Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-02

closed IL naQ tWenty-three customers
with an average of 314 pounds of
wheat. 1t is thought that state au-
| thorities will take up the case.
Rhinelander-C. Eby of this city has
| just closed a deal for the sale of 1000
acres of cut-over land near Gagen, in
this county, to Minneapolis parties 1t
| is the intention of the new owners to
colonize the tract and large number
! of families will take up homes there
at once. Most of these new settlers
are laboring people from Minneapolis
and st. Paul.
Marinette-A ground glass scare
that excited both this city and Menom-
| inee was exploded when investigation
revealed that the glass in the bread
was due to a broken electric light blub.
| A painter at work in a local bakery
| happened to strike the bulb with his
| brush and some of the fragments flew
| into nearby breadmixer
Brentwood = According to Chief
| Gunners Mate l.. H. Helmer now re-
| cruiting for the United States navy,
Ladysmith leads all other cities of
| Wisconsin per population in supplying
men for the navy. Eighty Ladysmith
boys have thus far enlisted from that
city in the sea fighting forces.
Deerfeld-A 100000 fire here to-
tally destroyed three business build
ings and damaged others Two of
them housed farm implement agencies.
The volunteer department finally got
the blaze under control, after the en-
tire downtown district had seemed
doomed.
manufactures of Marin
cite and Oconto counties who held a
convention here to promote war work,
named Robert Goodman, chairman,
and j. E. Shaw, Peshtigo, secretary.
The convention was largely attended.
Ashland-Hurley which is now the
oasis for the thirsty Michiganders will
be dry as the Sahara desert if the Off
Gals of the various mining companies
are successful in having their request
to the government granted
Oshkosh-H. e. Manuel, former as
semblyman and pioneer resident, died
here at the age of SO. He was promi-
nent in the Order of Oddfellows. grand
master of the state in 1892 He served
in the Wisconsin assembly in 1900.
Wausau-The cornerstone of the
| clericate monastery of the Province of
St. Joseph of the Capuchin order, in
course of erection at Marathon, will
be laid Sunday, July T. Archbishop S.
| G. MessmeI will officiate.
Madison-C. L. Lathrop, former as
semblyman from Crawford county, has
announced his candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination for congress in this,
the Third district, on a strictly loyalty
platform.
Sheboygan - Christ Herman, who
lost leg and foot when, it is alleged,
he was struck by an Eastern Wiscon-
sin Electric interurban car, filed suit
against the company for $4,000 dam
ages.
Wausau-The Wisconsin Valley Re
! tail Harness Makers assertion will
meet here in July, when preparations
for the next state convention, which is
To be held in Wausau, will be made.
Sheboygan-Mrs. Mary Fielder, 81
years old, drowned when she fell into
tank of water in barn at the home
of her son, Peter Fielder, farmer near
Cedar Grove.
Wausau-The year old daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. William Gleason, who re-
side in the town of Ringle, was fatally
| burned after setting fire to herself
with matches.
La Crosse-Mrs. J. Fl. Rogers, ST.,
the first white child in the village of
De Soto, south of here, is dead. She
was born in 1848.
PORTAGE w. Hutchinson, OF the
Randolph Canning factory and one of
the prominent pea Gamers of Wiscon-
sin, has been called to Washington for
Nv RI oiT7ic
traitor Hoover to act in an advisory
capacity in the canning problems of
the country.
La Crosse-To be kicked by a horse
and die of the injuries inflicted, five
days before his wedding was to take
place, was the fate of Louis Laufen-
berg, "a, Norwalk. His bride to be
was at his side when he died.
nd-Abandonment of the study
of German in public and parochial
schools of Wisconsin was favored in a
resolution adopted without dissent
ing vote at the annual encampment
of the Wisconsin department, G. A. r.
The legislature will be asked to enact
law to this effect.
La Crosse-Dry sweeping of floors
in public buildings was put under the
ban by DR.. j. NJ. Furstmann, city
health commissioner. The state law
prohibits it, he said, but it has been
tolerated here for some time.
Wausau-Charles c. Boerke OF Wau-
sau has received cablegram announc-
ing lis son, Lieut.. Elmer G. Boerke,
has been wounded in the left arm and
leg by shell fire. 1t was not stated
whether the wounds were slight or
severe.
Ashland-Mrs. W. r Graves, Prairie
du Chen, was elected president at the