The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-07-27

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President Harding has sent to the
senate the nomination of William
Kotyis to be postmaster at Hillsboro.
Joseph Laison, 81, former DePere
police chief, and long prominent in
Brown county political circles, died
in a Green Bay hospital.
Two thousand and seven automo-
bles were counted passing the juno
ton of highways No. IL and IA at
Cameron, Sawyer County, in one day
recently.
Work of giving the tubercular test
to all cattle in Iron county has begun.
About 1000 cattle will be tested and
five veterinaries have been assigned
to the work
Irene Crane, Is years old, and Anna
Maccarlson, 49, both of Oconto were
drowned when the small skiff in which
they were riding at a picnic was cap
sized by the wind
A Barron county man who took a
"hipper" of moonshine liquor to a
church social at Canton and created
a disturbance by producing the bottle,
was arrested and fined 500.
Chester Mueller, 13-year-old West
Bend boy, died from burns received
when he attempted to start a fire in
a kitchen stove, using wood alcohol
to prime the smouldering ashes.
C. J. Hays, GAINESVILLE contractor,
building a school at Kaukauna, died
following strange accident. He was
driving over bridge when a loose
plank flew up and struck him in the
jaw
Mrs. Charles Pitzke, AZ, Deer Creek,
has filed her nomination papers for
the office of sheriff for Taylor county
candidates running for sheriff in the
county
Mrs. Elizabeth Posch, aged 49, died
without recovering consciousness from
injuries received when struck by a
street car in GAINESVILLE while going
to the cemetery to decorate the grave
of her husband.
The state railroad commission has
given a decision dismissing tie pc
tition of citizens of Oconto Green
Bay and Peshtigo, to re-establish train
service between Menominee, Mich,
and Green Bay as it was prior to
Aug. 7, 1921
Fire which threatened the entire
business section of Deerfeld was
halted with a loss of $4,000. The
Kleinfelter tobacco warehouse and the
stock yards Of the Northwestern road
were totally destroyed by the flames,
which menaced nearby storage tanks
of the Standard Oil company for an
hour.
The Wisconsin hay crop in 1922 will
in the state, the Wisconsin co-opera
tive crop reporting service says in the
July report. Total production of all
classes of hay is forecast at 100000
tons as compared to 1865, 900 on Jun
l, 5,060,000 tons produced in 1921, and
a five-year average of 5,S23000 tons.
Forty potato men from all parts o.
the United States will accompany the
Wisconsin potato tour, which is to
start from Rice Lake on August
Several points in Barron county will
be visited, after which inspection will
be made of potato fields around Park
Falls, Phillips, Prentice, Rhinelander
Eagle River, Crandon, Marinette and
Oconto.
The Brotherhood of American Yeo-
men, with headquarters at Des
Moines, Iowa, is seeking a tract OF
1900 acres of land near Appleton on
which to establish a children's school
and home. 1t is proposed to establish
a village of one hundred and twenty.
five cottages, with schools, churches
gymnasiums, stores, parks and play.
grounds, where children and families
of deceased lodge members can be
cared for
The State Federation of Labor in
Convention at Oshkosh announced a
legislative program calling for a con
stitutional amendment providing for
the recall of judges. 1t was asserted
that "the courts, by decisions and ju-
dicial construction, are threatening
the very existence of labor union"
One plank of the program would au-
thorize the legislature to declare valid
any law held unconstitutional by the
state supreme court and another
would prevent the issuance of injunc-
tons in industrial disputes.
The state supreme court has upheld
the constitutionality of the Stevenson
law in its attitude towards standing
saloon bars and screens which it bans.
The decision was given in the case
of Hugo Abby Milwaukee saloonkeep-
er. Alby's fight was a test case
backed by anti-prohibition organiza-
tions, and was looked to by hundreds
of saloon keepers all over Wisconsin
to provide them with basis for mil
lions of dollars worth of damage suits
against the state in the event the
high court decided the law was not
constitutional.
The student increase in the Oconto
Falls high school has made it nee.
essary to secure the services of two
extra teachers for the coming year
The tax levy for the maintenance OF
the schools for the ensuing year has