The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-09-07
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state will hold their annual eXhlDlts
of livestock, farm products, school
work and dairy exhibits.
Rats were responsible for a $1,000
| fire in the store owned by Mrs. Emma
Noyy, Manitowoc, The loss was part
! ly covered by insurance. The rodents
snawcd into a case of matches, ignit-
/ ing them.
| Evidence that Wisconsin passed
through a serious influenza epidemic
last winter and spring, when popular
opinion classed the cases as nothing
more than severe cold, is revealed by
recent mortality figures compiled by
the state boaGd of health, which show
204 deaths dae to the disease.
A relief fund for striking shopmen
has been started in GAINESVILLE with a
$50 donation by The GAINESVILLE Ca
zette. 1t is pointed out that the
larders of the shipments homes are
becoming empty and, with schools
starting in a week clothing and shoes
,
as picnics, have already been given to
help the striking shopmen and their
families.
An explosion at the power plant of
the High Falls Co., Manitowoc, caused
considerable damage to the building
and burned out the transformers.
More than half the windows in the
building were shattered, the force Of
the explosion being so great that the
steel window frames were bent. Off
GERS Of the company offer no explana-
ton Of the accident
The Rev. J. P. Van Treeck, who was
raised in the town of Wilson. Sheboy-
gan county educated in part in She
boygan and later at st. Francis col
lege, and for more than 40 years pas
tor of st. Peter Claver church, died
at the Sheboygan hospital. Father
Van Treeck was one Of the best known
clergymen in Wisconsin and had taken
part in the dedication Of more Catholic
churches than any other pastor.
Formal protest on the assessment
against the Odanah Iron Co and the
Harmony Iron Co. was made before
the board of review at Hurley by at
torneys for the companies. The as
sessment against the Odanah company
was increased from $l3S,OO0 to $780,
600 and that against the Harmony
company from $52,O to $205,000. The
Harmony company contends that the
Minnewawa and Germania mines have
not been producing for 10 years.
Moral responsibility for the death of
Miss Helen Gunderson, II, Indepen-
dence, who died from injuries suffered
in an automobile accident Aug. 20.
when an automobile in which she was
riding left the road and overturned,
was fixed by a coroner's jury on Mar
tin Peterson, 40, of independence,
driver Of the car The jury declared
thai Miss Gunderson's death was the
result of negligence on the part OF
Peterson.
In spite of the fact that no one pays
any attention to the curfew anyway,
Mayor r. d. Haentze, Fond du Lac.
is planning an effort to have the hour
changed from p. m. to 10 p. m. Fond
du laos curtew ordinance has been on
the books since 1899, and the various
fire stations ring the bell every night.
Mayor Haentze says that if the hour
were changed parents would be more
likely TO feel that their children should
heed the bell.
DR.. A. Matheson, Neillsville, 70, was
shot twice by his wife, who is 80. after
a quarrel over their three children.
The couple separated two weeks ago.
The shooting occurred at camp near
Black River Falls, where Mrs. Mathe-
son and the children had been stay
ing. Mrs. Matheson had left Neils-
vile with the children after her hus.
band had obtained a court order max.
ing him their guardian, and ordering
Mrs. Matheson to give up the children
to her husband.
Sixty head Of choice Holstein cattle
left Barron county last week for Mex.
leo City. Forty head will be shipped
from Mexico City to farms in Spain.
The shipment was purchased by DR..
ID. A. Mclean, New Orleans, to get
high-grade cattle to build up the herds
in Mexico and Spain. He will make
another purchase for foreign shipment
in a month and will send 200 heifers
as foundations for better cattle in the
two countries.
A settler in Wisconsin who ACQUIRES
more than 40 acres Of uncleared land
is entitled to three years exemption
from taxation on the property i'm
proved and cleared up to 40 acres. if
he deyotes the land to agricultural
purposes, r. NJ. Hoyt, deputy attorney
general, held. If he clears and deyotes
to agricultural purposes more than 40
acres the amount upon which he can
| claim exemption is limited to 40 acres.
/ Should he clear less than 20 acres a
/ farmer is not entitled to tax exemp.
ton
A three day search for Honore
] Dhuey, Bottyille, Brown county, farm
er, ended with the finding of the miss
ing farmer in an exhausted condition
buried under pile of hay in the man
ger Of an old cattle shed about hall
mile from his farm, Dhuey was un
able to account for his disappearance
Mr., and Mrs. Alvin Kirst, Glen
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