The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-04-07


of entertainment in Plymouth Congre
gational church, which was attended
/ by 100 members.
The Forty-third Separate company
Wisconsin National guard, Racines
unit of the guard, was mustered into
service b. Maj. Mahlen A. Joyce,
U. S. A. The company is in command
of Capt. Paul NJ Matson and Lieuts.
Arthur Johnson and G. b. Washburn.
The Waukesha Gas and Electric
company was denied application for
increase in its gas and electric rates
by the railroad commission, lnetil-
cheney in operation and changed con
ditions with falling prices of materials
were gwen by the commission as rea-
sons for denying the request.
Harry and Magne Sole have start
ed fox farm near Barron with two
pair of pedigreed silver black foxes,
one pair of cross-bred black foxes and
one pair of red foxes. The two
brothers have been experimenting
with red fox breeding for several years
with good success.
Raleigh A. Ives, convicted slayer Of
Herbert p, Loehr, is again a free man.
Ives was released from the state pri-
son and paroled to his father, A. b.
Ives, Oshkosh. He is planning to work
for his father until the parole expires.
Ives had served a year and four
months of two-year term, His parole
will expire in August.
The drug fends are pulling new
stunt in Green Bay. Whichever a
doctors car is parked in some con
venient siding, those eager for the
dope" are ransacking the machine
from top to bottom in hopes of un-
covering a hidden medicine case. This
has happened three times in the last
week.
According to Miss Carrie McTaggert,
superintendent of the government EN-
ployment office in' Sheboygan, the de-
mand for farm labor in Sheboygan
county and about the state is much
in excess of the number of applica-
tions for that kind of work, although
there is a great shortage of other jobs
in comparison with the number of men
registered as wanting work.
State Humane Officer A. E. Fred
erick of Sparta has requested the OBJ
seryance of the week of April 18th to
18th as Humane Week in both schools
and churches of the state. DR.. Fred
erick recommends humane programs,
readings, or stories in the schools on
Friday afternoon of that week, and the
discussion of humane subjects in the
pulpits on Humane Sunday, April 18th,
touching the prevention of cruelty to
both animals and human beings.
Fond du Lac Rotarians, attending
the Rotary convention at Fargo, N. d.,
stepped into the limelight of the dis
trict conference when Dr. S. E. Gavin,
president of the Fond du Lac Rotary
club, was rendered the district gov
ernorship Dr. Gavin declined the
honor on account of the press of pri-
vate business. The Fond du Lac dele
cation was also awarded a silver low
ing cup for having the largest delega
tion in percentage of club membership
in the conference.
Efficiency" was the magic word
which was carried through one of the
most important county road schools
ever held in Sheboygan All officials
and prominent state speakers who
were in attendance insisted that there
be the maximum efficiency in the road
work of Sheboygan county during this
year. More than $750,00O will be spent
at the rate of 100000 per month for
the biggest road program in the his
tory of the county, twice that of last
year.
The conservation commission has
funds to transport the 160,
600 600 fish fry this spring, according
to Commissioner w. E. Barber. I'VE
will have some 100000 trout fry;
10000, 600 pike fry, and about 100000
bass fry and we only have limited
funds to run the commission to June
g." Mr.. Barber said. Last year ii
cost the commission $4,000 to trans
port these fry" A club in Langlade
county has offered to pay express
charges for that county.
Representatives of several fair as
sociations, meeting in Eau Claire, ar
ranged a fair circuit which promises
to be on Of the best in the state The
fairs included are; Augusta Sept. 90;
Sept. 1916; Menomonie,
Sept. 20-23 Durand, Sept. 27-30, and
Mondovi, Oct. AT. From $4,000 to
$12 900 will be put up in purses for
the racing and the five fairs will work
together to secure strong attractions.
The change of dates in the Eau Claire
county fair at Augusta to Sept. SO
brings it a week ahead of the Northern
fair at Chippewa.
Gustav Doerfler and Walter Fisher,
two Appleton young men, arrested in
Menasha on charge Of stealing
whisky from the home of John Kon-
zelmann. after pleading guilty to the
charges in municipal court of Outa-
gamie county, were given one year and
one and one-half years, respectively, in
the state prison at Waupun.
A charge of dynamite Intended for
the ice above the main channel bridge
across the Wisconsin river on West