Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-08-01
Oshkosh : winnebago county is

Oshkosh - Winnebago county is
practically free from hog cholera, al
though the disease is causing consid-
erabie alarm in other parts of the
state. According to G. A. Sell, county
agent, Winnebago has been kept COM
paratively zee of the scourge for q
number of years b. 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 oyerrun by
Canadian thistles, and farmers report
that fields never before infected have
been fairly filed 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 II cents quart and
one or two dealers have raised to 1212
cents for milk with 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
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 10000 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 it is
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 for
Aug. 4. The captured German subma-
r1ne UC-97, several navy hydroplanes,
navy baseball team, a band and the
six-reel moving picture, The Making
of a Sailor, will he shown.
oconto -Oconto county will hold its
annual fair Sept. %. "a, rs and 26.
Mayor ]. B. Chase, for many years sec
retaly of the fair organization, re-
fused the office, and William ]. Hin
ker, member of the county board and
secretary of the American Society OF
Equity of Oconto county, was elected
in his place.
Janesville - Construction of the
huge foundry for the Samson Tractor
company was begun this week. j. F.
Cullen contractor, needs 500 laborers
/ Tor the work When completed, the
foundry will be one of the largest in
the state, employing 1000 persons. 1t
will have floor space OF $4,000
| square feet
e-Interesting sidelights on
| the Wisconsin home of Miss Frances
| E. Willard, noted temperance worker,
and of her father, while the family oc-
cupied a farm near GAINESVILLE, are Civ
en- in the latest number of the Wiscon-
sin Magazine of History published
quarterly by the Wisconsin Historical
society.
Janesville - That taxi-drivers here
are feeling the business slump expert.
enced by jitneys throughout the coun-
! try is shown by the fact that two for
mer policemen who quit their posts
several months ago to drive taxis
abandoned their business to resume
their old jobs with the star at $110 a
month.
Florence - By a majority OF 294
votes the electors of Florence county
voiced their approval OF the PROPOSE
ton to bond the county for 100000
for the construction OF new roads and
repairing of old roads.
Appleton-Gas rates effective June
go. 1919, have been continued indefi-
nitely by the Wisconsin Railroad
Commission. on application OF the
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