The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-04
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| d IIllt anu fought against dlltpt NhSh
Stevens Point police attempted to ar
rest him at his house following a
quarrel with his wife
Bishop Koudelka of the Superior
diocese has requested the transfer OF
| the Rev. Father John b. Owen, pastor
OF St Francis Xavier church of Merrill
to the pastorate of the cathedral cor
gregation in Superior.
AS delegates to the Farmers Ma
| tional congress to be held Nov. 1913
at Columbus, Gov. Philip appointed
the following: Walter Houser Mon
dow; Ira Mjchryst, Hudson; X. p
Ames, Oregon; and l.. |. Roe, Stanley
Leo Konopacki, arrested at Stevens
Point several weeks ago charged with
resisting an officer, was assessed fine
of $50, with the alternative of spend
ing six months in the county Jail. He
paid up the total amounting to S84.O3
Konopacki, it was alleged, brandished
Church membership was declared By
the majority of the new students who
entered the University of Wisconsin
this fall, according to church census
which was taken by the Campus Re
ligious council during registration. OF
the 2,797 new students, 2,3l3 reported
church atfiiation, and the majority OF
these are church members.
The Holstein dispersal sale of the
Henry Siemers and Joe Silbernagel
herds with the consignment OF Is well
bred animals of Wippermann Brothers
at the Lake Park farm on the Lake
Shore road four miles north of She
boygan, brought in $10,735. Bidding
was comparatively active throughout
the auction and some animals sold az
high as $525.
During the two years ending June
30, 1920, the industrial commission is
sued 54,822 orders upon employers re
lating to safety and sanitation More
than half of these orders We're on
transmission apparatus. There We're
also more than 1000 orders in each OF
the following groups; Elevators, ma
chinery, sanitation, electrical safety
and fire prevention.
The Superior division of the Duluth
Street Railway Co. has made only $425
over all expenses, including interest
sinking fund and taxes, in the first
nine months of this year, according 10
Herbert Warren, vice president and
general manager OF the company, who
testified before c. d. Jackson of the
Wisconsin railroad commission at the
city hall.
Farmers residing in the vicinity OF
Spirit Falls complain about the high
cost of car haulage from that point
to Tomahawk via the Tomahawk
Marinette and Western railroad, and
will make an effort to have the Mil
waukee road extend its Newwooc
branch Of the Wisconsin Valley divi
sion to Spirit Falls. They are willing
to contribute part of the right of way
provided the right of way does not cut
their farms in two.
Because of the change in dates o.
the Wisconsin state potato show al
Milwaukee, a similar change is made
in the plan of the Wisconsin Seed Pc
Iato association The latter organiza
ton announced it would meet at Penn
bine, Marinette county, Dec. / The
state show is now to be held Nov. 30
to December 4 and the Certified Seec
association has changed its date L
Dec. Is, at Pembine
John Mclaughlin, farmer near MeT
rill, was paroled for one year in The
care of a state probation officers, BY
Judge A. H. Reid, in circuit court a.
Merrill Mclaughlin chased some
boys from his land with a shotgun
firing a charge in their direction. one
of the fine shot struck one OF the boys
although Mclaughlin claims he did no
intend TO shoot at them In addition
to being placed under parole, Nc
Loughlin was ordered to pay al
charges and medical fees in the case
Eric Mikelson, Pembine, Marinettt
county, reports remarkable yielC
from Ave acres of Triumph pure bred
certified potatoes. He harvested a
the rate of 800 bushels to the acre
The figures have been checked by
County Agent Sibole and by State Pc
tato Inspector Brand, and the latte1
believes they constitute state recorC
for yield an acre of pure bred seed
He says he would not be astonished tt
learn when reports are compiled from
all states that the Mikeson yield viii
constitute national record.
The Fond du Lac police department
is waging war upon speeders this sea
son, there being already 81 Violatori
Of the city speed laws hailed into cour
from the middle Of May until Oct. %
Allowing that the minimum fine of $1t
was paid by each offender, the city re
ceived 1910 for speeding fines alone
which, together with court costs
would mean that speeders paid mini
mum total of s1,21095. The war upor
the speeders and reckless automobile
drivers will be continued next season
and will be even more forcefully en-
forced.
A labor shortage existed durinl
September in all cities OF the stat,
with public employment offices exCep
at Racine, Sheboygan and Wausau, &C
cording to figures just compiled by thu
industrial commission Total applica
tons for work In the state amounted
to 14,423 with registered requests To-
help running up TO 1902.
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