The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-27
WTSCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged In Condensed Form

I by the breeders association averaged
$3.50. The top price was $3.50, where
as a year ago the same cattle brought
fancy prices, over the thousand mark
Forty head were sold on the block.
Use of the northeastern Wisconsin
sheep for fattening for the market
was granted to business men inter
N9ted in the Association of Commerce
aud the Green Bay sugar plant. Beet
/ pulp is to be used in the fattening
/ process. According to l.. W. Blaney
Of the Blaney Cattle Co., about 10000
head of sheep will be shipped in be
ggre Nov l. The sheep will be sold
at Chicago markets in the spring.
The La Crosse Conservation club
mas forwarded to Gov. j. j. Blaine a
( petition asking for executive action to
stop the enforcement of a state law
requiring the destruction of all carp
lninnows caught in the seines of com
mercial fishermen. This action fol.
lowed a letter of protest to Gov.
Blaine from Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover, who pointed out that
this action would in time destroy an
important food supply.
Income taxes for Rock county for
the year of 1921 increased $16,S1S
over the figures for the preceding
year This tax is tor incomes earned
in 192O-the peak of the industrial
booms in Beloit and Janesyille-to be
collected this year. The total normal
tax for Rock county amounted to
SlG1,41276 In Beloit there was an
Increase of nearly $4,000 and in
GAINESVILLE more than $1,000. In the
villages and townships there was a
reduction over the previous figures.
A carload of big mouth black bass
from the Mississippi river was planted
in the lakes near Minocqua by the
Wisconsin conservation commission.
These fish were presented to the state
by the conservation commission Of tse
Mississippi river The bass are of a
different type than those common in
the northern Wisconsin waters. They
are distinguished b. the mouth, which
extends back beyond the eye lines,
Forty per cent of the fish were year.
lings and the majority of them were
four to six inches in length.
Hot lunches will be served during
the winter months in every rural
school in Brown county. According
to the plans of e. A. Seymour, county
school superintendent, the household
arts classes in each institution will
have charge of the meals. Oil stoves
for cooking purposes have been pur
chased by the county board, The
meals will be served on the non-profit
plan. Assessment will be divided be.
tween all the pupils. Students doing
the cooking and preparing the lunches
will be given credit in their academic
standing.
With obligations tota!ing about
S135, 900, the Kiel Cheese and Butter
Co. has been placed in the hands Of
trustees by creditc"s and stockhold'
ers. j. B. Laun, Kiel, and W. ]. Paul
son, Chiffon, We're named to take
charge of the company with a third
trustee to be named by cheese-makers
who are creditors. Inability to make
collections on outstanding accounts
estimated at $4,000 and difficulties
resulting from the slump in prices
since January are said to be respon.
sible for the situation. The plant at
Kiel is listed at physical valuation
of $4,000. Liabilities of the company.
according to a statement, include
$40 600 owing to cheese-makers and
brokers and $4,000 to 25 banks. The
company is owned by Green Bay in.
terests.
Judge George w. Burnell, 81 years
old, Civil war veteran, who has occu.
pied the circuit court bench at Osh.
kosh for thirty-siX years, died at his
home in that city after a short i'll.
ness. He succumbed to pneumonia
which developed from a severe cold,
Judge Burnell was born in ST. Adams,
vt. He was graduated from Albany
law school in 1861 and the same year
enlisted with volunteer New Eng,
land regiment as a private. He was
later promoted to second Lieutenant
and upon his transfer to another Or
ganization to a captaincy. He resigned
his commission in 1865 after having
been severely wounded in battle. Fol
lowing the war he started practicine
| law in Oshkosh Shortly afterward he
was elected district attorney Gov
/ Rusk appointed him to fiji a circuit
i court vacancy in 1884 At the next
/ election he was returned to office and
has continued on the circuit court
4 bench ever since. Judge Burnell was
/ a Mason Elk and member of the
Candleliaht CLUB, composed of leading
Oshkosh professional and business
men, He was also active in the Amer
! lean Legion and c. A. r.
Wisconsin potatoes are bringing
higher prices than hose Of surround
ing states on the Chicago market this
year because of state inspection, tho
department of markets announces
4 following receipt of sales reports
These show that the Badger product
for the first time has brought the tor
/ price.
Petty larceny and bad check pass
ing was bitterly scored in a recent
I Issue of the Cardinal II was pharspC