Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-13

Madison = Lemonade at the county
fair this fall will not be served. No
sugar certificates will be issued to
churches, clubs, association or tempo
rary eating places at fairs for sugar to
be used in making lemonade saws the
/ food administrator. For table service.
sugar may be obtained by temporary
eating places serving twenty-five or
more people daily if they get a state
ment from their county food admins
traitor and indicate the number of
meals served last year or the estima-
ted number to be served this year.
! Madison - The Sheboygan Mineral
Works have been found guilty of over
running their sugar allotment from
January to July LIST to the amount OF
1851 pounds. The Enforcement Di-
vision of the Wisconsin Food Admin
istratiol asked them to give to the
Red Cross the sum of $13224. The
plant is ordered closed for such De-
riod as the future allotment to this
plant will equal the overrun.
Madison-Upon testimony that the
Hennery Brothers of Fond du Lac,
both jobbers and retailers in flour and
feed, have taken retailers profit with
out rendering extra service AND thru
carelessness have sold beans as sub
stituts, Magnus Swenson, Federal
Food Administrator for Wisconsin, or
dered them to contribute $25 to the
Red Cross.
Madison-For profiteering on sales
of bran and for grinding excess
amounts of wheat for farmers, the
Schmidt Milling company of Oshkosh
were ordered to give $1,000 to the
Red Cross or upon their refusal to do
this will have their business suspend
ed for such period of time as the
food administrator will recommend.
Madison - The firemen's pension
funds of paid departments and the vol
unteer departments of Wisconsin re-
ceive $154,677 this year as against
$138,235 in 1917. The fund is per
cent of the incomes for fire insurance
premiums in the cities which have fire
departments, and it has been growing
each year.
Madison-Alfred Parent of Ashland
was granted an award of ,S331.5O
against the John Schroeder Lumber
company of Ashland and the Frank
fort General Insurance company, the
insurer. A charge was made that the
APPELLANT severed his own fingers in or
der to evade the draft.
Green Bay-Jolfn A. KittelI, fuel ad-
ministrator for Brown county, an
nounced the appointment of Henry A.
Foeller and Max H. Shcober archi-
tects, as consulting engineers of the
fuel administration.
Waupaca- Loyalty is the para
mount issue in the best politics now"
declared Senator Roy P. Wilcox of
Eau Claire, Republican candidate foT
enthusiastic meeting held here
Madison -. The Bonduel Feed and
Light company of Bonduel, operating
without license and grinding exces-
sive amounts of wheat for farmers,
has been ordered closed and to con-
tribute $500 to the Red Cross.
Madison William A. Opel of Mad
ison, has been asking excessive prices
for corn flour, canned corn and eggs.
Magnus Swenson, Food Administrator
for Wisconsin, asked him to pay $25 to
the Red Cross.
Portage - Ninety thousand dollars
worth of wool was shipped from here
by the T. H. Cochrane company for
use by the government The wool
shipment took six cars. The average
price was so cents pound
La Crosse - One woman and four
men were arrested here charged with
providing liquor for officers and other |
soldiers from Camp Robinson, near
Sparta. They will be tried in federal
court.
Madison Because leaders believed !
the Stoughton community fair, plan
ned for fall, would interfere with the
next Liberty loan drive, the move has
been dropped.
Madison Gustavus Milling com
pany of Oshkosh is invited to contrib |
ute $1,000 to the Red Cross for profit |
eering on bran and grinding excess
amounts of wheat for farmers.
Green Bay-The celebration of the |
birthday of Queen Mary of Belgium
was held in Green Bay, July 81, and |
netted about $4,000 for the relief of |
Belgium babies.
Sheboygan = Boys throwing lighted |
cattails caused $500 fire which de-
stroyed the roof of the Joseph Bickel
residence.
Madison-The Oregon Equity soci-
ETY. of the village of Oregon, Dane
county, has filed articles of incorpora- |
ton. The capital is $4,000.
Sheboygan-Localm milk dealers have
raised their retail price to cents per
quart and cents per pint
Oshkosh-At the biennial convention |
of the Fraternal Reserve association |
the home offices here, it was decided |
to invest the balance of The convention |
fund in the treasury in War Savings |
stamps. 1t is expected about $1,000 |