WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK


cities desire this service, they are required to take out licenses under
the act creating the commission.
  Its principal duties are to inspect all grain shipped out of Superior;
to inspect grain shipped to Superior if the shipper requests it; to
weigh all grain passing in and out of Superior and to give official
certificates of weight; and, on request, to analyze at its protein labora-
tory all grain and cereal products offered for inspection. The purpose
of this service is to develop the grain trade of Superior and Wiscon-
sin by insuring a fair deal to the shippers and producers of grain.
More grain passes through the port of Duluth-Superior than any
other place on the continent.


         GRAND ARMY HOME FOR VETERANS

Board of Managers: THADDEUS SHEERIN; MRS. MAY L. LUCHtSINGER;
    M. 0. ROCKWELL; General RALPH M. IMMELL; Colonel HARRY G.
    WILLIAMS; Colonel WILLIAM F. LORENZ.
Administrative Officer in Charge of Home: Adjutant General RALPH
    M. IMMELL.
Commandant: Colonel WILLIAM A. HOLDEN.
Adjutant: LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN G. SALSMAN.
Chief Surgeon: DOCTOR E. F. HAFEMEISTER.
Quartermaster: MAJOR WALDO G. HANSEN.

Location of Home and Address of Commandant: Wisconsin Veterans
     Home, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
 Office of Adjutant General: State Capitol, Madison.
 Total personnel, December 1934: 150 full time and 25 part-time
     employes.
 Expenditures, fiscal year 1934: Operation, $178,075.14; maintenance,
     $20,284.04; capital, $10,987.66; total, $209,346.84. Receipts,
     $28,849.73.
 Appropriations 1935-37 (per year):    Operation $160,000, plus re-
     ceipts other than from the federal government; maintenance,
     $20,000; miscellaneous capital, $10,000; coal and insurance, sum
     sufficient; canteen, revolving appropriation of receipts.
 Publications: Annual Report of the Adjutant General for the Grand
     Army Home for Veterans.

   The Grand Army Home for Veterans, originally called the Wis-
 consin Veterans Home, was established in 1887 for soldiers of the Civil
 War and their wives or widows who needed a home. Since that time
 veterans of other wars of the United States and certain of their de-
 pendents have been received. Applications for entrance are passed
 upon in the following order: veterans of the Civil War, their moth-
 ers, wives, and widows, and Civil War nurses; veterans of the
 Spanish-American War, Philippine insurrection, China relief expedi-


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