Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-05
oshkosh = winnebago county

Oshkosh = Winnebago county Is
practically free from hog cholera, al
though the disease is causing consid-
cradle alarm in other parts of the
state. According to G. A. Sell, county
agent, Winnebago has been kept COM
paratively free of the scourge for
number of years by vaccinations and
disinfectants. He says the cholera is
more common where there are large
herds of hogs. In this county, few
herds exceed thirty or forty pigs.
! Green Bay-Portions of Brown and
Manitowoc counties are overrun by
Canadian thistles, and farmers report
that fields never before infected have
been fairly filled with the pest. The
attention of county and state authori-
ties has been called to the situation
and determined campaign will be
made to eradicate the weed before the
seed has been carried through the sur
rounding country.
| Oshkosh - Milk dealers in Oshkosh
have raised the price of milk, claim
! ing lack of rain reduced the pastures.
The price of cattle foods is unusually
high and ice cream factories and
creameries are paying fancy price
for milk. Milk that formerly sold for
10 cents is now IL cents a quart and
one or two dealers have raised to 121z
cents for milk with a heavy percent
age of butter fat.
Kenosha-The city of Kenosha lost
legal fight when Judge Belden, in
the Circuit court handed down a de-
cision sustaining the injunction of res
licences along the Burlington road
which restrained the city from longer
using the famous Burlington road
dump. Kenosha Officials are now on
a search for some place to dump the
refuse of the city.
Oconto-On the appeal of K l.
Hatch, state director of extension
work in behalf of Montana, and Wyom-
ing cattlemen, Oconto county, thru
its county agent, placed $4,000 acres
of land in the northern part of the
county as pasture land to help save
cattle dying from starvation. This is
all cutover land and much of ii la
seeded.
Green Bay-To show citizens how
some of the money subscribed to Vari-
Gus Liberty loans has been used, a
Navy day" has been arranged fox
Aug. 4. The captured German subma-
rine UC-97, several navy hydroplanes.
a navy baseball team, band and the
six-reel moving picture, The Making
of Sailor, will be shown.
Oconto-Oconto county will hold its
annual fair Sept. %, "a. 25 and 26
Mayor ]. B. Chase, for many years sec
rotary of the fair organization, re-
fused the office, and William j. Hin.
ker, member of the county board and
secretary of the American Society OF
Equity of Oco1to county, was elected
in his place.
GAINESVILLE Construction of the
huge foundry for the Samson Tractor
company was begun this week. j. r.
Cullen contractor, needs 500 laborerS
for the work. When completed, thu
foundry will be one of the largest i'm
the state, employing 1000 persons. IL
will have a floor space of 161, zoe
square feet.
Janesville-Interestin sidelights on
the Wisconsin home of Miss Frances
E. Willard, noted temperance worker,
and of her father, while the family oc-
cupied farm near GAINESVILLE, are Civ
en- In the latest number of the WiscoE-
sin Magazine of History published
quarterly by the Wisconsin Historical
society.
GAINESVILLE - That taxi-drivers here
are feeling the business slump expert
anced by jitneys throughout the couE
try is shown by the fact that two for
mer policemen who quit their posts
several months ago to drive taxia
abandoned their business to resume
their old jobs with the star at $11O q
month
Florence - BY a majority of 2g4
votes the electors of Florence county
voiced their approval of the PROPOSE
zion to bond the county for 100000
for the construction of new roads and
repairing of old roads.
Appleton-Gas rates effective June
80, 1919, have been continued indefi-
niteIy by the Wisconsin Railroad
Commission, on application of the
Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and
Power Company.
La Crosse-Charles Riser and ia
cob Meinzer, local fishermen, were
arrested, fined $50 and costs. Their
motorboat and nets were conffscated
at Caledonia, Mimi, for illegal seiH-
ing.
La Crosse - Patrick Limerick. 40
years old. farmer living near here.
was gored to death by bull when ne
tried to feed him salt. A dog spread
alarm. Limerick's chest was crushed
Madison-Eugene Taylor, Ashland.
was appointed to the newly created Of
fice of superintendent Of pulpwOOd
scaling, by Gov. Philip.
Sinsinawa-The board of regents OF
Wisconsin established an annual schol
arship for graduates of Saint Clara
,ollege, Sinsinawa, Grant county, OF
1925. The faculty of the college is au
horned to nominate each year one
member of Se senior class to the
graduated school of the university.
Stevens Point-Maj. Gen. E. F. Nc