Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30


accused is a son of Fred Fromm, so
cialist candidate for state senator.
One brother, Walter, disappeared
when called for military service early
in May and another, John William, fail
ed to respon for entertainment.
Madison-Unless the farm labor sit
uation clears itself Immediately Gov.
E. L. Philip will probably issue a
proclamation calling on all business
and professional men and manufactu-
rers, except those engaged on war
work, to close their places of business,
at least one day a week so their en-
ployes can go out and help the farmers
with the greatest harvest in the his
tory Of the state.
APPROPRIATENESS have been posted
valley announcing important increases
of wages to become effective Aug. L.
In some cases the increase will be a
horizontal one of Az cents an hour,
averaging perhaps about 90 cents per
day, in wages of both men and women
The notice of the increase came as a
total surprise to the employees.
Madison-Robert LaFollette, Jr., son
of Senator LaFollette, who has been
| i'll for many months, has been taken
from the senator's home at Washing
/ ton n n 70 ~ Uo 40
orders of his physician. Senator and
Mrs. LaFollette and their daughter,
Fola, accompanied him to Hot Springs
and prepared to remain there with him
Indefinitely
Waupaca Charles Larson, of this
| city, for the second consecutive year,
/ won the Interstate Trapshooting AS
ISOLATION State Amateur championship
at the Wisconsin State Trapshooters'
! tournament at Wausau. He will be
the states representative in the Great
American Handicap tournament. The
1919 state tournament will be held at
Milwaukee.
Madison-The war book of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin is now off the
press and ready for distribution
throughout the state. 1t is reprint in
260 page volume of the twenty Wis
consin war pamphlets which were pre-
pared by professors in the university,
100000 of which have been circulated
! in the past six months
from piece of German shell fired at
Verdun is the highly prize1 possession
of Miss Louise Handson OF this city
who received it from a sailor of
France The article is beautiful in de-
sign and bears a crest with the in
scription ''Verdun"
Birhcwood-O the only wet
town in the vicinity of Duluth and Su-
perior, has added five special police
men to its force of one, since the vii
lage became an oasis in the thirst des-
ert The only saloon in the town en-
ploys eight bartenders to handle it's in
creased trade.
| Wausau-L. S. Dell of Madison won
the premier event of the state trap
shooters program, the Interstate Trap
shooting associations Wisconsin han
dicap, by scoring 96 points out of a
possible 100 St. John of Green Bay
was second, with "a, and there were
six ties for third place.
Sturgeon Bay-Cherries are being
sold by the fruit growers of Door
county for the highest price in the
history of the crop. Cases are sent out
at prices from $2.75 to SO for each It.
quart case This is due to the very
light yield from this years crop.
Madison = Dane county Democrats,
in conference Endorsed E. j. Reynolds,
Madison attorney, for the Democratic
nomination for congress in the Third
district M. ]. Briggs, >Dodseyille, and
C. L. Lathrop, Crawford county, are
also candidates.
Madison = Two University of Wis
consin goods, Margaret Lewis and
Alice King, swan Lake Waubesa, a
distance of about three miles. Miss
Lewis made the trip in fifty-fve min
utes, Miss King in about sixty-five min
| utes.
| Madison = Prof H. J. Thorkelson,
business manager of the University of
Wisconsin will leave for Washington
as soon as his affairs can be adjusted,
to accept an important post in the
quartermasters' corps of the army.
Cedarburg = Fire destroyed the
Groth lime kilns and several surround
ing buildings. The los is placed at
100000
Menomonie-The Dunn county coun-
| Gil of defense at Stout institute con-
Quoted memorial services for seven
boys of the county who have given
their lives in service since the begin
ming of the war. Most of these were
killed in action in May.
Shawano-Mike Weber, farmer re-
siding near Gresham, Shawano county,
father of nine children, was killed in
| stantly when his automobile overturn-
ed His neck was broken. Weber's
son, one-armed boy, who was with
him, escaped with only slight bruises.
Menomonie-Mrs. Mark Traxler, re-
siding near here, was killed when her
daughter, who escaped with slight
| bruises, drove the car over an en-
bankment in trying to avoid another
automobile going in an opposite direc-
ton.
Benton-It is said that the new acid
| r1a~t 70 he arocfod hora hy the Gkin.