Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-12-01
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Racine-The Red Cross drive in Ra-
cine for $4,000 failed in a two day
campaign. One-half the amount de-
sired was subscribed Further efforts
will be made to obtain the total
amount. AT the close of the Red
Cross campaign drive was started
for $4,000 for he central associa-
ton, an organization aiding the needy
OF Racine. There remains a drive for
$4,000, the amount required by pop
ular subscription to the 100000
needed for the city's share of the cost
of the proposed 100000 building as
a memorial to the Racine veterans
OF wars in which the United States
has been engaged The amount Of
100000 has been pledged on guaran
tee that the 100000 would be raised
by popular subscription before Jan. /.
Madison-The past three months
have brought marked increase in
tuberculosis eradication work amone
cattle, c. P. Norgord, commissioner OF
agriculture, says in his quarterly re
port. Wisconsin has stepped ahead
as the leading state of the nation in
Kidding its cattle OF tuberculosis, he
points out. There are now 1909 fully
accredited herds, 1858 once tested
and 1924 herds under supervision in
the state, totalling 143,280 cattle. The
report declares that a serious situa
ton with regard to hog cholera has
developed due to apathy of hog breed
ers. A heavy corn crop has resulted
in stimulated movement of feeder
hogs, it says, and has brought the
danger of an epidemic of cholera.
Marinette-At the annual meeting
of the Marinette county board it was
decided to put the next sheriff back
on the fee system. More effective
work is done under the old system,
it was said. More than $270000
would be expended on the county
roads next season, it was also decid
ed. A new court house will not be
built until the return of normal times,
the board decided. Changes will be
made in the interior of the present
building to meet requirements for
women jurors.
Madison-Ralph Bayley Yewdale, 20
years old, assistant professor of his
tory at the University of Wisconsin,
was killed while in the act of clean
ing revolver in his home at Mil
waukee. Yewdale, who is the son of
M. H. Yewdale, was preparing to re-
turn to Madison, and was about to
pack his grips when killed. The bull
let entered the left eye and pene-
trated the brain, according to DR..
Alexander Montgomery, Jr., who was
summoned.
viroqua- Vernon county board of
supervisors closed its annual session
after passing, by unanimous vote,
resolutions requesting Gov. Blaine to
call special session of the legisla-
ture to enact the Hirst road and auto
mobile bill passed by the senate and
defeated in the assembly at the last
session. The board made levy of
$225,000 for county road construction
during the ensuing year.
Janesville-The 1922 Rock county
highway building program will include
twenty-five miles of concrete instead
of only eight as result of the county
board voting to build seven miles of
the Evansville Evansville highway and
seven miles of the GAINESVILLE Brod-
head road in addition to the eight
miles which comprise the road be-
tween Beloit and Clinton.
Fond du Lac-Fond du Laos county
insane asylum more than paid for it.
self in the year ending June, 1921.
The total cost of operating the insti-
tuition, exclusive of permanent i'm
provements, was $55,S62.23. The in
come of the asylum was more than
100000. The number of inmates de-
creased by one. There were 10 deaths.
Elkhorn-Ben Briedenbach and Ev-
erett SAKE of ElkhorA shot a rabbit
weighing fraction over nine pounds.
The animal measured nineteen and a
quarter inches from the tip of his
nose to the tip of his tail and is said
to be the largest ever seen in that
part of the country.
While working in a
gravel pit near Shawano, William
Grosnick was buried beneath several
tons of sand and stones. Although it
required nearly half an hour to ex.
tricate him, he sustained only few
slight bruises as a result of the acct
dent.
Enjo'-ing daily straw
berry shortcake sine June because of
a constantly bearing strawberry patch
has at last become thing of the past