Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Madison - Feeding soldiers in the
environments here and abroad is taking
a large proportion of the country's
commercially canned goods. The Wis
consin food administration states that
| government requirements are expected
to take one-third of the output of can
ned tomatoes, twenty-five per cent of
the total output of canned peas, corn
| and string beans, about sixty per cent
of the salmon pack, and one-half the
production of canned cherries and
dried peaches.
Neenah-Although the engine, tend
er and mail car of 500 passenger train
No. 4, bound from Minneapolis to Chi
cago were overturned, the track torn
up for a distance of 800 feet and the
four box cars which had slid onto the
main track from a siding badly demol-
ished, neither the engineer, fireman or
any of the passengers sustained as
much as scratch, in one of the lucki-
est wrecks in railroad annals. No. 4
was travelling at the rate of forty
miles an hour when the crash cama
Madison. c. Schroeder of Mani
towcc has been fined 5000 by the Wis
cCnsin food administration for not
! using the full amount OF substitutes
required by the food regulations for
bakers, and Dick Brothers, also of
Manitowoc, have been ordered to pay
| 5000 for exceeding their wheat allot-
ment for other products than bread
and rolls and also for using less than
the required amounts of substitutes
Eau Caire-At a meeting of about
fifty business men of this city, held to
devise plan for providing farmers of
the country with farm hands, it was
decided to send missionaries to city
workmen and business men to find all
who would be available for farm work
1t is further planned that each town
chairman in the county send in a list
of the labor requirements in his town.
Wausau-Mr. and Mrs. Owen Sulli-
van have three sons in military serv-
ice and a daughter, Rozella, at Trinity
hospital, Milwaukee, training for serv-
ice as Red Cross nurse. Joseph Sui
livan has been accepted for naval serv-
ice and George is at Camp Grant. Will
liam is in France with the One Hun
dred Twenty-irst Heavy artillery.
Madison-Farmers in seven counties
will hold farm demonstration picnics
in August. According to the usual Gus
tom these will be given on the county
asylum farms. Announcements have
already been made for picnics in Co
lumbia, Outagamie, Waupaca, Chippe-
wa, Richland, st. Croix and Saul1
counties.
Marinette-Mr. and Mrs. Matt Rau-
ner have five sons in the service
Charles is with the American Red
Cross at Winchester, England; Her
man, in France, Max, spruce division,
Hoquiam, Wash; Matt, Jr., at Macon,
Ga, and Ernest awaiting final exami-
nation, having enlisted recently.
Ashland-Rev. and Mrs. A. Almquist
and little daughter, and Rev. and Mrs.
L. E. Ost and four children, formerly
of this city, have gone toe Seattle,
whence they leave with detachment
of workers for the Alaskan coast
where they will care for Eskimos and
Indians.
Oshkosh-John c. Thompson, promi-
nent attorney of Oshkosh, who is chair
man of the Winnebago County Council
of Defense, and chairman of the coun-
ty board of supervisors, will be a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for state senator in the eighteenth SEN
atorial district
Eau Claire-When Leo Curtis Sischo
of Greenwood came here preparatory
to leaving for Milwaukee to take the
examination for the naval reserve he
saw a trolley car for the first time in
his life. Twenty years old, he had
never been outside of Greenwood in
his life.
Madison-The vocational schools for
war emergency training are to be con-
tinued in the thirty-one cities of Wis
consin. During the past few months
1929 boys have been given training in
these night schools for war emer-
gency work.
Racine-Co-operatio between a Y.
M. c. A. industrial department and the
largest employers of labor in Racine
has resulted in the establishment of
an industrial hotel, which relieves an
acute housing situation.
Stevens Point-A pearl, probably
valued at $500, has been found in a
clam shell in the Wisconsin river, nine
miles north Of here, by George Plat,
Lake City, MINI.
La Crosse = Two hundred tramps
were rounded up during the past
month, under the work and fight order
La Crosse - Protests by the mer-
chants of La Crosse resulted in the
Minnesota state warehouse and rail-
road commission ordering the Milwau-
kee railroad to restore three trains
running into this city on the Southern
Minnesota division from Austin.
Madison-The fourth biennial con-
ference of health officers in Wisconsin
will bring together for discussion of
health problems several hundred off,
Gals from all parts of the state on
Aug. and s. The program embraces
a wide range of subjects.