The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-10-12

he died before he
by physician. \
Jack Hastings, Eye
and Mrs. J. G. Hastin.
farm home near Rice La
of drinking poison. A dat
born to Mrs. Hastings only
hours before the child dranL
poison |
The GAINESVILLE city council adopte
a budget for 1928 calling for a tax
levy of $633,811 for city purposes
alone, compared to $6O6,542 raised this
year. or net increase of $27 26S, This
is Az per cent. The new rate will
be $2205 per thousand. Taxes in
GAINESVILLE have increased rs per cent
since 1905, records show.
Garages using automobiles for other
than garage purposes must have them
licensed with the regular state auto
mobile license, Mortimer Leyitan, as
sistant attorney general, has ruled.
He held that a truck used by a garage,
on a garage license, for hauling inn
plements would have to have a regular
truck license and could not be oper-
ated on the garage license
]. w. Smith, Kent, the Langlade
county potato breeder who developed
the strain of Triumph potatoes which
bears his name, has sold his entire
crop available for sale, 1000 bushels,
for 1913 bushel They will be used
for seed. Just after he had closed the
sale he received a letter from Bermu-
da asking for his entire crop.
Five women, all from GAINESVILLE and
Beloit, will serve on the October term
of the Rock county circuit court, The
jury commissioners selected the list Of
$50 for service during the coming year
and only 10 per cent are women. Re
luctance to serve is the reason for
such small representation of women
on the jury panels.
The first dairy feeding day ever
staged in America will be held in
Madison Oct. 26, when the dairymen
of Wisconsin meet to plan their winter
feeding operations. Back of the oc-
casion is the determined effort Of the
dairymen of the state to make their
winter employment profitable. They
have adopted as the slogan for the
coming season, Feed Your Cows for
Profit"
A record for the state was estab-
Hshcd in Iron county when cattle were
tested for tuberculosis. according to
figures compiled by 0. II. Eliason,
state veterinarian. Less than l per
cent of the cows tested showed a re,
action to tuberculosis There We're
4,74l head of cattle given the test in
a total of S95 herds and only 81 re
actors We're discovered.
Charging that the jury in the famous
Sailstad case misconducted itself and
that there was no evidence to substan
tiate the verdict awarding Mrs. Leone
SaiIstad- Richardson the sum Of $40,
600 of insurance carried by her frs
husband, Edward J. Sailstad, counse'
for the defendant New York Life In
surance Co. entered motion to SET
aside the verdict
The state printing board saved tax
payers of Wisconsin more than $1,000
through two purchases Of paper before
prices were raised Sept. 20, David At.
wood. state printer, said. Paper on
which income tax blanks will be print
ed was purchased for $24l9, just a
few minutes before the increase went
into effect, resulting in a saving Of
$274, according to Mr. Atwood. The
printing board at the same time
bought 5000 pounds Of book paper for
The Blue Book, saving $500,
The entire town of Kilbourn was
threatened by a fire which started in
the freight depot of the Milwaukee
railroad The fire entirely destroyed
the station building spread rapidly to
two grain elevators close by, disman-
Ting those two structures and famed
by a strong rising wind swept down
toward the business section The
high wind carried sparks to dwelling
houses, sheds and barns, the roofs Of
many catching fire. Volunteer fire
men, aided by a bucket brigade were
able to keep the flames checked in the
majority of cases.
The state had $12,421,21O on hand in
its various funds Oct /, Henry John
son, state treasurer, reports. OF this
amount. $9,38O,543 was in the general
fund for payment of highway expenses
and general administrative costs. Dur.
ing the last month $3,923,827 was
added to the general fund from rail.
way taxes and automobile license fee
payments, while disbursements totaled
$2,97S,S71, most Of which were 20 meet
expenditures for highway construction
and maintenance. There is $926,225 in
the service recognition fund, out Of
which costs involved in building the
Wisconsin general hospital at the uni
versity are to be met The education
al bonus fund now amounts to 1885,
$40.
A majority of the individual stock
holders of the Chippewa Falls Hotel
company, present owners of the Ho%el
Northern, which was given away by
the Elks at a big celebration last year,
refuse to turn the title over to The
Elks so that they can 90 through with
their deal.
A Sunday war has been preciptated
in BeloIt by action of the clty COUNCIL