Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-29
Badger State
Happenings

IL app enin gS
Kiel-Waldo r. Arnold, Kiel, who
served with the American forces in
France, has been appointed instructor
In Journalism in the A. e. F. university
at Beaune, France, where more than
10000 soldiers are students. Mr.. Ar
mold was graduated from Kiel high
school, studied journalism at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, graduated and
was employed on the editorial staff of
The Milwaukee Journal, where he re-
NAMED until called to the colors.
Green Bay - Battery E, One Hun
dred Twenty-frst Heavy Field artil-
lery, composed of Green Bay volun-
teers attached to the Thirty-second di-
vision, has made an enviable record in
France. During recent target practice
at Samur, Battery E captured first
place, according to Howard L. Bas-
sett, private in the battery. This is
the third honor prize competition won
by Battery E during the past three
months.
Menasha - The finance committee
of the council refused to sign the
board of health's recommendation to
pay a bill OF $501, presented by City
Physician w. P. McRath for vaccinat-
ing children during a smallpox cpl
demic. The council is in doubt as to
who owes the bill, as the board of
health says it did not ask DR.. McRath
to carry on the work at the expense
of the city.
Stevens Motoring in Portage
county while intoxicated becomes a
most expensive amusement as the re-
suit of a decree just announced by
Judge John A. Murat. Any person
found guilty of driving an automobile
while intoxicated will be fined not less
than $50 and costs in my court here
after" is the statement which Judge
Murat has made TO the public.
Sheboygan-The Fraternal Order OF
Eagles has decided to organize the
largest bugle and drum corps in Wis
consin At recent meeting, plans
were made for an enlargement of the
present organization, to thirty men
Theodore CRUDE is manager, Arthur
Kuhnert director, and Capt. Paul w
Schmidt, who has just returned from
the front, drum major.
Janesville-The need for carpenters
here is the greatest in history. Con
tractors are appealing to other cities
for men to aid in the construction
work just beginning throughout the
city. One hundred carpenters can cas-
lily be used, said G. Hayes, local con
tractor. The employment bureau OF
for fifty carpenters.
Antigo-F. G. Swoboda of this city
for five years agricultural agent fol-
Langlade county, and for the last two
years supervisor of agriculture
agents in sixteen northeastern Wis
consin counties, has contracted with
the Marathon county agricultural com
mittee to serve as county field agent
for two years, beginning May 1.
Antigo-For the third time the
Langlade county board has voted al
appropriation for free county fair
An appropriation of $4,000 was made
By this the county is assured OF the
states appropriation, which is 80 pei
cent of the fair premiums paid by the
county. An appropriation of $500 was
made for an exhibit at the state fair
Plymouth-P. X. Wheeler has dona
ted his remarkable collection of Gu
rios, assembled during many years o.
painstaking search, to the Plymouth
public library Mr.. Wheeler has trav
eled extensively from coast to coast
and having novelties as a hobby, he
acquired a rare collection of curios
most of them educational in value.
Superior - More than $250,000 viii
be expended on street paving in Su
perior during 1919, according to City
Engineer e. A. Banks. The program
calls for seventy-four blocks of paw
ing, mostly concrete, more than si1
miles, besides being sewer and con
crete sidewalk construction.
Sheboygan-The annual fair of the
Sheboygan County Agricultural asso
citation will be held Sept. 8, 4, and
this year. Horse racing will be con
spicuous feature. Farmers from vari
Gus parts of the county are planning
to enter large exhibits of products o
the soil and livestock.
Green Bay = Irwin Harris, frs
Green Bay soldier to lost a leg in the
war against Germany, returned home
on a thirty-day fourlough. He will re