Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-05-26
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I NEWS OF THE !
BADGER STATE |


lead,in Wisconsin in building concrete
highways by day-labor. Under the pro-
gram for permanent roads laid down
by the county board this county will
have more than 100 miles of eight inch
concrete roads connecting every part
of the county with GAINESVILLE. the
county seat. Trunk lines will go from
GAINESVILLE to each of the border coun-
ties and to Illinois. The construction
force has been organized and equipped
with machinery until now Commissions
er Moore is building nearly 600 feet a
day of concrete with force of so men.
Madison--A northbound Northwest
ern road passenger train plowed
through herd of cattle near Mendoza
and killed IL of the herd. The cattle
were owned by William Schillinglaw, a
farmer living near Mendoza. Mr. Schil-
linglaw had the cattle shipped to his
farm and they We're sunloaded at Men,
dota station. The cattle were driven
along the road toward the farm. The
road crosses the railroad tracks and
the herd was being driven across the
tracks when fast train bore down
on the crossing, and it was impossible
to remove the cows.
Plainfield-The result of the recent
cold spell and hard freeze over Wau.
shara county was more disastrous
than was first supposed. Blueberries.
of which large crop is raised and
much shipping is usually done from
here, are ruined, also strawberries,
raspberries, currants and other fruit
trees. Farmers who had sowed hun.
dreds of dollars worth of clover seed
claim the clover was up about an inch
and being so tender was killed. This
will be great loss for next year of
hay and pasture.
Merrill-The North Central Brown
Swiss Breeders Association will hold
its first picnic Friday. June II, at
Oscar Schulz farm in the town of Pine
River, Lincoln county. George c..
Humphrey of the Wisconsin College
of Agriculture and who judged the
Brown Swiss cattle at the information
al stock show at Chicago last fall, and
Ira Inman, secretary of the American
Swiss Breeders Association, will give
addresses. The association has mem.
bership in five counties.
Fond du Lac--Fond du Lac county
has not abandoned its tuberculosis
sanatorium plan. This county stands
ready to entertain proposals for a COM
bination with Dodge, Washington, or
Green Lake counties. Washington
county has expressed desire to pro-
coed with the building of sanatorium
with Fond du Lac county and accord
ing to statements of members of the
Fond du Lac county board. Green Lake
would like to join with this county.
Eau Claire-Obie f. Gibson of this
city has been engaged as agricultural
agent in Villas county to succeed Oscar
Gunderson, who recently resigned. Mr..
Gibson graduated from the long course
in the Wisconsin College of Agricul-
ture in 1914 and has had considerable
experience in the work in Minnesota,
where he organized more than twenty
cow testing associations. He has since
specialized in dairying and breeding
of pure bred Holsteins at the Gibson
Brothers stock farm near Eau Claire.
Little Chute-Joseph Van Handel. a
Little Chute farmer, was seriously in
jured and barely escaped being
trampled to death by bull that he
was leading to water. The animal had
always been of a gentle disposition
and Van Handel was wholly uncon-
scious of any danger when 1t suddenly
turned on him and threw him to the
ground, breaking his leg and inficting
q number of bruises about the body.
Superior-The position of city nurse
of Superior will be abolished when
Beatrice Kennedy's resignation takes
effect on June 1. The Douglas county
woman's council secured enactment of
q law at Madison setting standards
which barred Miss Kennedy from hold
ing the office. after the city council
refused to enact their standards in an
ordinance. Mayor Fred Baxter now
refuses to appoint another city nurse.
Neenah-Neenah and Menasha po-
lice are seeking the whereabouts of
George II. Schwatte, who said he was
representing Neenah printing com
pany In the solicitation of advertisers
for an advertising card that was TO be
placed in all the public places OF Nee
nah and Menasha. Schwatte collected
the money and then disappeared.
Superior-Applicatio to make the
interstate bridge between Duluth and
Superior toll free, will be made by the
city of Superior to the war depart
ment, according to Mayor Fred A. Bax-
ter.