The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-09
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


will be held in Fond du Lac, July "a
to 20. The convention is expected to
bring more than 500 undertakers to
the city.
George Ostrom, senior deputy sheriff
of Douglas county was appointed
sheriff by Gov. Blaine to succeed
Arthur E. Buchanan, former sheriff,
who resigned to become chief of police
at Superior.
Alfred Fleischfrescer, after pleading
not guilty to the charge of selling
moonshine to Merrill high school boys
at 35 cents a drink, changed his mind
and pleaded guilty. He was fined $500.
He is the first defendent to plead
guilty and be fined under the newly
enacted city dry law.
Consolidation or the lsrgest paper
mills in the Fox River valley, the John
Hoberg company and the Green Bay
Paper and Fiber company, was an
nounced at Green Bay when the bust
ness of the two companies was taken
over by a corporation to be known
as the Hoberg Paper and Fiber COM
pany. The consideration involved in
the transaction was about $3,0O0,000
Sixty gallons of grain alcohol
which was seized recently in the Chip
pewa Falls express Office by Chief of
Police Flaherty has turned out to be
nine-tenths water. Each of the twelve
five gallon cans had a PARTITION near
the top with a pipe down through the
center, and while this compartment
was filled with alcohol, the balance
of the can contained water.
A. j. Reiss, town Of Mitchell, She
boygan county, cheesemaker, was fined
$25 and costs in Justice Adam Tres
ters court at Sheboygan, when he
pleaded guilty to charge of manufac-
turing cheese containing an excessive
amount of moisture. Complaint was
made by L. r. Stewart, state dairy
and food inspector. Reiss is the tenth
Sheboygan county cheesemaker that
has come into court for making adul-
terated cheese.
The Equity society has not aban-
doned it's dairy marketing plan
through which it intends to organize
the entire industry into an Equity
Dairymen's league to handle co-opera-
lively all products of the industry,
L. c. Pommerening, president of the
society, declared. Announcement that
the proposed organization had been
modified and a change made to an!
other form Of marketing federation,
was declared by Mr. Pemmerening to
be without foundation.
Town treasurers in Wisconsin are
commanded by the statutes to sell
personal property of persons to meet
their real estate taxes if unpaid. +. E.
Brossard, assistant attorney generaf,
in an opinion to C. J. Strang, district
attorney of Burnett county advised
him that failure to carry out this com
mand of the statutes would be a
breach Of official duty on the part Of
the treasurers. Mr.. Brossard pointed
out that the Supreme court had up
held the statute, and that its COM
mands must be carried out.
Drainage projects in the state, COM
pleted and under construction during
the last year totaled $1,31S,S32, &C
cording to a report of E. r. Jones,
| Madison, state drainage engineer
Acres to be drained with completion
of the work total $4,000. Eight ap-
plications for new drainage projects
were received during the last quarter
ending Dec 81, with 81 for the pre-
ceding three-quarters. These eight
projects were estimated to cost $780,
978, draining 1920 acres.
Grade crossing deaths during the
three months from October to Deem
Der numbered Is in Wisconsin, the
state engineer reports. The period
developed Sc accidents in which Is
persons were killed and 20 injured.
According to the report, "a accidents
involved automobiles in which IA per-
sons were killed and rs injured. Ac-
cidents other than at grade crossings,
caused by railroads totaled 81, result
ing in IL fatalities and 25 injuries
OF these casualties, the report said.
trespassers were killed in nine cases
and injured in four.
A total of 1880 accidents in Wis
consin were reported to the industrial
commission during 1921 II. A. Keown,
engineer for the commission, reported
in the quarterly report of the state
engineer During October, November
and December there were 1852 acct
dents compared with 4,4S8 for the
same period in 1920 There was a
reduction Of IS per cent in the num-
Der of accidents in 1921 under 1920
Deputies Of the commission investi-
gated 1906 of the accidents during
the year and reported violations Of
safety orders as the. cause Of 2G per
cent.
A Law Enforcement association, the
first of its kind to be organized in
Oconto county was formed at Oconto
Falls, with a large charter member
ship. The purpose of the association
Is TO enforce existing laws and in re-
moving evil and temptations from the
younger generation.
The Fox River Valley Poultry and