Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-21

uCA VI EdSiSS, the S616CliOH DcluS
made at meeting here of state Off
GERS, to whom the selection of 1918
meeting place was delegated because
war conditions at the 1918 convention
| made the choice impossible at that
time. The meeting will be held in
June. State officers who attended the
Appleton Eagles meeting when the
announcement was made were: Roy
Chellis, Wausau, president; Charles
Dlttman, La Crosse, secretary; o. r..
Lange, Marshfield, treasurer, and Eu-
gene Husting. Milwaukee, state trus-
| tee.
La Crosse-To watch his brother
Harold, Is years old. go insane and
die was the tragic experience of LyalI
| Sampson, 20 years old, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sampson of La Crosse, who,
with his brother and several others,
| drifted about for twenty-four days in
a frail lifeboat on the southern Pa
cific ocean without food, following the
burning of the steamer Dumaru,
which was struck by lightning off the
coast of the Island of Guam, on Oct
16. According to a letter to his par
| ents, Lyell states that his brother was
driven insane from starvation and
drinking salt water.
Beloit-Lured with a vision of
wealth from an estate in Italy, Angelo
; Nediti of this city parted with nearly
| 81 900 when two strangers inveigled
him into pooling with them in raising
purse to engage lawyers to secure
the estate Nediti brought his money
in a sack and placed it with sacks of
| the sharpers during their conference.
When it was over Neditis sack was
exchanged for one containing scraps
of paper. The strangers made THEN es-
cape.
Observation-Disclosures William Hack,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hack, and
member of Co. L, One Hundred
Twenty infantry, Thirty-sec-
ond division has arrived in New York.
While the Thirty-second was station
ed in Alsace, prior TO the Chateau
! Thierry battle, Private Hack captured
the first German prisoner taken in
that sector by the Americans He is
now recovering from an automobile
accident.
Marinette-Stephen Bolles, editor of
The Oconto Enterprise, addressed the
| 0E
Big City From a Little Town. He
urged the development of cutover
lands in this region as one of the
most important factors. He spoke of
the great agricultural development
that followed the Civil war when sol
diers returned to create the food fac
| tory of the middle west which has
been feeding the world ever since.
Eau yClaire-A marked falling off in
the number of marriages in Eau
! Claire county is shown by the records
for the year 1918, as compared with
! 1917, which in turn showed d decrease
from the year previous. Two hundred
and one marriages took place in 1918,
eighty-seven less than in 1917. Four
teen divorces were granted in 1918,
six less than in 1917.
Wausau Henry Kruger has re-
ceived notice that his son, Arthur
Kruger, was killed in action Early in
December q telegram was received
| from the war department stating he
was missing and a week later notice
came that he was severely wounded.
Both the government and the Red
Cross have been appealed to for def
mite information.
Marinette - Three more Marinette
soldiers are dead, making the total
number of this county sixty-three, Rod
ney Delgoff died of wounds in France,
Joseph Bezio was killed in the battle
of the Argonne forest, and Paul Haas
returned from the trenches after serv-
ing on the fighting line for several
months, to die in hospital of pneu-
monia on Dec. %.
! Racine-Mrs. Jennie Irvine Driver,
wife of John NJ. Driver, prominent
manufacturer here, was found dead by
her husband in the bath room, A
bottle of Iysol was found near the
body. Mrs. Driver, who was 81 years
old, was prominent in church and So
cial circles in Racine and was well
known in Madison, where she was
born.
Green Bay-That the building out
look for 1919 is exceptionally bright
was the opinion voiced by H, L. Gels
! Ter, secretary of a builders insurance
company, speaking before the Master
Builders association of Wisconsin, in
convention here.
Darlington-D. r. Kellogg, editor of
the Blanchardville Blade, died from
influenza. He was graduate of the
| University of Wisconsin. He is sur
vived by his wife and two children.
! Madison - In an opinion to E. j.
Jedney, district attorney of Black
River Falls, Atty.-Gen. J. J. Blaine
ruled that it was within the discre-
ton of the county court to grant or
refuse aid to widow and several chill
dren left an estate of 500 or 1000 by
the deceased husband and father.
Madison - The Wisconsin state
| council of defense has pIaced the seal
of it's approval upon the campaign in
Wisconsin for this states proportion
Of the $50 600 600 fund for the relief of