The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-02
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

sity of Wisconsin law school may be-
come governor general of the Philip
pine islands within a few months, is
the report that has come to the state
university. He was on Dec. % APP
pointed to the post of vice governor,
serving under Gen. Leonard Wood,
the present governor general.
Tobacco growers of Rock county
who have found no ready market for
their crops the last two years are go
| ing to grow alfalfa or some other crop
next year, judging from the sentiment
| expressed by a member of the Rock
| County Tobacco Growers association
at the annual meeting in GAINESVILLE.
Many farmers are being forced to sell
at S cents a pound because they must
raise funds to pay their taxes.
The industrial commission announc-
ed that revised orders establishing
new requirements for sanitation in
| places of employment where dust,
| smoke, gas, or industrial poisons are
present, have been published and put
into effect. These require that EN-
ployers provide ventilating or exhaust
systems in all places of employment
where air conditions might cause in
! jury
A return to the aldermanic form of
city government is sought in petit
ton filed at Rice Lake by voters dis.
satisfied with the present form Of
commission government. Rice Lake
has been operating under the COM
mission form Of government for a
number of years, and while in the
main it appears this has been salts
factory the elections always have
been spirited and there is a great
deal of political rivalry.
The jury in the $4,000 SANDER suit
of the Rev. N. F. Kile against Carl
and Anton Anderson and Marcus Han
son, members of the New Hope Luth-
eran congregation at Stevens Point,
returned a verdict of $500 against the
Anderson brothers and discharged
Hanson. The suit grew out of charges
of immortality alleged to have been
made by the defendants against the
minister. These accusations were de-
clared by the Rev. Mr. Kile to have
led to his dismissal from the church
Gasoline will provide funds for
building Wisconsin roads in addition
to running its automobiles, should the
1923 legislature enact into law the
proposal submitted to 7. j Cunning
| ham, supervisor of oil inspectors, by
a committee of his deputies. This
proposal, in the form of bill for in
PRODUCTION into the legislai ure, calls
for / cent tax on each of the 1885,
100000 gallons of gasoline sold in the
state annually Revenue of $780,
600 would result to go into the gem
eral fund for use in highway construc-
ton and maintenance.
An increased demand for woman
labor at the same time that the de-
mand for men workers was rapidly
declining is noted by the industrial
commission in its report on activities
of the IL public employment agencies
during 1921. A total of 63,093 per-
sons were placed in employment dur
ing the year, 42,473 Of them men and
20,620 women. This represents a de-
cline of more than 40 per cent in the
number of men placed, compared to
| 1920 when 1906 were put to work.
The number of women placed at work
| by the commission showed an increase
of rs per cent, rising from 1850 in
1920 to 20,620 last year
More than $4,000 automobile license
plates have been distributed by the
secretary of state since Jan /, result
ing in an addition Of 100000 to the
states general fund. The first rush
4 for licenses has subsidized, to revive
when Wisconsin starts to emerge
from winter quarters, Elmer S. Hall,
secretary of state, said Automobile
/ owners outside Of cities. he explained,
/ are holding their $40 until spring
| opens the roads to travel 1t is es-
timated that 10000 additional plates
| will be distributed before Apr. /. The
| total number will e~ceed $4,000 ac.
! cording to Mr.. Hall, producing $780,
600 for use in maintaining the roads
/ OF the state.
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The proposed federation of Wiscon-
! sin farmers into a single organlza-
| ton for marketing the $3.50, 900, 900 of
dairy products annually produced in
/ the state is to be Abandoned by the
Equity society, which promoted the
project, Edward Nordman. commits
sioner of markets, has announced
/ This decision of the society was
reached after extened conferences
with the state department of markets.
Together with the college of agricul-
/ ture of Che university the department
opposed the dairymen's federation to
! be organized along the same lines as
the New York Dairymen's associa
ton, as impractical and detrimental
20 the interest of the dairy industry
in Wisconsin.
a long and shot bandit, posing
as beggars, beat and robbed William
and Frances Vance, 10 and 6S. respec
lively, OF the town of Lima Rock
county, getting away with 5000 in
checks and cash Two aged sisters
We're held under revolvers while the
bandits were AT work.
Brown county, with 251 points, won