The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03

dren drink milk at recess twice a
week.
OyeralIs are no bar to cupid, says
I'd Wigam. Menasha, telephone EN-.
plove. who while making repairs at
the city hall was drafted to serve as
best man at civil marriage ceremony
Wieam didn't mind the oyeralls, for
the groom was similarly attired
Joe Schneider New Frankan farm
or. Brown county has been awarded o
prize bull for winning the annual state
corn growing contest With the use
, of scientific methods Of cultivation he
succeeded in growing 100 bushels OF
No. II Golden Glow corn to the acre.
-Four years ago he was a bartender in
a Green Bay saloon.
Tobacco growers to the number Of
20 met in GAINESVILLE and agreed upon
a preliminary plan for pooling the crop
OF Rock county making ARRANGEMENTS
for marketing .he leftover crop of
1920 and tahna steps to sell the crop
of 1921 Little movement in tobacco
is being made and the crop OF several
farmers in warehouses has not yet
been sold
Winnebago Indians near Tomah are
taking an Unprecedented interest in
I the weaving of reed baskets and MIN.
Bile fingers are rapidly constructing
these burden bearers in considerable
quantities. The older ones have had
the art for some years, but the younger
ones are now acquiring the lnack and
many beautiful as we'll as useful bas-
kets are being turned out.
Building operations in Manitowoc
for the ten-month period from March
to Dec. 81, 1920, totaled nearly $500
OOO according to figures submitted in
the annual report of Building Inspector
John Peppard to the council. The re-
port does not cover full year be-.
cause the office of building inspector
had not been created previous to
March !.
The Catholic field between Rice
Lake and Park Falls has been divided
L. up now and there will be two priests
in charge instead of one as before.
/ The Rev John b. Balcer will have
charge of the church at Couderay,
Brentwood, and Radisson, and Rev.
Joseph Gleisner will have charge of st.
Peters at Winter, st. Josephs at
Belle Falls, south of Radisson, and
st. Rose at ExeIand
During 1920 the eleven free employ.
ment Offices conducted in the state by
the industrial commission made 91.570
placements, as compared with 92.50}
in 1919 OF these 76,015 were men and
1850 women. No person is counted
as placed unless the employer to
whom he was referred reports that he
has been hired. Approximately 40 pes
cent of the total placements Were in
Milwaukee and go per cent in the 10
offices in the smaller cities.
The shipping figures of 1920 com.
pared with the figures Of 1919 as com,
piled by Or. T. A. Egan, Sturgeon Bay
deputy collector Of customs, show
decline of 10 per cent Arrivals at
that port dmir 'Eo last year mum
brrcd lob, with a tonnage of 94l,SJ5.
Departures numbered I071, with q
total tonnage of 944,162. The biggest
outgoing item was stone, which aggrc.
gated 12S,S35 tons, and was shipped to
points all along the lake for construc.
ton and pier building purposes.
Twenty carloads OF western cattle,
representing a total valuation of more
than $4,000, have been shipped I'd
Green Bay, where they win be unload
ed for winter feeding. The western
cattle will be housed in the barns OF
the Green Bay stOckyard concern and
put out in pasture as soon as thu
weather permits This is what is
called the "fattening up process" and
after the animals have been pumped
out they win be sent to the Chicago
stockyards
Dennis O'Shoa was awarded yer
dict of $500 in the suit against his
son-nlaw, Fred La Voy, by a jury in
Circuit court at Marinette The suit
arose over injuries sustained in an
automobile accident last summer
when Mr. O'Shea was on trip in the
La Voy car, which turned turtle, PIN
ming him beneath the machine and
causing injuries Of a permanent ma
turo The case will be appealed ID
the supreme court.
At the annual meeting of the OAK
Grove Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
company, Barron, Frank Roemhild OF
Prairie Farm was reelected president
The company is the largest farmers
insurance company in the world and
makes the bird worlds record honor
held by Barron county. The county
possesses the largest creamery on
earth, the largest farmers insurance
company and was the first county in
the world 10 complete its tuberculosis
test among cattle.
An AnttIIorse Thief organization or,
gani2ud in Evansville years ago to com
ban bands Ina swooped down and stole
their horses has been revived and re-
Organized no Tor the old purpose but
to put down he operation Of bands
that steal chickens, swine, grain, to-
bacco and other farm products, The
methods .o be- adopted may not be
quite The anne as in the pioneer days,
but the association will devise some
means to bring culprits to justice
quickly.
According 70 q report issued by the
housing committee Of the Association
OF Commerce Green Bay is short