The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-08-03

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Mrs. Ella Neuman died of heart fail.
ure near Sheboygen while helping to
unload hay in barn.
Milwaukee was eighteenth among
the cities of the nation in volume of
postal receipts during the past year.
An Ashland county pea canning fac.
tory has been experimenting with the
canning of blueberries, but found the
cost too great for profit.
Bartel Blog of Green Bay recently
left to visit brother in Germany and
a week after his departure word came
that the brother was dead
Twenty-four pastors of the Fox
River Valley conference of Lutherans
recently held a three-day meeting at
Algoma.
State and county officials are inves-
tigating the theft of three boxes of
dynamite, weighing 80 pounds each,
from a warehouse at Ives, three miles
north of Racine.
Nine applications have been made
for the postmastership at Green Bay.
There are six applications for the po-
sition at WATERFOWL and four at Wau-
sau.
A young son of Frank Johnson, Of
Neillsville, was killed by falling on a
timber at the excavation for new
house. The wood penetrated his abdo-
men and severed an intestine.
The Wisconsin supreme court has
held that the Pullman Sleeping Car
company must make payment Of back
taxes amounting to nearly 100000.
The case has been in the courts since
1918.
The body of man, decomposed be-
yond recognition, was found floating
among logs in Rib Lake. 1t is believed
to be that of Dewey Johnson, "a, town
of Hill, Price county, who had threat
ened suicide.
Rev. Elliot White, for the past six
teen years dean Of st. Paul's Cathe-
dral in the Fond du Lac diocese oil the
Episcopal church, has resigned his
office to take charge of a summer col
ony chapel at Bayhead, N. ].
On the ground that evidence had
been illegally obtained as no search
warrant was used, the case against
William Henning Of Neenah, upon
whose person five bottles of moon
shine were found, was dismissed in
court
Mrs. w T. Stuart, of Neenah, has
been elected president of the Wiscon
sin League of Women Voters to fill the
unexpired term of Mrs. Ben Hooper
Oshkosh. Mrs. Hooper resigned from
the presidency Of The league when she
was nominated for the United State
senate on the Democratic ticket.
Adolph Hamachek, aged 40, vic,
president Of the Bank of Algoma
drove his automobile into Bruemmer's
pond and was drowned. A number o.
small boys, who were witnesses, could
give no reason for Hamachek's action
The president of the bank said he be
lieved Hamachek's accounts at the
institution were in good condition.
Motion for rehearing of the filled
milk case will be asked when the
Supreme court meets in September by
the Carnation Milk Products company.
The court recently held constitutional
the law prohibiting manufacture and
sale of milk compounds in Wisconsin.
Appeal is expected to the United
States Supreme court If the motion
far rehearing in the Wisconsin court is
denied
1t will be late in August before
navigation is resumed on the Fox
river. Federal engineers are busy re-
pairing the flood damage to the locks
at Little Rapids, but the delay in the
arrival of materials is slowing up the
work. Six hundred feet of river bank
was washed away in the June food,
and It has been necessary to construct
a Golfer dam to keep the river in its
proper course.
Opponents Of Judge GRASS of Green
Bay have indicated that court action
would be commenced to prevent the
placing OF his name on the primary
ballot as a candidate for congress from
the Ninth Wisconsin district The
state law which prohibits any judge
from participating in an election dur
ing the term Of his office is said by
opponents of Judge GRASS to preclude
the submission of his name to the
voters.
All of adoptions Of children in Wis
consin for the last thirty-seven years,
made without the consent of their
natural parents, are void as a result Of
a~ecent Supreme C, Trt decision. The
Supreme court held that its consent is
not sufficient bass for the adoption
Of children unless the consent of the
natural parents is secured. Children
who were illegally adopted and are
still under Is years of age must be re-
turned to the state public school If
their parents refuse to sanction their
adoption, the opinion states
The attorney general at Madison
has ruled that the city Of De Pere
Is Obliged to establish vocational
trade school under the state law,
which makes that action mandatory
when a city has a population OF 5000
or more.