Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Racine = The police and sheriffs
forces are at work in search of two
holdup men who entered the confec-
tionery store of E. W. Gelavergue, ITO
Washington avenue, and at the point
OF reyolyers held up the proprietor
and three customers, getting away
with S85. Men in the store were so
frightened by the threats of the hold
up men that they made no report to
the police until several minutes after
the robbers had escaped 1t is be-
lieved that they made their escape in
an automobile.
Park Falls = Edward Hines, of the
Edward Hines Lumber company of
Chicago, has purchased at Eau Claire,
the entire holdings of the Rice Lake
Lumber company, including the mill
property and $4,000 acres of land
With Arpin land recently bought by
the Hines company, the Rice Lake
mill will have fifteen years cut of hem
lock and hardwood. The deal is con-
sidered one of the largest in the north
in several years.
Misunderstanding of solution of
the mystery surrounding the finding OF
body on the lake shore just south of
the Racine county line, doomed UP
here, when George Kelberger of this
city attempted to link up the disap-
pearance of his son, George Kelber-
ger, Jr., more than four weeks ago
The coroner probably will order the
body eShumed that this clew may be
definitely established or rejected
La Crosse The wives of Joseph
Fyett, ST., and Joseph Fyett, Jr., ap-
peared in circuit court at the same
time asking divorces from their re-
spective husbands on the grounds of
cruel and inhuman treatment. Mrs.
Julia Fyett was granted a separation
from the younger Fyett, but the court
was reluctant to grant a divorce to
the latter's father and mother, adj
journing the case.
Sioux river bridge on the state trunk
highway system, three miles west of
here, have been completed and the
bridge has been thrown open to traf-
fic. The improvements cost about ST.
500. The county board has decided
that the next money expended upon
this part of the road would be for the
construction of steel bridge.
Appleton - The George Walters
Brewing Company is manufacturing
275 per cent beer and it will be
placed on the market. The company
began the manufacture of near beer
last May, and will continue making
that product. Nearly every saloon in
Appleton is selling 275 per cent beer
which is shipped from Milwaukee.
Rice Lake-John Schmitke, former
city salesman for the Standard Oil
company, has purchased the Charles
Sale ice business. He worked for the
Standard Oil company for seventeen
years. Capt. John McCullum, who re-
turned from France with the machine
gun company, will be the local agent
for the Standard Oil company.
Elkhorn = When District Attorney
Easton Johnson heard a rumor that
bootlegging was going on at Delavan
lake, he got busy and before twenty
four hours elapsed, had the goods. E.
Kicker pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to jail Tor six months. Mr..
Kicker is proprietor of the Log Cabin
Hotel at Lake Delayan.
New London - The school census
recently completed shows total pop
ulation of school agesof 1921. On the
basis of the population of school age
being one-fourth of the total popula-
ton the city of New London now has
over 5000 people and is by 1ar the
largest place in the county.
Neenah-Trains almost had to stop
running when the fish began to bite
here. So many people flocked to the
500 line bridge to fish that engineers
had to slow down and even stop to
avoid accidents. Now the railroad
threatens to arrest people trespassing
on their bridges.
Green Bay-State Sanitary Engineer
Tulley of the Wisconsin Board of
Health, has ordered the Green Bay
Water Company to place fine screen
over each of its three reservoirs, and
to repair the roof over the reservoirs
at the waterworks to prevent foreign
matter from getting into the water.
Appleton - The Y. NJ. G. A. has
raised it's rent on rooms fifty cents q
week, claiming that other associations
have done the same and that it is only
in keeping with the high cost of living.
Oshkosh-There is likely prospect
that the manufacture and sale of 2.75
per cent beer will be resumed in Osb
kosh. The matter of issuing retail Ii
censes will be taken up shortly.
Armstrong Greek = Farmers in this
locality complain deer enter their
fields and ruin the crops. One farmer
claims that he counted seven deer in
his rutabaga patch at one time. The
animals are said to be so tame that
children frequently pet them.
Rhinelander - Prof. Frank Kleinin-
heing, authority on sheep raising
from the state agricultural college,
spoke at the Crescent school house be-
fore a large number of farmers on the
possibilities of the sheep industry in
northern Wisconsin.
Superior-Petitions for a special
election on the question of abandoning
the commission form of government