Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
Badger State
Happenings

lege 5. A. T.. &. have been dismissed
and the unit demobilized.
Yeggs cracked the door of the
vault in the Klueter company Offices,
Madison, and found it empty.
Ernest Boebel, Fennimore farmer,
paid a fine of $35 in federal court at
Madison for making pro-German ut
terances.
The quadrennial convention of Wis
consin Maccabees will be held IN June,
according to plans completed by di-
rectors at Superior
A strip of canvas from German
aeroplane. shot down over the Ameri-
can lines, has been sent Louis Kola-
sinski, Menasha, by a brother.
A reunion of La Crosse aviators who
served in the war with flights by those
most efficient will be a feature of the
1919 interstate fair here
AL Kemmett, GAINESVILLE, aged 20,
fell from an adto truck and was in
stantly killed when wheels of machine
crushed his head.
Within two days Mr.. and Mns. Hans
L. Hanson and Mr.. and Mrs. liver
Hanson of Holmen. La Crosse County,
died of influenza The husbands were
brothers,
Safe blowers looted the safes of the
Schlitz, Val. Blatz and Consumers
Coal company, GAINESVILLE, obtaining
considerable money, Thrift stamps
and Liberty bonds.
Private Frank Foster is the first
wounded La Crosse soldier to arrive
home. He lost his right leg as a re-
suit Of a high explosive striking his
knee.
E. r. Hicks, Oshkosh, was chosen
president; E. A Williams, Neenah,
ce-president; John w. Brown,
Stevens Point, secretary and treasu-
rer, of the Wisconsin Fraternal con-
gress.
The eighth annual road school un-
der the auspices of the Highway Com
mission, will be held in Madison on
Feb. 8 to 8, at which time it is expect
ed from 400 to 500 road men of the
state will be present.
Frank ". Harnacker of Co. r., Fond
du Lac, part of the Rainbow division,
has arrived in New York. He has
seven wounds, all from fragments Of
one shell. He writes that a bunch"
of Fond du Lac boys have returned.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Weigle has announced that he would
prosecute manufacturers of "egg sub
stitutes." Weigle declared that some
Of the socalled fsubstitutes" are moth
ing more than corn starch and skim
milk
Private Peter J. Beisbier, town of
Wayne, Dodge county, has been cited
for bravery, according to a message
received by his mother, Mrs. Mary
Beisbier, from the war department.
Beisbier, the citation states, was
caught back of the German lines but
refused to surrender, putting up a
vigorous fight until severely wounded.
Dir. A. j. Williams, member of the
Racine board of health, has demanded
an investigation of the methods of
DR.. H. e. Wilson, deputy health officer,
whom he charges with circulating pc
titions for appointment of Miss Marie
Corse as health inspector at 500 a
month. DR.. Williams declares the po-
sition is one for which a women is
not fitted.
Ripon college just received official
notice that Ripon will have a reserve
officers training corps. Following is
the telegram received from Washing
ton: President Ripon college: You
may proceed with the organization of
a reserve officers training corps pend
ing official notification from the adju-
tant general of the army. A profess
sor of military science and tactics will
be assigned to your institution in the
near future"
The Wisconsin Food Administration
received telegram from Washington
asking it to make plans for closing up
its work after jan l. This order
means that the federal government is
planning to curtail the work of the
state food administration. The big
on that date, with the exception of
county administrations, which will
be retained temporarily for food price
fixing purposes.
In one of the Quietest primary cleo
tons in the history of Oshkosh Hen
ry r. Hagene, former council commits
sioner and Charles F. Hart, for assem-
blyman from the Third district, were
nominated from field of seven can
didates to stand for election Jan. 2,
for the unexpired term of Florian Lam
pert as third member of the commits
sion council Mr.. Lampert was elect
ed to congress fro mthe Sixth district
and there remains a year and four
sioner Not more than half the vot-
ing strength of the city went to the
poles.
Fifty students at the officers mate
rial school at Great Lakes have re-
ceived their commissions as ensign.
These men were the successful grad
yates of four months course at the
school. Wisconsin men commissioned
were w G.. Erdman, Oshkosh, and T.
O. Keans, Kenosha.
Fire caused nearly $4,000 damages
at Liberty Cottage, a college woman's
dormitory at Beloit. AS Beloit college
is closed on account of influenza most
of the girls had gone home. The
building is known as the old Beta