Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-07-05

thp great Chilly SloF - 1ecoA >oeAAAN5'
0ply 50 per cent of the famous prod
vc will be available for the market
tbis season. The exceedingly light
cbarrv crop of this county viii mean
loqs of thousands of dollars to the
growers here and to fruit merchants
tbroughout the country. Fruit growers
nredict a big apple crop this fall.
Madison-High prices of farm i'm
nements will be cut, the secretary of
aprieulture warns the state food ad-
ninistration 1t will be necessary to
survey the industry with view to dis
cover whether the commissions, profits
or prices are unjust, unreasonable,
discriminatory and unfair, and if so, to
cause their discontinuance. The law
does not provide for direct price-fxing,
but the food control act grants power
to prevent unfair profits.
Madison Boys livestock judging
contests will be held this fall at at
least "a of Wisconsin's county
fairs. officials of the Wisconsin Live
stock Breeders association were mott
fed by the fair secretaries that this
Judging evert has been added to the
list of special features and have ap-
piled for a gold medal which the state
association is offering to encourage
greater interest in livestock breeding,
Appleton-Appleton is not as hard
hit as during the civil war in 1862, one
year after the war was declared, this
county had furnished 587 men or about
6 per cent of the population. Today
only per cen, of the population, or
1850 men, are in the service. Nearly
4 50 per cent of the men are drafted,
& while in the frst year of the civil war
only 36 per cent of the men were
4 drafted.
Racine Salaries of members of the
fire and police departments, excepting
the head Of the two departments,
we're increased 10 per cent at a meet.
Ing of the common council. No in.
crease was granted heads of the two
apartments because they are now re-
Giving higher salaries than paid sim.
liar department heads by other cities
Of the state.
Wausau-A rural motor express
service may be instituted in Marathon
county as result of request of the
State Council of Defense asking the
Marathon County Council of Defense
to take the matter up with farmers in
this community. The plan is to have
one or more lines established in each
3 county, possibly owned comparatively
81 by farmers.
Washington-Much ordnance mate.
rial win be made in Wisconsin. The
war department announced that con.
q tracts had been awarded to the fol
lowing Wisconsin firms: Paine Lum
Der Co., Oshkosh; Nash Motors Co.
henosha; McIntyre-Burrall Co., Green
Bay; j. c. Nichols Co, Sheboygan;
fouF Wheel Drive Auto Co., Clinton
vile.
Madison Stephen w. Gilman, pro
ieSSor OF business administration at
'ne University of Wisconsin, has been
appolnted special assistant to W. N
i'zgerald, United States fuel admin
isuator, to aid in enforcing the re-
qulfements in Wisconsin, as to coal
landing and distribution during July
and August.
Madlson-J. B. Borden, for several
years first assistant to state superin
'enaent of schools, C. p. Cary, became
.SSlS'ant dean of the college of agri.
Sui'ufe at the university. Mr.. Bor
, -5n mas been Prominently connected
9IA the educational system of the
s.ale since 1897 when he graduated
from the university.
ashland Ashland's fifty saloons
,,a'e gone out of business. The entie
~ .-s9 ssg9uaInegon Bay district, including
N 1n1Nl&nd. Bayfield, and Washburn, and
~ nearby towns. including those ad.
80 80 10 the Indian reservation at
oeaal' -a,l2h' are now dry by vote of the
@aupun a 10 per cent increase
y The "aseS has been given employees OF
na..s a'a1e prison. The increases were
emnIse egI9si'ated by the large number of
INN jTp'oyes who left the institution seek.
more lucrative jobs.
81 Yea, .',.sVille-The strawberry crop this
s5a ssar Is estimated in this section to be
cocs ~ -. a third its normal. The Bah
n, Dth !. district claims better than this.
tra,a, !. al other sections the crop is ex-
nunioipil n,'ipuil--Wa Waupun has established a
els5lop laslelpal market for the sale Of veg.
Drodnc,. poultry. eggs and other farm