The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-03-31
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS.


ton, will commence the erection OF
their S15O,O00 high and graded school
building this spring. A bond issue has
been hoated to raise the necessary
funds. Much Of the material is already
on the ground with which to start the
work,
Efforts are under way at Brentwood
to secure a union high school to be
financed by the towns of Edgewater,
Wilson and Brentwood. The approx
mate cost would reach 100000, A spe-
cial election will be held later to de-
eide the question. The school will be
erected in Brentwood if the voters
favor the plan.
At a meeting of the Sheboygan
County Holstein Breeders association
the plans for the new live stock barn
and sales pavilion to be placed on the
Sheboygan county fair grounds We're
approved. The building, to cost about
$4,000, will house 22O head of cattle,
will be heated throughout, and will be
used for sales and exhibition purposes.
The Rev. j. II. Becker, pastor of the
Imntanuel Lutheran church, Fond du
Lac, is having a siege of had luck. Re
Gently he underwent serious oper-
alton at the local hospital and only a
few days ago was able to return to his
home. Now four members of the fam
lily, three sons and a daughter, all
young, are i'll with diphtheria.
A movement is on foot in Ladysmith
to organize an Employed Girls club
among office girls and clerks in local
stores, the homes Of many of whom
are outside of Ladysmith. For some
time there has been widespread recog-
milton of the need of such a club, and
the movement is sponsored by leading
women OF the town.
Mrs. Gertrude Schwittey, county su-
perintendent of schools of Marinette
county is arranging for the second an
nual eighth grade commencement to
be held by all the rural schools in
common at Marinette in June. The
Marinette Chamber of Commerce is
cooperating in arranging for enter
tainment for the pupils and their fam
lilies. 1t is expected that 500 rural
families will visit Marnette on com
mencement day.
Joseph VyskociI, 7-yearold son of
Mr. and Mrs John Vyskocil, was acct
dcntally shot and killed by his older
brother, 10, at the family home in the
town Of Emery Price county. The
shooting was done with a % caliber
revolver which the boys recently found
in the roadway near their home.
While playing with the weapon the
older brother discharged it, the bullet
going through an open door and hit
ting little Joseph, who was sitting on
a chair putting on his stockings.
That Wisconsin communities de
pendent on the wood using industries
are disappearing, owing to the cutting
away of the forests of the state was
the declaration made by Dr. Hugh p.
Baker, secretary of the American Pa
per and Pulp association. in address
ing the state forestry and development
conference at Madison He urged that
the state university make a survey to
determine the social relation of the
Wisconsin community to the forests,
and urged that a better growth be in
sured to keep the wood using indus
tries in the state, and keep the com
munities of forest regions alive. He
said that the water power of the state
was dependent on the maintenance of
forests at the headwaters of the great
power producing streams Of the state,
Or. Charles Mccarthy, for twenty
years head of the legislative reference
library which he founded in Madison
in 1901, died suddenly at Phoenix,
Ariz., following stomach operation,
The announcement was received in
Madison and among friends of MilwaU-
kee with surprise, since Mr.. Mccarthy
was i'm good health when he left his
home several weeks ago for the south
crn city As head of the reference de
partment in the state library he
gained statewide prominence. He was
born in 1873 at BroCton, Mass. In 1896
he graduated from Brown university
with the degree of doctor Of philosophy
and in 1900 became scholar of his
tory at the University of Wisconsin
The reference library organized by
him at Madison was the first in the
United States and was adopted later
in other states DR. Mccarthy was a
democratic candidate for United
States senator in 1918 opposing Jo
scph r. Davies He was actively en-.
gagged in the service of the government
during the war as an aid to Herbert
Hoover food administrator. Dr. Nc
Carthy has written the statutes Of Wis
consin for years He was probably the
most spectacular character in the Off
cial life Of the capitol, and one Of the
notable figures in modern American
history
Jay Michacls of Beloit, years old
whose life was prolonged a month by
an infusion of blood furnished by a
woman whose name is withheld, is
dead The child cut himself slightly
on the finger and the flow Of blood
could not be stopped. After operation
he rallied and hopes were entertained
for his recovery. In medical parlancC
the boy was known as "a bleeder"
At a meeting Of the Hawkins Booster
club it was voted to hold a big cele
bratl-n in Hawkins July 4 The even
win be extensively advertised with thu
intention Of attracting people from al
parts of Rusk county
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