The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-30
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fGf'il' DOnuS IN the sum Vi 9fOiuVN
were issued, the balance by frontage
assessment of 40 cents a foot against
the property benefited.
Robbers broke into the Windsor
State bank at Windsor, near Madison
and obtained between Sc and ST., be
sides .92-caliber revolver before
making their getaway The men en-
tered the bank through a window
which they pried open. They over
looked $3,50O locked in the vault.
Tobacco growers of Rock county
who have found no ready market ior
their crops the last two years are go
ing to grow alfalfa or some other CROP
next year, Judging from sentiment ex
pressed by members of the Rock
County Tobacco Growers association
at the annual meeting in GAINESVILLE,
With the melting of the snow and
ice in northern Wisconsin, Indians OF
the Odanah reservation are preparing
to tap thousands of maple trees in
this vicinity. The annual maple sugar
harvest, along with the gathering of
wild rice in the fall and trapping in
the winter, is the means of livelihood
for many Of the red men.
Suit against the state railroad com
mission was begun by the Wisconsin
Minnesota Light and Power Co as a
result of the recent gas reductions
made by the commission in Eau Claire
and Chippewa Falls. Suit was filed in
the Circuit court of Dane county, and
the commission has 20 days in which
to answer the summons.
The second unit of the Sheboygan
high school will cost Sheboygan about
/ $780, 900, it was learned upon checking
up bids for the construction of the new
unit, which consists of the gymna
Sums. swimming pool. vocational
school wing, auditorium and tower
1t will be the largest unit of the ST..
100000 school as far as cubic measure
ments are concerned.
The SIS, 1000 damage suit brought by
Robert E. Peterson of st. Paul against
r. c. Field of Osseo, for alleged aliena.
tion of the affections of Petersons
wife was dismissed by Judge Higbee
in Trempealeau county circuit court
at Whitehall for want OF prosecution.
The plaintiff failed to appear and is
said to have given no explanation OF
his absence
Wisconsin will send several students
on the annual European college mems
tour this year, it has announced. The
party consists of rs men and guides
who take in certain parts of the old
continent at the close of the summer
/ session. The trip this year will be
10 Norway, Sweden and Denmark
Two Chinese students are among the
l. applicants from Wisconsin The
tour is under the auspices of the In
Iternational Institute of Education
The country dance evil is under fire
in Kewaunee county and the board OF
.
resolution limiting the number OF
these affairs. According to the spon
sors of the resolution, the country
/ dances have been going from bad to
worse and that the saloons in the ru
raj districts were being a hangout fol
men of the larger cities while on gay
/ parties.
/ Nearly all the lumber companies in
southern Sawyer county have closed
up their logging camps for the winter
i because Of deep snow. This is thc
/ first time in the history of hardwood
and hemlock logging in this county
/ that camps had to shut down on at
count OF the deep snow in the woods
, As a rule the logging companies keeT
on logging in the spring until the snow
has all gone, but this year is an ex
/ ception. The snow in the woods is
3 feet deep in most places.
Jail conditions in some Wisconsin
localities are in need of improvement
in order that the increasing number
of prisoners may have clean and san
tary living qusyters, the state board
OF control, declared in letter sent tC
all county sheriffs. There is said tc
be a large increase in he number OF
Jail inmates due to the present crime
wave which has already crowded state
penal institutions. These prisoners
must be taken care of in jails which
are often old and many times, II is
said i'll kept.
More severe penalties must be i'm
posed upon violators of the Stevenson
prohibition enforcement act if the il
licit liquor traffic is to be suppressed
in Wisconsin, w. Stanley Smith, pro
hibition commissioner, said in letter
to all district attorneys and peace
officers. Minimum penalties" Mr.
Smith said, will not stamp out the
liquor traffic, and in many instances
serve only to advertise the defendants
unlawful occupation" Appeal was
made to urge imposition of the most
severe penalties allowed under the
law.
In all contracts for public improve
ments a clause will be inserted by
Sheboygan hereafter that some labor
will be given preference and the scale
of wages shall be the scale set by the
recognized organizations of Sheboygan
according to action taken by the com
mon council
Dewey Moves, q, serving a -four
months sentence in the Tomah jail