The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-08-10

OF directors of the recently organized
Wisconsin Tobacco Growers associa-
ton.
Recent reports show that Monroe
county is the leading butter pEoduc-
ing county of Wisconsin. During the
last year its output totaled 100000
pounds. valued at 100000. Several
of the largest creameries in the world
are in the county
That Oshkosh is growing, slowly
but steadily, is evident from the cen
sus of children of school age. The
count shows 1921 boys and girls of
the ages from A to 20 years, an in
crease of 109 over last year, when the
tally was 9,512.
Twelve candidates for places on the
Kenosha county ticket who were ruled
off the ticket by decision of the at
torney generals office, because theI
had insufficient signatures on theft
nomination papers, are planning I'd
ask the voters to write their names
in on the ballot on election day.
Fifteen Hurley youths pleaded
guilty in juvenile court to the charge
of stealing forty cases of pop from
the warehouse of the Fitger company
The boys were fined from 81 to $f0
and were given until Sept. l to pay
the fines. They were also placed on
probation for an extended period.
Wenzel Schillhabil, so, Juneau, was
sentenced TO 20 years in WaupuH
penitentiary on a charge resulting
from a story told by his 13-year-old
daughter by Judge c. M. Davidson
in the Dodge county circuit court;
Schillhabil, it is said, served 10 years
on a similar charge preferred by an
older daughter
All college courses given in Wiscon-
sin normal schools will be discontinue
ed after July l, 1928, the state board
Of normal school regents decided at
Madison with the committee of the
city superintendent and normal presi
dents. A four-year teacher training
course will be substituted in their
place.
Work or Racine's new harbor will
begin next spring and be finished be-
fore the fall Of 1924, according to
Congressman H. A. Cooper and f. II.
Bartlett, secretary of the Racine asso-
citation of commerce, who have con
ferred with Maj. Skinner, district fed
eral engineer. The new Racine har
Dor promises to be one OF the best
on Lake Michigan.
The Hurley city council has accept
ed the bid of the Lincoln Trust Say
ings bank of Minneapolis for the $40,
GOO bond issue authorized by the coun
Gil for street Improvements and sewer
work The council passed a resolu
ton authorizing the city attorney to
draft an ordinance fixing the fee foI
carnivals and circuses that exhibit il
Hurley at $500 per day.
Tabulation of the party primary
votes on Sept. 5, over the state will b.
completed this year by the addition OF
nearly 100 precincts since the presi
Dental election Of 1920. The number
of precincts has jumped from 2,435 in
1920, to 1888 now, according to the
office of the secretary of state, which
handles the official election business
and recording.
Sheboygan is making a bid for the
honor of building more homes per unit
of population in 1922 than any Wiscon-
sin city. A recent report shows that
so far this year, permits for seventy
six homes have been granted With
few exceptions they have been com
pleted or are in process OF construc-
ton. There are no mansions in the
list, probably no house that will cost
to exceed $4,000
Restoration of Racine college as an
educational institution is to be made
soon, if the efforts of the Association
Of Commerce are successful. The first
move will be to relieve the college OF
its burden of debt, which is represent
ed by bank loan of $4,000. Next a
day school basis will be worked up so
facilities may be in complete use, and
third, an endowment will be provided
for.
A FIVE days Homecoming celebration
will be held at Sank City, August 10
to 10 inclusive, in connection with the
dedication of the new bridge across
the Wisconsin river at that point.
The bridge, which is one of the finest
in the state has beautiful memorial
to veterans of the Civil, Spanish
American and World wars in the form
of an approach made possible through
the generosity of eX-Gov. b. H. Phlllpp
and A. L. Clas, Milwaukee architect,
both of whom are former Sank City
boys. Mr.. Clas furnished the plans
for the memorial and supervised It's
construction. Invitations have been
extended to all former residents OF
Sank City to Join their old neighbors
and friends in the five-days' celebra
ton.
More than 200 prisoners in the Mil
waukee house of correction, who start
ed a strike in the institution demand
ing freedom of the cell house, relented
later in the day and with the excep-
ton of few under strict discipline,
went to work in the prison chair fac
tory.
w. Z. d. Rummel, Ludington, Mich,
=, F,r,,or of national rpuutation will