The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-05-25
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

| held at Madison June ana 10 Hi
the position OF agricultural statisticlan
for Wisconsin which will be left va
cant by the transfer of Joseph A,
Becker, present crop reporter, to
Washington.
Miss Rosetta Segal, of Appleton
won the twenty-seventh annual high
school declamatory contest held at the
State Normal school, She will rep
resent this district at the state de
clamatory contest to be held in Madi
son, May 10. Among the high schools
competing were Ripon, Marinette, An
tigo Shawano and Waupun.
The city of Barron has decided that
a city nurse is not necessary and, &C
cordingly after June 8, the city will
continue without the services of a
nurse. Miss Emma l.. Pulls has been
city nurse for the last six months. The
idea to continue without a nurse is
one of the many economy moves to
go into effect.
Road builders in Brown county are
fearing a shortage of highway workers
and it is feared that steps will be
necessary to import outside labor
About % miles of concrete construc
ton work will be under way before
June l. At the present time about
300 men are employed on the work
and when it is time to start concrete
it will be necessary to have about
1000 workers.
Eau Claire-A drop in barber prices
at Menomonie and Elk Mound from
80 cents for a haircut to 35 cents and
from 25 cents for a shave to Is cents
has led to agitation at Eau Claire and
in Chippewa Falls for reduced prices.
A few shops in Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Falls have cut prices to 40 cents
for a haircut and 20 cents for a shave,
but most shops continue to charge SO
cents for haircuts and rs cents for a
shave.
An interesting trial was held in
Judge A. NJ Spencer's court at Apple
ton, when Lewis Wainer was charged
with using a false weight in buying
stock from farmers in the vicinity of
Sugar Bush The testimony showed
that Wainer had a weight that resem-
bled closely the true weight except
that it was made out of a heavy ma.
terial, and each time he used it he
would gain 81 pounds. Judge Spencer
assessed the maximum penalty of $25
and costs of SIS.
Justice Burr w. Jones of the Wis.
consin Supreme court is one of the
states oldest educators. For more
than thirty years he taught law stu.
dents at the University of Wisconsin,
and his pupils are to be found in posi-
lions of responsibility in practically
every state. Three of his old pupils
are now serving with him on the Wis
consin Supreme bench Chief Justice
Aad j. Vinje, student, 1884 to 1887;
Justice Walter C. Owen, student, 1889
to 1891, and Justice Charles H. Crown.
hart, 1887 to 1889.
About 60 per cent of the men stu.
dents are earning part or all of their
college expenses at the University OF
Wisconsin this year, according to a
recent estimate made by men in
charge of student employment bu
reaus. The $500 men students shown
to be earning much of their college
expenses are doing all varieties of
work from beating rugs, mopping
floors, waiting on table, washing
dishes, clerking in stores, pruning
trees, selling blood for TRANSMISSION in
hospitals, to setting type and work
ing as private secretaries.
Maple sugar production in 1922 was
much above the production for a mum
Der of years past, Joseph A. Becker
of the Wisconsin Cooperative CROP
service reports. Trees tapped mum
bered $4,000, an increase of 8 pei
cent over last year The production
of strip is estimated at 14S,200 gal
Ions as compared with $4,000 last year
116,400 in 1920 and 10000 in 1919;
of sugar, "a 200 pounds compared tc
17,100 in 1921, 10000 in 1920 and %,
900 in 1919. Sirup is reported as high
in quality due to the fact that most
of It was produced under ideal sal
flow conditions.
Since the first Of the year 20 car
loads of pure-bred and high-grade
Holstein cows have been shipped tC
Old Mexico from Green county. The
men who deal in cows for Mexican
daIries purchase the cows at from 500
to $3.50 per head. The cattle are
shipped in special cars, attached e
fast trains and 1t costs $55 per head
to deliver them to Mexico City. The
animals purchased are year olds OF
older because young cows do not stanC
the climate so well. Calves are moi
shipped at all. The business of buy
ing continues and frequent shipments
will be made at intervals as the de
mand for good cows Is strong and 6
good Holstein cow brings as high as
$500 in Mexico, in United States
money.
A collie dog properly trained t
handle cattle is worth more to a farm
er than the average hired man, &C
cording to George Brown, a ChippewS
county farmer, testifying in the sui
of Ed Darwin against Earnest Heidk'
for 800 damages as a result of Heidk'
shooting the Darwin dog.