The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-08-24
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The Haskell club building, Wash
burn, is being remodelled and put IN
first class shape for hospital, under
the direction of Dr. A. A. Axley and
as soon as the work is completed a
modern hospital will be opened.
Triplets, two boys and girl, were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Wilson.
Mrs. Wilson is only 80 and is the
mother of 16 children, IL of which are
living. She has three sets of twins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson reside on a farm
l6 miles west of Plainheld near Kell-
ner
Mrs. w. S. Robinson, who recently
resigned as superintendent of schools
Of Forest county, has been succeeded
by A. r. Anklam Of Argonne, who was
appointed by State Superintendent
Callahan. He is a graduate Of Osh-
kosh normal, Wisconsin university
and University of Chicago,
Beloit has 5000 automobiles, one for
every seven inhabitants, but the total
value of all pigs reared within the city
is $50, figures made public by Assessor
F. F. Liyermore reveal. The total
valuation for taxation purposes is S27,-
265,310, an increase of $2,377,31O over
last year. Increases in real estate
values more than offset decreases in.
merchants and manufacturers stocks.
Shortages of $29952 were alleged in
seven new warrants against William
G. Schlecht, cashier Of the Silver Lake
State bank, Kenosha county when he
was arranged for preliminary hearing
in municipal court on charges of EN-
bezzlement. Four charges of embez-
clement served on Schlecht a month
ago placed the shortage in his &C
counts at $4,000 The bank is solvent,
officials said.
Road work and harvesting is giving
employment to large number at the
present time, causing a shortage of
workers, The free employment bureau
at Oshkosh received calls for one
hundred men and twenty-five women
and only eighty-eight men and nine
teen women applied for work. The
woodworking factories also showed a
slight boom and activities seemed in
creased in that line. The metal trades,
however, continue rather slow.
Arrested by Chicago police in con-
aection with thefts of automobiles and
tires valued at $4,000, three Wau-
paca county men were brought back
10 Waupaca from Chicago by Sheriff
William Pepke, The trio are charged
with stealing the cars and tires from
concerns in lola and Waupaca and
selling most of the tires in Chicago.
The men were seized while riding in
an automobile which had been stolen
rom a Chicago garage recently.
While drilling a well on his farm
three miles west of Washburn on the
Cornucopia state highway, E. A.
Westling struck an underground
stream, with a heavy flow of water.
The stream was struck when 25 feet
down. In removing small particles of
rock from the tube it was discovered
that the rock contained strong evil
dences of iron ore and much of the
rock was removed by means of mag
net.
With a great crop assured and
counting on fair prices, the Portage
county potato harvest this fall should
be worth from 100000 to $1,000
900. Portage countys acreage in po-
tatoes continues this year as it has
been for forty years, the largest in the
state. The county acreage is 24,930.
The states is $4,000. Waupaca coun-
ty ranks second with 1900; Chip
pewa county next with $4,000; Wau-
5hara fourth with 1906, and Barron
fifth with $4,000.
Two men, questioned at Stoughton
by Sheriffs William Mccormick of
Dane county and Herman Neitzel Of
Sank county in connection with the
murder of julius, Mary and William
Balzer on a farm IL miles west of
Sank City on Aug. s, were completely
exonerated by the authorities of both
counties. William Balzer, who has
fought grimly for life at the Sank
City hospital for more than a week,
died, and with his death the authori-
ties believe they will have additional
difficulty in solving the mystery of the
murders.
A resolution protesting against the
destruction Of fish in Lake Winnebago
and other waters Of the Fox river val
ley through pollution by industrial
waste will be sent to the state legis-
lature by the Isaac Walton league of
Fond du Lac The resolution points
out that sportsmen pay into the state
treasury annually more than 100000
and demands that $4,000 annually be
set aside for the purpose of remedy
ing the effects of pollution. The i'm
portance to the state Of the tourist
trade that is annually brought into
Wisconsin by its fishing resources is
advanced az an additional reason for
protecting the FISH
A new shakeup in the Kenosha
police department took place when
Chief Of Police Thad Logan announced
that patrolmen Eric Hansen, owen
IIannaway and John l.. Pltsch had re
sIgred Il was said the men preferred