistance of Conseryation Warden II.
w. Mckenzie and members Of the An
tigo Gun and Game club
Grief over the loss of her two chill.
dren is believed to have been the
cause of Mrs. Theodore Albright,
GAINESVILLE, IS, hanging herself. For
several months she had been in poor
health Since the death of her %
year old son, Edward and daughter,
two months later, she had often re-
peated her wish that she too might
die Influenza claimed the life Of her
children.
A letter from Colvin B. Brown,
chief organization service bureau of
the United States Chamber of Com
meTce, Washington, received by Fred
w. Luening, manager director of the
Association of Commerce, Green Bay,
declared that the Green Bay Associa-
ton of Commerce had the highest per
capita income based on the population
Of any city in the country
The town Of King, which won the
fifth silver trophy cup for the best
town booths at the Lincoln county
fair, was awarded the first prize of
SIS for the best community booth at
the Tomahawk Community club. Other
towns winning prizes for their com
munity booths were, Skanawan sec
ond, $40; Birch, third, SIS, and Brad
ley, fourth, 49,
Improvements and addition to the
ore docks of Ashland during the com
ing winter will increase the combined
capacity of the four iron ore docks at
Ashland to a total of 263 500 tons, a
sufficient amount to load SO average
lake freighters of 5000 tons capacity
each. This is practically 100 per cent
more than the Ashland ore docks
could handle five or six years ago
Breeders of the popular Jersey cat,
tie from Tomah were successful in
landing many places at the State fair.
Il. e. Wyatt, E. Hill d Son, and r.
Vanderwort showed cattle in competi-
ton with six large and several smaller
breeders and won places on every oc-
casion but one. Harbinger Chief No.
1260S1, aged herd bull of the Wyatt
farm, won the blue ribbon. Some
classes had 10 high as Is entries.
DR.. James S. Healy, in charge of
that division of work for the state de-
partment Of agriculture, reports that
during the month of August his diyi-
sion tested 1873 herds of cattle in the
state, numbering 400 cattle. There
were added to the accredited herds 30,
making total at this time of 331
herds in the state absolutely free of
any trace of tuberculosis. Beside the
331 herds, 90S herds have passed one
negative test.
Industrial commission reports from
164 large employers in Wisconsin
show that during the week of July Is,
these employers had on their shop pay
rolls 1926 wage earners and paid
60 0EA OuE in yvogau Tbic ,,alyac q :,
average of $2S.06 a week. Mining
paid the highest average wage week.
The highest single group is the pig
iron and rolling mill products, with an
average weekly wage Of $397S; and
the lowest, hosiery and other knit
goods, with wage of $1669
The cabbage market in Wisconsin
this fall is reported by the division Of
markets to be in a deplorable condi
ton. Prices being paid at the present
time are hardly enough 10 pay for the
cutting, hauling and loading Of the
cabbage. Farmers who have cabbage
to market now are facing a loss as it
is difficult to find a market for the
crop. The crop is reported as being
larger than last years
crop and no such prices as were re-
ceiyed last season are being looked
for AT present buyers are only offer.
ing SIS to 81 a ton and the stock IL
selling in the central markets at prices
ranging from SIS to s12 a ton
More hunters than ducks. This
marked the opening day OF
the 1920 hunting season in Neenah
and up-riyer marshes. So thick were
the hunters that il was dangerous TO