Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-06-16


deliver goods on specified list on cit.
poor orders, as result of the numer
GUS bills coming before the council
calling for grocer es in the luxur,
class such as tobacco and other non
essential merchant ise. Card contain
ing the list of groce ries for which pay
ment will be made by the city on poo
orders has been sent out to the store
keepers with the notification that al
other articles will be deducted from
invoices.
.Sheboygan-The state health de
! partment has been stirred TO further
action toward having a chlorine plant
installed in Sheboygan by a report OF
! the local health officer showing nine
cases of typhoid fever existed here in
| May. The city was first ordered by
the state board to install the plant on
March Is. 1t is not in place at this
time. The city has advised the state
department that failure to put the
plant in place has been due to the de.
lay of the manufacturers.
Appleton = Building contractors of
the Fox river valley. who inaugurated
the open shop following the refusal of
union carpenters to accept wage cut
of 10 cents an hour on May /, have
turned down request signed by the
mayors and presidents of commercial
organizations in all the cities of the
valley to hold a conference with car
penters. The request stated that
building has been held up and that
much suffering because of the house
shortage has resulted from the strike.
Union carpenters expressed willing
ness to participate in the conference.
Madison-The horse business is by
no means dead, figures compiled by
the state department of agriculture
show. Most of the 1858 owners of
stations who took out license in 1920
have renewed their license for 1921.
1.-The time will soon be here when a
at present" C. p. Norgord, commits
sioner of agriculture, declared. "A
shortage of good draft horses is be-
coming more noticeable every day"
rchwood-Despite the fact that a
heavy tractor he was using to pillow
with fell over and pinned him be-
meath. George Todd, ST., will recover
from the accident Mr.. Todd was
blowing on his farm near Shell Lake,
when the machine tipped over and
pinned him beneath the pillow and the
tractor. TO extricate himself, team
of horses was used to pull the tractor
several feet.
Sheboygan-The city of Sheboygan
is experiencing big saving by doing
its own paving work. Bids received
for paving more than a mile of streets
are reasonably close to the price at
Which the city can do this work with
its own equipment and it is believed
b. the city commissioners, that the
plan of doing its work is having a
tendency to bring road building costs
closer to normal.
Manitowoc-This city will not estab-
hsh a daylight saving plan. the alder
men by a vote of 8 to having de-
feated the measure. Petitions we're
presented to the council containing
1896 signatures of citizens favoring
the daylight plan and 1917 names CT
IN let. T. ~
council were active in defeating the
resolution, maintaining that the big
interests were behind it,
Birchwood-N. M. Rockman, Barron,
has announced that he will give nine
prizes ranging from $40 to $3.50 for
the best essays written from the book.
"The Life of Andrew Carnegie"
Those eligible are members of the
graduating classes of the Barron coun-
" high schools of 1921.
Sheboygan-The cost Of building
construction here during the month of
May totsled s62,462. according to the
ronthly report of Building Inspector
Albert Mack of this city. The report
showed an increase of ss,7s4 over that
Of the same month in 1920.
Observation-Disclosures high school
viii have the services of an athletic
Instructor when the school reopens
next fall. The schools here have
world of good athletic material but IT
has never been properly developed.
Rochester-The Rev. L. p Holmes,
"a, died at his home at Rochester
The Rev. Mr.. Holmes was one OF the
best known Episcopal ministers in the
state, having served the Elkhorn, Bur.
lington and Sussex churches as rector
For the last FIVE years he has lived in
Rochester.