Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-06-23


LancasIer-The state OF Wisconsin
| lost its suit to unseat Judge Sherman
| e. Smalley of the Fifth judicial dis
| trict, charged with violation of the
corrupt practice act in the election of
April 5. Judge Smaley, who took his
seat in the Circuit court here June l.,
defeated Judge Levi H. Bancroft of
| Richland Center, at the recent cleo
| tion Five hundred of the defeated
candidates friends petitioned the
| states attorney general to bring suit
under the corrupt practices act, charg-
ing that Judge Smalley had DETAINED
his opponents character through cir
cularization of derogatory statements.
The jury that returned the verdict in
| Circuit court found that Judge Smalley
had not authorized distribution of the
circular in which the statements con-
corning former Judge Bancroft were
| made.
Eau Claire-Mrs. Anne Carter and
Mrs. Hattie Pannier won their fight
for equal shares in the $1S0,000 estate
left by their father, the late James
McKinnon of Chippewa Falls, in de-
cision handed own by Judge James
O'Neill. In the judges decision the last
will of the deceased, made in 1919
which left the bulk of the estate to the
widow, Mrs. Elizabeth McKinnon, and
cut off the two children with 81 leg
acies, was declared invalid due to I'M
due influence, exerted by Mrs. Nc
Kinnon. Under the court ruling the
estate will be divided equally between
Mrs. McKinnon and the two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Pannier.
Fond du Lac-Fire of incendiary
origin wiped out all buildings except
the house on the LuXerin farm, two
and half miles south of here caus-
ing $4,000 loss. The property, owned
by Bernard F. Sheridan, one of the
foremost Guernsey breeders in Wis
consin, was ranked as one of the
model dairy farms of the state. Four
horses, three valuable calves and a
cow persisted. Seventy-five tons of
hay, straw and alfalfa, 900 bushels of
oats, IL tons of feed and big supply
of beet pulp were burned.
Eau Claire-Results of thrift cam
Claire county last January, were
shown in perfect records made by
Cleghorn, by the model department of
the County Training school, and by
the River View school of the town of
Union Each of the three attained 100
per cent in thrift, with every pupil in
the schools having opened savings
bank account with an initial deposit
of at least ST. Wherever possible, the
children made their first deposits in
person.
Juneau-Edmund J. Labuwi, so, for
mer assemblyman from the First dis
trict of Dodge county and former
| sheriff died at his home in Neosho.
Mr. Labuwi was born at Rubicon. He
was elected sheriff in the landslide of
1896, being the youngest man ever
elected to that office in Dodge county.
He has always been prominent figure
in Republican politics.
Oconto Three hundred eighteen
eighth-grade pupils received diplomas
| in the rural schools of Oconto county
at exercises conducted by the county
superintendent, Miss Ellen B. McDon-
aid, making it the largest class in the
| history of the county. Twelve re
ceived special honor diplomas, each
having an average of 80 or over.
Grace Gussow, Little Suamico, headed
| the list with 97.S.
Ashland There has been falling
| off of 300, $50 tons in the amount OF ore
! shipped from the Gogebic range to the
Ashland docks in May this year as
| compared with. May, 1920. To date
| only 2O8,390 tons have been shipped
from the Gogebic range mines Last
| year to June /, more than 100000
tons had been sent to Ashland from
the Gogebic range.
| Juneau - Contracts totalng nearly
| 100000, calling for the largest amount
of permanent road building ever IN
| dertaken in the county, have been
awarded by the Dodge county highway
committee Dodge county will pave
| almost 80 miles of state and federal
aid highways this year, which exceeds
| the mileage of road laid in any other
| county in the state during 1921.
Ashland-Fifteen freighters brought
| 80, 900 tons of soft coal and $4,000 tons
| of hard coal to Ashland in May. This
| is more than last May, when eight
cargoes were discharged. with 10000
tons of soft coal, but no hard coal.