The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-23

home in the town of Sharon, Portage
county.
JOS. P. Dilley, manager OF the Eau
Claire, has received word from W. A,
Koch. postmaster of Brillion, that the
state convention of postmasters will
be held in Eau Clare July 19, 20 and
81.
Six gallons of moonshine and 26
quarts of wine confscated by county
authorities in recent raids We're stolen
when the Hurley municipal courtroom
was broken into by thieves. They also
stole two revolvers and $50.
A record for continuous living un.
der the same roof is believed to have
been established by Mrs. Christine
Kunze, who last week began the
seventy-third year Of her residence at
English Lake lew miles from Mani.
towoc.
The La Crosse Trades and Labor
council adopted resolutions opposing
the installation of any more one-man
street cars on lines Of the Wisconsin
Railway, Light and Power Co., follow
ing the company's declaration that it
must install an one-man cars or in.
crease fares from Z to 10 cents.
Edmund j. Labuwi 80, former as
semblyman from the First district of
Dodge county and former sheriff
died at his home in Neosho. Mr.
Labuwi was born at Rubicon. He was
elected sheriff in the landslide of 1896,
being the youngest man ever elected
10 that office in Dodge county. He has
always been a prominent figure in Re
publican politics.
Mr.. and Mrs George Mcmillan,
residents of Arlington for fortysix
years, celebrated their sixtieth wed.
ding anniversary in that city with
their children and grandchildren pres
ent. MI Mcmillan, up TO a few years
ago, was engaged in the mercantile
business. The couple were married at
Dekowa, five miles north of Poynette,
later moving TO Arlington.
There has been a falling off of 303,-
$50 tons in the amount Of ore shipped
from the Gogebic range to the Ashland
docks in May this year as compared
with May, 1920. To date only 2OS,390
tons have been shipped from the
Gogebic range mines. Last year to
June /, more than 100000 tons had
been sent to Ashland from the Gogebic
range.
Contracts totaling nearly 100000,
calling for the largest amount of per
manent road building ever undertaken
in the county, have been awarded by
the Dodge county highway committee.
Dodge county will pave almost 80
miles of state and federal aid high.
ways this year, which exceeds the
mileage Of road laid in any other coun
ty in the state during 1921
Fire of incendiary origin wiped out
all buildings except the house on the
LuXerin farm, TWO and a half miles
south of Fond du Lac, causing $30OOt
loss The property. owned by Bernard
F. Sheridan. one Of the foremost
Guernsey breeders in Wisconsin, wa5
ranked as one Of the model dairy
farms Of the state. Four horses, three
valuable calves and a cow persisted.
Seyentyfye tons Of hay, straw ana
alfalfa. goo bushels of oats, II tons of
feed and a big supply CT beet pulp
were burned.
Results OF a thrift campaign intro
duced in the schools of Eau Claire
county last January, were shown in
perfect records made by Cleghorn, by
the model department of the County
Training school, and by the River
View school of the town of Union.
Each of the three attained 100 per cent
in thrift. with every pupil in the
schools having opened savings bank
account with an initial deposit of at
least ST. Wherever possible, the chill
dren made their first deposits in per
son.
Mrs. Anne Carter and Mrs. HATH
Pannier won their fight for equal
shares in the $4,000 estate left by
their father, the late James McKinnoG
of Chippewa Falls, in decision hand
ed down by Judge James O'Neill. In
the iudgcs decision the last viii Of
the deceased, made in 1919, which left
the bulk Of the estate TO the widow
Mrs. Elizabeth McKinnon, and cut off
the two children with 81 legacies, was
declared invalid due to undue intu
ente, exorted by Mrs, McKinnon Tn
der the court ruling the estate will be
divided equally between Mrs Mckin
non and he two daughters, Mrs. Car,
ter and Mrs. Pannier
The state Of Wisconsin lost its suit
to unsca Judge Sherman T.. Smalley
of the Fifth judicial district, charged
with violation of the corrupt practice
act in the election of April 5. Judge
Smalcg. who took his seat in the Cir.
cult court in Lancaster June !, de-
feated Judge Levi II. Bancroft OF
Richand Center, at the recent cleo
tion Five hundred Of the defeated
candidates friends petitioned the
statc- attorney general TO bring suit
undo, tho corrupt practices act, charg
ing ha Judge Smalley had DETAINED
his opponents character through cir
culauHion of derogatory statements
The jury that returned the verdict in
Cfrlt .ourt found that Judge Smalley
had mol authorized distribution OF the
circular in which the statements con
corning former Judge Bancroft We're
made