Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-11-07

the American expeditionary forces
now serving in Germany, and viii
leave soon for his new post at Breslau,
Germany.
The Sheboygan common council has
approved the condemnation proceed.
ings for new high school and will GO
ahead with the plans for new in
stitution on the site of the present
building.
The National Distilling company, a
S5O0,00O Milwaukee brewing concern,
has changed its name and occupation
to manufacture yeast products on a
non-alcoholic basis. Papers filed with
Secretary of State Merlin Hull show
the new name to be the red Star
Yeast and Products company.
The Indian school to be erected by
the Reformed church at cost of
$4,000 for the education and care of
Indians living near Black river, will be
at Neillsville. This was definitely de-
cided when an option on the Krause
fern, adjoining that city, was closed
recently. Work viii begin on the
buildings in the spring
Diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping
cough, smallpox and poliomyelitis had
gained headway in Wisconsin at the
end of October which took them well
beyond their normal prevalence for
that month. This fact is adduced from
a reading of the +endemic index" for
communicable diseases in the offices
of the state board of health.
B. M. Vaughan, Grand Rapids, has
been named a delegate from Wiscon.
sin to the national drainage eonven.
ton in ST Louis, Nov. II, IL and 13.
The appointment was made by Gov.
Philip. Mr.. Vaughan is a pioneer in
drainage work in Wisconsin and has
held many offices in the state asso-
citation. He is a member of the Iegis-
lative committee of that body.
A large delegation of business men
from Durand went to Fairchild to con-
fer with the directors of the Wiscon-
sin Canned Food Co. on building a
new canning factory in Durand They
made arrangements to go ahead with
the building. The plant will be du-
plicate of the plants that the company
is building at Fairchild, Osseo and
Foster
The Nash Motors company, Keno
sha, is to invade the Strand and Pic
cadilly, according to the announce
ment made by the executives of the
plant that the company is to have
Charles Jarrots and Let's, Ltd. as its
agents in London. These Londoners
were in Kenosha and signed con
tract to represent the Badger firm in
the English capital
Approximately $1,3O0,OO0 was paid
into the treasury Oct. 80 by two steam
railroad companies operating in Wis
consin on the final payment of taxes
due in 1919. The Northwestern line
paid $936,37S, while the 500 lines
paid $402.350.19. The taxes were due
tax of $680,33z6O Oct %. The total
tax for the year on all companies is
S2,677, ,S9659.
Archie Barber, Baraboo, was sen
fenced to six years in state prison by
Circuit Judge E. Ray Stevens, after
being found guilty of assault with in
tent to commit more serious Of
fense. Following the sentence, Barber
went back to a seat and locked him
self in the arms of his wife and moth
er, until he left for prison. The com
planning witness was a school teacher
who roomed at the Barber home
A big transfer of timber holdings
was made recently near Eagle river
when w. A. Curtis, Chicago, personally
purchased the MontgomeryWa tim
Der holdings, amounting to 10000
acres of pine and hardwood, virgin
tract located but few miles from the
state border Curtis and company
have entered into two contracts to
supply the Montgomery-Ward people
with all the box lumber they will use
in their Chicago plaat-
A new high school building for
Stevens Point seems a remote possi- |
bility because the city is broke" The |
tax rate is near its maximum and only /
enough funds are available to pay the F,
running expenses. Three committees |
appointed to investigate the question
of a new high school building will |
the construction of unit |
to the present building at a cost of |
approximately $4,000. How to raise
this amount is problem.
Deer are becoming so Dumerous in |
tho southern part of Richland county |
tn at farmers are wondering what is
going to be done about them as they |
are a real nuisance. Their visits to |
the fields are so frequent tnat farmers
must take daily care of their crops
to avoid damaging depredations. Re
Gently one farmer at Orion husked /
IA shocks of corn, and as he com
pleted his task late in the evening, he |
of necessity, left the corn piles in the
field. In The morning he found that
some deer had either eaten or traInped 4
into the ground the entire crop from {