Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-02-26

will stand out for a special election
because the people demand it. Len
roots friends here say he would &C.
cept the senatorial appointment.
Observation-Disclosures in the list of
victims of the TuscaDia disaster, who
have been buried on the coast of
Scotland, are reported twelve Wiscon-
sin men whose bodies were washed
ashore and identified. Their names
and home addresses are: Raymond
Butler, New Richmond; Charles E.
Swanson, Rothschilds; Homer Level
Ign Anderson, Cumberland; Russell
f. Bennett, Plainfeld; James P. Haw-
ley, Neenah; Otto Mowrey, Kenosha;
Claire Metzenbauer, Chippewa Falls;
Alvin N. Collins, Markesan; Otis
Hutchins, Whitehall; George A. Rein
hardt, Jefferson; Orwell N. Casper,
Milwaukee; Fred A. Rudolph, Milwau-
kee.
Madison-The number of milk COWS
on Wisconsin farms on Jan 1 is l.
$4,000, compared to 100000 year
ago, or an increase of 2 per cent dur
ing 1917, according to the joint live
stock report issued at Madison. The
average price of milk COWS per head
is estimated to be SIS, compared to
sos year ago. The number of cattle
other than milk cows on Wisconsin
farms on Jan. /, is estimated to be
1,394,000, compared to 100000 a year
ago, or an increase of per cent.
Superior - An agricultural high
school maintained by the county or
jointly by several towns and villages
is recommended by j. w. Morgan, a
member of the committee on common
schools for Douglas county, as a solu-
ton to the problem of keeping the
farm boy and the farm girl on the
land. Manual training and other sub
jects might be taught at such a school,
he suggests. Douglas county has
power to maintain such a school.
GAINESVILLE - James Hessian, SEN
fenced by Judge Maxfield to five years
in the state reformatory at Green Bay,
has had his sentence suspended and
has been placed under the state board
of control for that time. The change
was taken by the judge as a result of
the evidence which Hessian gave rela-
tive to the selling of liquor in this city
to soldiers who come here on Sundays
and holidays.
Oshkosh--Belief that the words ITO
H With the Kaiser, painted in
large letters on barn is an extra fire
hazard, has caused mutual fire in
surance company of Winnebago coun-
ty farmers to ask that the building be
reinsured at a higher rate. 1t is
feared that some pro-German will set
fire to it. How the sign was painted
or who painted it is not known.
Stevens Point-Believed to have
frozen to death, the body of Mrs
Mary Cisewski, 70, of the town of
Hull, near here, was found beside a
country road a short distance from
her home by neighbors. She was
scantily clad and was barefooted and
the opinion is that she wandered from
home during the night and was over
come by the cold,
Janesville-Plans have been made
for purchasing uniforms for the mem
bers of the two high school military
companies which were organized
some time ago. BY giving dances and
benefit performances at the theaters
of the city, the boys have raised a
large sum to equip the 100 students.
Hartford-Emil Won Schleinitz, Mil
waukee, who is spending the winter
at his country home, near Cedar Lake,
saw a large gray wolf crossing the
ice of the lake. He sent his dog after
the animal, but it got away. This is
the first wolf seen in Waukesha coun-
ty in number of years.
Oconomowoc - Joseph Adams, IS
years old, one of the most prominent
residents of the town of Summit, died
at his home there Mr.. Adams was
born in 1910 in England, and came to
Wisconsin in 1855.
Menasha - The sixty-seventh ami
versary of the founding of the Congre-
gational church of this city was cele-
brated Feb. II, when Rev. H. A.
Miner, pastor of the church years ago,
delivered an address.
Neenah-A loaf of bread, war bread
at that, twenty-five years old, but in
almost perfect condition, was unearth-
ed by workmen excavating around an
old bake oven in the basement of
The Times building. The oven had
not been used in the past quarter
century.
Couderay-John Soller, so, of Eau
Claire, was killed on the Couderay
Indian reservation when he was
struck by falling tree. He was en-
played by the Bakedal Lumber CON-
pany.
Nenomonie = Two Stout Institute
goods were badly injured when bob
sled, upon which they were coasting,
cillided with a farmers sleigh. Flea
nor Jolley suffered conclusion of the
brain and Lillian Hurd sustained a
broken collar bone. Both of the girls
were freshmen.
Birchwood-A calf having two well
developed heads, two backbones, two
hearts or one of double action, and
two breast bones was born on George
Browns farm, near Bloomer. 1t died
within a short time.
anesville-Thomas Wardall, whose