Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

. who is said to be the youngest sol
der in the United States army has
been invaded home and is now in an
army hospital at Des Moines, la. Clark
began service in the infantry and fin
ished with the aviation corps. The
: plane in which he was flying fell o.
100 feet. The youngest soldier was
: picked up with broken thumb, dis
v located shoulder and hip and four ribs
/ broken. His spirit, however, was not
impaired. He is recovering and says
e he will remain in the service
i NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. were received
r here from the Dupont Powder COM
pany at Wilmington, Del, to not be-
n gin the construction of new buildings
l. at the powder plant at Ives, north of
Racine, where $500 men are employed.
All buildings now under construction
e will be completed. None of the en-
s ployes of the company, now in Racine.
n appear to know what will be done but
} believe that a factory will be erected
O for the manufacture of some other
i product than powder.
i Madison Erection and operation by
D. the state of a plant for the manufac-
a ture by prison labor of reapers and
It mowers will b e proposed in bill
n which will be presented to the Wis
consin legislature, with the backing of
the American Society of Equity. The
a plan is that the initial cost shall be
e 100000 Such plant is now main
s tanned by Minnesota at Saltwater.
II The bill will be introduced by AS
II semblyman-elect l.. A. Pierron, Ozau-
u kee county.
!. Sturgeon Bay Officially reported
r died of wounds are: Sergt Charles
q Gislason, Washington Island; r. W.
q Ashlswede, Brussels; Ole Ilson, Stur-
geon Bay, and Walter Cunningham,
Sturgeon Bay. This totals thirty-five
v deaths from Door county. The first
s three were volunteers in the old Co. F,
v which trained hers, then at Camp
t Douglas, and in Texas before going
e to France.
OI Madison - After fifteen months
O army service, Roland L., son of AS
. semblyman o. P. Vaughan, Wauzeka,
g died of pneumonia in France. He was
the first volunteer from Crawford
county and enlisted May 25, 1917. He
n trained at Jefferson Barracks Mo-, on
# the field where fifty-two years ago
n previously his father had prepared for
, civil war service
e La Crosse-Lyall Sampson, 20 years
,r old, and Harold Sampson, Is years
II old, sons of Guy Il. Sampson. con-
70 ductor on the Milwaukee railroad, are
believed to be among the forty-six
men who lost their lives when the
r. steamer Dumaru burned and sunk be-
d tween the island of Guam and Manila
n on Oct Is.
v Madison A Washington order re-
e ceived by Maj.-Gen. Holway lifts the
t. ban on fraternities. II rescinds the
=. previous order restricting all but bus
mess meetings. Fraternities may now
pledge and initiate new members and
4 hold what meetings and parties they
= please as long. as they observe military
S, regulation.
e-i
! Madison Secretary of War Baker
C teIegraphed Gov Philip saying that
v the signing of an armistice in no way
n lessons the responsibility of civil
communities for the prote ction of sol
diers from bad women and sale of lig-
# uor. He says he is determined to re-
+ turn soldiers to their homes uncontam-
@ mated.
\ Marinette-The city welcomed its
,r first returned wounded here when
N Lieut.. Harry Donaldson reached
Il home. He was rendered an ovation,
being welcomed by Mayor Joseph
Wisher as he alighted from the train.
n He was then escorted to his home by
$. friends, headed by a band.
p La Crosse-Harry Mulder, son of
C Byron Mulder, New Amsterdam mer-
3 chant, was gassed in the drive on
# Verdun HILL and is in hospital in
n France, according to word received by
relatives here. For two weeks he was
totally blind, but his sight has been
t. partially restored.
SC River Falls-Mr. and Mrs. Charles
al D. Parker. this city, received many
"A messages OF congratulation on their
II sixty-fifth wedding anniversary. Nov.
q 10. Mr. Parker was liutenant-gov'
ernor fer four years, regent OF the
university and member of the board
is of control
ID
n beloit-Arthur James Plumber has
h. brought suit for $4,000 damages
against several policemen for alleged
rough usage in making an arrest re-
is Gently. James was charged by police
n with having violated an automobile
"a regulation and arrested. The police
have invited investigation.
H. Manufactured hundred men en-
al ployed at the mills of the Mar1nette
st and Menominee Paper Co., went on a
i strike after their demand for a mini
mum wage of 38 cents was refused.
a The men assert they would have
g. walked out some time ago had it not
been for the war.
H. Marinette-Baby girls born in st
he Joseph's hospital, Menominee. while
] the city was celebrating signing OF
C. the armistice, were named Mary Vic
re- toria. One is a daughter of Mr.. and
a. Mrs. Leonard Augue and the other
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Lee
Claire.
C.
d. Racine = Mrs. Anthony Kramer, sc
al va.rs old was fatally burned and her