Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-01-20
WISCONSIN
!; STATE NEWS

Beloit-F'ifty-two graduates of Be-
lott college are named in who's Who
in America" of 1920. Twenty of the
number are educators, Is clergymen,
four, physicians; three, lawyers; three,
journalists, and two technical experts,
Horace Reynolds, go, Chicago, is old
est graduate named. He is journalist
on the staff of Chicago newspapers and
The Railway Age. Prof. Lew R.
Sarett. IL, is the youngest, a writer
and professor of oratory at Northwest
ern university. Ding" Darling, SO,
the cartoonist, is among those listed.
Juneau-The Dodge county board of
supervisors killed the prospects of a
tuberculosis sanatorium in conjunction
with Fond du Lac and Washington
counties when it voted to withdraw
from the tri-county plan. Fond du Lac
and Washington counties decided upon
the site at Hamilton, Fond du Lac
county. This selection was unsatis-
factory TO Dodge county supervisors,
who claimed the location was inacces-
sible to this county. The Dodge coun-
ty board of supervisors plans to erect
o tuberculosis sanatorium to be main
tanned entirely by this county.
Washburn-Unde the direction of
Miss Anna NJ Thompson, county
nurse, the schools of Bayfield, county
have enlisted in the modern health
crusade, which is conducted in the
state by the Wisconsin Anti-Tubercu-
iosis association. Nearly 1000 pupils
will scrub their ears and the back of
their nechs daily and carry out ten
other health chores, laid down by the
health crusade. Titles of page, squire,
knight and knight banneret are award
ed for perfect records during various
periods of the tournament
Appleton-Thirty-seven Duroc Jer-
sey hogs sold at the first public sale
of purebred hogs in Outagamie county
brought ar average price of $l12.30,
much better than the average price in
sales in this state in the last few
weeks. More than two hundred farm
ers attended. Prices ranged from SOS
to $500. An effort is being made to
make Appleton the livestock sales cen
ter of the Fox river valley and huge
sales pavilion may be erected. Hol-
stein and Guernsey sales are sched-
uled for spring and another hog sale
is planned.
Hurley-During the year 1920 Cupid
shattered all previous records in Hur-
ley, according to records in the city
clerks Office. During the year there
were As licenses to wed issued to Hur-
ley couples compared with 80 issued
last year shows decrease compared
with the previous year. In 1919 there
We're 81 birth certificates filed with the
city clerk, compared with SO in 1920.
In 1920 there were 43 deaths and 49
in 1919.
Stevens Point-Mayor J. N. Welsby
has been called upon by the local
chamber of commerce to compel
transient merchants to comply with a
city ordinance requiring license of
from S. to $25 day and in case of
any doubt as to the permanence of the
applicant, bond of $500 Action was
requested by local merchants who be-
came aroused after several firms
shipped goods here for unloading"
and then left in few weeks.
Marinette - District Attorney A.
Murphy is making a record in prosecu-
tioD OF saloon men. So fsr every de-
fenasnt has been found guilty or plead
ed guilty. The saloon men and vets
generally who believed public senti-
ment was not up to the prohibition law
are disappointed. The trials so far in
circuit court have been great salts
faction to the forces of law and order
in Marinette city and county.
Nellsville-The herd of Holstein
cattle belonging to G. L. Jacques, at
torney and loan agent of the North
western Mutual Life insurance COM
pany, who disappeared month ago,
was sold by the sheriff, on an execu-
ton issued in favor of the First Ma
tional bank. Nothing is known of the
whereabouts of Mr.. Jacques. His af-
fairs were found to be in a mixed con-
dition.
Eau Claire-A canvass of retail es.
Establishments shows that the cost of
living in Eau Claire is about 80 per
cent lower than year ago. although
coal. eggs, tobacco candies, beefsteak,
shoes, haircuts and shaves are as high
or higher than year ago. Clothing
merchants are beginning to slash
prices and one shoe firm announces a