Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-09-17

| fered by the college of engineering of
the University of Wisconsin. Stresses
in airplanes and in air screws, inherent
/ stability, automatic stabilizers, and de-
sign of aviation engines are the sub
all men students.
| Madison-Plans are under way to
endeavor to obtain legislative action
this winter that will authorize four
| year medical school at the University
of Wisconsin. At the present time the
medical course at the university is
two-year course and is therefore mere
| ly preparatory course for Rush Med
ical, John Hopkins and other medical
schools.
Eau Claire-Durand. Pepin county,
is in the throes of typhoid fever ep-
idemic of mysterious origin which has
already claimed one victim, Sarah Cas-
sidy, 14-year-old daughter of DR.. CASH
dy of that city, who died AZ an Eau
| Claire hospital. The epidemic broke
out suddenly and there are now more
than fifteen cases, most of them of
very serious nature.
Eau Claire-Private John A. McIn-
mis-, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James McIn-
mis-, this city, member of Co. E of Eau
Claire, is the first Eau Claire man to
be taken prisoner by the Germans.
| He was listed as missing in action
June IL, but letter from the war de-
partment has just been received stat
ing he was a prisoner at Camp Giesen,
| Germany.
Marinette-Word was received here
that Capt Oscar Falk of Menominee
had been severely wounded in France.
He was veteran guard officer of Mich
! igan who had served on the border.
Capt Edward Mayville of Marinette
commanding a Rhinelander company
is suffering with shock and burns from
a grenade in hospital in France.
Madison - Six Wisconsin schools
hSve been added to the accredited list
of the university this year, bringing
the total of accredited high schools to
355. Those recently added to the list
are: Boyd, Bay View of Milwaukee, st.
Peters of Oshkosh, Patch Grove,
Campion college of Prairie du Chen
and Williams Bay.
Madison-C. P. Cary, state superin-
terdent of schools, in his circular to
Wisconsin educators, attacks the
states system of industrial education,
dual system partly under the state
superintendent and partly under an in
dependent board.
Green Bay-Since last fall Green
Bay has given los of its men to the
United States navy, according to a
list compiled by the navy recruiting
officer
Marinette During August there
were twenty cases of appendicitis
treated at st. Joseph's hospital here.
The majority of persons afflicted were
boys.
Milwaukee-The annual meeting of
the Wisconsin Association of Master
Bakers will be held at the Republican
house on Sept 80 and Oct / and 2. A
large assembly of speakers will arrive
from the Retail Merchant Bakers as
ISOLATION which will hold its conven-
ton in Chicago on Sept IL to 20.
Eau Claire - Assistant Fire Chief |
Willis E. Heron, one of the oldest men
in point of service on the Eau Claire |
fire department, having served contin-
uously for twenty-six years has re-
signed.
Green Bay-Arthur c. Harris Of |
Denmark was arrested on a charge OF |
enticing a 12-year-old girl who lives in |
Amigo, from the train on which she |
was returning to Amigo from Maribel |
The police found Harris at hotel, |
where he had taken the girl. He has |
been placed under $1,000 bond.
Oshkosh-Peter Kutcher of Mena- |
sha was sentenced in municipal court |
to six years in state prison at Waupun. |
He pleaded guilty to the charge of as
sault with intent to murder Edna |
Smith of Menasha On July 81.
Neenah-Farmers near Neenah who |
have not planted wheat for years but |
who Welded to the patriotic call and |
sowed small portions of their land in |
wheat, report the yield running about |
forty-ive bushels to the acre, heavier
than ever before.
Green Bay = The Wisconsin Live
stock Breeders association viii hold a
conference here on Oct. II. said County |
Agricultural Agent E. A. Cairncross.
Breeders of horses, swine. poultry and
cattle win be invited.