Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-05-25

20 carloads of pure-bred and high.
grade Holstein COWS have been ship
ped 70 Old Mexico from Green county.
The men who deal in cows for Mexican
dairies purchase cows at from 500
to $3.50 per head The cattle are
shipped in special cars attached TO
Iast trains and it costs s55 per head
to deliver them to Mexico City. The
animals purchased are 2 year olds or
older because young cows do not
stand the climate so well. Calves are
not shipped at ALL The business of
4 buying continues and frequent ship
ments will be made at intervals as the
demand for good cows is strong and a
good Holstein COW brings as high as
$500 in Mexico, in United States
money.
/ Madison-About so per cent of the
men students are earning part or all
Of their college expenses at the Uni
| yersity of Wisconsin this year, accord
/ ing to a recent estimate made by men
in charge of student employment bu
reaus. The $500 men students shown
to be earning much of their college
expenses are doing all varieties of
work from beating rugs, hopping
floors, waiting on table, washing
dishes, clerldng in stores, pruning
trees, selling blood for transfusions in
hospitals, to setting type and working
as private secretaries.
Madison-Maple sugar production in
1922 was much above the production
for number of years past, Joseph A.
Becker of the Wisconsin Cooperative
crop service reports. Trees tapped
numbered $4,000, an increase OF 8
per cent over last year. The produc-
ton of strip is estimated at 14S,200
gallons as compared with 99,700 last
year, 116,400 in 1920 and 10000 in
1919; of sugar, 24,200 pounds COM
pared to 17,100 in 1921, 20,900 in 1920
and $4,000 in 1919 Strip is reported
as high in quality due TO the fact that
most of it, was produced under ideal
sap flow conditions.
Eau Claire-A drop in barber prices
at Menomonie and Elk Mound from
SO cents for haircut to 35 cents and
from Is cents for a shave to 15 cents
has led to agitation at Eau Claire and
in Chippewa Falls for reduced prices.
A few shops in Eau Claire and Chip.
pewa Falls have cut prices to 40 cents
for hair cut and 20 cents for shave,
but most shops continue to charge so
cents for haircuts and 25 cents for 2
shave.
Appleton-An interesting trial was
held in Judge A. NJ. Spencer's court
at Appleton, when Lewis Wainer was
charged with using false weight in
buying stock for farmers in the vici-
nifty of Sugar Bush The testimony
showed that Wainer had weight
that resembled closely the true weight
except that it was made out of heavy
material, and each time he used it
he would gain "a pounds Judge
Spencer assessed the maximum penal
ty of $25 and costs of SIS.
Madison-Judge Burr w. Jones of
the Wisconsin Supreme court is one
of the states oldest educators. For
more than thirty years he taught law
students at the University of Wiscon-
sin, and his pupils are to be found in
positions of responsibility in practical
ly every state. Three of his old pupils
are now serving with him on the Wis
consin Supreme bench: Chief Justice
Aad j. Vinje, student, 1884 to 1887;
Justice Walter c. owen, student, 1889
to 1891, and Justice Charles H. Crown
hart, 1887 to 1889.
Ba~aboo- Elmer Keitel of Sank
Prairie, who has made a business of
catching rattlesnakes every spring for
several years, has already captured
twelve reptiles this year. Last year
his total catch was near the zoo
mark. He extracts the oil for medi-
cinal purposes, and sells the skins for
use in the manufacture of ornaments.
Birchwood-The city of Barron has
decided that city nurse is not neces
sary and, accordingly, after June 9.
the city will continue without the
services of a nurse. Miss Emma L.
Pulls has been city nurse for the last
six months. The idea to continue
without nurse is one of the many
economy moves to go into effect.
Madison-The first step in prepar
ing the way for constructing the ST.
O0O, 900 memorial union building at the
University of Wisconsin was started
with the wrecking of the home OF
President E. A. Birge. This structure
stands on the site of the proposed
union.
Chippewa Marriages in Chip,
pewa county show decline of 40 per