Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-11-22
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Green Bay Red Cross workshops
where bandages and dressings were
made for soldiers have been closed on
orders from Chicago headquarters
large stock of material is on hand.
Orla knight, %, rural mail carrier,
Durand, was killed when a rife, which
he intended taking with him to shoot
squirrels on his route, was accidental
ly discharged.
fish bone lodging in his throat
old, Racine, So years old, of strangu-
lation. Harold was veteran of the
Spanish-American war.
Mrs. Andrew Antilla, Tripoli, Onei-
fla county, became crazed while i'll
with influenza, and, rushing from the
house, plunged into the river and
drowned She leaves husband and
several children.
About $4,000 was paid beet growers
of Menominee, Delta and Wisconsin
counties by the Menominee Sugar
Beet Co., for beets delivered during
October. The price, SO ton, is the
highest ever paid.
Fifteen loaded cars Of a northbound
freight were ditched and the wreck
age strewn over both tracks for sew
eral hundred feet on the Milwaukee
road at Layland, near Racine. No one
YVES injured. A broken rail is blamed
Mr. and Mrs Eugene A. Potter of
Oshkosh celebrated their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary on Nov. Is in Chica-
go, where they are visiting their
daughters. Mr.. Potter was formerly
sheriff of Winnebago county.
Increased rates have been granted
the Amigo Electric company and the
Amigo Telephone corporation by the
Wisconsin Railway commission. In
each instance the increases were less
than those asked in the petitions sub
mitted
The post Office department has an
nounced that the following Wisconsin
fourth class post Offices have been ad-
vanced to presidential class: Lyndon
Station, Schofeld and Weyershauser
The postmaster of each of these Off
ces will receive $1,000 a year.
Mrs. r. b. Hartman, Milwaukee,
was elected regent OF the Wisconsin
ID. a. r. over Mrs. M. ]. Trenary, Ke-
nosha, at the twenty-second annual
convention in GAINESVILLE. The vote
was % to IL. Miss Helen Dorset, La
Crosse, was elected yice-regent
Louis B. Nagler, former assistant
secretary of state sentenced by Unit
ed States Circuit Judge Evan A. Evans
to two and One-half years in the fed
eral penitentiary at Fort LeavenWorth
for violation of the espionage act, has
appealed his case to the United
States supreme court, Judge A. L.
Sanborn allowing a writ of error
Dec. 81 will probably end the work
of the local and district boards. That
is the intimation given in a telegram
to Maj E. A. Fitzpatrick, Madison,
state draft administrator, from Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder. The
order stated that no requisition for
supplies, furniture or equipment for
local and district boards. should be
honored beyond Dec. 81.
Outagamie county may soon have
the best patrolled highways in the
state if the plans Of the county high
way commission are carried out.
Fifty miles, mostly federal and state
trunk lines, are being patrolled at the
present time and the additional $50
miles which the commission desires to
patrol is the old county trunk line.
This would give this county 200 miles
of patrolled highways.
Senator Robert M. La Toilette has
again given the pressure of official
business in Washington as the rea-
son for his failure to appear at Madi-
son for adverse examination under the
discovery statutes in his 100000 libel
suit against the Democrat Printing
company He was to have appeared
Nov. Is but wrote his attorneys it was
impossible to come or to set a definite
date when he could be in Madison.
All lOlctlA OOdlOI LII lOOu wiz 1Ol-
low prices issued by the price-fixing
committees will receive a new window
sign from the food administration,
which will serve as a safeguard from
profteering for consumers. The sign
reads: s.The prices charged by this
store will not exceed those indicated
in the most recent list of fair prices
applicable to this locality and issued
under authority and direction of the
United States food administration.
Enlargement of the Brown county
fair seems assured as the result of &C.
ton by the Brown county board of
supervisors in the appointment of a
special committee to confer with the
Brown County Agricultural and Fair
association. It is probable that the
board will appropriate $4,000 annually
toward the support of the fair. New
buildings, and a new race course will