The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-04


libel suit brought by the Normanden'
a Grand Forks, N. D., Norwegian pub
| LEGATION against the Reform, Nor
wegian temperance weekly published
at Eau Claire.
Nine automobile drivers were ar
rested on the first day of the roundup
of speeders by the Sheboygan police
department. All pleaded guilty anG
paid the cost, Judge Meyer being LEM
ent with first offenders.
Dudley Osborne, II, son of e. j. os
borne, Shullsburg, was killed at cuba
City when the auto in which he was
riding turned over, breaking the boys
neck. E. j. Osborne is clothing
merchant of Shullsburg,
Because of the unusual demand for
rooms fer students at the University
of Wisconsin for the opening of the
fall term, students may invade Win
era Park, a residential district hith'
erto housing but few students.
The Kenosha county board received
estimates from Westinghouse, Church,
Kerr company on the new courthouse
boosting the cost from $1,900,000 to
$4,000 900. The estimated cost when
the pans were chosen was $480,000.
Directors of the Fond du Lac Ma.
tional bank, e. ]. Perry, f. j. Rueping,
E. G. Vail, w. H. Rueping, w. w.
Wild and ex-Assemblyman Christ
Pickart, formed the First Fond du
Lac Trust Co., with capital of $4,000.
Miles C. Riley, Madison, secretary
of the national governors conference
held recently in Salt Lake City left
for Washington with a committee OF
governors to confer with President
Wilson on the high cost of living stu
alton.
George Van Loon, aged % years, re-
Gently discharged from the army, was
taken to Paterson. N. j., to answer
the charge of embezzling $40 while
employed as clerk in the postotfice
there. He was visiting relatives in
Racine.
A fund OF $1,000 for experimental
work on pickle diseases, to be known
as the Cucurbit Disease Research
fund, has just been established at the
University of Wisconsin thru dona-
tons made by the II. J. Heinz com
pany and the National Pickle Pack.
ers' association.
Three farmers will hear an appeal
of William Beilke's petition to lay
drainage ditch in his ninety-acre
farm, near Watertown, which was re-
fused by the county supervisors.
Judge Kirkland at Jefferson named
Robert Stretch, Pennington and Otto
Strache and John Schumacher, Ixonia,
to hear the case.
A movement is on foot to incorpo-
rate the village of Ephraim, one oil
the leading summer resorts of the
east Green Bay shore. A special cleo
ton will be held Sept. IL. Many msre
improvements can be made under a
self government. If the movement
carries it is probable that Fish Greek,
another popular resort near by will
follow suit.
Because of the great shortage Of
teachers in the state-estimated some
months ago to be more than 1000
and the consequent enlistment in the
profession of inexperienced teachers
who need training and advice, the
University of Wisconsin extension di,
vision has just prepared a course
called Principles of Educational
Practice" 1t has been approved by
the state department of public in
struction.
Mrs. Sarah Mele barricaded herself
in her home at Kenosha and fired
away with "a shotgun when she found
two men in her yard. The woman told
the police she had found in her yard
a note signed bandit king" in which
the writer threatened trouble unles
he was given $500. The police are
looking for the men and Mrs. Mele
who was arrested on charge OF
shooting within the city limits was
discharged.
H. H. Scott, Sheboygan, former
president OF the Wisconsin Cheese
and Butter Industry Protective Asso.
citation, is seeking damages OF $4,000
from E. l.. Aderhold, former state food
and dairy inspector, and now identi-
fed with the Wisconsin Cheese Pro
ducers' Federation. In his complaint
filed in Circuit court, he alleges that
Aderh Did wrote him a letter charging
him with the manufacture of adulter-
ated cheese and of "resorting to trick
cry" in his business methods.
Smooth King, most valuable Poland
China hog in Wisconsin and one OF
the famous pigs of the country, re
Gently sold by j, d. Mcdonald, West
Salem, to c. Il. Grummert, Renville,
Mimi, for $4,000, died at West Salem
He had been kept at Salem to be
shown by his former owner at the
big fairs OF the country this fall, and
was about to start out on the tour
when fatty degeneration of the heart
caused his death. Mr.. Grummert
carried no insurance on the hog.
Bayfield, County Agent V. E. Bru
baker has received letter from
State Veterinarian O. N. Eliason stat
ing that the work of making the tu-
| berculin test of all cows in the county
over six months of age will begin just
as soon as the necessary serum can
| be secured.
Charles Schriber, Oshkosh, for over
half century identified with bank
I ing interests in the Fox River Valley