The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-03-24

The postoffice department has an
uounced that the postoffice at Sylvan,
Richland county will be discontinued
on March 81, and mail for that COM
munity hereafter will go to Viola.
Peter Thill, proprietor of the Gre
scent Cheese factory, Turtle Lake, has
announced that during the year 1920
his factory received 4,O39, 262 pounds
of milk for which $112,350 was paid.
The average price per 100 pounds of
milk was S2.7S.
A new concrete highway is to be
built from Marinette to Peshtigo on a
new route north of the Chicago and
Northwestern, thus avoiding the dan
gerous railroad crossings on the pres
ent road, The distance will be short
ened about a mile.
Chris Jensen, 80, Racine, applied
for naturalization, taking his pre-
liminary examination for citizenship.
He is sad to be the oldest person to
apply for naturalization in the history
of Racine county He came to Racine
from Denmark in 1869.
A stranger who stopped to question
William Turner, Lancaster, on the
platform of the railroad station proved
to be John c.. Turner, Williams half
brother, whom he had not seen for 30
years and who had left Lancaster As
years ago.
A reduction in wages of approx
mately 20 per cent for building crafts
is called for in a schedule adopted by
the Superior Builders and Traders
exchange. The new scale goes into
effect on April /, but does not affect
contracts with unions which are in eff
feet until May 1,
Barron county officials have decided
not to let the county road work dur
ing the coming season out to con-
tractors because they believe that the
work can be done much more econ
omically than by contracting. Officials
maintain that the saving will reach
$4,000 at least.
The Rev George r. Stickney, asso-
ciate pastor of First Congregational
church of Appleton for a year, has re-
signed to accept a call to the pastorate
of a Congregational church at Jackson
vile. ILL., Mr.. Stickney served with
the Y. M. c. A. overseas during the
war.
The town of Scott, Lincoln county,
has forfeited $1,34749, owing to the
fact that its school buildings do not
comply with state requirements. Had
the town erected new buildings a year
ago the state aid would have been
$1,47167 in addition to its $4010 as
library aid, whereas now the town will
get $13212. The town has 401 pupils
and ranks as one of the highest in the
county in school population.
David Finn, for many years assessor
of the city of Merrill, and for a num-
Der of terms, supervisor Of assessors
for Lincoln county, has filed his resig-
nation with the city mayor and eX-
poets to retire from official life. III
health, he gives as the reason for his
action. Mr. Finn is one of the earliest
pioneers of Lincoln county, and came
to Merrill in September 1850, with his
father, Daniel Finn.
John Kreger of West Salem has re-
ceived a box of apples shipped from
Germany just before Christmas. The
gift came from a brother who is in
business at Hanover. and who handles
40 tons of apples during the fall. The
42-pound box cost $3.50 in freight
charges from Germany to New York.
The express charges from that point
to West Salem were 1888. The apples
are in prime condition, and look like
russets.
Robert D. Barney, AZ, president and
founder of the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank of Kilbourn, and promi-
nent figure in Wisconsin banking cir
Giles, died at Sparta where he was
taken for a minor operation. Mr.. Bar
ney was on the executive committee
of the Wisconsin Bankers association
and a member of the finance commit
tee of the Investors Finance corpora
ton.
OF all the deaths of children and
4 years of age, more than one-seventh
are caused by diphtheria. In Wiscon-
sin last year, diphtheria killed one per.
son a day. The years mortality from
this serious disease was 1873 for every
100. 900 people-the highest since 1910
In January this year 43 deaths were
due to diphtheria, Diphtheria is pre-
ventable, the state board of health ex
plains, and when properly treated with
antitoxin is durable. 1t occurs most
often in children and often resembles
sore throat or tonsilitis.
Nineteen reactors in the area test
for bovine tuberculosis in the Lincoln
county cleanup, were shipped to the
Wisconsin Packing company's plant al
Wausau for slaughter. The reactors
included seventeen from one herd OF
twenty-one cattle. The four animals
in this herd which failed to react were
young stock which had been in a pen
and separated from the older stock
The total number reactors in Lincoln
countys area cleanup so far has been
ninety-six and the percentage, which
has been advancing slightly since the
testing has neared the cities OF Mer
rill and Tomahawk, ranges between
.OO5 and .O067 1t is expected that all
the work will be completed by April !
A $40 bank note of Jan. II, 1885
LII - hn am of the first ever issmpf