The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-06-22
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

Walter j. Kohler, of Kohler, was re-
elected president of the University or
| Wisconsin board Of regents. Ben f.,
| Faust, Eau Claire, was reelected vice
president, and NJ. e. McCaffery, sec
rotary.
A fish bone which lodged in his
| throat several weeks ago, caused the
death of James Dougherty, jr., wide
| ly known resident of Amherst. Mr..
Dougherty died at st. Mary's hospital,
| Oshkosh.
A number of buyers from Mime
sofa and Iowa last week purchased
three carloads of Barron county
| Guernseys, the business being
handled through the county associ-
alton.
More than 5000 Master Masons rep
resenting 200 lodges in Wisconsin at
tending the seventy eighth annual
conclave, were present at Scottish
Rite cathedral, Milwaukee, when the
third degree was exemplifed by Wis
consin lodge 10.
With hog cholera breaking out
among the farmers stock in the vicin-
ity of Edgerton and Fulton, immedi-
ate steps have been taken to check
the spread of the disease. Imported
infected hogs are believed to have
started the disease in Rock county.
Mrs. Joshua Hodgins, prominent in
club and social circles of Marinette
and state, has been named a trustee
of Lawrence college, Appleton. Her
father, the late United States Senator
Isaac Stephenson, was a generous
benefactor of the college.
An American Legion post whose
membership will include the entire
Fox River valley from Fond du Lac
to Green Bay, and whose activities in
behalf of former service men will be
as broad in their scope as its mem
bership is being planned by legion
naires in Fond du Lac, Oshkosh and
Neenah
The Irvine plant at the state prison
at Waupun is putting in overtime this
month to manufacture Irvine for what
is now promising to be Wisconsin's
largest crop in years. The plant is
running until p. m. each day and
means, with short time out for sup
per, over two hours over time daily.
About 100000 lbs will be the years
output and it is all sold and more.
Fifty-fve bachelor degrees and five
special degrees of Doctors of Law and
Doctors of Divinity were granted to
students of the graduating class of
Lawrence college by the president OF
the college, DR.. Samuel Plantz, at
the final exercises of commencement
in combination with the 18th birthday
anniversary celebration of Lawrence
college.
Cyril Alters, 10, living at PEBBLES,
near Fond du Lac, during storm,
strapped his radiophone headpiece on
and waited for concert waves. A bolt
Of lightning struck the aItena which
topped Cyril's home. 1t Travelled down
the copper wire and knocked Cyil
UNCONSCIOUS. When he regained con-
scionsness he found he was uninjured
With the exception that the filings
werS knocked from his teeth.
There is a loss for Wisconsin
school of over 5000 teachers yearly.
according to officials of the Wisconsin
Teachers association, who must be
ren,aced by new recruits. About 800
| more teachers are needed each year to
take care of the increased number of
school children, it was said. Accord
ins to the association, it was con-
SENTATIVE estimate to say that at least
| $50 of these new teachers are needed
for the country schools.
Jasper Cross, Indian farmer on the
Couderay reservation near COuderay
IL the first one in this locality to in
stall a radio telephone receiving set
MIR. Cross has charge of the Chippewa
Indians on the reservation, acting un-
der Supt. Craige of the Indian school
at Hayward. The radio is mystery
TO the Chippewa Indians who marvel
at the music and speeches coming
out of the air They just shake their
heads and smile.
The care of dependent tubercular
and mentally deranged persons in
| Wisconsin is shown to be a growing
problem with which the county and
state governments are faced by the
report OF the state board of control on
| operation of public charities and
state asylums during 1921. Operation
costs to maintain these institutions
we're s5,0f4247. the public charities
costing $1,S47.061; insane asylums,
S1,92O6SO; tubercular sanatoriums,
$694079, and poorhouses. $52S APT.
The number of persons in insane
asylums during the year was 6,953, an
Increase of 173 over the previous year,
with 693 in tuberculosis sanatoriums,
an increase of LOG over 1920 and 1884
In county and city poorhouses, an IN
crease of 1853 over the previous year.
The Wisconsin Tent and Awning
Manufacturers association is attack ed
in an action in the Dane county court
by Atty. Gen. William J. Morgan. ask
ing for a permanent injunction to re-
strain members of the organization
from combining to fix prices in viola
ton Of the state antitrust law.