Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-04-11
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

manufacture of near beer and Will
not become plant for artificial ice.
Herbert f. Jones was elected judge
of Oconto county, unopposed. He is
the seventh oldest in point of service
in the state. having served continu-
ously since 1898.
The La Crosse Underwriters asso-
citation pledged assistance to soldiers
in converting their wartime insurance
into other policies as outlined in the
government plan.
The Bissell Lumber company's saw
mill in Tripoli, Oneida county, is be-
ing enlarged. The company owns sufi-
cient timber there to keep the plant
in operation twenty years.
When Gustave Book, Sheboygan,
Forty-ninth infantry, returned after
eleven months of service in France,
he brought a German iron cross and
belt which he took from prisoner.
The Sheboygan employment bureau
is confronted with a big demand for
farm laborers and domestics. There
is plenty of work in the Sheboygan
factories and prospects of big busi-
ness this summer loom up conspicu-
ously
Monroe county residents have adop-
ted 232 fatherless children of France
in the campaign that started in April,
1918. A total of $8,46S was subscribed
by individuals, churches and organiza-
tions. The count more than doubled
its allotment.
A $4,5OO,OOO automobile branch
plant of the General Motors Co., is to
be built in Janesville, according to an
announcement by w. C. Durant, presi-
dent and general manager. He said
the company would build new plants
to cost $37O0O.0OO.
Commercial fishermen at Two Riv-
ers effected an organization for their
protection and mutual benefit. 1t will
flight legislation detrimental to the in
terests of the industry and it will ask
for the first state convention of COM
mercial fishermen.
The city council has passed an or
dinance, relative to the purchasing o.
a site and building of a municipal hos
pital in the city of Viroqua. The body
has full power TO authorize $50,0o1
bond issue unless a petition by citi-
zens for a special election is de-
manded.
The Four Wheel Drive Auto com
pany at Clintonville has decided the
establishment of Canadian factory.
This factory will be at Kitchener, On
tario, formerly known as Berlin. It
is understood that the company will
begin the manufacture of trucks there
Immediately.
A Belgian war cross, gift of King
Albert, was brought home by Sergt.
Arthur Skinner, Kenosha. He carried
ammunition to Belgian soldiers thru
German fire, saving the line in the
Meuse, Chateau-Thierry sector July
25. He was wounded, and received
the cross in hospital.
John Hanousek, Amigos wealthiest
citizen, is displaying in the windows
of local store trophies of his hunt
ing trip in Alaska, last year, just
mounted by a taxidermist. They in
Clude heads of moose, caribou, noun
tain sheep. and skins of the gray tim
Der wolf, the rare black timber wolf.
INK. and wolverine.
Notwithstanding the restrictions
placed upon cupid by the marriage
laws of Wisconsin, he has been active
in Sheboygan during the last three
he r. fxysf
with every succeeding month. In Jan
uary there were thirteen licenses is
sued; in February, twenty-one, and
in March, thirty-six.
Instead of a one-cent reduction, La
i Crosse street car patrons are to get a
slip of paper with each carfare. good
for a penny in case the supreme court
upholds the circuit court decision
agai-.Jt the six-cent street car rate.
The company lied a bond with the
court to insure the rebate in case the
verdict goes against them.
The inspection of wood played a
great part in manufacture of aircraft
at the beginning of the war. The for
est products laboratory, Madison, pre-
pared a handbook for inspectors and
conducted short training courses in
wood inspection. There is now a pos
sibility that similar courses for rep
resentatives of manufacturing plants
IN the wood using industry will be in
& stituted.
A movement to build greater rep
utation for Sheboygan county for
proht-producing herds of cattle, has
been started by County Agent NJ. ].
Hoppert. Conspicuous signs, printed
IN yellow letters on a black back
ground, are being fastened on every
Iarm gate where there is a pure bred
0uil. which reads pure Bred Bull
Used on This Farm" More than 100
OF these signs are displayed through
ont the county and orders have been
placed for more.