The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-16
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

Postal receipts at WatertoWn SNOW
the growth of the city. January re-
ceipts were $1,05701 greater than
January, 1921, according to Postmaster
James Moore.
A campaign for city management
has opened in GAINESVILLE with large
number of women active in canvas
sing the city with petitions calling
for an election on the city manager
question,
City Clerk John C. Acker of Stur-
geon Bay is short $500 in his ac.
counts, it was charged at meeting
of the common council when Acker
filed his resignation, which was &C
cepted. A report of accountants of
the state tax commission was read,
alleging the shortage
Return to the aldermanic system
of city government was voted, at a
special election, by majority of 101
in Rice Lake. The petition for dis
solution of the existing commission
form, one mayor and two councilmen,
was drawn up with little publicity
and all four wards supported the
change.
Leroy Wells West, La Crosse, 49,
year old boy, so badly crippled from
infantile paralysis that he has to walk
with two crutches, was sentenced to
the industrial school by Judge Brind-
ley for burglary. Out on parole after
burglarizing the Masonic temple, the
boy entered the First Presbyterian
church while his parents were attend
ing services and pilfered several
purses in women's handbags
All records for the number of in
mates at the state reformatory at
Green Bay, were broken when War
den Oscar Lee announced that the
number at the institution totaled 402.
The highest previous mark was 9S6.
Nov. l, 1921. Every available inch of
space in the big institution is filled,
and no more prisoners will be accept
ed at present. All the cells are oc
cupied and many Of the TRUSTEES are
sleeping on cots in the corridors.
Discovery of what promises to be
an iron mine has been made on the
farm of A. f. Schlenyogt in the town
of Linwood, Portage county While
digging a silo pit on his farm Mr.
Schlenvogt found pieces Of metal
which upon analysis by Prof c. Z.
Culver of the Stevens Point Normal
school proved to be iron ore. The
vein was located four feet down in
the ground. A survey OF land il that
territory may be made.
A new apparatus which, it is be
lieyed, will solve the land clearing
problem for many prospective settlers
and farmers Of northern Wisconsin
has been invented by Lawrence "A.
Wise of Brentwood. Mr.. Wse's de-
vice is furnace jacket with blower,
which is operated by a gasoline en-
CINE. The jacket is placed directly
over a stump and with the aid Of
blower the fire in the jacket is famed
by the blower until the stump is con-
sumed.
Wisconsin's SO county agents have
set a new record for hustling during
the last year, it was said at the Ag
ricultural college, Madison. The SO
men spent 81 per cent of their time
in the field, made 479 farm visits, |
had 76 farm meetings, with an aver
age of 80 farmers at each meeting, .
registered 1,710 telephone calls, wrote
40 articles for publication, have six
projects under way and have organ
lied eight farmers organizations a
county That is the average work |
done by each one OF the So, according
to J. f, Volta, county agent leader.
John Donahue, accused as the Stay
er OF John Powers, widely known re-
sort keeper of Big Lake, Villas county, |
paid his own price for the greWsome /
murder when, after facing for As
hours the incessant firing of a sher-
ifs posse that besiesed him in his
lonely cabin, he placed the muzzle .
Of his rifle under his chin and with
his last cartridge fred the shot that
ended his life. Pinned to the heavy
wooden shirt of the dead man was
found a note which read: Il killed
John Powers and am not sorry |
did it. Donahue"
Mayor Fred Baxter of Superior will
control the much mooted qquestion
of whether street carniyals may be
shown in that city during the coming
season. He was vested with the au-
thority by the city council. Two fac
tions, pro and con, made themselves
known in the council meeting, The
Willard w. G. 4. union ask that the
shows be barred from entering the
city. The Veterans of Foreign Wars
ask permission TO bring such a show
here, claiming that a committee of
women may censure the attractions
and if any feature is Objectionable
1t will be eliminated, and no girl
shows" will be included,
Because Of complaints received from
the American Legion, ministers and
others, the Chippewa Falls school
board has refused the use Of the high
school auditorium to b, NJ Reiss for
a lecture under the auspices of the
International Bible Students associa.
ton.
Fire, starting from an undetermined
rause Quilted the two story brick