The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-08-31


being established in southwest Wis
consin and with the rapid Roadway
being made now in the completion of
several important state highways it
will not be long when bus service can
be had conveniently in all kinds of
weather and season.
After striking windmill and fol-
lowing a water pipe to barn 100 feet
away, lightning set fire to the 40X100
foot barn on the farm of John Lauers-
dorf of Oak Grove, near Beaver Dam.
All contents, including seventy tons
of hay and 1000 bushels of oats, were
lost
The new concrete highway between
Maunette and Peshtigo has been Off.
cially opened During Sunday 2,451
pleasure cars passed over it. There
we're 1854 Wisconsin cars, 597 with
foreign license plates, 81 trucks, %
motorcycles, and IL horse-drawn We.
hicles.
A Jewish school, the first of its kind
in Madison, will be built this year, it
is announced by Rabbi l. j. Fink, for
mer principal of the Philadelphia He
brew school, following conference with
prominent Jewish leaders and business
men in Madison. Until building can
be erected, classes will be conducted
in the Jewish church.
Skin grated from the legs of eight
Beloit college men is expected to re-
store use of the right arm of Mrs. lone
Truesdell, badly injured in an auto
mobile smash near Delavan a short
time ago. Mrs. Truesdell for many
years has been matron at the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity house. All but
one of the youths are members of the
fraternity.
Otto Behling, Dodge county, has
started suit against the Rock County
Sugar company, GAINESVILLE, to recover
$4,000 on an alleged breach of CON
tract. The complaint, filed in the
Rock county circuit court, stated that
the plaintiff made a contract with the
defendant corporation to raise 65
acres OF beets 1t is claimed that the
sugar company refused to accept de
livery.
County state and federal authorities
have awarded the contract for the
building of a highway in the towns of
Binamwood and Aniwa to cost APP
proXimately $4,000. The project coy
ers a distance of seven miles, six OF
which are through the town of Aniwa
About four miles is a relocation OF
highway 80, which was ordered some
time 40 for the purpose of eliminat
Ing four railroad crossings and eight
rightangle turns in the road
Two hundred people were thrown
into a small size panic at the Mani
towoc county fair grounds when a
terrific wind and rain storm wrecked
the big tent covering the automobile
and accessories displays. The water
soaked canvass, $50 by 100 feet, was
torn to shreds and uprooted poles flew
through the air, striking automobiles
and causing hundreds of dollars dam
age. No one was hurt but many mar
rowly missed being buried in the
ruins.
J. NJ. Varlie, arrested at GAINESVILLE
few days ago on suspicion Of being
the slayer of Chief of Police Elmer
Sundby, Eau Claire July %, 1921, who
was shot down by bandit who half
hour before had held up a messenger
of the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and
Power Co. and robbed him of more
than $1,000 has been released. Whai
appears to be definite proof that Varlie
was in GAINESVILLE on the day the
murder was committed is in the hands
of the Eau Claire police.
Instead of being wildfre, the disease
damaging the tobacco crop in Rock
county and southern Wisconsin is de-
Clared to be widespread crop malady
known as mosaic, according to
County Agent r. T. Glassco. In Ger
tain sections the disease will cut down
the crop production as high as rs per
cent but in general where fields are
infected, the damage will not run more
than 10 to Is per cent The chief
symptom Of the disease, according to
the county agent, is the notified color
of the leaf, portions of which are of a
lighter green color In time the spots
turn to dark brown and rot
The Wisconsin filled milk law will
90 into effect at once. The law pro-
hibits the manufacture or sale of milk
made from skinned milk and cocoa
nut oil within the state. Request for
rehearing on the decision of the Wis
consin supreme court unfolding con.
situtionality Of the law was with.
drawn by attorneys for the Carnation
Milk Co.. plaintiffs. The bill was
passed at the last session of the legis-
Ialure The Canation Milk Co imme-
diatcly appealed to the supreme court
to test the validity Of the law. The
law was upheld by the supreme court
about a month ago. The Carnation
Milk Co. then asked for rehearing.
This move would have prevented the
enforcement OF the law until after the
rehearing.
Fake poultry cullers, according to
county agents, have been going from
farm to farm in some sections of Wis
consn under the guise of being expert
poultry men, 1t is said that these men
agree to purchase all the culls in the