Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-09-01

ulture sends out a warning to the
armers against a certain stock food
now being sold. 1t says, oat feed has
no value. A large quantity of oat feed
or oat mill by-products has recently ap-
yeared on the Wisconsin feed market.
1t is bought at a price which is attrac-
tive to consumers unacquainted with
its value, Accordingly the depart
ment is advising buyers that the prod
uct has low feed value and that it can
not be used as substitute for grain
as claimed by some sellers. The feed
is largely oat hulls anS it is only legit-
innate of course as lightener for
heavy feeds.
Madison-Teachers for all graded
schools are plentiful in Wisconsin at
the present time, G.. /. Anderson, as
sistant superintendent of public in
struction, announced. All of the
schools in the state were able to Sc
cure suitable instructors for the COM
ing year, he says. Salaries are re-
naming at their former scale from $50
to $3.50 month, according to Mr.. An
derson, who says that only in few
localities is there tendency to try
for lowering of the wage Hundreds
of thousands of Wisconsin school chill
dren will start their year September 6,
when practically all of the city schools
open.
Eau Claire-Edward r. Allen, alias
Joe James, was sentenced to thirty
years at hard labor at Waupun, after
he was found guilty of assault with in
tent to kill Police Captain George r.
Wolf. The jury returned it's verdict in
less than fifteen minutes. The maxi
mum sentence was given. Allen took
three shots at Wolf after he had ar
rested him as Jail breaker from Ever
EFT, Wash, where he was being held on
charge of safe blowing. One of the
shots tore up the length of the cap
tain's arm.
have made their appearance in this
section. A short distance west of Bel
levue. near here, a car was stopped by
the road, and all passing machines
were hailed, with request for cash
donation. The auto beggars claimed
they were on their way to Rhinelander,
that they had run into one bit of hard
luck after another, and that they could
not complete their trip unless they
raised enough money to equip their
car with new tires.
Superior-Judge G. z. Luse, il fed
eral district court paid a fine he had
imposed on Charles Lemieux, Indian,
Ashland, who pleaded guilty to Illegal
possession of liquor. Lemieux had
spent several months in the Ashland
county Jail awaiting trial. He was
fined 81 and told the judge he did not
have the money 10 pay. The judge
handed the clerl, 81 and Lemieux left
the courtroom free man.
Madison-High schools are increas-
ing in importance as educational agen-
cies throughout Wisconsin, the report
of the superintendent of public instruc-
ton shows. Enrolment rose in 1920
to 59,3S2 from 51,3SS, a jump of 1916
per cent during the biennium com
pared to an increase of only 2.S per
cent for the previous biennium. The
last decade has brought about an at
tendance 114.2 per cent higher than
during the previous ten years, rate
of increase greater than in the United
States as a whole, the report declares.
Green Bay-Small boys flying kite
were responsible for large part of
the city being without electric power
for about half day. The youngsters
blew their kite across three high-volt-
age wires and, disregarding advices to
cut the string to retrieve it, pulled it
until the electric cables were pinched
together. The short circuit which re-
suited burned all the wires. The
damage was estimated at $500.
| Madison-Arecord attendance of SO
per cent of the full enlisted personnel
of the Wisconsin National guard was
established by the field camps of in
struction at Camp Douglas, July IS to
Aug. 20, according to announcement
from the adjutant generals office The
total number present was $50 officers
and 5,56S men, with Is officers and 7S9
men absent.
MISUNDERSTANDING to Chippewa
Indians on the Court Oreilles Chippe-
wa Indian reservation. near here, the
coming winter will be the most severe
in years. The Indians base their pre-
dicuons upon the thickness of the
animals pelts, the thickness of the
animal houses and the preparations be-
ing made by wild animals for the win.
ter
Antigo-Nathan Ginsberg has closed
a deal for the purchase OF the entire