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

pany was successfully operated up to
Dec. 10, when there was dissension
among employees. Mr.. Goetz declares
that he refused to accept the trustee
ship after being discharged as re
ceiver, because of business affairs in
Milwaukee, but he accepted the posi-
ton after urging by the creditors
committee He will not resign unless
charges against him have been re-
tracted unless ordered to do so by the
court.
Merrill-A large land company here
has a tract of several hundred acres
of cutover land on Copper river, near
its camps, which has been stumped
and made ready for farming purposes.
This land will provide vegetables and
grains for use at the camps and also
be an experimental farm. where mod
ern methods of farming and varied
crops may be tested, not only for the
satisfaction and profit of the company,
but for the general benefit of the COM
munity Not every farmer is able D.
nancially to experiment with crops.
Eau Claire After surviving the
wreck of the Tuscania, serving till the
end of the war with motor corps in
France, c. J. Vannedom, %, returned
to his peace-time job as brakeman and
lies between life and death in the Rail-
way hospital at ST. Paul. One leg has
two fractures, the other. one; his jaw
is broken and his head badly cut. In
the gray of early morning he fell from
the bridge across the st. Croix river
at Hudson. thirty feet to the ice. His
parents live at Marshf1eld
Menasha-The first case of its kind
was placed on record here when John
Hanson. town of Neenah farmer, re-
ceived a check for $1S5 to cover the
value of horse which met its death
due to fright from an aeroplane last
summer Mr.. Hanson filed claim
against the United States Aeroplane
Advertising Goa by whom G. R. Pork
land, pilot of the plane, was employed.
Settlement was made through the
Travellers Insurance Co.
Kenosha = julius Bogwilo, on trial
in the Circuit court here for ten days
on a charge of numbering his wife,
Mary Bogwilo, on May 5, was found
not guilty because the jury enter
tanned a reasonable doubt as to his
sanity at the times of the commission
Quinlan, who was on the bench,
promptly committed Bogwilo to the
state hospital for the criminal insane
at Waupun.
La Crosse-La Crosse has obtained
the fourth new factory in three
months. Articles of incorporation of
the Iron Products Co. have been
drawn The company will make cast
ings and construction material for
electrical and telephone work. The
capital stock is 100000 and the To-
corporators are C. R. Pieper, Otto NJ
Schlabach and Harry Dahl, all La
Crosse men,
Stevens Point - When Peter Pliska
was arrested on a charge of drunken
ness on his person was found guam
tity of homemade whisky consisting
of denatured alcohol diluted in cof-
fee. He entered a plea of guilty in
municipal court and paid fine and
costs of $50. He was picked up by
the police many blocks from home.
He had consumed one-third pint of
home brew.
Burlington-Th Burlington Blanket
Co., as a Christmas gift to their en-
ployes this year, presented each of 17S
employees with life insurance policy
carrying from $500 to $4,000, proper
tionate to the time that each has been
in their employ. The company will
pay the premiums each year at Christ
mas time and will increase the insur-
ance 800 each year.
Fort Atkinson-In the poultry show
DIT WdIGIIOWn 1CtC
carried off prizes Earl Roberts was
Judge. Mr.. Roberts, born in 1862, be-
gan keeping poultry when he was IL.
His farm probably carries more vari-
cites of high class quality than any
in the world.
Marinette Paul Gunderson, who
was in Alaska twenty-five years, ar
rived unannounced and called at the
home of his sister, Mrs. j. H. Franske,
wife of Atty. Franske. He had been
given up as dead and his unexpected
appearance was as one coming from
the grave.
Madison = August Croft was pinned
between the shaft wall and the floor
of an elevator for seventy minutes. A
section of a steel beam had to be re-
moved with the aid of an acetylere
torch before rescue was completed.
Sheboygan-The animal show of the
Sheboygan Poultry and Pet Stock as
ISOLATION will be held Jan. to IL.
One of the best exhibits in years is ex-
pected.
Medford - The old tannery which
has been an eyesore in Medford for
IL years was sold by George Harder,
Rib Lake, to Harry Hurd, Merrill. The
deal includes rs acres of land and
large concrete building. The new
owner will start box factory.
Blair-Capt L. E. Kelly. who served
in France in the medical corps, re-
ceived notification that he had been
commissioned by the war department
a major in the medical section of the
reserve corps of the United States
army He is dentist.