Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08

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and another demand of the teacher
for five days sick leave allowance
with full pay were not considered By
the board.
Superior A cooperative busiLt g
school will be opened in Superior dur
ing the summer for a six weeks
course in managing, bookkeeping an6
clerking in cooperative mercantile
establishments, according to a deci
\ sion of the Cooperative Central Elk
change. The idea is to produce uni
form management and accounting in
all stores affiliated with the exchange.
which has now purchasing power OF
$2,500,000 annually.
Eau Claire-Emil Swanson shoe
maker of Bayfield,, was found guilty by
a jury in the United States district
court for violation of the espionage
law. The indictment charged him
with utterances tending to discourage
enlistments. The jury was out three
hours. Swanson's two daughters testi-
fed in his defense that he encouraged
them in their war activities.
Wausau-In 1880 the Wausau Driy-
ing Park association secured ninety
nine-year lease on the race track and
grounds of the Marathon County Agri-
cultural society. For many years the
club has held no meetings and is prac'
tically out of existence, and now the
fair society has started suit in cir
cult court to have that contract de-
clared void.
Wausau = Thomas Salisbury was
found guilty on the charge of assault
with intent to kill and was sentenced
to five years in Waupun. Salisbury,
last December, went to the office of
former District Attorney John Rob
erts, at Grand Rapids, Wood county,
and shot him in the chest because he
refused to bring prosecution he de-
sired.
| Kenosha-If the Wilcox grade cross
ing bill before the legislature passes,
Kenosha will be saved $4,000 Plans
have long been urged to elevate the
Northwestern tracks at seN eral dan
gerous points. The bill would place
the entire expense on the railroad.
Local officials and business men urge
favorable action on the bill.
Lodi. A band of auto bandits
descended upon this town, dynamited
the safe in the Office of the w. w.
Steeler Lumber Co. and escaped with
several thousand dollars, mostly in
Liberty bonds. Bloodhounds trapped
one of the band, evidently left behind
as tip-off, on the edge of town. No
loot was recovered.
Madison-Harold L. Geisse, for six
years secretary of the railroad com
mission, has resigned. He has gone
to Chicago, where he will be associa-
| ted with the insult interests, devot-
ing most of his time to the Central
Illinois Utilities company and the Wis
consin Power, Light and Heat com
pany.
Madison-A measure of great inter-
est to Wisconsin golfers was intro
duced in the senate by Senator David
Jennings of Milwaukee, when he Of
fered a bill which will permit the en-
ployment of boys of IA as caddies dur
ing the vacation period, by amending
the child labor statutes.
| Neenah - Neenah will support the
employment service bureau which up
| to recently has been maintained by
the government. The money for such
maintenance will be paid out of the
war chest fund, it was decided.
Hartford-A $4,000 hospital will be
erected in this city by Miss Helen
Lohr manager of the Hartford Gener-
al hospital, and her associate, Miss
Esther Welter. The building will be
ready for occupancy by fall.
Sheboygan-Rev. A. Milnar is the
new rector of the IS. Cyril and Meth
odius Catholic church, succeeding the
Rev. James Cherne, who recently took
charge of parish in Milwaukee
Kenosha - Boy Scouts received or
ders to be ready to assist in the Vic
tory loan drive April 21 to May 10.
| The boys are ready to better their rec
ord of $750,000 in the last drive
Rhinelander = Fourteen cans of
speckled trout fry have arrived here
and have been planted in the Bear
Skin river by the Oneida Fish and
Game Protective association.
Antigo-Dr. Lyman Steffen, son of
Dr. 1. D. Steffen, former mayor of
this city, who has been with the Brit
ish armies, was promoted from lieu
| tenant to captain. .
Neenah-Forty-tw students, TWEEN
| ty-four girls among the number, will
graduate from the Neenah high school
in June, the largest class ever leaving
the institution.
| Fond du Lac, Wis The World War
Veterans association adopted resolu-
tions favoring passage of the Pullen
measure in the legislature, which al
lows $40 per month for each month of
service put in by regularly discharged
! soldiers, sailors and marines
/ Antigo-The war record of the An
| tigo public schools shows that S75 pu-
pills own war savings stamps valued
at S15, 405.76, and that 270 own Liberty
bonds worth 1886. Pupils adopted
eleven French war orphans