Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-04-23
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

guard at Camp Douglas from June z
10 IL. One of the important subjects
to be taken up will be the new system
of accountability and paper work, al
though many other subjects, including
technical ones, will be on the program
1t has been definitely announced that
the encampment dates will be: July
u to "a. July 26 to Aug. z, Aug. 8
to 21. 1t has not been decided as yet
in what order the regiments will go,
but each encampment will include a
regiment of infantry, a squadron of
cavalry, a battalion of engineers, part
of the signal troops and part of the
trains.
Representative Kleczka
has introduced two bills in the House
of Representatives at Washington
which are designed to provide relief
for the thirsty. One provides for the
amendment of the Volstead act so as
to permit the manufacture of beer hav-
ing per cent alcohol by weight and
wine up to 10 per cent The second
bill would authorize and direct the
prohibition enforcement officers in the
treasury department to permit bona
fide owners of liquors now held in
bonded warehouses to withdraw such
liquors under affidavit that it is for
their own use.
Madison The funds allotted by
the legislature for the period from
July l, 1919, to June 80, 1920, for pay
ment of indemnity by the state, on cat
tie condemned and slaughtered on ac-
count of tuberculosis, has been paid
out. Notice was sent by the livestock
sanitary board of the department Of
agriculture, to veterinarians and
breeders of cattle in Wisconsin, stat
ing that no testing can be done until
July i, 1920, unless the owner is in
formed of the situation by the veteri-
marian making the test.
Sheboygan-E. A Sonnemann, for
forty-six years a prominent fisherman
of Lake Michigan and president of the
Z. A. Sonnemann Fishing Co., has soTd
his business and will retire. He is a
veteran sailor of the lakes and widely
known in marine circles. The COM
pany will continue under the same
name, with Capt. Ed. L. Fond, Fred
Schraut and John and David Ernisse
as owners. The sale included the tug
Fearless.
Ashland-High wages and increased
cost of almost everything, has wiped
out the daily ferry service between
Ashland and Washburn, which has
been in continuous service during the
navigation season for more than thirty
years. 1t will also probably cut out
the vessel runs between Ashland and
Bayfield, and the Apostle islands,
which heretofore has not skipped a
season since the eighties.
Fond du Lac--Made in Fond du Lac
typewriters will feature in the intro
duction of the phonetic script among
the Chinese. The new script has
thirty-nine characters. A local type
writer company is completing an ini-
tial shipment of twenty-five machines
that will be equipped with these
phonetic characters. The new script
is arranged to read from the top of
the page down.
Eau Claire-Mrs. John Spaeth, so
years old is being treated by Chippewa
Falls hospital for burns received in a
gasoline explosion while alone on her
farm near Glenwood City, Wis Her
son had left some gasoline in a pail
In the house. The mother, mistaking
1t for water, poured it into reservoir
OF kitchen range where it exploded
setting fire to her clothing.
Chippewa Falls-Annette Pellitier,
searching a desk In the Pellitier and
Paquettes grocery, where she was
bookkeeper, pulled out a loaded re-
volver which accidentally discharged.
The bullet missed Mrs. Fred Chayer,
a customer by foot and broke the
Jaw of Margaret Murphy, % years old.
Ashland-The threatened strike OF
students OF the Ashland High school,
caused by the school board voting not
to retain Principal Earl Giesey, has
been averted by the school boards re.
opening the case. a thousand stu
dents paraded the streets carrying Mr..
Giesey on their shoulders.
Maiden Rock Nathaniel Warren,
veteran of the Civil war and a resi-
dent here for so years, died after a
long illness. Mr.. Warren was buried
with military honors extended by the
William E. Geer post, American legion.
The old G. A. r. flag was draped over
the coffin
Antigo-Charles Hanzel has been
1eelared elected mayor of Amigo fol.
sowing a recount of the votes cast In
kne election Of April s. Hanzel gained
kWo votes in the recount over his op-
&onent, Mayor John Benishek, who