The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-30
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

/ ern Wisconsin Teachers association
at La. Crosse, the following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. Blanche
\ Chamberlin, La Crosse; vice president
/ Miss Helen Berg, whitehall; secretary
treasurer, |. II. Kirche, La Crosse, and
member of executive committee, Mich
olas Gunderson, Sparta.
Limitation of the number of appren
tices by union rules has no effect upon
the development of the state appren-
ticeship system, the industrial com
mission stated. In practically all
trades, the commission said, there are
so few apprentices that limitations
upon their number which are enforced
by rules or custom of the shop, are OF
no importance.
Bank robbers who attempted to rifle
the vaults of the Cottage Grove State
bank, Dane County, by burning the
combination off the door with an
acetylene torch were thwarted when
a safety locking device sprung as the
flames hit it. Approximately $4,000
was in the vault, in addition to valu-
able papers including large number
Of bonds and mortgages.
The Rev. Samuel Ruegg, pastor of
the Menasha Congregational church,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect May "a He came to Menasha
from Williams Bay, Nov. l, 1915, and
barring five months in 1918 when he
was in army service, he has served
the Menasha congregation continuous
ly. Mr.. Ruegg plans with his wife to
make an indefinite trip to Europe, Wis
iting England, Ireland, France and
Switzerland.
Farmers owning sheep near James
vile are looking for dogs which in the
last few weeks have killed is sheep
upon the farm of c. E. Culver, former
secretary of the Rock county farm
bureau. Farmers in the district of
the Culver farm killed one Of the dogs
by long shot with a rifle. As the
dog did not have a license tag, Mr.,
Culver is searching for the owner who
under the law must pay the loss.
Charles H. Robertson, n, said to
be probably the last member of the
old Wisconsin Fiftieth Artillery bat.
terry of Civil war fame, died at his
home in Monroe. He was born in
that city and when the Civil war broke
out he concealed his age in order to
get into the service. He served for
four years with the Fifth Wisconsin
artillery, passing through all the
bloody engagements which made that
outfit famous among Wisconsin fight
ing units.
Wisconsin seed corn is proving a
success in the Nile valley according
TO r. A. Moore of the Wisconsin Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. A second
order for five bushels of Silver King
seed has just been shipped to r. II.
Forbes, secretary of the Sultanic
Agricultural Society of Cairo, Egypt.
Silver King corn has proved the besD
of a half dozen leading varieties Of
corn on trial in the Nile valley, says
Mr.. Forbes. Last year the sample
from the Wisconsin station yielded "A
bushels an acre in 102 days.
Contracts for 1928 offered to Keno
sha school teachers who have been
reelected have brought a storm of
opposition due to the changes made
by the board from the schedule OF
promotion established by Mrs. Mary d.
Bradford, former superintendent Of
schools. The new contracts do away
with the travel and educational allow
ances made by the old schedule, which
provided that if teachers went to sum.
mer school or travelled their pay in
The next year would be increased on
the grounds that their usefulness to
/ the community had been increased.
Increase of only one-half Of one per
cent in the total number Of employees
/ in Wisconsin factories and mines dur
I ing February was noted by the indus
/ trial commission in its monthly report
on employment conditions. There was
/ said to have been a considerable in
crease in the number of persons EN-.
ployed in metal and woodworking in,
dustries over the previous month
/ This increase was offset by decreases
/ in the number employed in stone
working, lead and zinc mining, rail
road repair shops, leather and food
products,
The first prosecution in Dodge coun
ty under the new state marketing law
has been instituted in the justice
court of Juneau. II. E. AIDES, a rep
resentative of the Wisconsin depart
ment of markets, complains that Fred
/ Grandman, a commission merchant OF
Lomira village, packed for market 40C
sacks of potatoes, not having an af
fetal certificate Of inspection as re
CURED by law. The accused in his
answer contends that his shipment
had inspection by a local man, duly
appointed by the department, and that
It was not his fault if the inspector
failed to file a certificate. The case
will be heard April s.
David Carter, 81, one of the pioneer
residents of Rock county and veteran
of the Civil war, died at GAINESVILLE
He crossed the plains to California
in 1861, then a perilous journey, but
returned to enlist in Co. |, Forty-fourtf
volunteers, in which he served
throughout the Civil war,
At the State Normal school a