Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30

ana their employers, was upheld by
r. M. Hoyt. deputy attorney general,
I in an opinion to the industrial COM
mission. Mr.. Hoyt held that the APP
premiership statute is part of the
legal machinery of the state for in
struction of its youth in useful oc-
equations, and that as a result the
state may compel compliance with its
provisions. Under the apprenticeship
law, either party to an indenture who
fails to perform any of the st;pula-
lions may be forced to forfeit not less
than 81 nor more than 500, such for
felt to be collected on complaint of
the Industrial commission and paid in
to the state treasury.
Madison--The state board of control
during the last year received $50 ap-
plications for parole from prisoners
serving time in Wisconsin penal in
situations, and granted 242 of the APP
plications, denying sos, and deferring
action on 80, according to a report
of the board Among the 40 paroled
from the state prison at Waupun was
one life termer who had served 25
years of his sentence. The number
paroled from the reformatory at Green
Bay was 1903, while 80 were released
from the Milwaukee county house of
correction.
Green Bay-Decrease in the values
of farm products, cattle, swine, sheep,
merchants and manufacturers stocks,
automobiles and all other forms of
personal property will increase the
taxes in Brown county approximately
mills on the dollar on total as
sessed county valuation of $S5, 900
for 1922 as against an assessed value
of $50 ,536,000 for the county in 1921.
The 1922 mill tax rate will be ap-
proximately 20 mills on the dollar
in the city. In 1921 it was rs mills,
according to statistics supplied by
Income Assessor J. j. Colignon.
Eau Claire-In the twenty years
that Adolph Erickson, Eau Claire, vet
eran mail carrier, has been delivering
mail on one of the rural routes out
Of Eau Claire, he has travelled approx
mately $4,000 miles, or seven and one
half times the distance around the
world. He has been entered on the
honor roll of Uncle Sans employees at
Washington as one of the most de-
pendable men in the rural mail sery-
ice.
Kenosha-The sum of $1,000 was
paid into the Golfers of the municipal
court of Kenosha county by Tony
Travanty, the bootlegger who was
found wearing a body tank filled with
moonshine while riding bicycle on
the streets of Kenosha several weeks
ago. He was also under sentence on
several other charges of having liquor
in his possession and of selling it.
Janesville-Three hundred men are
employed in GAINESVILLE in the con-
Struction of buildings which will house
the Chevrolet Motors and the John
Fisher Body Co., which recently took
over the buildings formerly occupied
by the Samson Tractor Co.. another
subsidiary of the General Motors cor
poration. The new unit is expected
to be completed by Jan. /, 1928.
Brentwood Woodsmen are numer-
GUS this year judging from the fact
that hundreds of men are passing
through Brentwood each day to the
camps in Sawyer and Price counties.
Some sections of the lumber district
report that men are very scarce this
year. Indications are that one of the
greatest timber cuts in years will be
made this winter.
Brentwood j. F. Temple, pio-
neer Washburn county resident and
Union army nurse during the Civil
war, died at her home in Brentwood
after a brief illness. Mrs. Temple was
married to James f. Temple at the
close of the Civil war at Davenport,
Iowa. Four children survive.
| Antigo-The skeleton of an I'M
known man was found by hunters in
the southwestern part of Langlade
county near the Lincoln county line.
It is believed to- have been there sew
eral years and may be that of a woods
man who was frozen to death.
Jefferson The Jefferson county
board appropriated $4,000 for the in
stallation of a new refrigeration sys-
tenn for the county asylum and give,
the trustees the right to purchase the
Finley farm, joining the county farm.