Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-03-29
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

paint shop an old frame building, one
of Neenah's landmarks, erected in
1873, was torn down
The body of Ignatz Siatisek, so
years old, an Austrian, was found
floating in the lake near the Sheboy-
gan lighthouse by coast guards.
Whistles blew and bells rang in for
NAL announcement that industrial Nee
nah had commenced working for the
war. One-half hour per week. under
the Kenosha plan, will be devoted to
the raising of war fund.
The will of the late Senator Isaac
Stephenson was filed with the county
court of Marinette county and appli-
cation made for it's probate. 1t is an
instrument of fifty-eight pages and
was executed at Marinette June Is,
1916.
Twelve big industrial plants at Nee
nah, comprising practically all of Nee
nah's leading manufacturing concerns,
have through the cooperation of their
employees set up 100 per cent record
in responding to the Kenosha plan for
war funds.
Kenosha will not vote on the wet
and dry issue this spring according to
present indications. If the drys are
casting their eyes in the direction of
Menasha they have yet to make the
fact known as no prohibition petitions
are in circulation.
That it is the duty of district attor-
neys to enforce the law wherever they
know Of violation and that it is their
duty to make complaints wherever
they occur is the opinion of Atty-Gen.
Spencer Haven to Dist-Atty. Ralph
Smith of Lincoln county
J. M. Callahan of Milwaukee, secre-
tee, filed statement with the secre-
tary Of state showing the total expense
of the Davies campaign to be So, Ut 40.
The committee received in contribu-
tons $4,000, including $1,700 from Mr..
Davies.
Car shortage and not boarding was
declared to be the cause for the small
shipments of potatoes, from Central
Wisconsin markets from the masses of
testimony introduced by the legisla-
tive committee More than 100 repre-
sentative growers, dealers and ship
pers from Waupaca and adjacent coun-
ties gave testimony.
Owing to the fuel situation the sa-
looms will close in Merrill on Sundays.
The question arose as to who should
make the complaint for a continuation
of the enforcement of the Sunday clos
ing law The attorney general sug-
gests that those who have through
custom kept their places open on Sun
day, be notified An enforcement of
the Sunday closing law is contemplate
ed.
The libel suit of Rev. Alfred Leslie
Morse of Waukesha against the Mod
ern Woodmen of America, which grew
out of the recent insurance rate war
when, Morse alleges, the order de-
famed his character by the publica-
tion of booklet dealing with his life
as a minister in Wisconsin towns, was
settled at La Crosse. The Woodmen
paid him substantial sum, attorneys
said.
An Austrian employed at the factory
of the ]. /. Case Threshing Machine
company was roughly handled by fell
low employees, and would have been
thrown into the river had officers of
the company not prevented it. The
Austrian was ordered to kiss the flag,
which he did after crawling on hands
and knees for a considerable distance,
and then willingly contributed to the
county war relief fund
Plunging over a ten-foot embank-
ment when his automobile became I'M
manageable near Bluff Siding, w. A.
Broght, mayor of Trempeauleau and
travelling salesman, employed by La
Crosse grocery firm, was fatally in
jured. He died while directing Joe
Miller, passenger in the machine
with him, and who escaped serious in
jury, to secure a pry to lift the over
turned machine from his body.
Joseph IdppdH, d heHOSHd HldH WnO
was supposedly buried with ceremony
at Kenosha some three years ago has
turned up again. Letters from San
Francisco announce Pappan is now SUI
perintendent of tannery there. Three
years ago, a body recovered from the
lake was identified as the body of Pap
pan. A brother of Pappan and mem
bers of the society to which he be-
Ionged are now wondering who the
man they buried was.
Fifteen hundred people assembled
IN the high school gymnasium at Wa
tertown and many more were turned
away when the newly organized local
council Of defense held its first as
sembly meeting. Judge w. HI. Wood
ard, chairman; Prof. w. H. Kiekhoefer
of the University of Wisconsin and H.
]. James of Fort Atkinson, chairman
of the county council of defense,
spoke, advocating quick and thorough
preparation for the third Liberty loan
campaign.
The big government transport which