Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-07
NetDs Notes of Wisconsin

Jobbers of cheese and barley and rye,
a large delegation of farmers of Win
nebago county met here and organized
the Winnebago County Farmers and
Cheesemakers' Publicity club. 1t is
the intention to send workers into
every county of the state William
Grimes, member, says that in the
sale of barley to the iobbers the latter
take fifty pounds to the bushel and
sixty pounds of rye, whereas the legal
weight is forty eight for barley and
fifty-siX for rye. At the next meeting
of the legislature bills will be intro
duced. In the matter of cheese, the
farmers claim that jobbers will not
pay for more than nineteen pounds
on every twenty pound American
cheese, but that when the ultimate
consumer pays the retailer he pays
for twenty pounds to the grocer.
Wausau.-If the plans for tur-
pentine factory here are carried out
/ the factory will also afford a market
for all the Norway pine stumps the
settlers in this vicinity can pull while
clearing their land at from SO to 81
cord. The factory will be built as
soon as the blueprints and plans are
finished and the retorts can be Sc
cured. The factory will be in opera
ton fifty weeks during the year and
will consume stumps from 1000
| acres yearly.
Madison.-Farmer of Chippewa
county were the first to give evidence
of the opposition to the industrial in
surance law, which had been expected
in some of the rural districts A pc
tition signed by Ill farmers, living
at Edison, Delmar and in the village
of Boyd has been filed with the legis-
lature. The signers oppose the law
ON the ground that it throws the bur-
den of the assumption of risk and
negligence of the fellow servant on
the small employer.
Racine.-Racine will have a labor
temple this year and have half the
money before a stone is placed The
Union Hall association, at it's quar-
terly meeting, voted to have every
union man in the city contribute one
days wages toward the project, which
will provide one-half the total cost.
Madison.-Nearly $50 young wom-
en- have applied for admission to the
Wisconsin Library school during the
last four years, although only twenty
six students can be accommodated
each year in the present quarters
| The demand for trained librarians
led many students to take up library
work
Waukesha.-Rev /. L. Cory, pas
tor of the Congregational church here
since 1900, has rendered his resigna-
ton, having accepted a call to be-
come pastor at Clinton.
Mayville.-Two men were injured
In the Northwestern Iron company's
plant in one of the most peculiar ac-
cidents on record, being hurt by air
In the huge stoves of the plant the SUI
perheated air is under heavy blast
pressure, and one of the confirming
ports gave way. The subsequent blast
tore the doors off the engine house,
20 feet away, passed through the
building, taking out section of brick
wall on the other side. and toppled
over the men beyond, bruising them
badly. They thought they had been
hit by a cyclone, aud are not to be
blamed for their impression.
Janesville.-With the completion
of the new concrete car barns south
/ of this city. the Rockford Interurban
company, Il is believed, will enter the
city on the east side 4 the river.
This Is preliminary to the rumored
move to extend the line through Fort
Atkinson and jefferson 70 WATERFOWL.
Rock Falls.-At a meeting of a
hundred or more Rock Falls farmers
preliminary steps toward the organi-
zation of a telephone company were
taken. An exchange at Rock Falls,
&c be connected with the Eau Claire
exchange, was planned.
anesyille.-After three years Of
delay the Cincinnati Construction
company, which has secured right
( Of way from Madison to GAINESVILLE
I and franchises in GAINESVILLE, Edgerton
and Stoughton, now proposes to sell
Z the preferred stock TO the property
owners along the proposed route.
Janesville's share is TO be $4,000.
Oconto--One Of the historic land
I marks Of this section will pass with
I the dismantling of the old Spies mil,
built over fifty years ago and one OF
the mainstays of the community fo'
years.