The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-24

| be placed at $1,000.
Asst Dean John A. James of the col
lege Of agriculture, Madison, was elect
ed president of the Vocational Eduoa
tional association at its annual con
yention in Minneapolis.
A flip of a coin decided the election
of vice-president of the junior class of
/ Superior Normal school, which has 235
members. The first ballot resulted in
tie between Ida Kaplin and Ronald
Smith. Miss Kaplin took heads, and
won.
M. A. McLennon of the Green Bay
coast guard station is exhibiting l
cent piece coined in 1925 1t is about
the size OF a half dollar and much bat
tered. Mr.. McLennon received it in
change from a postofIice in Iowa about
thirty years ago.
A burglar with taste for stenog-
raphy entered the offices of the Il. p.
Nuens Lumber Co, Fredonia, and car
ried off a typewriter, leaving a safe
VI molested The firm has offered a re-
ward of $50 for recovery of the ma
chine.
The Jefferson Cooperative Produce
company recently organized, will es.
tablish their headquarters in Jefferson,
The business and purpose of the cor.
poration is to buy and sell, dairy and
farm products. The capital stock is
$4,000, which is divided into 400
shares at the par value of $50 each.
Details for a public service for tour
lists are being worked out by the Off
cials of the Oshkosh Association Of
Commerce and when the automobile
touring season opens it is expected the
organization will be in a position to
provide much valuable information to
tourists.
Ace Wiley from the Cranberry
River country Bayfield, county, ex-
hibited a beautiful skin of a simon
pure silver gray fox with perfect mark
ings, worth around $500. The animal
was nearly four feet in length and at
first glance appeared to be almost
clear black
Excitement ran high at the Monroe
county Jail when it was reported a man
had been seen burying a large box in
the woods near Leon The sheriff and
a corps Of assistants hurried to the
spot and with pick and shovel dug up
the suspicious box. 1t contained the
body of a faithful dog whose master
had given his pet a decent burial.
Believed dead for more than two
years. Earl Place, Manitowoc young
man, has written to his mother, Mrs
Rose Place, from San Francisco, stat
ing that he had just arrived from a
three years cruise to the philippines
and other faTaway ports. He is in the
United States navy, having enlisted in
1918, and will be discharged in April,
his letter states.
If plans of the state board of con
troll mateTialiZe, the state reformatory
at Green Bay win soon have one of
the finest farms in the state An op-
ton has been obtained on 800 acres
in Oneida township, according to Sen
ator Burke, who is fathering the move.
The project is so laid out that the in.
stitution farm will rank second to none
in the country.
Twenty-siX miles Of concrete high.
way viii be constructed in Racine
county during the coming season, ac-
cording to plans adopted by the coun-
ty highway commissioner. Bids on
the proposed improvement will be ad-
vertised for and if figures are within
the estimated cost, contracts will be
awarded so that construction work
may begin early in the spring.
Sixty years in the barber trade with
but one weeks vacation, is the record
of Lou Weitzel, Fond du Lac, Oldest
barber in the state. Mr.. Weitzel start
ed in the trade in Chicago sixty years
ago, and came to Fond du Lac fifty-four
years ago. He has had many odd eX-
periences. While working in Chicago
he shaved President Lincoln. He re-
ceived a tip from the maTtyred presi-
dent amounting to S4,85. Later while
in the employ of a Milwaukee barber
shop, he shaved President Grant and
again received a tip Of $4.S5.
The worlds largest dairy COW,
Holstein. named Wisconsin Forbes v,
is owned by John Erickson of Wau-
paca, who has sold a half interest in
her latest son to the e. c. Schroeder
farms of Morehead, MINI. Wisconsin
Forbes V weighed when the record
was made 2,240 pounds. This was
when she was AZ years old She is
wonderful producer Of milk having
made a record of 296S pounds of but
terfat, SIS pounds Of milk, in seven
days, and 106.76 pounds of butterfat,
2,282.6 pounds of milk, in thirty days.
Wisconsin has 46 cities using sur
face waters, such as lakes and rivers.
as sources of their public water sup
ply, it is indicated in the report of G.
NJ Baker, state sanitary engineer.
given to the state department of en-
gineers, reviewing activities in 1926,
Ten of these supplies are filtered ana
u are chlorinated only,
while "a are untreated The latter
class constitute the greatest danger Of
disease. Ground water
are used in 224 cities and vii
lagos, and consist of 100 shallow wells.
springs and infltration galleries, and
124 artesian or deep wells. There are
270 public water supplies in the state,
one Of the largest limestone quar-.
ries in the Middle West Is being de.
veloped at Black Creek, near Appleton,
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