Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06

food rules. Mr.. Swenson has just re-
turned from trip through the state
in which he visited county administra-
tors, hotels, restaurants, lumber
camps. etc., and said he did not see a
single sugar bowl. The men in the
lumber camps are as anxious as any
one to observe the rules and are max
ing no complaint; to the contrary,
they are demanding substitutes in
stead of flour.
Madison-A letter was received from
M. II. Chapman of Sharon, Wis, by
Gov. Philipp, saying that a gang of
night-riders and -Klux-Klan had
visited him, painted his house yellow
with crosses and the screens with vile
and insulting language. Chapman is
civil war veteran and is 80 years old |
He bought $4,000 worth of war bonds
at the time of the Spanish-American
war. He also bought $4,000 worth of |
Liberty bonds and $50 worth of war
savings stamps. Gov. Philip will take
steps to capture the night,riders.
GAINESVILLE Entering a plea of gull
! ~ to the charge of forgery in the mu-
nicipal court here, w. N Bentley, aged
6S, was sentenced to one year at hard |
labor in the state penitentiary at
Waupun. Bentley, who is a college
graduate and was once a prosperous
man, blames his downfall to liquor.
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has already served twelve years in
prison, sentence was pronounced
Madison About fifteen thousand ad-
ditional men will be called from the
state of Wisconsin during August.
This will practically exhaust all Glass
men in the state, including those |
who registered June 5, last Maj. Fitz- |
patrick said he received notification |
that no men under the draft are to be |
indicted in the marines, navy or plac- |
ed in the emergency fleet building |
work until further notice.
Wausau-John Dudec of Rothschild |
has received a telegram from his son,
Louis. dated Hoboken, N. j., telling of |
his safe arrival at port following the
sinking of the United States cruiser
San Diego. Alfred A. Crandall, of |
Wausau, was on the San Diego. He is
thought safe, as his name does not ap-
pear on the casualty list.
Camp Douglas Gov Emanuel L.
Philip declared himself in favor of
military training for United States
citizens during peace times in an adj
dress delivered at Camp Douglas. |
The governor spoke following his re-
view of the Ninth regiment of the
State Guard which is holding it's en-
campment here.
Madison-If the war department per-
mits soldiers in Europe to vote this
fall, Wisconsin soldiers may control
the election in this state Adjt.-Gen
Orlando Holway estimates there will
be more than $4,000 Wisconsin soldiers
in Europe by Nov. 1, and fully 80 per
cent of them will be voters.
Menasha-Max Planner, former bank |
cashier here, has made what is con-
sidered record for rapid transit |
overseas. Without previous military
training he was drafted little less
than two months ago and on June %
relatives received word that he had
landed safely in France.
Lake Geneva-An explosion caused |
by leaking gas tank, wrecked the in
terror of Lowry Brothers restaurant
here. Two employees were seriously
injured by flying glass. The loss is
estimated at $1,000.
Madison-The railroad commission |
handed down decision in the case of |
the Eastern Wisconsin railway at She |
boygan and granted an increase in in
terurban rates from 19 to 29 cents.
Madison - Publisher Clarence Som. |
mers has sold the Madison Madisoni- |
an, founded by his father twenty-five |
years ago, to the Bleid Printing COM
pany, and will enlist in the army
Wausau Petitions to the board of |
education, asking the elimination of |
the study of German language in pub
lie schools here during the war, are
being circulated here.
Oshkosh = Herbert Zuehlke, work
man at the plant of the Paine Lumber
company, had his left hand amputated
at the wrist when it came in contact
with band saw.
La Crosse - James H. Rogers, Sr.,
one of the first white residents in this
part of Wisconsin, died here. He was
postmaster at De Soto for twenty-one
years.
GAINESVILLE - Directors of st. Paul's
Lutheran church have voted to aban-
don teaching in German in the paro-
chial school.
Antigo-John Cars, arrested at An
tigo on suspicion of seeking to avoid
army service, admlLLed ne was de-
serter from Camp Grant.
Madison-No new jobbers or whole
salers who started to handle sugar
after July ] will be granted license
nor given certificates by the Wiscon-
sin food administration, and no certif-
Gates will be issued for sugar which is
to be used for any other purpose than
human consumption.
Eau Claire-J. J. Auer, former edi-
tor of Der Herold, German language
paper of this city, pleaded guilty in
federal court an charges of publishing
disloyal articles and falling to submit
his translations to federal officials.