Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-10-15
BADGER STATE.
HAPPENINGS.


& Son of Green Bay. They transport
ed a cabbage warehouse, 40x1OO. dis
lance of six miles from Black Creek
to Center Valley. A threshing ma
chine outfit was used in making the
haul
The Curtis & Yale Co, Wausau,
manufacturers of doors and interior
finish, has announced a 10 per cent re-
duction in working hours and has cur
tailed it's force 40 men. The action
was taken to meet the changed condi-
tions in the building industry which
has resulted in falling off in orders
in all departments.
Walter A. Duffy, formerly of Wash
burn, but for several years past living
on farm at Moquah. Bayfield, county,
has been appointed as agricultural
agent of Barron county and expects to
enter upon his duties at once, and
probably will make his home at Bar
ron. He was member of the assem-
bly, during the 1867 sessions.
A young timber wolf was seen in
-
dog and was so tame that he was
anxious to follow the dog into the
house. He was not at all hungry, hav-
ing had a fine chicken breakfast when
no one was looking. An attempt to
shoot him was forestalled, as it is be-
lieved he has an owner in the vicinity.
Louis Mootz of the town of Ham
burg, Marathon county, was arrested
on charge of Illegal hunting Of par
tridges. Conservation Wardens Bar
ney Devine and Mike Kleist confis-
Gated his automobile, which carried
the game. rife and a shotgun. Mootz
paid fine OF $50 and an added penalty
of s5 for each of the two partridges
killed.
Northern Wisconsin farmers are in
viting purchasers to enter their potato
fields and dig and carry their own
potatoes for so cents per bushel. At
Sanborn, potatoes are selling for so
cents, and at Ashland 90 cents. Farm
ers who can afford to do so, are put
ting their potatoes into root cellars
spring cost four dollars per bushel.
The Lake Superior crop is heavy.
A lone freight car caused a wreck
at Appleton when Northwestern
road passenger train crashed into it.
1t is not known how the car came to
be on the track, but it is supposed it
became separated from a passing
freight train. The passengers were
shaken up and suffered minor bruises.
The engineer and fireman of the pas
senger train escaped without injuries.
The freight car was loaded with ce-
ment
Federal dry agents shot and killed
John Chiapusio of Hurley in run
ming battle with an alleged booze
ring" on the Mercer-Huriey road.
Chiapusio was struck by four shots,
one of them severing the spinal cord,
and causing instant death. At the
time of the shooting, he was plotting
an automobile said to be loaded with
liquor. Chiapusio was a saloonkeeper
IN Hurley, and was a leader IN the
Italian settlement in the city.
An increase of $4,000 over the
school tax paid last year is asked OF
the city of Eau Claire by the school
board in its annual budget just sub
mitted to the council. The total
amount asked is 1921, 500. A year ago
the city was called upon to pay a
school tax of $4,000 Creation OF a
revolving fund Of $4,000. one-third
OF which is to be raised each year for
three years, to take care of bank
loans is one of the items that helped
boost the budget.
E P. Arpin, Wisconsin Rapids,
president OF the Wisconsin Cranberry
sales company, states that the state
output of cranberries this season will
oe 10000 to $4,000 barrels. The ber-
res are of exceptional quality this
year, all the growers agree, and al
tnough the crop will be less than the
output Of 1919 the growers are not
worrying over the shortage, as the
market outlook, from their viewpoint
Is good. The market opened this fall
at $8 per barrel, but has dropped to
- per barrel at the present time.
Property damage totaling thousands
y dollars was caused in Stevens
Foint when a cyclone swept over the
city suddenly, accompanied by
onnding fall of hail. No fatalities or
INJURIES had been reported as a re-
SUIT of tie storm, which was general
V'er central Wisconsin. with its cer.'
eI@ fury concentrated, apparently, On
stevens Point. The lighting system OF
stevens Point was out of business.
Oies we're snarred off seven or eight
irohl the ground and took the
NFes with them in their fall. Roofs
we're torn from local factories, fences
@ao outbuildings were demolished and
No residences were lifted from their
,O1n1ations Hundreds of shade trees
efe broken on or uprooted. and in
wooded districts south and east OF
city roads were reported blocked
~ large numbers of fallen trees.