Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-22

misunderstanding of milk routes
and central delivery system in some
cities were suggested as possible
means of cutting down the cost of
production, at a conference here of
Senator George S. Skogmo, River
Falls, and Assemblyman H j. Grell,
johnson Creek, members of the leg
islative marketing committee.
Fond du Lac-Immediate consolida-
ton of the 500 line and st. Paul Pas
senger and freight depots in Fond du
Lac and Oshkosh has been recon-
mended by superintendent Van Vleet
OF the st. Paul line and F. w. Urbahns
of the 500 line with F. D. Pendell of
the Northwestern railroad concur
ring.
Wausau-Thirteen members of the
Marathon County Bee Keepers asso-
citation this year realized a total of
$1,000 pounds of honey according to
reports received at the fall meeting
held in Wausau. Lewis Francisco of
Mosinee reported the largest amount,
eleven tons of honey being the prod
uct of his bee colonies this season.
La Crosse - Because Health Com
missioner J. M. Furstman had taken
stand against closing schools to
check epidemic of Spanish Influenza
Mayor A. A. Bentley called in two
members of the board of health and
an order closing all schools, churches
and theaters.
Wausau-Mr. and Mrs. Gust Ander-
son have the distinction of having
their only four sons in national serv.
ice. Alex, 29, is in the overseas army;
Alfred, 26, is at the Great Lakes Naval
station; Algot, %, is in overseas work
and Harold, II, is attending an army
school in Kansas.
Madison-Because of the shortage
of American cheese, state hotel chair
men for the food administration thru
out the country have been asked to
eliminate all cheese from the free
lunch counters, serving at such
lunches only crackers, pickles and
olives.
MISUNDERSTANDING Rauner has six
sons in the service-Edward, a spruce
~ ole Mo- ~,
Washington; Matthias, in France.
Ernest, in Rockford, Ill.,, and Emil, re-
Gently indicted.
Marinette Marinette is planning
a $4,000 Liberty loan memorial for
the boys of the county who made the
supreme sacrifice during the war.
Subscriptions will be voluntary. The
plan originated here.
Fond du Lac-Mrs. Rebecca w.
Bass, a Wisconsin pioneer, aged SO
years, died here She travelled widely
and celebrated her SEVENTEEN year by
tour of the Holy Land.
Peshtigo-John NJ Butler, civil war
veteran, Peshtigo, is suing for di-
GORGE, charging cruelty and accusing
his wife of calling him pro-German.
Neenah-The local chapter of the
Red Cross shipped fifteen boxes con-
tanning 2,555 articles for Belgians.
The boxes weighed 3,400 pounds.
Madiscn-The university of Wiscon.
sin has among its students a man who
is totally blind and who is attempting
to earn his way through college as
piano tuner He is John T. Kostuck,
six feet in stature, athletic and pos
sessed of an optimistic temperament.
Green Bay-The steam yacht Bonita,
formerly owned by Senator Isaac
Stephenson, Marinette, has been pur.
chased by Green Bay boat builders,
and will be converted into steam
trawler, which will be used by the gov
eminent.
Marinette The Ludington com.
pany, of which the late Isaac Ste
phenson was president for sixty
years, sold 100000 feet of hardwood
timber to the Won Platten company of
Iron Mountain, Mich. There were o.
500 acres in the tract.
Baraboo-Owing to the Spanish I'm
Euenza epidemic in the South the
Ringing Brothers circus closed its
season in Georgia. Oct 2, and has gone
to Bridgeport, Conn, where it win
winter this season instead Of in Bara-
boo.
Madison-The joint crop report Of
the Wisconsin department OF agricul-
ture and the United States bureau of
crop estimates issued at Madison
shows that one OF the largest grain
crops in the history of the state has
been harvested.
Marinette = The Menominee River
Sugar Co.'s plant has begun the man
ufacture of sugar, starting on ninety
day run. A great quantity Of beets ar
rived. In the process used, no part OF
the product is wasted.