Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-10-18
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

| winter.
The Neenah chapter of the Red
Cross shipped fifteen boxes contain
| ing 2,555 articles for Belgians. The
boxes weighed 3,40O pounds.
John M. Butler, civil war veteran,
PesEtigo, is suing for divorce, charg-
ing cruelty and accusing his wife of
calling him a pro-German.
Otto Henkelman of the town of Hew-
lit, Marathon county, killed two
wolves, who were about to attack a
litter Of pigs. He reports many
wolves in the locality.
Mrs. Rebecca w. Bass, a Wisconsin
pioneer, aged 88 years, died at Fond
du Lac. She travelled widely and cele.
brated her seventeen year by. tour
of the Holy Land
]. G. Harcum, S. Fond du Lac coun-
| ty food administrator and director of
the First National and Citizens State
bank, is dead. He was prominent in
Masonic circles.
Owing to the Spanish influenza cpl.
demic in the South the Ringing
Brothers circus closed it's season in
Georgia, Oct. 2, and has gone to
Bridgeport, Conn, where it will winter
this season instead of in Baraboo.
Marinette is planning a $4,000 Lib
erty loan memorial for the boys of
the county who made the supreme
sacrifice during the war Subscrip-
tons will be voluD airy The plan orig
mated in Marinette.
The Menominee River Sugar Co.'S
plant at Marinette. has begun the
manufacture of sugar, starting on a
ninety-day run. A great quantity of
beets arrived. In the process used, no
part of the product is wasted.
Matthias Rauner of Marinette has
six sons in the service Edward, a
i spruce cutter; Charles, in England !;
Max, in Washington; Matthias, in
France; Ernest, in Rockford, ILL.,, and
Emil, recently INDICTED
The steam yacht Bonita, formerly
owned by Senator Isaac Stephenson,
Mrinette, has been purchased by
Green Bay boat builders, and will be
converted into steam trawler, which
will be used by the government.
The, joint crop report of the Wis.
consin department OF agriculture and
the United States bureau of crop esti.
mates issued at Madison shows that
one of the largest grain crops in the
hicfnry nf hn of hoC hor
vested.
Be- ause of the shortage Of American
cheese, state hotel chairmen for the
food administration throughout the
country have been asked to eliminate
all cheese from the free lunch coun-
tiers, serving at such lunches only
crackers, pickles and olives.
Because Health Commissioner J. M.
Furstmann, La Crosse, had taken a
stand against closing schools to check
epidemic of Spanish influenza, Mayor
A, A. Bentley called in two members
OF the board of health and without
Furstman's consent, issued an order
closing all schools, churches and thea.
tiers.
Thirteen members of the Marathon
County Bee Keepers association this
year realized a total of $1,000 pounds
of honey according to reports received
at the fall meeting held in Wausau.
Lewis Francisco of Mosinee reported
the largest amount, eleven tons of
honey being the product of his bee
cO1OniaS this season
Another vocation has been invaded
by women in Green Bay They are re-
placing men as arc light cleaners on
the streets of the city. Five women
are now working daily at the new job
and making, good, according to the city
places of men, who have been trans.
ferred to the shipbuilding plant.
In statement issued at Madison,
State Treasurer Johnson takes excep-
ton to certain statements made as to
the finances of the state for alleged
political reasons, and warns the mu-
inequalities to prepare for decided
decrease in income taxes if the pro-
posed excess profits tax now pending
before congress becomes a law.
The railroad commission issued an
order granting a 7-cent street car fare
to the Ashland, Light, Power and
Street Railway company. The order
provides that cash fares shall be
cents with six tickets for 40 cents,
while school children's tickets are in
creased from 21a to 31a cents. The or.
der becomes effective on Oct. 16.
Fishing in Green Bay has never
been better, according to the fisher
men who make their daily trips into
this port. The fish houses are doing a
record business, and their shipping
reports are about 25 per cent higher
than in former years. Due to the
scarcity of help, women are being used
on the dock and in the houses sorting
the catches.
The university of Wisconsin has
among it's students a man who is to-
tally blind and who is attempting to
earn his way through college as a