Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-06-25

state council of defense in an order is
sued to county councils to cooperate
with draft officials in rounding up
ldlers. 1t is requested that citizens
generally interest themselves in re
porting to local draft boards regis.
trants who are idlers, engaged in sery-
ing food and drink, elevator operators.
door men, ushers, attendants. sales
clerks, store employees, or employed in
domestic service.
Madison - George C. Humphrey of
the University of Wisconsin has been
placed on the official list OF judges of
Holsteins for American fairs and
dairy cattle expositions of 1918. Three
OF the other nominees are w. l.. Car
lyle of Canada, formerly connected
with the Wisconsin agricultural col
lege; w. A. McKerrow, st. Paul. Mimi.
formerly of Waukesha county: G. E.
Morton of the Colorado agricultural
college, formerly resident of Rock
county.
Madison = County boards of SUPER
v1sors are to be urged by the Wom-
ans committee of county councils of
defense to proceed at once to estab-
nsh sanitoria for the care of tubercular
soldiers. Already 434 enlisted men
nave oeen returned to Wisconsin with
tubercular infection and the women
urge that steps be taken at once. not
only to effect cure of these men but
to prevent them from being sources of
infection to others.
Racine = One hundred delegates to
the annual convention of the Wiscon.
sin Federation of Women's Catholic
clubs here adopted a resolution which
provides that only the English lam
guage shall be taught in schools and
that movement to introduce the
O'Clock Angelus in all American homes
and silent prayer for peace be carried
out.
Neenah-With the drafting of Albert
Mcmahon, city engineer, Neenah is
giving quite a few of it's officials to
he country's service City Attorney C.
G. Fem is now captain at Camp Gus
ter; City Physician C. C. DelMarceIle
is with the boys in France, while
Mayor c. B. Clark is member of the
state guards.
MISUNDERSTANDING of the First
congressional district will assemble in
Burlington on July s, to recommend a
candidate for representative in con-
gress to succeed Henry Allen Cooper,
who is bitterly opposed for the republi-
can nomination by faction of his own
party that named Judge Clifford Ran
dali, Kenosha, as their choice.
Marinette- Searching the waters of
the Little Sturgeon in Door county at
night for illegal nets, Conservation
Wardens Kabrandt and Cranston were
fired upon by persons unknown on
s. ore, but escaped unhurt. Automobile
lamps were used to illuminate the bay
and disclose the position of the ward
Ashland-Joseph Hoof, who runs a
summer resort near Cable, planned
venison dinner for some Chicago
friends, but the game wardens got
there first. 1t cost Hoof $90.13 in fines
and costs for forty pounds of venison
in his possession and the wardens
would not even leave him a piece of
the meat after he. had paid up.
Madion-While the weather this
spring has been very favorable for tt
pea crop, in the older sections of the
state and on soil that has been plant
ed to successive crops of peas or which
has been given improper applications
of old pea vines infected with the pea
blight organism, the blight has appear.
ed.
Madison-Birth registration again
proved it's value when it became nee.
essary to prove kinship of a Wiscon-
sin soldier killed in action in France.
His sister, adopted by another family,
and assuming a new name, was able
to prove her right to his insurance
money.
Appleton-The city of Appleton will
finance the industrial school during
the special courses in industrial pur.
suits essential to the war. This was
brought about because the state and
the indutrial school board of the city
did not have any finances to carry on
the work.
Fond du Lac-The 1000 persons en-
listed in the service of the county
council of defense received notice to
turn in names of all persons not use
fully at work They'll go to work or
to JAIL" said Chairman Frank J. Wolff
Madison-One the charge that more
than 80 per cent of its normal amount
of sugar has been used, the White
Rock Springs plant at Waukesha was
closed by order of Food Administrator
MagnuS Swenson.
Madison-The $1,781, 900 working
budget submitted by the regents of the
University of Wisconsin for the next
year was approved by the state board
of education.
Marinette-When Milo WEIGH, Mil
waukee barber, arrived here, the first
news of his brothers death reached
him at the railway station, where a
casket enclosing the body of Lennie
WEIGH was awaiting shipment to Bir-
namwood for burial.