The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-12-07
WISCONSIN
!, STATE NEWS

The campaign against rats waged
In whitewater by E. j. Seaver and
A. f. Kraeplin since Oct. rs is about
to close with the killing of $1,000 TO
dents. The campaign cost $500.
The Green County Normal school in
Monroe was one of the 10 training
schools of the 80 in the. state to re-
ceive rank of excellent, according to
a report from the state inspector
office at Madison.
One of the largest hogs ever brought
to Monroe to be shipped to market
was brought in by Peter Gerber
Green county farmer. The animal
weighed $50 pounds. AS a rule hogs
weigh from ESQ to $50 pounds, but
they seldom tip the scales at 500.
The railroad commission reaffirmed
its previous order reducing the gas
rate in La Crosse from $2.05 to S1,S5
per 1000 feet The case now goes to
the circuit court of Dane county on
appeal Of the Wisconsin, Minnesota
Light and Power Co.
A dual tragedy, the first of the
skating season in Marinette, occurred
when two brothers, Emil, u years
old, and AxeL 10 years old, sons of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Christensen,
were drowned in the bay The newly
formed ice gave way.
AT a recent meeting of the Tomah
city council, 9,344.25 was budgeted
as city expenses for the coming year,
and an authorized levy of 31a per
cent was placed on taxable property
of the city. This is practically the
same as last year
Action of the state highway engi-
neer and the county road and bridge
committee in providing for the storage
of $4,000 barrels of cement early last
spring, combined with the establish
ment of two rock crushing plants in
the country, saved the taxpayers of
Wood county at least 100000 in the
construction of concrete highways
this year. Edward Morris, county
highway commissioner, told the coun-
ty board in his annual report.
Trustees of Lawrence college, at
their semi-annual meeting in Apple
ton, recommended that $250000 be
raised for Lawrence college, OF this
sum, 100000 is to be used to meet
running expenses of the school, $780,
600 for an addition to science hall,
and $150,0OO for a new gymnasium.
No steps We're taken, however, toward
raising the money Lawrence has re-
Gently completed drive for $500 600
for endowment.
Pabst Creator Arbitrator, one of the
best cows bred by the Pabst farms in
Oconomowoc has been purchased by
the Fond du Lac poor farm for $1,000.
The cow is nearing the end of a
years milk test during which she has
already produced $4,000 pounds of
milk, an average of better than one
hundred pounds a day. The county
herds of pure bred Holsteins in the
eastern section OF the state The herd
is headed by a famous Pabst bull
Until a boy has reached the age of
II, he cannot be sent to the state re-
formatory at Green Bay no matter how
vicious his tendencies, j. +. Messer-
schmidt, assistant attorney general,
advised the state board of control
The board of control reported that a
l6-year.old boy in the state industrial
school at Waukesha was OF such a
vicious character that his presence
is detrimental TO the other inmates,
and it asked that it be permitted to
remove the youthful prisoner to the
state relormatory
Miss Veva Divan is Wisconsin S
champion girl pork raiser Not only
did she walk away with blue rib
bons at the state fair this year. but
she COPIED a total of seventy-siX rib
bons and more than $52l.50 in cash
prizes for showing her six little pigs
at five fairs. Veva lives on a farm
near Browntown, in Green county
She is II years old. She won cham
pionship honors this year in competi
tion with more than / 100 other pig
club boys and girls all over the state
She has been proclaimed by T. l.
Bewick, state boys and girls clut
leader, and by several prominent live
stock officials, as the greatest pig clut
exhibitor of all times in Wisconsin.
Postal authorities predict that this
years Christmas mail will be the
heaviest in the history of the country
According to +. l.. Ormsby, Chic
Clerk of the Railway Mail Service a
Milwaukee, energetic preparations are
being made in Wisconsin to meet this
situation. He states however, tina
the Christmas mail problem is largel!
one OF sorting and routing, at which
very little extra help can be used tC
| advantage. The bulk of the holiday
mail will have TO be sorted by The
regular all year around force. as only
highly skilled and experienced mel
can do this work. Mr.. Ormsby state,
/ that holiday cards and parcels SHOULD
be mailed early, before December 18th
TO give the sorters enough time t
handle them.
Kenosha county board after a three
days debate gave its Endorsement t,
the state highway commission plal
for raising money for highway i'm
proyement The only serious division
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