Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-22

Miss Caroline Dueno. Manitowoc,
city nurse, ass resigned to become an
army nurse. She win report at Van
couver barracks, Wash.
| Edwin p Hunt. who resigned
as secretary of the Eau Claire Y.
M. G. A., recently, has accepted an
offer from the Y NJ. C. A. at Stockton.
Cal. He viii leave here on April 16.
Louis Jacquot, cne of the oldest and
most widely known pioneers of Outa-
gamie county and vice-president of the
Outagamie Council of Defense, died at
his home. following a paralytic stroke.
When the left hand of Alvin Ander-
son Of Prairie Farm, near Brentwood.
was cut from his arm while saving
wood with a power saw, his future as
an army private was shattered. An
derson had been placed in class la.
2 The $4,000 Arpin sawmill at Allan
ia, Rusk county. was destroyed by fire
The mill is practically the largest saw
mill in this section. The fire came just
as the mill was prepared for a gigan-
| tic cutting this coming summer.
Between thirty-five and forty men
are studying navigation in special
course in the university of Wisconsin.
Almost all of them intend to join the
navy and many will be candidates for
commissions.
Maintaining that the gases from the
| plant of the Du Pont Co, Barksdale,
damaged the crops on his farm and
the health of himself and family. ia
cob Bjork is suing the company for
$500.
Deer have become so numerous in
the south part of Richland county and
travel in such large herds that they
are becoming a menace to crops and
orchards. State game wardens have
been asked to kill or drive them away.
Fenwoo,l chapter, Wausau, Wiscon-
I sin Loyalty legion. adopted resolu-
tion censuring Assemblyman Herman
Hedrick for voting against the resolu-
tion condemning the war attitude of
Senator La Toilette.
All officers, including John w. Gau-
erke, exalted ruler, were reelected
for year by Green Bay Lodge, 259
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks Mr.. Gauerke has served three
years as exalted ruler
sTSe1Apeauleau and -K5a Crosse coun-
ties are the first in western Wisconsin
to perfect plans for the daily patrol
of h ghways. Division foremen are APP
of highways. Division foremen were
appointed and territory allotted.
b. a vote of "a to 10. the Outaga-
mie county board condemned Herman
Wicakert, assemblyman from this dis
/ trict, for voting against the censure
of Senator La Follette's war attitude.
BY the same vote it commended t. w.
Armstrong for voting for the amend
ment.
Tbs problem of housing 1000 men
employed in the Du Pont explosive
plant at Barksdale confronts Ashland.
So many men have been added to the
force that all accommodations in
Barksdale and Washburn have been
utilized. The Commercial club has
taken UP the problem.
Raising guinea pigs for laboratory
purposes is one feature of unique
farm project which is being establish
ed in connection with Sunny View,
Winnebago county's tuberculosis san
atorium, with view to providing con-
valescent patients with profitable and
interesting employment of a nature
that will aid their recovery.
One hundred fifty acres of sugar
beets, twenty-five to thirty acres of
cane sugar and 100 acres of beans will
be planted on the farms at state in
stitutions by the state board of con-
troll this spring. The cane sugar is
expected to furnish enough molasses
to supply all state Institutions for
year
Through its information department,
the Woman's committee, Wisconsin
Council of Defense, will cooperate
with the American Library association
in the campaign to collect books for
the soldiers and sailors. 1t is proposed
to collect million books for use in
the large camps, in the military forts
at naval stations and barracks and on
| tea sports carrying troops across and
the help of every woman is desired.
The sum of $32,37S.46 was distribu-
ted to employees of the Paine Lumber
company of Oshkosh which operates
one of the biggest sash and door plants
| in the world, as proft-sharing divi-
dend based on the Oshkosh concerns
earnings for 1917. About goo employees
of the 100 on the payrolls shared in
the plan, they having been employed
longer than one year. Many OF the
workers invested their dividends in
War Savings Stamps.
The burial of Isaac Stephenson, for
mer United States senator. took place
at Marinette. CIV Philip of Wiscon-
sin and many otEer prominent men 81
tended the funeral During the serV-
ices all business in the Twin Cities OF
Marinetfe and Menominee was sus-
pended for FIVE minutes. The former
4 1917 t.vor yxIocad in q hand