The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-02-05
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

stray stack, covered with Ice ana
snow, tipped over and struck him. He
was taken to a Sheboygan hospital,
The annual gathering of the Outa-
gamie County Pioneers association
will be held in Appleton on Feb. q.
1t will be the forty-eighth convention
of the old settlers of the county,
The high cost of being sick took a
new jump with the announcement by
Green Bay physicians of an increase
iii rates, Day calls are to be increased
from 81 to SO and night calls from
S4 to SIS.
G. d. Fritzsinger, secretary Of the
Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce,
heads a new oil company to be known
as the Wood Oil Co. The new organi-
cation will job oils for the Grand
Rapids dealers.
After hiccoughing constantly for the
last three days, A. l.. Crosby, owner
OF the Market Square Music shop, Ke-
nosha, became unconscious and it was
only after five physicians had attended
him more than three hours that he
was revived.
That the demand for logging horses
was the heaviest in years is the state
ment of Sam B. Ullman, well known
horse dealer of Amigo. He predicts
a very strong demand for farm horses
in the spring.
The Flu" so prevalent elsewhere
has scarcely been heard of this winter
in the northern part of Wisconsin.
Not a single case Of "fu" has been re-
ported at Ashland this winter. A year
ago, deaths from the disease were
common in this region"
e. J. Goodrich, prominent lawyer of
Amigo and father of Municipal Judge
A. B. Goodrich, is dead as the result
of a stroke of apopleXy, He was 20
years Of age and had been confined 70
his bed with a complication of dis
cases for about three months.
The Ashland Weekly Call, estab-
lished in Ashland about two years ago,
by f. w. Haislett, has changed hands
and has been absorbed by The Ashland
Daily Press. This leaves Ashland with
The Press as its only paper During
the past twenty years or more, num-
Der of weekly papers have been es-
tablished at Ashland, all being alb
sorbed ultimately by the local Press,
or going out of business.
The village of Prairie Farm, Barron
county, returned at least temporarily
TO kerosene lamps and gas lights. The
Prairie Farm Electric Co. discontinued
furnishing electric light and power
Feb. l. The company has been operat-
ing at a loss for three years and the
railroad commission recently granted
its request to discontinue service. Ar
rangements are being made to bring
in electric power from some other
source.
Government officials are conducting
a hearing at Chippewa Falls with a
view of determining the rating of the
three candidates for postmaster to sue
coed Postmaster Cunningham, recently
resigned. The three candidates for the
appointment are Ernest Nickel, as
sistant postmaster since Cunningham
resignation; Edward Richter who has
charge of the Office of the Leinenkugel
brewing Co, and William McGough,
railway mail clerk.
Six years ago the city of Neenah
was about $4,000 in debt, was borrow
ing money to pay interest on borrowed
money and the annual taxes were con
sumed in paying debts of the proceed
ing year. Now Neenah is out of bedt,
is working on more or less of a budget
system, is using the taxes for the cur
rent years expenses and is steadily
reducing its bonded Indebtedness the
effects of careful and conservative mu-
Dicipal administration.
What is undoubtedly the highest
price ever paid in northern Wisconsin
tor a COW and a calf was received by
the ST. CroiX county asylum farm near
New Richmond for the p. b. Holstein
Minita Korndyke Ormsby 2S2746 and
her three-months-old heifer. They
were purchased by p. f. Spaulding,
Warren, Mimi, for $4,000 The coun-
ty farm purchased the COW only one
year ago for $500, and thus made
$1,000 on the COW in one year
Thousands of Western sheep were
fattened on the cutover lands of the
Lake Superior country last summer,
and the number will be much larger
next summer, according to informa-
ton from stock men. That the pine
barren region is the best feeding
grounds for sheep in the state is the
statement of Frank S. Catlin, owner
of big ranch north of Ashland, The
barrens are a succession of rolling
sand hills, between Ashland and Iron
River, between the Northern Pacific
railroad and Lake Superior covered
with scattering jack pines, but with
an abundance of buffalo grass, blue
joint and bunch grass, much more nu.
tritious than tame grasses,
Legal steps will be taken by the ma
tional board of the American Society
of Equity to ascertain the exact hnan-
cial condition of the organization as
left by the members of the old board
who were ousted at the recent national
convention in Madison.
Due to an alteration when at work
in one of the j. w. Wells Lumber
company's camps near Wausaukee,
Marinette county, William Kostak Is
in the hospital at Marinette with a
cut on the head inflicted by an AK in
the hands of fellow workman. The