Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-10-04
WISCONSIN NEWS
important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

DEPUTY Conservation Wardens NJ. c..
Thorn and J. w. Foster recently de-
s5troyed three beaver dams which
were causing damage by flooding
lands in Taylor and Clark counties.
Gen. Charles King of Milwaukee
and Prof. F. G. Kiekhofer of Madison
will be the principal speakers at the
annual convention of the Western
Teachers association to be held at La
Crosse on Oct. Is and 10.
A service flag containing $3.50 stars,
the number of soldiers in service
Trom Marathon county, was dedicated
an Wausau Former Congressman j.
r. Lentz, recently returned from
France, delivering patriotic address.
4 program by the Tenth Infantry
band, Wisconsin National guard was a
feature
The state board of control has ap-
pointed Prof William A. Cochran,
veteran teacher in the State School
Cor the Deaf at Delavan, acting super
5ntendent of the institution effective
Oct. 1, when the resignation of FL. c.
Buell. takes effect. Mr.. Buell. resigned
recently to engage in army Y. M. c.
A. work.
'Any person for whom any votes
are cast at a primary election is a
candidate within the meaning of the
law" That is the opinion Of Atty. Gen.
Spencer Haven given to Secretary of
State Merlin Hull who asked for a
ruling on the case of "A. A. Bentley, La
Crosse, Democratic candidate for con-
gress in the Seventh district.
Rev. L. Albert Mullett, Pentecostal
evangelist WHO has been holding
meetings at Eau Claire, was arrested
on a charge of failing to register I'M
der the draft law. Mullett recently
got iuto the limelight at Eau Claire
when he and a followe. were arrested
whetl they got out OF the street in
their barefoot and started to preach.
Capt. Herman Rupp, former COM
manGer of Company B, Third regi-
ment, Wisconsin National guard, has
been given the croix de guerre, the
French war medal, for bravery in ac-
ton, according to information con-
tanned in letters received at La Crosse.
Capt. Rupp is the first La Crosse man
TO receive the French war medal
1t. Col j. Brooks Shuman, La
Crosse, veteran of the Spanish war
and in the regular army since 1899,
has been promoted to the rank of
Colonel Shuman was member of
Co M, Third regiment, w. n. g., in
the Spanish war, attaining the rank of
sergeant He has seen service in the
Philippines, Alaska, and Panama.
Marathon Onward, a 9 months old
Airdale, owned by the Marathon ken
& nels of Wausau, was judged the best
pupDy at the Maine Line Kennel show
at Narbeth, Pa, third puppy and sec
ond novice at Jersey, N. j., second
puppy and third novice at Ottowa,
Canada, and second puppy. and second
novice at the Bryn Mawr Horse. show
at Philadelphia.
The Wisconsin food administration
has announced that powdered sugar
may not be sold except for CONNER
>cial baking and manufacturing pur-
poses after Oct. TO- It's sale for do.
nestle consumption and to retailers
for distribution among domestic con-
sumers is forbidden. Sale of stocks
on hand is permitted if purchased
before the regulation was made
known.
5. Gov. Philip has ordered special
elections to fill congressional vacan-
scies in the Sixth and Eleventh dis
tricts. Election will be for the I'M
expired terms of the late James Da-
wilson, Oshkosh, and Irvine Lenroot,
the latter elevated to the senate last
spring. Special primaries will be
held in the two districts on Oct. %,
while the special election will take
place at the time of the general cleo
ton of Nov. 5.
Sam Young, who was born in Mer.
rill in 1860, owns an interesting relic.
1T is a post card picture of "Old Abe, !"
the fighting eagle that accompanied
the Eighth Wisconsin regiment for
three years during the civil war. The
post card was given to him by Miss
Cornelia Golesbury, afterward the
wife of d. A. Kline. She was teaching
school and Sam was one of the school
children The picture was given to
him in 1865. 1t is well preserved.
: Mrs. Edward E.. Cheesman, Mt
Pleasant has given the United States
government 80 of the finest bred
homing pigeons to be found in the
country They have been shipped to
The Great Lakes Training station to
be trained to carry messages on the
: battlefields of Europe, when the tele-
phone and telegraph systems become
s disabled Some of the homers which
have been shipped to the Great Lakes
were imported from Belgium by Mrs.
Cheesman, who for over a quarter of
a century raised and trained homlng
pigeons, which won national repu-
tation because of long and record