Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-09-07
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Milwaukee - Perfect weather and
splendid patronage rewarded the eff
forts of State Fair association officials
to give Wisconsin great fair and
combined with unusually strong ex-
hibits and amusement features to
make the 1922 State fair the greatest
ever held Visitors and officials
united in declaring this years fair a
remarkable success. Gate receipts
amounting to s1O8,709.10 and income
from concessions estimated at 100000,
to which may be added other income
from entries, percentages and miscel-
| laneous payments put the fair close
| to a paying basis. Total attendance
for the week was second greatest for
any Wisconsin State fair, being ex-
ceeded only by that of 1920 The
turnstiles recorded 266,698 admissions,
as compared with 237014 last year.
The 1920 total attendance was 327,394.
Waukesha county, in competition with
all other counties in the state, carried
off the high honors at the fair, win
ming the sweepstakes with total of
e,228 points, based on awards granted
exhibitors from that county. Milwau-
kee county took fifth place with 1914
points. Rock county, with 4,442 points,
took second place; Walworth, with
4,130, took third place; La Crosse,
WITH 4,089, was fourth, and Jefferson,
with 2,731, was sixth.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for boosting Wis
consin dairy products throughout the
country will be discussed at a joint
meeting Of committees representing
the Wisconsin Dairy Council and the
Wisconsin Bankers association in the
Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee, ON Sept. Is.
The plan is to raise fund of approx
mately $2,5OO,O00 to finance the move
ment. With this sum, an intensive
advertising campaign will be started,
informing the world that Wisconsin
has 100000 COWS and that its butter,
milk and cheese are superior to the
products of other states. = ,,sa's
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Menominee-Two serious fires In
Menominee did damage estimated at
between $150,000 and $780, 900. The
first fire was at the state fair grounds,
where two barns were burned. While
the Menominee fire department was
fightirg this fire another blaze attri-
buted to firebugs broke out In a Stori
block, and this ragged furiously and
unchecked until the fire apparatus
made the long run back from the fair
grounds. On account of this delay
the block was completely Quilted.
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Antigo-The Jim Cherf apple or
chard, five miles east Of Amigo ID
this year more than ever before one
OF the many wonders of upper Wis.,
consin. On the Cherf 4O-acre orchard
the estimate of 4,0O0-bushel crop Is
made. There are 20 varieties of APP
pies in the crop and the trees are so
heavily laden that it has been neces.
sary for Mr. Cherf to let contract to
prop up the branches Under one tree
there are % branches propped up.
Oconto - complaint, recently
sworn out by J. d. Angus, charging
A. ID. Croft with conducting Sunday
dances at summer resort in Oconto
county, was dismissed in Justice
Stuelke's court at Gillett. 1t was
shown that the Wisconsin statutes do
not provide penalty for operating
dance hall on Sunday, but that those
who attend such diversions are liable
to prosecution.
Birchwood--Sawyer county will re-
ceive about five carloads of picric acid
from the new government consign.
ment recently received in this state.
The explosive will be used in land
clearing. Picric acid is saving to
Sawyer county farmers and settlers
and. at the present cost of dynamite,
$4,000 will be saved.
Madison-Jimmy Z'Amico. As years
NANi "oS Shoe W uttNu III hduiSOn
while in his meat market. Several
revolver and shotgun shots were fired.
The slayers escaped. Police expressed
belief that family fued was .respon.
sible. ZAmico's brother, Angelo. Chi
cago saloonkeeper, was shot in a stint.
lar manner a month ago in Chicago.
Marinette-The Rev. MIR. Fox. neph
ew of the late Bishop J. ]. Fox of
Green Bay. who for many years was
pastor of Our Lady Of Lourdes church.
Marinette. has been named pastor of
the Catholic church in Lena. He was
stationed in Seymour before enterins
the United States army as a chaplain
during the world war.
Monroe-Peace officers of Green
county are TO make a campaign on
automobile drivers who refuse to dim
their lights in passing other cars at
night, Several accidents. some az