The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-05-18


Archbishop Sebastian G. Messmer
Of Milwaukee has Endorsed the plan
for establishment of the new st.
Marks Catholic church at Kenosha.
The Rev. A. j. Berg, now assistant
pastor of ST. Marys church, Racine,
has been named as priest Of the new
parish.
Suntlowers as silage crop can not
be recommended by the agricultural
Of the University Of Wis
consin to southern Wisconsin farmers
but the crop has its advantages in
northern Wisconsin where the corn
does not mature until late, according
to findings announced by Z. d. Holden
of the agricultural staff.
Mrs. Hilda Macdonald Anderson, La
Pointe, who has announced herself a
candidate for the assembly, is the first
women in Ashland county to run for
legislative office. Mrs. Anderson is
graduate of Iowa university law
school and was one of the first nine
women to serve on an Ashland county
jury.
That land clearing in northern Wis
consin is adding millions of dollars
to the wealth of the state and multi
plying the food crop of Wisconsin is
the statement of the extension service
of the college of agriculture recently
issued. The report declared that since
the war $3.50 new farms have settled
in upper Wisconsin.
Mrs. Walter Carpenter was the first
woman ever drawn on a Barron coun-
ty jury and Miss Blanche Hubert the
first woman jury foreman. With seven
women and five men on the case OF
the state against Gust Peterson,
charged with nonsupport of minor
child, the jury was not just 25 min
utes before bringing in a verdict of
not guilty.
Between three and four thousand
applications for auto license are pour
ing into the state auto license bureau
of the state department daily this
month. The 2S5,000 mark was topped
by the large clerical force issuing and
mailing out the licenses. Last years
mark of 100000 is expected to be
passed long before the end of the
year.
Hartwell Farwell, Windsor farmer
and church deacon, convicted of sec
ond degree manslaughter in the slay-
ing of Theophile Hosten, probably will
remain in Dane county Jail at least
two weeks before learning his sen
tence, There will be no sentence
passed on Farwell before his motion
for a new trial is decided, Judge E.
Ray Stevens said.
Farm work progressed rapidly in
Wisconsin during the last week with
warm weather, the state crop service
reported. Seeding of oats was com
pleted except in a few counties, with
the planting OF barley we'll under way
A large amount of winter wheat is
reported to have been abandoned, es-
pecially in southern Wisconsin.
After crawling through a hole in a
brick wall, creeping along a dark pas.
sageway and pushing through a trap
door in the floor, prohibition agents
found a miniature brewery in full op-
Grafton in the American arcade, Third
and Wells streets, Milwaukee. The
place was Immediately raided and
many gallons of brew and two cases
OF spirits were seized The place was
sealed and the liquor held as evil
dence, but no arrests were made.
Because of the large number of
freight cars in need of repairs, the
500 line officials increased the mum
Der Of men employed in the shops at
Stevens Point to total of 31S. One
hundred twenty-five new men are be
ing taken on by the railroad. The
men, who have been working five days
a week, will work on a six-day SEIZED
ule, which also applies to the com.
panys shops In Fond du Lac and
Shoreham.
The opening of the trout season
May l has sent a large number OF
fishermen to Wisconsin streams, and
resulted in an unusual number of vic.
lations of the game laws, w. E. Bar
Der, chairman of the conservation
commission says. Wardens report
arrests Of large number of persons
who have failed to observe the laws.
The season for pike and practically
all game fish except muskelunge
opens June /. Black bass fishing
commences June Is.
A measure that, IL is believed, will
be a step toward decreasing the d.
vorce evil, will be asked the next
Legislature by Judge John ]. Gregory
of the Milwaukee circuit court. The
Judge, after hearing numerous stories
Of unhappily married couples, and
charges of cruel and inhuman treat
ment, believes that check should be
placed on remarriage of those indi
viduals found guilty of such conduct
Judge Gregory announced he will ask
the legislature to enact such law
which will give the court power to
prevent remarriage of such persons
found guilty of such charges.
Persons who fifty years ago pur
chased Indian lands from the state
will be reimbursed with interest al
per cent for the funds invested, as
result of action recently by the
Wisconsin land commissioners Pay
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