Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-13


During August there were twenty
cases of appendicitis treated at ST.
Joseph's hospital, Marinette. The ma
jority of persons afflicted were boys.
Assistant Fire Chief Willis E. Her
ron, one of the oldest men in point of
service on the Eau Claire fire depart
ment, having served continuously for
twenty-six years. has resigned.
The Wisconsin Livestock Breeders
association will hold conference at
Green Bay on Oct. II, said County
Agricultural Agent E. A. Cairncross.
Breeders of horses, swine, poultry and
cattle will be invited
Arthur G.. Harris of Denmark was
arrested on charge of enticing IL
year-old girl who lives in Amigo, from
the train on which she was returning
to Amigo from Married. The police
found Harris at hotel, where he had
taken the girl. He has been placed
under $1,000 bond
Word was received at Marinette
that Capt. Oscar Falk of Menominee
had been severely wounded in France.
He was a veteran guard officer OF
Michigan who had served on the bor-
der. Capt Edward Mayville of Mari
nette commanding a Rhinelander COM
pany is suffering with shock and burns
from a grenade in hospital in France.
Joseph F. Mezra, Bridgeport, CraW-
ford county, was instantly killed and
his son was severely injured when
tractor engine in which they were rid
ing exploded. The father was dis
membered by the shock of the explo-
sion. J. H. Mayne, who was walking
in front of the tractor, was seriously
scalded.
Six Wisconsin schools have been
added to the accredited list of the uni
versity this year, bringing the total of
accredited high schools to 355. Those
recently added to the list are: Boyd,
Bay View of Milwaukee, ST. Peters
of Oshkosh, Patch Grove, Campion col
lege of Prairie du Chen and Williams
Bay.
At meeting of the directors of the
Holstein- Friesian Breeders association
of Wisconsin at Fond du Lac it was
decided to hold the next annual meet
ing and sale at Fond du Lac next
March. f. H. Everson, Lake Mills,
was elected manager. The meeting
and sale will be held in Fond du Laos
new $4,000 sales pavilion.
Private John A. McInnis, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James McInnis, Eau
Claire, member of Co. E of Eau Claire.
is the first Eau Claire man to be taken
ed as missing in action June II, but &
letter from the war department has
just been received stating he was a
prisoner at Camp Giesen, Germany.
Durand, Pepin county, is in the
throes of a typhoid fever epidemic of
mysterious origin which has already
claimed one victim, Sarah Cassidy, a.
year-old daughter Of DR.. Cassidy of
that city, who died at an Eau Claire
hospital. The epidemic broke out sud-
denly and there are now more than
fifteen cases, most of them of very
serious nature.
Patrick Burns, Wausau, was notified
that his son, John e. Burns, died Aug.
% in France from wounds received in
action. Another son, James e. Burns,
was killed in action in France on May
%. Another son, Patrick Burns, Jr.,
is at Camp Mills, Long Island, mem
Der of the BlackhaWk division. There
were only three boys in the family.
Four sisters and their parents reside
in Wausau.
ashore while seas were sweeping
Lake Michigan one of the keepers of
a lighthouse near Racine, believed to
be William Larson, was drowned
when the row boat he was in was cap
sized. The coast guards made an eff
fort to save the mans life but when
they reached the scene in their motor
driven life boat there was no trace of
the man. The rowboat and a suit case
were recovered.
A tabulation of about IS per cent Of
assessors returns for Wisconsin on
the number OF sheep and hogs on
farms on May 1, 1918, indicates an in
crease of over Is per cent in the num-
Der of sheep on farms compared to
May l last year and nearly per cent
in the number of swine over four
months old, according to W. F. Cal
lander, of the Wisconsin Co-opera-
tive Crop Reporting service at Madi-
son. The assessors returns a year
ago showed 286,378 sheep and 619,758
swine over four months old.
Commissions in the army were is
sued to the following Wisconsin men:
Albert Gilbert Harter, Waukesha, sec
ond lieutenant in Ordnance corps; Ed
win Elval Palver, Amigo, and Leonard
Andrew Poalkvan, Hudson, second
lieutenants in Quartermaster corps;
Charles William Gilsen, Superior,
captain in Medical corps; Victor
Emanuel e. Kblad, Superior, George
Thomas Hegner, Appleton, and Otto