The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-16
VISION SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


showed an increase of $S,7S4 over that
Of the same month in 1920.
By vetoing the city councils appro-
priation of $1,000 for summer band
concerts by the Marine band, Mayor
Martin Georgenson, Manitowoc, killed
All chances for the continuance of the
band as an organization in that city,
The mayor gave as the reason for his
act the huge deficit which the city
faces this fall.
Despite the fact that a heavy tractor
he was using to pillow with fell over
and pinned him beneath, George Todd,
Sr, will recover from the accident
Mr.. Todd was blowing on his farm
near Shell Lake, when the machine
tipped over and pinned him beneath
the pillow and the tractor TO extricate
himself, a team of horses was used to
pull the tractor several feet.
The city of Sheboygan is experience
ing a big saving by doing its own paw
ing work. Bids received for paving
more than a mile of streets are rea-
sonably close to the price at which the
city can do this work with its own
equipment and it is believed by the
city commissioners, that the plan Of
doing its work is having a tendency to
bring road building costs closer to
normal.
Manitowoc will not establish a day
light saving plan, the aldermen by a
vote of to having defeated the
measure. Petitions were presented to
the council containing 1896 signatures
of citizens favoring the daylight plan
and 1877 names of those opposed to
it, Socialists in the council were
active in defeating the resolution,
maintaining that the big interests"
were behind it.
The lives of fifteen people were en-
dangered when a bolt of lightning
cleavcd the steeple of the Norwegian
Methodist church, ShebOygan, while
the Golden Rule society, composed Of
women members Of the congregation,
was holding a meeting. The steepIe
crumbled under the terrlhc impact VI
the electrical force members VI llie
society who rushed outdoors barely
escaped falling timbers which were
strewn about the editice.
The horse business is by no means
dead, figures compiled by the state de
partmcnt of agriculture show. Most
of the l,6SS owners OF stations VINO
took out license IN I9zo nave re-
he"eo theIr lIcehae loI lJ-l' 'V
time VIII soon De mere "heh d NURSE
VIII De worm more money ma" AZ
present g.. I, NoIsofu' commissioner
Of agriculture, declared. a shortage
OF good dIalt horses Is becoming lnole
noticeable every o"y'
The state health department has
been stirred to further action toward
having chlorine plant installed in
Sheboygan by a report OF the local
health officer showing nine cases OF
typhoid fever existed there IN May
The city was first ordered by the state
board to install the plant on March
Is. 1t is not in place at this time.
The city has advised the state depart
ment that failure to put the plant IN
place has been due to the delay OF the
manufacturers.
Orders have been issued by the city
or Green Bav TO all grocers to only de-
liver goods on a specified list on city
noor orders AS a result of the numer-
ous hills coming before the council,
calling for groceries in the luxury
class such as tobacco and other non
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