The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-05-19
WISCONSIN News
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

ed arrangements LOT Ine SAFE VI 9%VV
900 worth of road bonds. The sale wa
voted down by the old board, but aftei
newly elected members took theii
seats only four dissenting votes were
heard.
Arrangements are being made fol
graduation exercises of rural schools
in Brown county, the ceremonies to be
held in a Green Bay theater. In The
neighborhood Of four hundred will ge
diplomas, the largest number OF
record,
Ninety head of registered cattle
were disposed of at the second annua
Holstein sale in West Salem, under
the auspices of the Holstein breeders
Of La Crosse county. The top price
was $3.50 for a COW consigned by Mrs
w II. Ascot Of Sparta.
The Green Bay Association Of Com
merce has accepted plans of the In
vestment corporation for construction
of an auditorium to Ie used jointly foI
/ civic affairs and as an Office building
1t is expected to cost 100000 and
plans already are being shown.
Former Capt. William earle, fol
| thirty-seven years member of the
Mantowoc police force and known far
and wide as the chief adversary OF
tramps, died after two years of illness
Cancer was the cause. Capt earle re-
signed from the department three
years ago on account of failing health
With several small children serious
~ i'll of diphtheria and the Oldest
daughter, Amanda, II years old, dead
the home of Jules DeKeyser, Green
Bay, is under a cloud of sorrow. The
entire family is in quarantine and
Amanda was buried with the under
taker as the sole attendant.
One of the biggest booster celebra.
tons ever conducted in central Wis
consn was held in Stevens Point
sponsored by the chamber of com.
merce as a means Of stimulating bust
ness and bringing the rural and urban
resident in closer relation to each
other.
The Badger Ginseng company of
Wausau recently sold its crop Of gin,
seng roots for $9,102. The crop con
sisted of twenty-one barrels The
prices obtained ranged from $3.50 Per
pound for fibres to SO per pound for
the better grades of root. The com
pany has extensive gardens in and
near Wausau and besides ginseng also
grows golden seal.
The board of education of Stevens
Point has added an extra teacher to
its staff for the coming school year
whose duties will be to study and rem
edy over age conditions in the first,
second and third grades. An investiga-
tion by Supt II. c. Snyder disclosed
a few weeks ago that the percentage
of over age pupils was larger than it
| should be.
An historical pageant portraying
scenes in the development of La
Crosse and Trempealeau counties in
! Wisconsin and Houston County, Mimi,
will be staged in the Interstate fair
| Fifteen hundred persons will partici.
| pate. An elaborate musical program
I and early day costumes and scenic set.
tiugs typifying the experiences of
pioneers in settling that community
will be featured,
4 hay crop of 5,036,0OO tons in Wis
,onsin is forecasted for 1921 by Joseph
A. Becker of the Wisconsin cooper.
alive crop bureau. This compares with
5,273,000 tons produced in 1920 and a
five year average Q91519) Of 4,854,0OO
tons. Tame hay production is esti
mated at 4,565000 tons, compared to
d,Sl4000 in 1920 and a five year aver.
age Of 4,39S,000; wild hay at All 900
tons, compared to $4,000 in 1920 and
a Ave year average of $4,000 tons
twenty-five per cent of the sugar
beet acreage contracted for the Green
Bay Sugar company has already been
planted, according to w. y. Rosevear
The farmers in that vicinity are going
ahead with their cultivation and it is
expected that the entire acreage will
have been seeded within two weeks
The company has imported $50 ex
/ perienced sugar beet workers for work
/ among the farmers. The Green Bay
concern expects to refine $4,000 tons
/ of beeis next fall.
Agricultural statistics for Kenosha
/ county issued by the census bureau
/ show that in 1910 there were 1.42G
/ farms in that county that comprised a
total Of l62,462 acres of land In 1926
! there was a small decrease, both in the
! number of farms and the total acreage
4 The farms in 1920 totaled 1888 anc
they embraced l55832 acres. This de
creases In farm lands is more than off
set by the decrease in the number Of
/ tenantry on kenOsha farms. In 1915
there were 9g7 farms operated by ten
ants and in 1920 there were only 900
There We're 1868 acres of improved
farm lands in 1910 and 1925 in 1920
The 1910 farms were valued at S13,
6277G9, and in 1920 they were valued
at $21 ,Gi7 1886.
Project statements have been sub
mlttcd TO the federal government on
Sc highway developments, according tc
report of A, X Hirst Madison, chic
engineer for the highway commission
Expenditures will aggregate 81 .043, 1856
Contracts on federal aid work let sine,
Jan ! amount TO $2,4O0,OOO GOVERNS
1883 miles The commission has NJ
exact figures on the mileage for stat,