Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-15
! News Of the
" Badger State


Green Bay-Evidenee that some
Wisconsin and Michigan men are in |
Russia is contained in letter from
Sergt Harry B. Desnoyers of Com |
pany B, Three Hundred Tenth engi- |
neers, a. unit of the Eighty-f1fth, or
Custer division, which trained in |
Camp Custer. Sergt Desnoyers wrote
B. Desnoyers, that the engineers had
arrived on Russian soil. The Custer
division went overseas over two
months ago and contained Wisconsin
and Michigan men chiefly.
| Madison = Prof William G. Mar
| quette, associate professor of botany
at Columbia university, who had been
professor of botany at the University
of Wisconsin from 1905 to 1910, was
sentenced to serve one day in the Gus
tody of the United States marshal for
refusing to register. When arraigned |
in federal court in New York, Judge !
Clayton, after hearing, gave him one
days time to change his mind.
Racine-A former Racine woman who |
shows her patriotism, Notwithstanding
| her advanced age, is Mrs. J. N. Pills |
| bury, of Los Angeles, Cal Although |
Mrs. Pillsbury is n years of age, up
to short time ago she had knitted
ESQ pairs of stockings. She can knit
| pair of stockings a day. 1t is doubtful
If this record has been exceeded by
any woman in the United States.
Green Bay Door county added
| three more gold stars to it's service
flag, and increased the total to twenty
| FOUR Besides the twenty-four who
have made the supreme sacrifice, there
are twenty-seven Door county soldiers
who have been wounded in action.
| Nearly all of the casualties occurred
among members of Company F, Fourth
infantry.
| acknowledgement Frank E. Golf
OF Barron had two close calls during
ern front. He writes from France
| that during one attack a bullet went
through his coat pocket and in another
encounter, his gun was shot out of
his hands. He went over the top four
times in six days without getting a
scratch.
Green Bay-Lieut. Clarence G. No
bic of Green Bay, died of wounds on
Aug. 5, two days after sustaining in
juries in the counter offensive of the
| Americans in France, his parents
learned from the war department.
Lieut.. Noble was in Company G., One
| Hundred Twenty-eighth infantry, in
the Thirty-second division.
Wausau-The name of G., D. Jones
of Wausau has been submitted to Gov.
E. L. Phillip by the Wausau Chamber
| of Commerce as it's choice of that in
stitution for membership on a Wis
consin committee of fifteen to cooper
ate with Franklin R. Lane, secretary
of the interior, in his duty of land set
element by returning soldiers.
Appleton - Onions measuring from
| ten to eleven inches in circumference
were raised by Herbert Rainbow, 10
years old, in his war garden in the
town of Center. The youthful gar
dener recently presented an onion
measuring liz inches in circumfer
ence to F. o. Let's, rural mail carrier
on route No. f.
Oshkosh-According to an estimate
by County Agricultural Agent Sell the
loss by stripe in barley in Winnebago
county this year was about per cent,
of $4,000 bushels. That is considera-
bly, less than in many other counties
of the state, some of which lost as
! high as from 10 to Is per cent.
| Racine-Percy Ludine, a Racine
high school graduate but 16 years old,
| entered Ripon callege recently, where
| he was recommended for the S. A T.
c. at Fort Sheridan. He received his
commission as lieutenant and report
ed for duty at the Rahe Auto school,
| Kansas City.
Wausau-The assessed valuation on
real estate in Marathon county is $751; |
! 975,OO1, compared with $54,279,627 a
year ago. Personal property is $751;
263,O5 A year ago it was $13, $780,
727.
Fond du Lac-Charles J. Scribner,
well known Wisconsin travelling sales
man and prominent in U. c. T. and
7. P. A. circles, died here, following
an attack of heart trouble
Fond du Lac-Capt. S. E. Gavin, well
known Fond du Lac surgeon in charge
of the base hospital at Camp Colt, Get
| tysburg, Pa, has been advanced to the
rank of major.
Green Bay-The Green Bay Commu-
nifty Music association has been in
corporated. Community singing will
be introduced in eleven factories and
an orchestra organized.
Madison-Dean H. l.. Russell, of the
College of Agriculture, University of
| Wisconsin, who has been on leave of
| absence since last December, in
charge of the agricultural department
of the federal administration, in Wash
/ ington, has resumed work in the uni
versity.
Madison - Reports coming from all
sections of the state show that Wiscon-
sin is not only going to maintain her
winter wheat acreage of 10000 acres,
but that the rye acreage will be in