The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-09
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

grade H0lSteln owned by harry
Rasmussen won out in the months
| testing of the Tomah association, pro
ducing $40 pounds of milk or 49,5 of
butter fat during the month of Octo'
| Der.
| After being mourned as dead for
over a year, Andrew ]. Bauer, living
between Chippewa Falls and Durand,
| has reappeared at his home. Bauer
spent the time in lumber camps and
working on farms.
Beloit will be the gathering place
of the 1928 Wisconsin Older Boys and
Girls conference The executive com.
mittee of the Beloit Federated church
has received an acceptance to its bid
for the convention, from the state
Sunday school board.
Two days after she celebrated her
ninetieth birthday anniversary, Mrs.
Johannah Hellwig, of Cadiz township,
Green county, suffered a stroke of
paralysis from which she died, She
is survived by three children, IS
grandchildren and II great grand
children.
Deer in northern Wisconsin are
rapidly diminishing in number, accord
ing to hunters and residents of Doug
las county. This year deer will be
more scarce than ever before, and
there is much talk among spoTtsmen
of a closed season for several years.
Last year 400 licenses were issued
Two hundred and six persons were
killed by automobiles in Wisconsin in
1921, the department of commerce,
Washington, announced This brings
the total killed in the Badger state
in five years up to 719. Although
automobile fatalities for the state at
large increased last year over pre-
vious years. the number of fatalities
in Milwaukee decreased.
The Merrill board of education at
recent meeting, after discussing the
present labor situation concluded that
the vocational school laws are det-
riment to the vocational child rather
than an aid inasmuch as employers
refuse to hire anyone requiring to
spend one day a week at school. The
loaf habit it was said, has been
result, and much injury has been
done in killing the incentive to work.
Asserting that demands made on the
public for the support Of worthy char
tiles and other organizations have
been frequent and consequently Oft
times burdensome, Mayor John E.
Barron of Eau Claire in a letter to
civic organizations Of the city advo-
Gates the formation of community
survey committee to pass upon all re-
quests of various organizations to put
on drives" in the city and to super
wise all drives allowed
State prohibition agents uncovered
the largest still yet found in Wiscon-
sin near CTandon, Forest county, ar
rested five men reputed to be Ken
tuckians, and confiscated a large auto
mobile and horse and wagon. The
distilling outfit, in a log cabin with
sign over the door, "U. S. Distillery
No. 30" was OF 40O-gallon capacity.
Three hundred gallons Of moOnshine
whiskey and 5000 gallons Of rye mash
were taken and destroyed.
There is a heavy demand for certi-
feu triumph seed potatoes in Price
county. A concern of Alabama has
sent a representative to Prentice to
buy Is carloads of good certified pota-
toes, but has iaen unable to get them.
The price offered was So hundred
weight for stock that has been in
spected and passed upon by the state.
Southern farmers have experienced
much trouble with a potato blight
known as mosaic.
Three Northwestern railroad engi-
neers who have been with the road
for more than thirty-nine years have
been granted pensions, effective Nov.
|, it was announced at Fond du Lac.
James Foren of Fond du Lac has been
in service thirty-nine years. Frank
Spooner OF Green Bay is retired after
service of more than forty-nine years
and G. S. Trip, also of Green Bay,
is retired after forty-three years OF
work for the railroad. Until the date
of their pension, the three engineers
Mad been on the passenger run be-
tween Green Bay and Milwaukee.
Posses ordered out by sheriffs to
! aid in the enforcement Of law or the
apprehension of criminals cannot
compel payment by the county for
expenses incurred by the perform
ance Of this duty or for their serV-
ices. William J. Morgan, attorney
| general, ruled in an opinion given to
| r. S. Jedney, district attorney of
/ Jackson county Mr.. Morgan advised,
however. that the district attorney
was empowered to certify to the coun-
ty board that the sheriff be allowed
reasonable compensation for the pur-
/ suit of criminal, and in this way
secure payment for services OF the
posse. This he said was not a mat
ter of right and the county was with
out authority to directly pay the men,
John Dentzler Patch Grove, saw a
deer in the woods near the village
while hunting and shot It. The ami
nal belonged to Glenn state park.
Judge Burrows Of Prairie du Chen
fined Dentzler $9g There is no open
season for deer in this part of the
state
Plans are being made for holding