Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-16

coming SSdSoH. he WAS vested With
the authority by the city council
Two factions, pro and con, made
themselves known in the council
meeting. The Willard w. c, T. union
ask that the shows be barred from
enterisgN the city The Veterans of
Foreign Wars ask permission to bring
such a show here, claiming that
committee of women may censure
the attractions and if any feature is
objectionable it will be eliminated
and no ''girl shows" will be included.
Madison ~ Wisconsin's SO county
agents have set new record for
hustling during the last year. it was
said at the Agricultural college, Madi-
son. The 5S men spent 81 per cent
of their time in the field, made 4T9
farm visits, had rs farm meetings.
with an average OF so farmers at each
meeting. registered lilo telephone
calls, wrote ITO articles for publica.
ton, have six projects under way and
have organized eight farmers organi-
cations a county That the average
work done by each one of the 3d. ac-
cording to j. F. Volta, county agent
leader.
Eagle River-John Donahue, ac-
cused as the slayer of John Powers,
MID alNy knnyy raca,.t Gaanar IF Rio
Lake, Villas County, paid his own
price for the grewsome murder when,
after facing for As hours the inces-
SAINT firing of a sheriff's posse that
besieged him in his lonely cabin, he
placed the muzzle of his rifle under
his chin and with his last cartridge
fired the shot that ended his life. Pin
ned to the heavy wooden Shirt of the
dead man was found note which
read: Il killed John Powers and |
am not sorry did it. Donahue."
Birchwood-,A new apparatus which,
it is believed, will solve the land
clearing problem for many prospec-
tive settlers and formers of northern
Wisconsin has been invented by Law
renee A Wise of Brentwood. Mr..
Wises device is furnace jacket with
a blower, which is operated by a
gasoline engine The jacket is placed
directly over stump and with the aid
of blower the fire in the jacket is
famed by the blower until the stump
is consumed
Stevens Point---Discovery of what
promises to be an iron mine has been
made on the farm of A. f. Schlenvogt
in the town of Linwood Portage
county. While digging silo pit on
his farm Mr. Schlenyogt found pieces
of metal which upon analysis by Prof
c. E. Culver of the Stevens Point Nor
NAL school proved to be iron ore. The
vein was located four feet down in
the ground A survey of land I'M thai
territory may be made.
Green Bay-All records for the mum
D61 Vi inmates at Lht saiaAt tAViaiia
tory at Green Bay were broken when
Warden Oscar Lee announced the
number al the institution totaled 402
The highest previous mark was 1856,
Nov. l, 1921. Every available inch OF
space in the big institution is filed
and no more prisoners will be accept
ed al present. All the cells are oc-
cupied and many of the TRUSTEES are
sleeping on cots in the corridors.
Fond du Lac-Potitions demanding
the recall of Mayor II. d. Ha5ntze
are being circulated in Fond du Lac.
They charge inefficiency and failure
to appreciate the dignity and duties
of the city's chief executive. The
recall petitions follow the challenge
to resign and enter a mayoralty con
test directed at the mayor by Chief
of Police F. A. Nolan.
Rice Lake Return to the alder
manic system of city government was
voted, at special election by ma
jority Of 101 in Rice Lake. The petit.
ton for dissolution of the existing
commission form, one mayor and two
councilmen, was drawn up with little
publicity and all -four wards supported
the change.
Fond du Charles o. Cleveland,
Civil war veteran and chief OF the
Fond du Lac fire department for thir.
teen years. died al the age OF "a years
after an illness OF eleven months Mr..
Cleveland was in the department dur
ing a period in which the greatest
fires in the city's history occurred
Green Bay--Fire. starting from an
undetermined cause. Quilted the two
story brick Chappeii school, two and