The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-18
The first genuine black fox to be


more than 5000.
The Gideons, in one day campaign
at La Crosse, raised enough money TO
place a bible in every hotel room in
La Crosse Four hundred and twenty.
five bibles have been ordered
NJ c. Ewing, president Of the Wau'
sau Boy Scout council, has donated
for the use of the Wausau Boy Scouts
an eighty.fve acre tract three and
one-half miles north OF the city.
Two formal and definite movements
are launched in Oshkosh looking to,
wards a reorganization Of the munich
pal government. One movement,
which had it's inception largely among
workingmen on the South Side, is for
wiping out the present commission
form of government and returning to
the old aldermanic form.
The county of Lincoln spant S225,00O
more during the last year than during
any former twelve months. The totai
expenditure was $602,3911S of which
1926, 26i95 was spent for highways,
highway machinery and buildings for
the latter. Orders for the county's
poor run up to $4O21273 despite in.
creased wages.
Forty.two foreign born residents of
La Crosse and vicinity We're admitted
to citizenship in circuit court, the
class being the largest naturalized for
years. Three applicants were denied
citizenship when il was shown that
during the war they claimed eNemp-
ton because they were natives of
Germany
Lesther Nelson Merrill, who e5,
capped from a fire on oct. 4, in which
five of his brothers and sisters per.
ished, left the hospital Even the
wound on his hand healed without
grating. Work has been Started on
the new home for the family, toward
which nearly $500 has been donated
by sympathizers throughout the coun.
ty and state,
X. d. Scoon, for the last seven years
superintendent Of the state employ
mcnt bureau at Superior has been APP
pointed factory inspector for the north
en district under the industrial com
mission of Wisconsin. He has sue
CeedCd Clarence Otto. Beaver Dam,
while X. J. Harmon has been made
superintendent of the employment
bureau
The area cleanup = Bovine tubercu-
losis which Lincoln county has begun
under the states jurisdiction has c,S
cred the towns of Some, Wilson, Toma-
hawk, Skanawan, Harrison and King,
and in several days the towns of Birch
and Rock Falls viii have been fin
ished Out of total OF 1891 cattle
there have been but ten positive re
actors.
During the last year thirty-seyen
mothers in Lincoln county drew pen
sion under the state law from the
county The total pension amounted
to over $4,000. Thirty of the mothers
receiving the pension were in the city
of Merrill. one mother had eight
children under the age of II in her
care. another seven, another six and
another five
The first year of the county man
agement of the Mantowoc county fair,
which was last year taken over by the
county, netted $4,000, according TO a
report filed with the county board.
There Is a cash balance of $4,000 on
| hand after all expenses We're paid and
iii is probable that no appropriation
| will have to be made for the 1921 fair
4 by the board over $4,000 was eX-
pended last year for permanent i'm
provcmpnts OF the grounds.
one Of the most unusual freaks of
nature that has come to light in Dunn
county is the birth of set of trplets
to a Hosten COW on the Nels Tilleson
farm near Menomonie in the town OF
/ Red Cedar The first calf weighed "a
pounds, the second ~ pounds and the
/ third 81 pounds Their total weight
was 1877 pounds The mother Is a
year old heifer The occurrence is
bound to attract wide attention among
/ animal ACKNOWLEDGMENT being a great
rarity.
| Lawrence college will receive a gift
of 100000 from the General Educa.
4 tional board If ii can raise an addi-
tional 100000 among its friends it
was announced following joint meet.
/ ing of the boards Of trustees and
7 visitors at which ii was decided to ac.
/ cept the offer The 100000 is to be
/ raised by quiet solicitation so far as
| possible, but If this method fails to
raise the entire sum, general public
campaign to obtain the remainder may
/ be attempted il was said
Only in a few communities Of the
state will muskrat trapping be allowed
+ this fall, according 90 the conservation
department The rapid disappearance
OF fur.bearing animals as the result OF
the high prices Is the cause for the
! closed season Muskrat and mink are
/ protected in every county of the state
until Nov q, 1921, except in Waupaca
and Wnnebago counties, and in the
townships Of Bloomerfeld and Poy
sippi in Waushara county whore the
season is open from Nov. 10 TO March
F 81. The same order OF the commission
protects does and tawns allowing only
the killing Of bucks with horns not
less than three inches long, from Nov
/ q to Nov 80
a number OF Laona aIortsmen have
contributed to a fund which will be-