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


expenditures have been cut $34, 600, as
compared to the same period last year.
Only one stenographer remains in the
city hall and officials now do most of
their own tipping. city statistician,
city nurse, fire department mechanic,
captain, lineman and engineer of fire
department are amo1g some of the po-
sitions which have been abolished.
Recommendations are being cir
culated here and will be sent to Gov.
Blaine against the bill becoming a law,
which has just passed both branches
of the legislature abolishing the two
remaining municipal courts in Bayfield,
county, the first municipal court To-
Gated in this city, and the second mu-
nicipal court located at Iron River
! The court here was created about
twenty-five years ago while the late
William O'Neil, of this city, was in the
legislature.
Madison-One hundred young peo-
pie representing several hundred of
the boys and girls clubs of the state
will attend one weeks course at the
Wisconsin College of Agriculture, June
21-24. The young people are repre-
sentatives of over 10000 boys and
girls enrolled in club work in the
state. The Is groups of clubs include
pig, calf baby beef, corn, potato,
sheep, poultry, girls canning, girls
sewing, girls baking, garden, grain,
and bee clubs.
Stevens Point-Three members of
school boards in Stevens Point have
been forced to resign because of
ruling just handed down by the inter
state commerce commission to the eff
feet that railroad employees cannot
hold public Office. w. j. Dumbleton
and Frank A. King, both members of
the local board of education, and
Harold w. McCullum, member of the
vocational school board, announced |
their designations.
Madison--An advertising campaign
in national periodicals, at an estimated
cost of $150,000, will be launched in
the near future by the Wisconsin
Cheese Producers federation, accord |
ing to plans announced by L. G. Foster, /
of the Wisconsin Division of Markets. |
Wisconsin produces annually 100000 |
900 pounds of cheese, or approximately |
rs per cent of the total amount pro- |
duced in the United States.
Antigo-A class of Sc was graduated |
from the Amigo high school, the
largest in its history. The commence |
ment address was delivered by Prof E
A. Ross of the University of Wiscon-
sin. One hundred and fOrty-one pupils |
of the public and parochial schools |
were graduated this year. One hun.
dred and sixty were graduated from |
the state graded and rural schools of |
Langlade county.
Madison. Much of the value of Wis
consin's 1921 spud crop is being de- |
termined. Thousands of dollars are I
being saved to the state by having |
seed potatoes disinfected and planted |
in disease-free soil, according to R. E |.
Vaughan. plant pathologist at the col
lege of agriculture. Mr.. Vaughan re- |
Gently visited and investigated the |
states leading potato growing Sec
tons.
Bircawood-One hundred and six
teen students, the largest class ever to |
complete the common school course in
Washburn county graduated at Shell |
Lake. Laurence Larkin, Plainview
school, and Winifred Cadle. Clam
River school. won first and second
honors, respectively. Doris Brown,
Plainview school. attended school four
years without being absent or tardy.
Rice Lake-The invention of new
model automobile by T. II. Field, Rice
Lake, will be the means of erecting a
large automobile factory here, accord |
ing to an announcement. The new
Field machine is equipped with full
cantilever springs, no universal joints
and has the brakes set in the diff
ferentials instead of on the wheels.
Green Bay-Ole Hansen. Denmark. |
has been elected president OF the
Brown County Union. American So
ciety Of Equity. He succeeds NJ. o.
Shea, who declined the ONCE after
serving four years. Albert Wanda
Heuvel, De Pere. was named vice /
president; William Calnan. De Pere.
treasurer, and B. H. Diny. Oneida. sec
rotary.
Madison-wisconsip has become the
foremost producer of clover seed in the
United States, statistics made public
by the department CT agriculture show.
The largest crop of clover seed so far i
reported is 24s.o0o bushels. In the
same year Wisconsin produced $1,000
bushels of timothy seed. which also
places the state among the leaders in
that crop.