Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
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HAPPENINGS.
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Green Bay-Thirty-o miles of cen
crete, twenty-five miles of dirt and
gravel road and fifty-two bridges cost
ing 100000 have been built in Brown
county this year at a total expendi-
ture, Including $4,000 for mainte-
nance, of s1,O97,OOo and the super
vision expense for this enormous I'M
provement program has been exactly
S96 six-thousandths of a cent for each
dollar expended, it was reported by
Highway Commissioner Cormier.
These figures embrace only work done
to date and it is expected that con-
siderable more work will be done this
year.
Madison A number of county
boards in northern Wisconsin already
have Endorsed the program of highway
legislation recommended by the legis-
lative committee of the county boards
organization, Frank Cannon, secretary
of the Good Roads Association Of Wis
consin, reports This program includes
suggested changes in the state laws to
provide for gasoline tax and high
way privilege tax and graded license
fee based on weight of automobiles
for both pleasure cars and trucks.
Madison-Reports to Secretary of
State Hall from the county canvassing
boards show that in six counties of
the state sheriffs have been reelected
who held the same office during the
last two years. The defeat of the
sheriff amendment to the constitution
In the recent election will probably
prevent these elected men from taking
office Under the law the present
sheriffs will serve until their success
sors have been elected or appointed
by the governor.
Madison-The state board of con-
troll representing seventeen charitable
and penal institutions in Wisconsin,
submitted it's biennial financial budget
to the state board of public affairs
calling for estimated total expendi-
period 1924 and 1924-5. This repre-
sents approximately an increase of
several hundred thousand dollars over
expenditures for the past two years.
Madison-For the first time since
April of this year the number of per-
sons seeking work exceeded the num-
Der of requests for help when the IL
state free employment bureaus report
ed that the labor supply last week ex-
ceeded the demand. Placements for
the week totaled 1928, as compared
with 1922 the previous week and 1892
the same week year ago.
Rice Lake-Some 800 pupils of. the
Rice Lake high school have just been
questioned as to what occupation they
desire to follow. Twenty-seven per
cent want to teach, but only IL of
the boys chose teaching. Fourteen per
cent want to do office work Only 8
per cent wanted to farm, and one
boy desires to become a chimney
sweep.
Monroe-A precedent is said to have
been established in the state when the
Green county board, in session at
Monroe, voted unanimously the sum
of $4,000 for the Salvation Army This
is the organizations quota in the coun.
ty. No campaign will be made, there
fore. The sum will be put on the
county tax levy and raised by general
assessment.
Madison-The deer hunting season
just closed added four victims to the
yearly toll of hunting accidents in
Wisconsin, bringing the total for the
year to near 80, an unofficial checkup
reveals. Duck hunting proved to be
particularly perilous this year. More
than score of duck hunters died by
accidental shooting or drowning.
Birchwood-About 1900 hunting Ii.
censes have been issued this fall in
Washburn county by A. F. Cameron,
county clerk. Most of the hunters OBJ
tanned licenses to avail themselves of
deer hunting pleasures. Very few
deer have been killed this season, old
hunters report. Tho deer are practic-
ally extinct, they say.
Ashland-Joseph Stevens, Civil war
veteran and resident of Ashland for
many years, died a. the home of his
daughter, Mrs Abe Lord, Washburn.
Mr.. Stevens was among the pioneers
of northern Wisconsin who followed
the fortunes of the pine woods. He
was commander of the local GAR.
post for two years.
Madison-Lucile Ashbrook, 19-year-
old blind girl, was found dead in
gas-filled room of her home in Madi-
son. The girl is said to have been
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