The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-04-20
BADGER STATE.
HAPPENINGS

! of the Poland-China breeders was COM
| pleted at a meeting held in GAINESVILLE
/ when the following officers were elect
ed Norman Little, Harmony presi-
I dent; A. o. Furseth, Evansville, vice!
| president, and Charles Maltby, belolt,
| secretary and treasurer.
Farm labor, like products, has drop.
ped in price and it is said that farm
ers in Winnebago county are hiring
/ men for the coming season at from
S26 to $40 month, depending upon
I the qualification of the man. A year
ago, it was said farm labor paid from
$50 to SIS and higher a month.
Louis Lenz, Is, son of Waupaca
county farmer, pleaded guilty TO for
gerry and was sentenced to three years
in the state industrial school. Stanley
Schroeder, a New London boy, pleaded
guilty at Waupaca TO grand larceny
and was sentenced to the industrial
school for two years.
Adverse weather in February and
| early March haS caused an appreci-
able decline in condition Of winter
grains and grasses since they entered
the cold months, Joseph A. BECKER,
Madison, crop reporter says in his
monthly report. Winter wheat and
clover are reported to have been az
ieCted particularly.
Almost as many automobiles are be-
ing purchased in Wisconsin this year
as last, judging by reports made by
dealers, Elmer S. Hall, secretary Of
state, says. Up TO the present time
100000 pleasure automobiles have
been licensed by the state, with re-
turn OF $2,O3O,OOO. 1t is expected that
the total registrations for this year
will exceed 100000, exclusive Of
trucks.
Lawrence college is richer by $10,-
600, received through the terms of the
will of the late William Larsen Of
Green Bay, which was recently filed
for probate at Green Bay. The Larsen
estate is estimated at something over
100000. Requests We're made to the
Deaconess hospital and to several
Methodist organizations. The bulk OF
the estate was left to the widow and
children.
In an effort to obtain a general un-
derstanding and agreement concern
ing the cause of marketing problems
and their solution, the state depart
ment Of markets sent a QUESTIONABLE
to leading economists, business men,
newspaper editors and public spirited
citizens in general, asking their opin-
ion on certain general conclusions ar
rived at by the department after two
years Of study.
The state department of agriculture
estimates that 100000 tons Of agri-
cultural lime are needed on Wisconsin
farm lands, with 100000 acres in the
state requiring lime. For the informa.
ton OF farmers the department has is
sued a circular giving estimates of
cost Of various licensed lines sold in
the state 1t says that while limestone
is cheap, large applications are re-
qdired and that with varying prices
and freight rates, costs differ widely.
Worry over the fact that her son
failed to return to his home near Tur-
tie Lake, following long service in
he a,sfg DIM
ing the late war; is believed to be
partly the cause of the death of Mrs,
S. W. Mayala, who died at a Barron
hospital. Mrs. Mayala died following
an illness which lasted several years.
Her son, Elmer Mayala, has not been
located following his discharge from
the army after the war,
The official state canvass Of votes
in the recent Supreme court election
completed shows Justice Burr W.
Jones overwhelmed John Kleist, so
cialist his only opponent, by a major
ity Of $3.50. The total votes polled
by Justice Jones was 268,110, the COM
plete figures disclosed. Kleist receiv-
ed 172,5i1 votes. Jones carried every
county but Manitowoc, Milwaukee and
Washington. ManitowoC county went
to Kleist by 2,225. The socialist can
didate won in Washington county by
only 76 votes. In Dane county Jones
swamped his opponent, 1889 to 1898.
Master builders of the Fox river
valley at a meeting in Appleton said
the 1922 building season will the one
of the busiest in history. There are
few large buildings planned for the
summer but an unusually large num-
Der of residences will be constructed
Builders reported nearly 1000 new
homes are to be built in Appleton,
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and Green Bay
this year. For the first time in sew.
eral years the building season will
start without labor troubles. Last
year the open shop principle was pro-
claimed during a strike of carpenters
and masons and all contractors in the
valley now are operating on the open
shop basis. Wages are the same as
last year,
The Wausau Elks' Home corporation
has voted TO amend its articles of in
corporation from $4,000 to 100000,
which is made necessary by its de-
cision to build a clubhouse to cost APP
proximately $4,000. 1t is expected
the building will be erected this year.
Bids for its construction have been
asked for