The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-12-14

WISCONSIN
| STATE NEWS


Increased l cent Dec. /.
George McKerrow e. Sons, Pewau'
xee Waukesha county, were awarded
championship for their ram in the
breeding Oxford division at the thir-
ty-third international live stock ex'
position.
A drive to increase the member
ship Of the WATERFOWL Milk Produc-
efs' association has been launched
The membership now is two hundred
and thirty-one, and efforts will be
made to double this number
The price to be paid by the town
Of Milton for the water and electric
plants Of the MCGOWAN Water Light
and Power Co. was fixed by the rail-
road commission at $33,5OO. The town
satends to bay the property.
A petition in bankruptcy was MED
Ia federal court at La Crosse by Or
iando Holway, adjutant general OF
Wisconsin. Liabilities of $Sll,l9l, OF
which all but $3,457 are secured
claims, are listed with assets OF $3.50,
claimed to be exempt.
Two hours after he had received
word of the birth of his first child
Emery Adams, 81, Madison, was SEN
fenced to Is months in Waupun prison
by Judge O. A. Stolen on a forgery
charge. Before starting for Waupun,
Sheriff Mccormick drove Adams 10
the General hospital to see the Child
and the young mother, who is 10.
Clemens Lueck of Tomah, president
of the Wisconsin Oratorical assocla-
ton, is making arrangements for the
state oratorical contest, to be held at
Appleton in February. Five colleges
will send representatives this year,
Lawrence, Beloit, Carroll, Milton and
Ripon. This is the first year Milton
has been a member of the assocla-
ton.
Wholesalers of Christmas trees in
Green Bay and other northern WIS
eonsin and Michigan points report a
slight increasae in the prices OF their
products this year, due to the scarcity
of trees from the northern woods,
which is believed to have been caused
by the labor shortage there, the prices
ranging from 10 cents for the small
ones to $25 for the large community
trees.
The state fair board has asked the
Wisconsin state board of public az
fairs for $25O,OO0 with which to IL
nance the 1928 state fair. This is an
increase of $4,000 over the 1922 fair.
In addition, request was made for
500 600 with which to construct a
cattle barn on the fair grounds, and
for $4,000 to build an extension on
the sheep barn, with $4,000 for main
tenance.
The horse population of Wisconsin
fell $4,000 during the last year, bring
ing the total down to $50, 1873, the an.
nual report of Wisconsin's agricul'
tural statistician shows. There are
now $1,000 fewer horses than in 1915
the peak year in the state for horses
Cattle increased $4,000 during the
wear. according to the report This
increase was partly in young dairy
cattle and partly in beef animals
bringing the total of all cattle to 2,
S12,821.
Student fees during the last year
raised S1,3O2,965 Of Wisconsin's $50,
100000 educational bill, according tc
Secretary f. A, Fitzpatrick Of the
state board Of education, Besides the
fees, $55S,764 came as the income from
the school funds; $37561 as gifts;
/ S21O,g20 as federal aid and $l,290, l6S
/ from miscellaneous sources. The uni
versity contributed $S9l,00O to this
item by sale of products while Stout
institute sold heat to the extent Of
100000
John A. (Dogskin) Johnson was de
MED an application for compensation
to the sum Of $4,000 for false impris
onment growing out of his seryinl
of ten years of life term in connec
ton with the Staying of Annie Lem
berger. Johnson was released from
the state penitentiary at Waupun aft
er it had been definitely proven tina
he had not slain the child. His ap
plication was denied on the grounds
that his own plea of guilty, said Il
have been given through fear, con
tributed to his incarceration.
The Brown county workhouse en-
tertained A guests during the pas
year for a total of 1877 days of ser
yitude on county roads and in tn
county's stone quarry. Thirty-one 0
the inmates We're "lloaters" and tn
majority were sentenced to from tel
to sixty days on charges involving
drunkenness or disorderly conduct
one escape was reported According
to police Green Bay and Brown cour
ty are exceptionally free from tn
tramp or hobo nuisance as a resul
OF the establishment Of the work
house
A freak calf with three separat
heads and six legs, one of whic
had three distinct hoofs, was born o
the farm Of Bert Baptist, farme
living near the town Of NasewaupC
three miles south OF Sturgeon Ba!
one OF the heads was between tn
forelegs and another on the right sid
of the shoulder. The freak lived onl
few hours.