Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-06
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

Madison - Three new officials are
soon to be appointed under Dairy and
Food Commissioner George j. Weigle.
This step will mean changing the gen
eral plan of organization of the de-
partment, by placing one official in
charge of butter and cheese directly
under Mr.. Weigle, with single official
responsibility for each of them. The
new appointees will be assistant dairy
and food commissioners, chief of the
cheese department and chief of the
butter department. Carl e. Lee, assist
ant commissioner, resigned to go into
other work. Recently enacted laws
have greatly increased the work of the
department. During January at least
three important hearings will be held
Ice cream men meet Jan. 6, cheese
makers Jan. 8, and condensery oper-
ators at date not determined.
Madison-The early trail from Prai-
RE du Chen to Chequamegon on Lake
Superior, which has been almost for
gotten although once an important
Indian and 'paleface" highway, has
recently been traced satisfactorily
and a story of it, written by the Rev.
James H. McManus, of CoIoma, APP
pears in the December issue of the
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This
early Wisconsin highway was first ira
versed with wagons by the Rev. AL
fred Brunson's party nearly century
ago. 1t runs through Viroqua, Tomah,
Black River Falls; Mcmillan, Chippe-
wa Falls, Lac Court Oreilles, and on
ward to the northern terminus at She
quamegon Once it was the only con
nection between the region of the
Mississippi and the lake region.
Superior - Delegates attending the
l. w. W. convention here have been
notified to await the action of the Tim
Der Workers union before calling a
general strike. Just keep your eyes
on US next month";" said one of the
delegates. I'VE were scheduled to
start a general strike all over the
country Jan. j, but we have orders to
lay off little and wait for the tim
Der workers. When they are well un-
der way about Jan 10 or Is the whole
1. w. w. organization will get busy"
Sheboygan-Dick Lemin was not
getting an egg from his forty hens.
He figured that his hens were on a
strike because there was so much
profteering and price-boodling in the
egg market. So he hung this sign in
the coop: Eggs 10 cents a Dozen. y
Seven eggs awaited his next visit to
the nests. 1T shows that the hens
are willing to do their part, if the
commodity reaches the consumer at a
fair price," he said.
Manitowoc-The shipbuilding COM
pany has laid keels for two boats for
the Atlantic Fruit Co., New York, this
being the first private contracts en-
tered upon since the government took
over the plant two years ago. The
boats will be 259 feet with 376 foot
beams Owing TO its government con-
tracts and uncertainty of completing
them after the war the shipbuilders
We're unable to go to the market for
private work.
Oconto - Arrangements are being
made for a general jubilee meeting in
which the whole county will partici-
pate, over the winning of first place in
the potato show at Milwaukee over
sixteen other counties exhibiting. The
exhibit, with moving picture scenes
of the show and speeches by prom
nent state leaders in agriculture, will
make part of the program.
La Crosse - AS a memorial to his
son, Donald, a soldier of the A. E. F.,
who died after reaching his home here,
the Rev. D. C. Dixon has presented to
the First Methodist Episcopal church
of La Crosse a memorial bible and a
flag of the United States The bible
will replace the c. H. Coughlan me-
mortal bible, which has been in the
pulpit since 1859.
Sheboygan = With the approval of
Attorney General Blaine, Charles
Voigt, Sheboygan district attorney,
warned all county cheese makers that
he would force any concern out of
business if it adulterated it's product
and was convicted a second time.
Thirteen cheese makers were arrested
l. 1I,a xxTifh or tinn
Tomah-Monroe county banks show
q deposit increase of nearly million
dollars since last June, when sixteen
banks showed total resources of So
5S7,969.58 LAST reports show ST.
503,260.82. Sparta's banks have total
resources of $2,O37, 54S.71, and Tomah
$2,254, 989.49.
Manitowoc-T New Times, daily
paper, backed largely by union men,
will begin publication Jan. 2. Wheeler
Long, Madison, is editor. The equip
ment cost $4,000.
La Crosse = Judge Herman Lang
stadt, 80, famous justice of the peace,
is in mourning A fire in his home de-
stroyed silk hat which has graced
his every public appearance for forty
years Judge Langstadt is feet, IL
inches tall
Marinette &C. j. Lamoreux arrived
from Oconto Falls, where he had been
associated with a paper company and
will be superintendent of the paper
mills here under the new manage
ment of the Continental Co., New
York.
Manitowoc - Wenzel Barta, farmer
of Two Creeks, was badly burned
when his clothing caught fire from
backfire of a gasoline engine. His
barn, horses and cows were burned to