Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-02-22
HAPPENINGS
OF THE WEEK
in WISCONSIN
Observation-Disclosures


Madison - Cor gressman nvina L.
Lenroot of Superior. is Coy. E. L.
Philips first choice for United
states senator to succeed the late Sem
ator Paul o. Husting, in the event
that the legislature, which meets in
special session, gives him power Of
appointment. Gov Philip made this
known at meeting of the republican
state central committee, which. with a
majority present and without dis
senting vote, adopted a statement in
dorsing the appointment idea. AL
though several members, includ-
ing some administration men, say they
will stand out for special election
because the people demand it. Len
roots friends here say he would ac-
cept the senatorial appointment
Milwaukee, Included in the list of
victims of the Tuscania disaster, who
have been buried on the coast of
Scotland, are reported twelve Wiscon-
sin men whose bodies were washed
ashore and identified. Their names
ind home addresses are: Raymond
Butler, New Richmond; Charles e.
Swanson, Rothschilds; Homer Llewel-
Iyn Anderson, Cumberland; Russell
f. Bennett, Plainfield; James p. Haw-
ley, Neenah; Otto lTowrey. Kenosha;
Claire Metzenbauer, Chippewa Falls;
Alvin N. Collins, Markesan; Otis
Hutchins. Whitehall: George A. Rein
hardt, Jefferson; Crvell N. Casper,
Milwaukee; Fred A. Rudolph, Milwau-
kee.
Madison-The number of milk cows
on Wisconsin farms on Jan. is l.
7S5, 900, compared to 1.750,000 a year
ago, or an increase of 2 per cent dur
ing 1917, according to the joint live
stock report issued at Madison. The
average price of milk cows per head
is estimated to be SIS, compared to
$65 year ago. The number of cattle
other than milk COWS on Wisconsin
farms on Jan. 1, is estimated to be
1,394,C00, compared to 100000 year
ago, or an increase of 4 per cent.
Superior = An agricultural high
school maintained by the county or
Jointly by several towns and villages
is recommended by J. w. Morgan, a
member of the committee on common
schools for Douglas county, as a solu-
ton to the problem of keeping the
farm boy and the farm girl on the
land. Manual training and other sub
jects might be taught at such school,
he suggests. Douglas county has
power to maintain such a school.
GAINESVILLE James Hessian, SEN
fenced by Judge Maxfield to five years
in the state reformatory at Green Bay,
has had his sentence suspended and
has been placed under the state board
of control for that time. The change
was taken by the judge as result of
the evidence which Hessian gave rela-
tive to the selling of liquor in this city
to soldiers who come here on Sundays
and holidays.
Oshkosh--Belief that the words ITO
H With the Kaiser, painted in
large letters on a barn is an extra fire
hazard, has caused a mutual fire in
surance company of Winnebago coun-
ty farmers to ask that the building be
reinsured at higher rate. 1t is
feared that some pro- German will set
fire to it. How the sign was painted
or who painted it is not known.
Stevens Point Believed to have
frozen 10 death, the body of Mrs.
M,Ty Cisewski, 20, of the town of
full, near here, was found beside a
country road short distance from
her home by neighbors. She was
scantily clad and was barefooted and
the opinion is that she wandered from
home during the night and was over
come by the cold
Janesville-Plans have been made
for purchasing uniforms for the mem
bers of the two high school military
companies which were organized
some time ago. BY giving dances and
benefit performances at the theaters
af the city. the boys have raised a
large sum to equip the 100 students.
Hartford Emil Won Schleinitz, Mil
waukee, who is spending the winter
at his country home, near Cedar Lake,
saw a large gray wolf crossing the
ice OF the lake. He sent his dog after
the animal, but it got away This is
the first wolf seen in Maukesha coun-
~ in number Of years.
Oconomowoc - Joseph Adams, 78
years old, one Of the most prominent
residents Of the town of Summit, died