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


ed publication. George w. Lppert,
who recently repudiated the socialist
party, was president Of the company.
Birchwood's large and modern $751;
600 Union free high school building
is practically completed and efforts
will be made to conduct the annual
high school commencement exercises
in the building.
A Chicago company has announced
that it will open a $4,000 soy bean
oil extracting plant at Stevens Point
if Portage county farmers will guar
antee to raise $4,000 bushels of the
beans annually,
The organization of Wisconsin auto
mobile dealers into associations for
the purpose of fixing prices paid Tor
used cars through dissemination Of
trade information was held to be in
restraint of trade and illegal under
the state antitrust law by Atty. Gem
Morgan in an opinion to G. f. Cliff
ford, special investigator of his de-
partment.
Public employment offices are hay
ing difficulty in filling the demand for
skilled workers in a number of trades
and for common labor in some sec
lions of the state, the industrial COM
mission reports. Molders, maChinists
and quarrymen are said to be gener-
ally in demand. Unemployed work
men are urged by the commission to
renew their applications at the public
employment offices.
Twenty-one accidents at public rail
road crossings during the last three
months were reported by the railroad
commission. Six deaths and Ii in
juries resulted from the accidents, In
20 of the cases, automobiles were in
yolyed, with four persons killed and
10 injured. Steam railroads reported
a total of 81 accidents other than at
crossings, which resulted in 13 deaths
and 80 injuries. Seven killed were
trespassers.
In the IL counties in which the
open season for beaver and otter pre-
vailed this year, 1929 beaver and IS
otter were trapped, according to re-
ports received by the conservation
commission. The average value of
beaver skins was $1S49 and of otter
S2413, so that beaver trappers are
believed to have made S9i97815 and
otter trappers $2,O65 during the sea
son.
Prohibition enforcement ordinances
are being enacted by a number Of
cities of the state as the result of an
opinion of Atty, Gen. Morgan, given
some months ago, that municipalities
might lawfully enact penal dry laws
enforced by local officers, w. Stanley
Smith, prohibition commissioner, re-
ports. By passing local enforcement
laws, cities are able to receive the
fines imposed for their own use, while
all collections made under the state
law 80 to the state school fund.
The gross income of Wisconsin
farms fell to S259,OOO,OOO this last
year, from the peak of $415,000,00O in
1919, the crop service reports. This
represents a decrease of S160,000,000
IN value in 1920, and is said to be
lower than the pre-war value of 1914,
although official figures are not avail
able for that time. The portion Of
a. f,,,,,, ;roo,,,o +trfhrto blo 10 1.-Two.
stock has increased constantly since
1917, and in 1921 was the highest
ever, or ST. per cent Of the total
Livestock values are reported to have
held up much better than crop values.
The number of inmates of state anG
county charitable and penal institu
tons has risen to 1874, an increase
of 638 during the last year. the state
board of control reported Those on
parole number 3,1S5, a reduction Of
AL from the number at this time last
year. A total of $3.50 are in state
charitable and penal institutions, with
2,171 on parole, where there are 1874
inmates of county institutions, with
LOLA on parole The number of in
sane has increased 149 during the last
year, to 8.476, while feeble minded
number 1889. There are now 1,247
in the penal institutions, an increase
from 1920 a year ago
The cement to be used in construct
ing the 400 miles of concrete high
way planned in the state during the
present year will cost 100000 less
than the 1921 cost for an equal
amount, the highway commission
points out in its quarterly report. The
report says that estimated Conserva-
lively the saving which resulted from
the buyers strike against cement com
panies to bring a reduction in prices
amounted to 100000. Approximately
100000 barrels of cement were con
tracted for at $l.40 a barrel. The
1900 patrolmen who maintain Wiscon-
sims trunk highway system are prac-
tically all hired for the season at a
wage about 20 per cent under 1921,
or about $liO a month, the commits.
sion announces.
Great improvement in building &C.
tiyity throughout Wisconsin is noted
by the industrial commission, in the
report of its engineer for the last
quarter. A large part Of the work,
however, is said to be in the erection
Of smaller types of buildings, such as
schools garages and small theaters.
A new Lutheran church to cost $685.