The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-12-21
/ WISCONSIN
{ STATE NEWS


costs. Claude Bishop was found guilty
! of making and selling "moonshine'
and fined 800.
Stanlislaw Cybulski, miner OF Iron
wood, Mich, was shot above the heart
by highway man who held him up
few miles from Hurley and relieved
him of his watch and money. Cybul-
SKI is seriously wounded, physicians
report, but he may recover.
At a meeting in Bayfield, of the
fruit growers of the Bayfield, PENN
sula, the Bayfield, Peninsula Horticul-
tural society was organized, the old
fruit growers association which has
been in existence for several years
merging with the lew organization,
The civil service commission will
hold an examination in Delavan for
applicants for the appointment as Del
AVIAN postmaster. The post pays 49,
300. Postmaster c. A. Tallman was
ousted recently on complaint of pos
tai inspector.
The Rev. Clarence j. Mcconnell,
synodical superintendent of the Chip
pewa Presbytery of Wisconsin, died
at his home in Superior. The Rev,
Mr. Mcconnell was formerly a pastor
of the Superior First Presbyterian
/ church.
After completing arrangements for
/ his fathers funeral, Henry Sorenson,
Clay Banks, died on the day of his
| fathers funeral. The senior Sorenson
was SO and a pioneer resident of
southern Door county, Henry Soren-
son was a prominent figure in the
life of southern Door county and held
a number of public offices. A family
of twelve children survives.
Organized labor in Wisconsin is go
ing before the 1928 legislature with
a definite program of proposed legis-
/ lation that includes four distinct rec
concentrations for restriction Of the
| power of state courts, the Legislative
committee of the Wisconsin Fedora
| ton of Labor has announced. TWEEN
| ty-seven measures affecting a wide
range of subjects are to be urged by
the state decoration.
Ashland Masonic bodies have eXpe-
! rienced a material increase in num-
bers this season. The Blue lodge now
numbers 316 members, the chapter,
/ 1888, and the commandery 243. The
/ Council of Royal and Select Masters
also has a large membership and the
Eastern Star is growing rapidly. The
chapter, blue lodge and commandery
will spend $1,000 in the organization
of a De Molay lodge for boys in jan
uary
About 459 Oneida county farmers
cleared 1859 acres of land during its
land-clearing activities during 1922 ac-
cording to a report of the Oneida
Land Clearing association. The cost
of the enterprise was placed at APP
proximately $4,000, which included the
salary of the land clearing manager.
During the last year Oneida farmers
purchased 10000 pounds of dynamite,
$4,000 pounds Of picric acid, $4,000
caps and 10000 feet of fuse for land
ing clearing work.
The Eau Claire police force was
placed on an eight hour day working
basis last week in keeping with the
city councils determination to put all
city employees on that basis Patrol
men who formerly were on the beat
for ten hour stretches will now finish
up in eight hours. Desk sergeants
will have to put in nine hours instead
of ten. Policemen will hereafter be
given three days off in every month
instead of two days and receive fiji
teen days vacation annually instead
Of ten days.
More adequate state aid and super
vision of mothers pensions now adj
ministered by counties, are needed to
make the dependent childrens law
| HlOlt StHtld any thCIllNt, LhC oJdIt
board of control concludes in a report
on the laws operation. Pensions
amounting to $700,S4S,S1 were paid
to 3,2lS families, with 9,159 children
aided, representing an increase of
100000 over the previous year, and OF
| 1893 900 since the law was enacted in
1903. The pensions were largely dis
| tributed to families having from one
! to six children and in amounts be-
/ tween $40 and $34 a month.
James o. Davidson, twenty-frst gov.
ernOr of Wisconsin, died in the Madi-
son General hospital. He was gov.
ernor from 1906 to 1911. EXGov
! Davidson fought a losing battle for
\ three weeks against pneumonia and
heart complications, and the end came
more than a week He would have
/ been 60 next February. His daugh.
/ ter, Mrs Theodore Lewis. wife of the
Dane county district attorney and the
only surviving member of the David
son family was at her fathers bed
side. Mrs. Davidson and an older
daughter died several years ago.
Lieut.. Col, Bert Besnah of Fond du
lac has been called to Washington
as one of the principal witnesses in
an investigation into the maintenance
cost of military camps during the war
\ Mr. Besnah was quartermaster OF
Camp Sherman and was one of tie
officers instrumental in starting the
/ investigation