Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-05-27

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Joseph A Becker of the Wisconsin CO.
operative crop reporting service
| Omitted States bureau of crop esti
mates end Wisconsin state depart
ment of agriculture). The production
in 1918 was 3,950,000 tons. The acre
age of tame hay is estimated to be
! 2,737 900, compared to 1852 600 last
year, an increase of per cent. The
acreage of wild hay is estimated to
be the same as last year, 318,000. The
condition of all hay on May l was 95
per cent of normal, compared with rs
per cent year ago and ten-year
average of Sc per cent.
Madison-The Wisconsin death rate
for the first quarter of 1919 was no
| higher than the average for the last
several years, despite the prevalence
of influenza, according to the quarter
| ly mortality report of the state bureau
of vital statistics. The rate was 1872
| per 1000 population. The death list
was 1895. The large increase in the
number of deaths reported from pneu-
monia and influenza for the first quar-
ter of 1919, as compared with similar
reports for other years." says the
state board of health, lis offset by the
| decline in number of deaths reported
from practically all of the other COM
municable diseases"
Sheboygan The thirty-fourth an
nual meeting of the Sheboygan Mu-
tual Savings, Loan and Building asso-
citation revealed that the association
is fourishing despite lull in build
ing due to the war; The financial state
ment of Secretary w. G. RoenitZ
showed gain of more than $1,000.
A dividend of 5 1-3 per cent was de-
clared. The association has capital
stock of more than a million.
Green Bay = The centennial ami
versary of Odd Fellowship in America
will be celebrated at the seventy-third
annual convention of the grand lodge
of Wisconsin here June 2, 8, and 5.
The Rebekah assembly will hold its
thirty-fourth annual session on the
abs numberink $500 from throughout
Wisconsin are expected.
Wausau-The county board of SUI
pervisors ordered that all discharge
papers of returned service men be re-
corded free of charge and that rec
ord be made of their service. The rec
ord will be kept in the Office of the
register of deeds and will be perma-
nent Those who have already record
ed their discharges will have the fee
returned.
Appleton-President Samuel Plantz,
Lawrence college, has announced re-
ceipt of check for $4,000 from the
United States government to pay for
losses sustained by the college be-
cause of the disarmament of the S. A
T. c. after the armistice. The amount
received from the government is still
$4,000 short of the actual losses, it is
claimed. es *
Wausau -. Wholesale prosecutions
will result if the practice of selling to-
baccos and cigarettes to minors is not
stopped said Chief of Police Thomas
Malone, who has learned that $50
school boys, ranging in age from 7 to
Is years, confessed to school teachers
that they were tobacco users.
Superior-This city is one of the
only three places in the country, out
side of the south, to report a short |
age of labor. The other places are Fall
River, Mass, and Akron, o..
Kenosha - Erection of four-room
brick schoolhouse, adjoining the Jew
ISL synagogue, is being planned by
the congregation. The structure is to |
be completed about Aug. l. The Rev.
Hartman will have charge of the
school.
Kenosha-The Kenosha Boiler and
Structural Iron Co. received special
mention from the Kenosha county Lib
erty loan committee for its work in
the Victory loan drive Every one of
Mellen = Herman Moorke, farmer, |
attempted to sink large rock on his |
farm. He dug unde.- it and was under |
the boulder when the rock caved in, |
pinning him there for hours. When |
rescuers found him he was nearly
dead, and lived but short time.
La Crosse-June 10 has been set as
Guernsey day here, when Guernsey
breeders of the county will have an
exhibition of more than 100 head of
blooded cattle. The flower of the
county's herds will be shown and fifty
pure-bred bulls will be sold.
Green Bay-Joe Pierre, 20, ap-
preached Sheriff Henry Vanden Hen
vel and asked him for loan of $40 on
a bicycle, saying he had nothing to
eat for two days. The sheriff came
across and took the bike as security. |
Later the guardian of the law was no.
tilted that the wheel had been stolen.
Maiden Rock-The children of Fred
Kishner, farmer near here, went to
the barn TO hunt eggs. They had some
matches. The building burned to the
ground. Another valuable barn and
fine granary also were destroyed.