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

Appeal to the Wisconsin supreme
court for freedom. on basis of errors
in his trial, was made by Frank Lang,
/ serving 20 years in the state prison
after conviction for the murder, Aug.
/ IA, 1920, of Charles Pacini, wealthy
Kenosha theater owner
Thomas Gale, "A, first territorial
delegate from Alaska to congress in
1906, has announced his candidacy for
sheriff of Fond du Lac county. He
/ held that office in 1858. He is the
father of Tom Gale, jr., captain of
police.
The League Of Wisconsin Munich
! palities, composed of officers of Wis
consin cities and villages, went on
record at the closing session of the
/ twenty fourth annual convention at
( Appleton as favoring the removal of
/ the personal property offset to income
! taxes as it applies to motor vehicles.
/ At a special meeting of the Beaver
Dam board of education a contract
was awarded for the general con-
struction work on the first unit of a
new high school. The entire cost OF
this unit is approximately 100000
and is to be completed within ten
months.
A minister of the Quaker faith, S.
Donald Rogers, was visitor in To-
nah looking up a tract of land and
doing preliminary work with the OBJ
ject of locating a colony of Quakers
near that city. Several large farms
were inspected. The intention is to
divide them up into smaller tracts,
locating a family on each tract,
The Rev. Johannes Rockstroh, who
has completed six years of service as
rector of st. Johns Episcopal church
of Wisconsin Rapids, has announced
his resignation to take effect next
fall. He intends to retire from active
service and has accepted an invitation
to become private secretary and as
sistant to Bishop Weller of Fond du
Lac.
Six Wisconsin electric railway COM
panies voluntarily propose to reduce
interurban fares, effecting saving Of
thousands of dollars daily to the
travelling public and business houses.
The announcement was made by j.
p. Pulliam, president of the Wisconsin
Utilities Association. Over fifty towns
in the state will benefit from the pro-
posed reduction.
The Barron Cooperative Creamery,
the largest creamery in the world, re-
ceived almost 100000 pounds of cream
during May, according to the report
for that month made public. For this
amount of cream, approximately 1885,,
600 pounds of butterfat were obtain
ed During May the creamery had
loss patrons. The creamery paid AZ
cents a pound for butterfat.
July 4 will be ushered in at She
boygan with a salute of 4S guns from
United States vessels lying in the
Sheboygan harbor, according to plans
laid by the American Fourth of July
committee. One gun for every state
in the nation, fired at 10-second in
tervals, the official salute to the ma
ton, will be heard perhaps for the
first time in Sheboygan on this oc-
cssion.
Five minutes before a Milwaukee
road passenger train being detoured
over the Northwestern line, near APP
pleton Junction, was due, r. H. Locke,
section hand, discovered that bridge
ON the main line was washed out.
/ Waving a lantern he ran through a
binding storm and stopped the pas
senger, which contained more than
/ 100 persons. about 200 rods from the
washout
/ Navigation on the Fox river be-
tween Appleton and Green Bay has
/ been ended for the season as a result
of the washing away of the locks and
canal banks at Little Rapids in the
most destructive flood in the history
of the Fox river valley, caused by the
heavy rains aud windstorm lasting
three days. Loss to crops, farm prop
/ erty and other buildings in this dis
trict will total nearly $1,000,000 ac-
cording to estimates. The raging wa
tiers of the Fox carried away the
canal bank at Lock No. 2 at Little
Rapids. The upper gates of the lock
were twisted from their hinges and
carried down the river by the torrent
The acreage of small grains in Wis
consin is 100000 acres less than last
year and $4,000 below the five year
average, according to the June report
of Joseph A. Becker, of the Wisconsin
crop reporting service. Planting was
interrupted frequently by rain and
was made difficult by poor soil con-
ditions, the report says. Fall grains
total 451 900 acres as compared to
! $4,000 in 1921 sand a five year aver
age Of AL, 900 acres. Spring grains
total 10000 acres compared to 81
100000 last year and five year aver
age of 3,174.000 acres. In all, Wiscon-
sin farmers have 3,547,000 acres in
grain as. against 3.64700O in 1927 and
an average of 2,615,OO0 for the five
years, 1916 to 1920.
Jacob Keul, deputy sheriff of Ke-
nosha, was killed and Miss Mary Rob-
bins and Mrs. Neil Curry of Chicago,
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