The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-03-24
WISDOM SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form


for European or Chinese relief, with
out cost to the relief commissions.
In memory of six Winnebago Indian
youths of the Wisconsin Rapids dis
trict who gave their lives in the World
war Ahdawagam chapter of the d. A,
r. will erect a tablet. The memorial
will be in the form of huge granite
boulder and will contain the names of
the six dusky heroes.
Pleading guilty to burglarizing the
Neva bank, robbing the Deerbrook
garage and larceny of articles valued
at $109, Earl Pillsbury was sentenced
to 20 years and Wickman Pillsbury to
Is years in state prison by Judge A.
B. Goodrich of Amigo. John Kubeny,
also pleading guilty, was given five
years.
In the last six months of 1880 the
average wage of all injured employees
whose cases were settled under the
Wisconsin compensation act was
$2851 per week, as shown by an
analysis made public by the industrial
commission. This figure is to be com
pared with $2299 in the same six
months in 1919 and $3.50 in the first
six months of 1920.
Three horses belonging to Kreger
brothers, Kenosha county, were killed,
and one man, Emil Kreger, was seri-
ously injured when a bolt of lightning
struck in the barnyard of the Kreger
farm. The men were working when
the storm broke and hurried toward
the barn. They were hit by the thun-
derbot just before reaching safety.
Kreger is in a hospital.
Despite the fact that woodsheds.
barns and Easements in Lincoln coun-
ty are crammed with wood, buying
continues. The explanation appears to
be that with wildwood selling at slight
ly more than pre-war prices, promises
to advance to nearly the cost of coal,
which under the present high freight
rates, is no competitor for wildwood
fuel, sawmills are stocked ahead with
orders for a considerable time.
Within a few years there will be
beautiful automobile drive out of
Marinette one of the finest in that sec
ton. 1t is the loop from Marinette
down the bay shore to Peshtigo har-
Dor and then from the harbOr to the
city of marinette, about % miles in all
This drive will include about eight
miles of shore drive up the Peshtigo.
At present the roads are passable but
not very good.
A resolution has been adopted by
the Tomahawk city council for a ref
erendum vote to be submitted to the
electors at the spring election for the
issuance Of $4,000 bonds with which
to build two bridges across the Wis
consin river at Tomahawk This is
suance of bonds is the limit to which
the city can go for bonding purposes
together with those which are now out
standing.
Another "meanest" thief has come
to light He is Mic Stevens. an Indian,
who was sentenced TO one year in the
Green Bay reformatory after pleading
guilty to the charge of having stolen
$50, a valuable purse and revolvqg
from Patrick Burns, an aged blind
man of Maple Grove, Manitowoc coun-
ty. Stevens was a guest at the Burns
home when he committed the theft
He was arrested at Wittenburg,
The Fairmont Creamery Co., the
main Office of which is located in
Omaha, was found guilty in municipal
court at Green Bay on seven counts
charging violation of the state dairy
and food laws and was fined $175 and
costs. The company was charged with
holding butter and eggs in cold stor-
age in violation Of state laws, with no
marks to show on what date the dairy
products were placed in storage or
when released.
Dog prisoners are quite common,
and their work is heard of quite fire.
quently, but a new kind of "low life"
was discovered the other day near
Footville, Rock county, where 80 fine
Leghorn chickens belonging to Gust
Guse were discovered dead An eX-
animation disclosed the fact that they
had been poisoned by combination
of salt, oats and strychnine, The
owner recently moved into the neigh
borhood and is unaware of having any
enemies. The loss is estimated at
about SIS.
Oneida county claims the distinction
of being the largest producer of certi
fed seed potatoes in Wisconsin. Dur
ing the year 1920 there was grown in
the state 10000 bushels of certified
seed stock and of this amount Oneida
county furnished 125,000 bushels
Since the first of January this year II
carloads of certified seed stock have
been shipped from that county to
growers in various parts Of the coun-
try. chiefly in the South. Indications
are that a larger acreage will be de
voted to seed stock this year in Oneida
county as growers are beginning to
realize more and more the increased
profits TO be had from this branch Of
the industry,
Nick Kowaliszyn, Portage county
farmer, paid fine of 500 and costs
of $1OSO in county court at Stevens
Point on a charge Of violating the Null
berger prohibition enforcement law.
He was arrested late in February when
state agents made search of farms
and soft drink establishments in Ste
vens Point.
After Ave years Of waiting, compile
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