Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-11-30
BADGER STATE NOTES.

Madison.-Reports received by the
state fire marshal department show
that the fire losses in the state of Wis
consin in October, 1915, were $50
above the loses reported in October,
1914. The biggest single loss in DC.
tober this year was Lugarville, Price
county, when a spark from a smoke
stack caused a lumber yard loss of
$87,500 on Oct. %. Milwaukee county
led in the number of fires, total of
thirty-nine, but the total loss was but
$13,495.
Oshkosh.-Convict labor will not be
worked on Winnebago county roads.
The board of supervisors of. Winnie
bago county unanimously adopted the
following resolution: Resolved, That
it is the sense of this board that the
employment of convicts in the con-
struction of public highways is to be
condemned for the reason that it takes
the place of honest labor and is dan.
gerous and demora1izing to society"
Neenah-The lifting of nets by
those engaged in netting rough fish
in local and surrounding waters this
winter through the ice when conserva.
ton wardens are not present will be
prevented by the sealing of nets. A
seal similar to the railroad seal will be
used. Those engaged in netting rough
fish say that the work will be continu-
ed through the ice all winter as the
ice makes the work easier and fewer
fish get away.
Marinette.-That portion of the Cir.
ard Lumber company's logging rail-
road which runs from Girard Junction
to Dunbar, connecting the Milwaukee
road at Girard with the 500 at Dunbar,
has been sold to a new corporation
called the Dunbar & Wausaukee Rail-
way company. The road, built for log
ging, has developed freight and pas
senger business through the fact that
it connects the other two railroads.
Delavan.-Karl S. Smith, a former
Delavan boy, is soon to embark into a
new business-that of raising drug
plants-and he will be associated
with Uncle Sam as a partner. His
new undertaking will be in an expert
mental way at the start. The bulk
of the supply Of these plants now
comes from the old world. Smiths
farm, which comprises eighty acres,
is near Fond du Lac.
Kenosha.-Women of Kenosha are
planning for the erection of a club
house to be the center of woman's
work in the city, and plans for the
incorporation of a holding company
are now being worked out. The
Woman's club of Kenosha has taken
the initiative and worked out a plan
by which the home is to be COM
pleted.
Neenah.-George Haber, a resident
of the town of Vinland, received
broken arm and suffered internal in
iuries on his way home when his horse
was struck on a railroad crossing in
this city by a Chicago & Northwestern
passenger train. The horse was hurl-
ed fifty feet and killed.
Stevens Points.-The Portage coun-
ty rural school board held a session
in the new auditorium at the Stevens
Point Normal school building. Five
hundred members of school boards,
teachers and other persons attended.
A. A. Thompson, state school inspec-
tor, was the principal speaker.
Kenosha- Triples for paupers are
under the ban in Kenosha. A formal
police order was served on every sa-
loon man in the city notifying him
that it was against the city saloon
regulations to sell liquor to any one
of the seventeen men who are now
wards of the city at the poor farm.
Madison.-B. w. Utman, former can
didate for governor, and State Senator
George B. Skogmo, have led an amend
ment to the articles of incorporation
Of the River Falls Power company, of
which they are officers, increasing the
capital stock from $4,000 to 100000.