The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-05-04

1. ~. DCuuu has Dttu leti5lOl VI lllG
church for more than % years.
The Racine council of the Knights
OF Columbus has acquired possession
of business property having a frontage
Of 40 feet on Main-st. and depth of
ia feet for a consideration OF $4,000,
and will erect a modern business block
and club rooms ocost $4,000.
Brooding over divorce proceedings,
Frank Barden, Al years Old member
of the fire and police commission of
Beloit, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife, Laura aged 3S,
with revolver, and then blew out his
brains.
The annual pow-wow of Winnebago
Indians of western Wisconsin will be
held at Valley Junction, seven miles
north of Tomah, Aug. IL to IA accord
ing to announcement of Chief Green.
deer. Old Indian dances, sports and
games will be staged.
Conservation wardens say Green
Bay is alive with swans, ducks and
geese. They reported as many as 25,-
600 ducks and $500 swans in one
group during a lake tour. The war.
dens' launch was able to get near
enough to the ducks to obtain pic
lures, but the nearest the swans could
be approached before taking wing was
$50 yards.
Vern Mason, a trapper living near
Park Falls, brought his seasons catch
to that city for disposal. 1t included
IA beaver skins, among which was one
OF the finest specimens ever seen in
this part of the state. 1t measured
40 inches each way and is coal black
in color. The skin is attracting much
attention.
Walter Miller, 80 years old, of the
town Of Niagara, Marinette county,
was sentenced to the county Jail for
six months, the maximum penalty for
assault, when witnesses testified at
his trial in Marinette that he had
beaten his three children with black
snake whip and that he had broken
a chair when he struck his wife with
it.
More than a third of the county and
state taxes due for 1921 still remain
unpaid in Barron county according to
a report made by S. r. Pollock, county
treasurer On March %, 1922, the as
sessment due was $35783S.2S and Of
this amount $110,8773S is still due in
real and personal taxes. On this date
in 1921 $4,000 remained unpaid, and
in 1920 but $4,000 was due in taxes.
More than $4,000 is due the state in
income taxes from Barron county.
Prof. L. K. Jones of the University
of Wisconsin has completed arrange
ments for continuing his experimental
work in Door county fruit orchards.
The pathologist will return the first
Of May to spend the entire fruit sea.
son in experimental work relative to
combating fruit tree diseases. One OF
the features of the work will be largo
charts posted in public places which
will keep the fruit growers in con
slant touch with the development OF
his work, so that it can be ascertained
when is the best time to spray and the
best mixtures to be used.
Farm work in Wisconsin was de
layed further by cold, wet weather
during the last week, according Il.
report of the state crop service. TIL
season is now from 10 to Is days late
than normal Spring blowing and
planting, which should be in full
swing, are said to be practically at q
standstill, although a small amount o:
blowing and planting has been done
Seeding of oats and spring wheat nov
is retarded critically, according to tn
report. Winter wheat, rye and mea
dows are growing slowly with barD
spots in the fields, where crops wer,
killed by sleet or standing water
Raising of hogs in the towns Of Hor
tonia and Dale, a few miles north o.
Neenah, has suffered severe setbacl
this spring because of the loss of about
one-half of the filters Of young pigs
through causes that farmers are un
able to explain. All of the young pigs
in some filters died before they were
three weeks old. The situation was
blamed at first to some disease that
might have taken hold in the district
but no symptoms of any kind have
developed. 1t is believed by some
breeders that brood sows obtained too
little exercise during the severe win,
ter, lessening the vitality of the young
pigs.
One county in Wisconsin, Burnett,
voted at its April election to adopt
the county commission form of gov
eminent, taking advantage Of the Sum
merville law enacted by the 1921 ses-
sion of the legislature. This will be
the first county in the state to be gov.
erned by commission, Polk and Rusk
counties at the same election voted
down the proposal that they change
their form of government. The Sum
merville law provides that any county
upon petition of a sufficient number OF
citizens may determine whether 1t
shall be governed by commission or
by a county board. Burnett county's
plan will be watched as an experiment
in the state