Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-02

rylng to finish the work before tbs
storm became too fierce. They were
holding opposite sides of the same
bundle when the accident occurred,
but Mr.. Vamosh was only dazed by
the bolt.
Fond du Lac - The quota of sixty
FIVE members for unit in the Wiscon-
sin National guard was flied when six
young men signed. The company,
known as Co. F, will contain only
about half the number of old Co. E.
Capt. A. R. Burnett, who served with
the One Hundred Fiftieth Machine
Gun battalion, Forty-second division is
to be in charge. Through his efforts
the company has been formed.
Kenosha - Zion City police played
havoc with the Kenosha- Chicago beer
caravan" when fifteen special police
men from that city hid behind barn,
and surprised the drivers of fourteen
trucks carrying beer from Kenosha to
Chicago. The trucks were covered
with canvas, but the police arrested
twenty-six men, held the trucks, car
rying more than $4,000 pounds of beer
Rhinelander-After travelling more
than 400 miles by automobile and
motor boat the state conservation in
spectors consisting of Secretary of
State Merlin Hull, State Treasurer
johnson, Attorney General Blaine,
and accompanied by Lieut. Gov. E. f.
Dithmar, have returned to Madison
after a two weeks inspection of state
owned lands in northern Wisconsin.
~Racine-Judge Belden, of the First
judicial circuit, has refused the ap-
pOintment as commissioner to Den
mark, tended him by Judge Halsey of
Milwaukee, to take dispositions in the
case of Theodore Johnson's will The
will leaves an estate of $4,000 to
| Mrs. Thomas Hahn of this city. A
contest over the will is being heard
in the Supreme court.
Wausau-Money has been raised by
local autOmobilists to open up a sec
ton Of road in the town of Fheth,
which will give a road from Wausau
to MOsinee, on the west side of the
Wisconsin river. The Chamber of
Commerce, which is fathering a gen
eral plan of road Improvement, also
will experiment with gravel on sew
eral streets in this city.
| COMMISSIONS of Banking
Marshall Cousins has approved an
amendment to the articles of incorpo-
ration of the Wisconsin Trust Com
pany, Milwaukee, and the First Trust
Company, Milwaukee, consolidating
under the name of First Wisconsin
Trust Company, and increasing the
capital from 100000 to 100000.
Oshkosh - Edmund Brelowske,
months old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Louise
BrelOwSke, Utica, met death by stran-
gulation. His mother had left him on
the bed. Returning she found that he
had crawled down to the foot of the
bed and had caught his head between
the iron crossbar of the bed and the
mattress and was hanging.
Marinette-Since Dec. 10, the Unit
ed War workers of Marinette, inolud-
ing the Knights of Columbus, Y M. C.
A., Salvation Army and other war bod
les, have fed more than 5000 soldiers
passing through. Three trains are met
daily and the returning soldiers
aboard are given substantial lunches,
! including hot coffee
| Portage-John Shehan, Is, while
diving in a slough of the Wisconsin
river near the city, struck his head
against a rock When he did not re-
turn to the surface of the stream his
! brother and a companion dived after
him and bringing, him to the surface,
succeeded after several hours of work,
in bringing him to.
Rhinelander - The board of voca-
tional education in Rhinelander has
authorized the purchase of turning
iathes, gas engines and other ma
chinery to be used in the additional
/
cheering and general mechanical en-
gineering in the vocational school
| this year.
Sheboygan - Grocery stores must
stop the sale of near beer and other
| beverages of that kind, or face prose
cution, according to action taken by
tho common couupiI Saloon EonporC
will be issued licenses, many already
obtained permits to sell Intoxicating
liquors.
! kenosha - Following an announce
ment from the Wisconsin Gas and
! Electric Co. that the company would
/ give the city no estimate on the pur-
chase price for the public utilities.
city officials announced that the state
railway commission will be called on
TO set a price on the street car lines.
| sas, electric and heating plants
vote on whether the people favor pub
I lie ownership will be held Sept. 2. II
the citizens favor public ownership
another election on whether the util-
tiles shall be purchased will be held
/ in April, 1920.
| Neenah-'The thirty thousand dollar
/ building housing the Neenah Theater
and the Neenah Club rooms has been
offered to the Neenah Club, providing
that body viii make needed repairs.
The building is now owned by the
Neenah Auditorium Company.
Sheboygan-The Red Cross fed H.
426 children with half pint bottles of
milk during the past month, according
| to figures issued by Mrs. Albert Wag-
ner, who has charge of the dispense
ries in the Longfellow and Jefferson
| schools