The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-04-14
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

Plymouth.
The county board of supervisors, at
! a recent session, voted down the pro
posal of Supervisor Louis Skoglund OF
the town of Amherst to engage coun.
ty health nurse.
Four thousand Kenosha residents
| have signed petitions asking the city
council to pass a resolution providing
for daylight saving. The petition had
the almost unanimous approval Of fac
tory workers.
Otto f. Berner has accepted from.
Adjt Gen. Orlando Holway commits
sion as captain of the Amigo battery
| of artillery, succeeding Robert c,
Dewey, who resigned. Capt, BerneI
was captain in the One Hundred
Seventh trench mortar battery during
the war.
Farmers of Winnebago county have
been seeding earlier this spring than
in many years. Many have completed
painting the small grains, such as bar
ley, oats and wheat, thereby setting an
unusual record for an early start.
Garden truck is also being planted
much earlier than usual.
A scratch on his arm, received a
short time ago, caused the death OF
John Meyer, 10, Manitowoc, after he
had apparently recovered from the
bruise Infection from the injury
caused inflammation of the membrane
OF the brain, according TO physicians,
which was directly responsible for
death.
The public schools of Eau Claire will
operate for nine months and a half
next year instead of nine months, ac-
cording to announcement by the Board
of Education. While the school year
was theoretically $50 days, holidays
and examinations cut down the actual
number to about 10, said Supt. w. L.
Darling.
Robert Robertson, progressive
farmer living south of Tomah, sent six
head Of purebred Guernseys to the re-
head were sold for $13,8 55, or an aver
age of 1921 each MI Robertsons six
cattle averaged 1854 each, three sell
ing for more thai $500 each. Only
nine head reached that figure and Mr.
Robertson is to be congratulated on
his breeding methods which helped
him top the market in this fashion
Bonds valued at frcm $1,000 to
$4,000 and seven pouches of registered
mail bound for Milwaukee and lake
shore cities were taken by bandits who
broke into the Northwestern railroad
station at Kaukauna. Fourteen bags
OF mail were also ripped open by the
robbers, who entered the station
through window. The mail bags had
been taken off a northbound train a
few hours before the robbery for trans
fer to points along the lake shore,
Dissolution of the temporary injunc-
ton granted to the Northern Paper
mills was denied in circuit court in
Green Bay by Judge Henry GRASS. In
his opinion the court discussed the
rights of strikers. The temporary in
junction granted to the paper mill re
strained its former employees to peace
full picketing around the mill. The
writ was granted to the mills after
several employees mad been beaten by
striking workmen. The strikers are
out in protest against a 20 per cent
wage reduction
A writ of error was issued by the
state supreme court in the case Of the
state of Wisconsin against Frank
Lang, recently convicted of the murder
of Charles Pacni Kenosha theater
owner The writ is returnable in the
January term. Argument on the writ
will be heard by the court as soon as
a date acceptable to the attorney gen.
eral can be arranged. Attorneys for
Lang will prepare their argument on
which a hearing before the supreme
court may be made.
After receiving insurance payment
of 81 400 on his automobile stolen at
Chippewa Falls, last November,
Charles Wethern, Eau Claire, disCoy-
cred that the car was concealed in the
Wilkie Brothers garage, right behind
his own sales rooms. All identified
ton marks had been removed. James
Wilkie, 25, and his brother Thomas,
35, admitted theft of the car when ar
raigned in municipal court and they
were bound over to circuit court.
Bonds Of 81, 500 were furnished.
Fortytwo farmers have become
members of the Washburn County
Land Clearing association The total
membership now exceeds 500 farmers,
Farmers and settlers have agreed to
clear ten acres per farm. The largest
local membership in Washburn county
is at Shell Lake, where 2S6 farmers
have become members. OF the 4 land
clearing meetings held in the county
since the Inauguration of the land
clearing program, every farmer in the
vicinity of the meetings has become
a member of the association
The GAINESVILLE high school has a
wireless outfit, after being without one
for four years Students expect to
radiate a communication of 1000
miles scope The old apparatus was
blown down by wind During the war
the government put a restriction on
all amateurs apparatuses
The Rusk county fair wiz be held
this year Sept 20 to %, inclusive. II
is planned to make the fair the largest
and best in this part of northern Wis
consin There will be big showing