Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-27

WauSau - Farmers of Marathon
county are having success in raisins
sorghum cane, which has grown from
eight to nine feet tall. Very little haC
been grown III this locality before thi.
season, and the farmers, realizing thu
shortage of sugar, are raising it as
patriotic movement
Oshkosh-S have been taken tt
establish regular and permanent agri
cultural work in Winnebag0 county
Gustave A. Sell, who for the last yea
has been acting as county emergenc,
food agent, under federal authority
will be the county's first agriculture
representative.
Oshkosh-Presidents of twenty-five
county Sunday schools associations o
Wisconsin met here to confer on thu
needs of the coming year in the worl
of the Wisconsin Sunday school asso
citation. 1t was decided to increase
Sunday school activities to better sup
port war work.
Madison-Three new factory inspec
tors were named by the industrial com
mission. They are: Ivan Conklin
Wauwatosa; c. j. KreiIhamp, Prince
ton; Frank A. Frederickson, Madison
Miss Edna Kuhnert, Madison, was
named as an assistant in the woman's
n ~ Of -
Oshkosh-Peter E. Fluor, son of J
Simon Fluor, former Oshkosh resident
now of Santa Ana, Cal, has won his
double bars as a lieutenant in the
aviation corps. He was the first in g
squad of ninety to complete his course
His brother, Fred, has joined the
navy.
La Crosse = The La Crosse county
school of agriculture, one of the pic
neers, in that field of education in the
northwest, may be closed because OF
the war and the building converted
into a tuberculosis sanatorium to care
for soldiers afflicted with that disease
Appleton = Elijah King, an Indian
held in Jail on charge of causing the
death of David o. Hill, an Indian
waived preliminary hearing and was
bound over for trial in circuit court on
a charge of second degree murder. He
will be tried in September.
Eau Claire H. Gadsby, said to
be the oldest member of the Masonic
lodge in Wisconsin, both as to age and
from length of membership, died here
at the age of SO. He was born in Gil
bertsville, N. Y, Sept. 10, 1929, and
came to Eau Claire in 1871.
Rhinelander-Jos Tish shot and
killed his wife because she refused to
give him money, and then turned the
shotgun on himself, dying instantly
The shooting occurred on the road
near -Gagen, fifteen miles east of here.
Tomahawk-Ther rear end of south
bound extra freight went into the ditch
fifteen miles south of here. Ten cars
of logs were badly damaged. No one
was injured, but traffic was tied up
for twenty hours.
Oshkosh = Winnebago county need
not worry about the wolf being at the
door as the county treasurer has re-
ported regular funds of $3.50, 341.24 and
special funds of $72,0S9.49.
Sheboygan-The public schools of
Plymouth will be opened week later
in September this year, to give the
farmers the aid of students in harvest
ing their crops.
Madison-S State Food Administrator
Magnus Swenson has been called to
Washington for a conference with
Herbert Hoover on Sept. 4 and 5.
Jefferson - At the sixteenth annual
meeting of the soldiers and sailors of
Jefferson county, E. B. Heimstreet of
Palmyra was reelected president.
Perry Goodrich of Fort Atkinson and
Frank Foote we're reelected to the Off
ces of secretay and TREASURER
acknowledging one of three Sc
Iected from class of about 100 young
men by the selective service board of
county for a mechanical
course at the University of
was the honor that fell to
Lloyd C. Frank of Brentwood.
Sheboygan-The stations of the Mil
waukee and Western roads at
7 plymouth, have been combined, in an
f,rder received from the general man.
tger, Uncle Sam. Hereafter, tickets
for both roads will be sold in the c.,
NJ. & st. P. station.
Madison-Frank Schaettle, member
Of the lower house of the Wisconsin
legislature from Buffalo and Pepin
counties. under federal indictment.
charged with violating the Mann act,
is at liberty on $4,000 bonds. He was
at one time mayor of Alma, Wis.
Appleton-The general Offices of ths
Northern railroad viii be
established in this city in tie near
future. The Old National bank build
ing has been leased and the offices
which are now located in Oshkosh viii !
be moved here.
Appleton-It is possible that this
city viii be the home of another in
dustry. Negotiations are under way TO
bring the plant of the Walsh Harness
now located in Milwaukee,
10 Appleton