Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-01-11
BADGER STATE NOTES.

Madison.-Dairy and Food Com
missioner Weigle and his force are
busy issuing licenses to cheese and
butter makers and operators of
cheese factories and creameries in
preparation for 1915 under the law
passed by the last legislature requir-
| ing all makers and operators to be
licensed. There are 5000 operators
in the state and practically the
same number of makers. The former
are required to pay So for the license
and the latter 81.
Janesville.-It is learned that ex-
tensive repairs and alterations are to
be made at the sheep feeding station
at Edgerton so that 100000 head of
sheep can be accommodated. There
is scarcely a night that less than
5000 are not in the yards and the
number has been as high as $4,000.
When completed the new yards will
be the largest in southern Wiscon-
sin.
Madison.-The Wisconsin railroad
commission has ordered the Lebanon
Telephone company of Lebanon to
pay the Wisconsin Telephone COM
pany 8 cents for each call handled
for it at the Wisconsin company's ex-
change at WATERFOWL. The commits
sion denied the application of the
Lebanon company for authority to
increase its rates for rural service
from $1.25 to $3.50 month.
acknowledgement Morehouse,
who recently inherited a fortune of
$4,000 by the death of an uncle in
California, resigned as mail carrier
here. Morehouse on resigning sub
mitted some statistics. He showed
that he had walked $1,000 miles and
that he had carried more than 300,-
900 pounds of mail. He plans to go
to California to personally manage
the large estate left to him.
Madison The total number of
automobile licenses issued by the sec
rotary of state for the calendar year
of 1915 was 1870 as against SO. 100
for last year. The secretary has
closed his automobile books for 1915
and began issuing licenses for 1915.
He has had 5000 applications for new
licenses already. There were 1896
licenses issued in Milwaukee county.
Port Washington.-The residence
of Frank Becker in the town of Bel
GUM, six miles north Of here, was
robbed of over $4,000 in cash and
valuable papers. Mrs. Becker saw the
man in the act of ransacking their
bedroom. She ran to the barn and
told her husband, but he slipped
away in the meantime and still is at
large.
Hudson.-Mrs. John Bashford,
former grand worthy matron of the
Order of Eastern Star in Wisconsin,
is dead in Denver, following a long
illness.
Madison Wis, bears
the distinction of having too much
telephone service. In short, there
are six companies whose lines run
into the town. The railroad commits
sion, however, issued an order re-
quiring the companies to maintain a
central switchboard so that residents
may telephone to each other without
having six instruments in each home
toughton-Tobacco dealers are
busy contracting 1915 tobacco at va
rious prices. The best, which is very
scarce, brings as high as Is cents a
pound and the poorest quality as
high as 6 u cents.
Kenosha--Agents of the Austrian
government are in Kenosha stirring
up the patriotic Austrians of Kenosha
in an effort to have them return to
the colors and serve in the Austrian
army. 1t is declared that large
party of recruits will leave Kenosha
for the front the first part of the new
year.
Madison.-Charles Lamb, Madison
attorney, appointed by Federal Judge
Sanborn six weeks ago to tighten the
work for the late Judge H. NJ. Lewis
viii succeed Mr. Lewis as referee in
bankruptcy