Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-12-07
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed FERN

Milwaukee-Postal authorities pre-.
dict that this years Christmas mail
will be the heaviest in the history of
the country. According to E. L. Orms.
by, Chief Clerk of the Railway Mail
Service at Milwaukee, energetic prep
arations are being made in Wisconsin
to meet this situation. He states, how.
ever, that the Christmas mail prob.
lem is largely one of sorting and rout.
Ing, at which very little extra help
can be used to advantage. The bulk
of the holiday mail will have to be
sorted by the regular all year around
force, as only highly skilled and expe.
rienced men can do this work Mr..
Ormsby states that holiday cards and
parcels should be mailed early, before
December 18th, to give the sorters
enough time to handle them.
Monroe-Miss Veva Divan is Wis.
consin's champion girl pork raiser
Not only did she walk away with blue
ribbons at the state fair this year,
but she copied a total of seventy-six
ribbons and more than $521.50 in cash
prizes for showing her six little pigs"
at FIVE fairs. Veva lives on farm
near Browntown, in Green county.
She is IL years old. She won cham
pionship honors this year in competi-
ton with more than LOO other pig
I'M hove ri,.Ic oil 81
She has been proclaimed by T. l..
Bewick, state boys and girls club
leader, and by several prominent live
stock officials, as the greatest pig club
exhibitor of all times in Wisconsin.
MadisQn-Until a boy has reached
the age of IL, he cannot be sent to
the state reformatory at Green Bay
no matter how vicious his tendencies,
]. e. Messerschmidt, assistant attor-
ney general, advised the state board
of control. The board of control re-
ported that a 16-year-old boy in the
state industrial school at Waukesha
was of such vicious character that
his presence is detrimental to the
other inmates, and it is asked that it
be permitted to remove the youthful
prisoner to the state reformatory.
Fond du Lac-Pabst Creator Arbi-
traitor, one of the best COWS bred by
the Pabst farms in Oconomowoc has
been purchased by the Fond du Lac
poor farm for 81 900. The COW is near
Ing the end of years milk test dur
ing which she has already produced
$4,000 pounds of milk, an average of
better than one hundred pounds a
day. The county poor farm now has
one of the best herds of pure bred
Holsteins in the eastern section of the
state. The herd is headed by IA
NOUS Pabst bull.
Wisconsin Rapids-Action of the
state highway engineer and the county
road and bridge committee in provid-
ing for the storage of $4,000 barrels
of cement early last spring, combined
with the establishment of two rock
crushing plants in the country, saved
the taxpayers of Wood county at least
$4,000 in the construction of CON
crete highways this year, Edward Nor
ris, county highway commissioner,
told the county board in his annual
report.
Kenosha - Kenosha county board
after a three-days debate gave its in
dorsement to the state highway COM
highway improvement. The only seri-
GUS division of the board was on the
provision to tax gasoline cents a
gallon. This provision was finally
adopted by a large majority vote.
Burlington-A third pair of twins
was born on Nov. IL to Mr.. and Mrs
Thos. Ferguson, who live near Bur
lington in Walworth county. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferguson were married on Jan.
/, 1902, and have nine children, six of
whom are twins and all in good
health. Walter, the oldest child is IS
years old.
Monroe-One of the largest hogs
ever brought to Monroe to be shipped
to market was brought in by Peter
Gerber, Green county farmer. The
animal weighed $50 pounds. AS a
rule hogs weigh from $50 to $50
pounds, but they seldom tip the scales
at 500.
Manitowoc-Fourteen cows, three
calves and four horses were burned
to death when fire destroyed two large
barns on the farm of William Engel
land, causing a loss of $4,000, only
partly covered by insurance. The farm
IL five miles north of Two Rivers.
Madison-While riding toward Madi
son the engine of the automobile driy
en- by Emil Borchers and Henry Hin.
derlinder of Darwin station blew M