The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-05-26
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

star mail route between Apple River,
/ ILL.,, and that city.
/ John b. Fountain, GAINESVILLE, city
/ sealer of weights and measures, was
/ forced to resign by the city adminis,ra-
| ton when a contracting firm of which
Fountain is a member was given a
contract with the city.
Petitions for Daylight saving in
| Beloit during the summer months were
refused by the common council Fac
/ tory employees were largely behind the
petitions. Farmers living near Beloit
/ vigorously opposed the measure, set
/ ting forth that among other hardships
rural children attending city schools
would be especially burdened. The
/ petitions carried 1900 signatures.
A copper cross with the year 1913
and the initials f, w engraved on it
was found by meNbers of the Beloit
| r. o. T. c. while leveling off the field
which is to be their parade grounds.
! II is an old German cross given for
bravery. according TO Lieut.. Williams,
commandant of the camp He thinks
/ that the cross was given to some sol
der who fought in the Napoleonic
wars
Fond du Lac county has not aban.
d6ned it's tuberculosis sanatOTium plan.
/ That county stands ready to entertain
proposals for a combination with
Dodge, Washington, or Green Lake
counties. Washington county has eX-
pressed a desire to proceed with the
building of a sanatorium with Fond
du Lac county and according to state
ments of members of the Fond du Lac
county board, Green Lake would like
10 join with this county
Obie f. Gibson of Eau Claire has
been engaged as agricultural agent in
I Villas county to succeed Oscar Gunder-
son, who recently resigned. Mr.. Glib
son graduated from the long course in
the Wisconsin College of Agriculture
in 1914 and has had considerable eX-
perence in the work in Minnesota,
where he organized more than twenty
cow testing associations. He has since
specialized in dairying and breeding
of pure bred Holsteins at the Gibson
Brothers stock farm near Eau Claire.
A farmers call board was formed
at Plymouth at meeting OF 200 farm
ers of Sheboygan county, articles OF
corporation were drawn up and Off
GERS elected. Twenty-Five cheese lac
tories of that county signifed theh
intentions of selling their products on
this board. The board is organized on
the cooperative plan and only farmers
may be officers under the articles OF
agreement Cheese buyers may hold
only buying memberships.
The North Central Brown Swiss
Breeders Association will hold its first
picnic Friday, June II, at Oscar
Schulz farm in the town OF Pine RIVER
/ Lincoln county. George {. Humphrey
OF the Wisconsin College OF Agrlcul'
ture and who judged the Brown SWISS
cattle at the international stock snow
]
secretary of the American SWISS
Breeders Association, Will give ad'
dresses. The association has member
ship in five counties.
A noSthbound Northwestern road
Messenger train pIowed through a herd
of cattle near Mendoza and killed II
of the herd The cattle were owned
by William Schillinglaw, farmer Nv
ing near Mendoza. Mr.. SchillinglaW
had the cattle shipped to his farm and
they were unloaded at Mendoza sta
ton The cattle were driven along
the road toward the farm. The road
crosses the railroad tracks and the
herd was being driven across the
tracks when a fast train bore down
on the crossing and it was impossible
to remove the cows.
The result of the recent cold spell
and hard freeze over Wanshara county
was more disastrous than was first
sunnosed Blueberries, Of which a
large crop is raised and much ship
ming is usually done from Plainield,
are ruined. also strawberries, raspber
rios currants and other fruit trees
/ Farmers who had sowed hundreds of
dollars worth of clover seed claim the
. c,ovar was mn about an inch and being
60 tender was killed. This will be 2
great loss for next wear of hay and
posture
nj. oo,,,,, ,,rdor tho Guidance Of
,o',,,l. ~ Me- county highway
,.,,n,,issio,o,, has taken the lead in
u,,aaa,,.i, - hnilding concrete high.
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