Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-05-21


has approved the schedules for the
completion of the Sheridan road thru
Kenosha county and has ordered the
road completed this year The Ken.
osha portion of the road has been
known to tourists as the worst road in
Wisconsin.
Oconomowoc - Archbishop S. G.
Messmer of Milwaukee ordained the
Rev. Fathers Aloysius Kipells of ST.
Paul, Frank Berg of Milwaukee, and
Aloysius Pregenzer of Chicago to the
Redemptorist priesthood at the Re-
demptorist college chapel at Lac La
Belle.
La Crosse-The war on fortune tell
ers, who make money off persons hav-
ing relatives in the army, started by
Mayor A. A. Bentley, reaped another
victim in municipal court when a jury
found Mrs. Samuel Mitchell trance
medium, guilty. She was fined $41.43.
OshkOsh-The county board of SUI
pervisors has taken action to buy five
acres adjoining the present fair site
and will acquire four acres more when
the Winnebago County Fair associa-
ton fulfills an agreement to distribute
its stock among the farmers.
Janesville-Girls of the high school
have become so interested in the mill
tary work of the boys that they have
organized a company of their own and
are being drilled by the officers of the
boys company. About $50 girls are
taking the training.
Rhinelander-It is understood that
pearl fishing will be renewed on the
river again this year Nearly car.
load of clam shells are piled up near
the Fetke farm where pearl hunters
have their camp. These shells will be
shipped to button factory in Iowa
Oconomowoc - Word has been re-
ceived by relatives here that Lieut..
Clarence H. Schoenike, One Hundred
and Sixty-third infantry, who has been
in France several months, is on his
way TO the United States. The rea-
son of his return is not known.
Marinette-The Rev. G. o. Olander,
68 years old, pioneer pastor among
Swedish Lutherans of this city and
northern Michigan, died in Minneapo-
lis. He erected the first church of this
denomination in Marinette in 1876.
Madison - John Breen, held in Jail
for alleged failure to register under
the draft, found ground glass in his
breakfast food. John Schmidt, an
alien enemy, fellow prisoner, is charg-
ed with the deed.
Grantsburg-A special election is ex.
pected to be held soon to vote on the
question of selling the municipal cleo
trio plant to the General Electric and
Power company of Cloquet, MINI.
Monroe - Lawrence Scarer, of this
city, worked nineteen hours digging
out fox's den and capturing the sew
en- little foxes upon which he received
a bounty of $28.
East Ellsworth-While spading in a
corner of his garden, James Hurley,
struck a glass fruit jar, which upon
examination was found to contain a
human hand preserved in alcohol 1t
is thought to be the hand of Wallace
Morse, who lived near the Hurley res
idence some twenty years ago.
Hudson-Owing to series of acts
ranging from petty depredationS and
rowdyish performances by young men.
officers of the law at Hudson have got
busy and adopted slogan. Work, En-.
list or Get Out"
Argyle-John Wagner of the town
of Ridgeway has the following record
of the capture of wild animals the past
season: seventy muskrats, bounty,
s36.05; thirty-seven skunks, bounty
Sl1U.fOs nilCICCn COOuS, DOunty P1ft
three minks, bounty S12; fifteen foxes,
bounty s120; one weasel, bounty 81.
Oconto-Eight hundred square feet
of mushroom beds have been planted
in the barn of Hunter Orr by himself
and Mark Karbon and fungi are al
ready beginning to show above the
soil.
Winneeonne - Walter Neuman, who
lives on the John Mueller place, two
miles west of this village, was serious
" injured by a bull. He was knocked
dos7n and gored, his collar bone and
brea5t-bone being broken and other
injuries inflicted.
Sturgeon Bay-The first Dood coun-
~ soldier TO lose his life in France
was Private Lester Dewey Erksine, 20
years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln
II. Erksine of Jacksonport. He died
Of meningitis.