Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-17
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out the county as well.
Forty North Dakota farmers have
begun tour of this states dairy dis
tricts. The trip is for the purpose Of
studying the Wisconsin dairy indus
try
Land men predict an avalanche Of
settlers this spring Let Them come,
there is room for train road Of
avalanches and then some, so says
the Rhinelander News.
Many of the forest fires it is said is
attributed to railroads are caused not
by sparks from locomotives, but by
cigar ard cigarette butts thrown
from snaskiag-car windows.
| Forehsnded loggers and jobbers
have about finished their work Cor
the winter of 1914, according to
the best reports obtainable from the
northern section of>the state.
The Upham Manufacturing COM
pany of Marshtieid has been putting
in during the logging season about to
close, in the neighborhood of 100000
| feet of logs, much of which are cut
near Ogema.
| Patrons on rural routes are advised
not to place loose coins in their mail
boxes, neither should they wrap them
in paper or cloth but shouldp put them
in little cup SO that carriers can
ersily get them.
The trial of Louis b. Carl, the all
legged Marshfield defaulter, was begnn
| in circuit court in Grand Rapids
Tuesday Of last week, Circuit Judge
B. B. Park presiding. Interest in
the case is marked.
Henry Fechhelm, Sr., of the town
of Hewitt is putting up new barn
on his farm. When completed it viii
cost $1,000. Marathon county is par
ticularly noted for its large, well
built and splendid looking barns.
Ben Lang of the town of Mcmillan
| is in the race for place on the Mara
thon county board of education in
the spring election. So also is +. f
Chesak of Athens; b. f. Waller OF
Mosinee, and number of other
candidates.
1t is estimated that between so and
80 per cent of the $50 young men
graduates last week from the Short
| Course in Agriculture of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin will return to the
farms of this state to actually engage
in farming.
The order of Eks at Marshfield,
has adopted the "Big Brother Move
ment," for the purpose of assisting in
making good citizens of boys, is a
grand undertaking and is being
adopted by many lodges throughout
the country.
John Schertz, who has been acting
as agent for the Jewell Tea company
has been arrested at Stevens Point
charged with embezzling 1887 of the
company's money. He plead guilty
to the charge and received his SEN
tence Saturday.
Thomas Holland, the lumberjack,
who attempted to murder g. w.
Campbell at Park Fails awhile ago,
was arraigned in Ashland, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to twelve
years imprisonment in the penlten-
tiary at Waupun.
Wisconsin cannot grow oranges,
bananas, or pineapples, but we can
grow more than quarter of million
barrels of apples and nearly 300 car
loads of strawberries. We also have
a cherry orchard of 10000 trees the
largest in the world.
The Weinberg Construction COM
pany of Grand Rapids is planning to
build factory for the manufacture
of sash, doors and interior. finishing
goods at cost of 1926, GOO. The sight
! selected is on the 500 line inthe west
ern part Of the city.
Three little trout weighing less
than three pounds, illegally caught,
transported and received, cost Three
Langlade county nimrods $3.50, and
caused three separate prosecutions In
three days. Evidently three was
their unlucky number.
Convicts of the state penitentiary
at Waupun will work in Oneida coun-
ty during the coming summer, in as
sisting in the building Of roads about
the new tuberculosis camp at Toma-
hawk lake. The honor system Will
govern the, men while they are out.
An Advancement association has
been organized at Stratford, for the
purpose of boosting that little berg
and putting it more prominently on
the map of the United States. Editor
McQuees of the Journal is The head
push of the movement and formation.
Calvin E;urt, the six year old son of
VIM. Burt, had both legs cut
nv switch engine on the
North Western road, while crossing
the track on his way home from
school at Grand Rapids or Tuesday
afternoon of last week, dying the
same evening.
~ Unmarried men, having no nome
1 except a lumber camp, where they do
| not intend to remain longer than
their logging job lasts, nave no piace
of residence in any legal acceptance
\ Of that term and cannot vote. The
question vas deck.ed last October by
H the supreme court of Wisconsin.
/ A farmer living south of Clinton
Il vile returning from the logging
1 woods Monday Of last week. passed
i tt~e,,,rl, Afa ricu with his sleigh which