The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-06-01

! lHSlI uNeS III the WOIlu WAL
Fully 5000 members of Lutheran
churches throughout the Fox river val
ley are expected ut Neenah on Sun
day, June IS, to attend the annual
saengerfest of the FOX River Valley
Saengerbund in Riverside park
Twelve blocks of pavement will be
laid in Amigo this summer. Plans
and specifications have been prepared
and bids will be received June on
four different types of paving-rein-
forced concrete, vitrolithic, bithultic
and vitrifed brick with asphalt filler.
A freight train crew on the Milwau-
kee road rescued family from a
burning home close to the tracks at
Avalon, a village 10 miles from James
vile. John Kus, a cripple, his wife
and two children were sleeping sound
ly, with the building so far gone as
to fall in a heap a few minutes after
the family was taken out.
Henry Kennedy, a pioneer resident
Of Plainfeld, who was recently mar
ried at the soldiers home at Wau-
paCa, has come back to reside in his
old home town. Mr.. Kennedy is SO
years old and his bride is SO. During
negotiations with his friend, Hick Por-
ter, over the renting Of a house, Mr..
Kennedy insisted that he be given a
five-year lease and won his point.
l.. M. Heule and w. S. Manning
captured eight wolf pups in den
south of Bruce The parent wolf was
absent at the time of the capture, but
had provided well for her family, there
having been parts of chicken, part
ridge and woodChuck in the den when
the pups were captured. For some
time the farmers in that vicinity have
been losing chickens from their coops.
After working for year. writing
many letters, and studying the city's
archives, Miss Myra MacCourt, secre-
tary to Mayor Wiesner, has received
the last photograph needed TO COM
plete the gallery Of all mayors of
Green Bay. The last picture needed
to complete the collection was that of
C. Z. Thomas, who took office in 1854.
Many of the pictures are engagements
of tintypes.
Brown county which ranked second
last season, will easily lead the state
in the amount Of acreage planted to
sugar beets this year, according to
Charles II. Hine, manager of the
Green Bay Sugar Co He said the
big refinery in Green Bay would be
taxed to capacity IL handling the 1922
crop. It is expected that the crop Of
beets will enable the factory to run
three months on a double shift.
Sawyer county officials have al.
nounced the largest delinquent tax list
in the history of the county. The list
is large due to the fact that hundreds
of property owners are unable TO Sc
cure work and in this way secure
money to pay their taxes. Many other
northern Wisconsin counties have pub
lished exceptionally long delinquent
tax lists. 1t has been estimated that
about one-third Of the taxes in Barron
county are delinquent.
Twenty-Five head Of choice register
ed Sank county Guernseys were ship
ped to be sold at the western Wash
ington Guernsey sale at Chehalis.
Wash, June Z, the first Guernsey con
signment from Wisconsin to any sale
on the Pacific coast The stock is in
charge Of R. F. Klemm, Of Baraboo
one of the leading breeders of the
country, who with several other breed
ers made up the consignment, which
includes young breeding stock, mostl'
heifers.
The last month has been one of in
creased employment throughout Wis
? consin. with the few decreases in the
/; number of workmen largely in sea
sonal industries, the industrial com
mission reported in its monthly sur
vey of labor conditions. Compared
with the report of the previous month
/ the commission summary showed that
the number Of employees in agriculture
{ increased 1877 per cent; manufactur
I ing, 10 per cent; building construc
, ton, 1922 per cent; highway construc
ton, 500 per cent; wholesale trade
- So per cent; and retail trade, 3.5 per
, cent. In manufacturing the metal in
. dustries showed the greatest pickup
, especially automobile manufacturing.
Justice r. D. Marshall, for % years
| member of the Wisconsin supreme
court, died at the Methodist hospital
at Madison. He was taken Ill six
=, weeks ago. but after entering the hos
pital his condition improved until he
? suffered a relapse a few days ago
, Justice Marshall was Is and had lived
3 in Madison since his appointment tc
the supreme bench in 1895. Since his
, retirement from the bench after the
= 1917 election, in which he was sue
. ceeded by Atty. Gen. Walter c. Owen
+ Justice Marshall had devoted his time
3 to extensive business interests In
3 northern Wisconsin and in the south
r He had also been working on an auto
9 biography, one volume Of which hac
Q been completed, but which was not
, intended for bublic sale. Justice Mar
shall is survived by his widow.
; Mrs. Myrtle Grimmer, widow of Sen
ut ha,