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

Because of high cost of materials
the Eau Claire city council has decided
not to let out any contracts this year
for concrete payements but will de
vote most of the highway funds to the
repair of macadam and brick pave
F., ments.
Daniel =. Steinberg, Appleton, was
elected president of the Wisconsin AS
sociation of Real Estate Brokers at the
closing business session of the
eleventh annual convention held al
Appleton He succeeded w e. Web
ster Of Hudson.
Arrangements for procuring two
cars of dynamite for farmers Of Brown
apd adjacent counties in an effort to
stimulate interest in land clearing
thus increasing crop production, are
being made, J. ~ Kayanaugh, Brown
county agricultural agent The dyna
mite will be sold at cost, according to
the agricultural agent
For the first time in Wisconsin,
women will be privileged to vote to
decide whether a community shall in
/ corporate as a village, when special
election is held at Fairwater Fond du
Lac county, March s. Should the vote
be favorable Fairwater, through an
order given out by court, will auto
matically become a village.
A live silyer-gray fox, whose pelt is
worth anywhere from $500 to $500,
was captured alive by Ace Wiley
Washburn, and George and Edward
Smith, Amigo, who have been hunting
and trapping in the Cranberry river
district Dogs chased the fox into a
hollow log, where it was easily cap
tured. This is the first gray fox to be
captured in Bayfield, county in many
years.
This is the first winter since 1881
that Green Bay has not been frozen
over. open water is visible from the
shores, and veteran nayigatOrs don't
think it likely that cold snap Will
blow in the coat over the outer chan
nels. Ice haryesters have had to cut
twice as much space as in past years.
Usually the crop will average from y
to Is inches. but this year to inches
is the usual cut.
Arrangements for a demonstration
small fruit plantation to be located in
Portage county have been made with
the Wisconsin Horticultural society
through the efforts of w. w. Clark,
county agent. The plot will be on the
Fred G.. Halliday farm near PloYer and
will consist of one acre, half of which
viii be used for raising red raspber-
ries, a fourth for strawberries, and the
remainder for blackberries, gooseber-
-ies and cuTrants.,
The Wisconsin National guard will
be recruited to a strength Of 10,4O0 inn
mediately, according to Adjt Gen. Or
lando Holway. Camp Douglas will be
enlarged to accommodate the in
creased number, more military equip
ment will be purchased, and several
new armories constructed, if appro-
priations are forthcoming the adjutant
general said The national guard
seeks an appropriation of $50 man
and $214761 of the national guard
money, to be paid by the federal gov
eminent.
The cafeteria has pushed the college
boarding house into the background at
the University of Wisconsin, according
to a survey of where students eat and
what they pay for food" recently made
by faculty committee. Thirty-nine
per cent Of the students eat at cafe
terias, and the average weekly cost
of meals is between 81 and So. About
1000 students stand in line at least
thirty minutes each day as part of the
new cafeteria system, the report esti-
mates. The survey was based upon
reports of about eight hundred stu
dents.
Two strangers, working the money
press game, swindled a retired farm
en- Amigo, out OF $1,000 in IS and $40
bills. The strangers told the farmer
they had a machine that would dupli-
cate currency so perfectly that it could
not be detected. He was persuaded to
draw $1,000 out of the bank, and they
took the machine to his house where
bills were inserted between sheets Of
paper These were put in a press. A
liquid was then applied. In twenty
four hours the $1,000 was to be con
verted into $4,000. But when the press
was opened the money was gone. The
"getriCh-quick" artists ned.
Employees of Wisconsin's charitable
and penal institutions are the poorest
paid state employees, while the best
salaries go to the state normal school
employees, according to Henry John
son, state treasurer. The poor show
ing Of institutional workers is offset,
however, by the fact that the majority
are lodged and fed by the state. The
average monthly wage of the 5,575
state employees is $118. Capitol en-
ployes get an average Of $140.61, as
compared to $16iO5 for normal school
employees University employees are
third on the list with an average
monthly income of $113.30, and the
charitable and penal employees fourth
with $74.39.
During 1920, 100000 pounds of
milk were received at the Angus Co
operative Cheese factory at Angus,
two miles from Brentwood From
this amount, 100000 pounds of cheese
were made. Patrons were paid $3.50