Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-10-11
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

William M. Calvin, prominent West
Bend citizen and civil war veteran, is
dead. He was a member of Co. |, Sec
ond Wisconsin cavalry.
The Green Bay Community Music
| association has been incorporated.
Community singing will be introduced
! in eleven factories and an orchestra
organized
The assessed valuation on real es-
tate in Marathon county is $57,975,OOl,
compared with $54,279,6z7 year ago.
Personal property is $16,263, $50. A
year ago it was $13,950,727.
Charles J. Scribner, well known Wis
consin travelling salesman and proml-
nent in U. C. T. and T. P. A. circles,
died at Fond 6u Lac following an at
tack of heart trouble.
The Whitewater Gazette and Regis
| ter have consolidated and will be con-
trolled by Robert Coe, son OF 3. ID.
Coe. who edited the Register for many
| years. The paper will be the only one
published in Whitewater.
Reports coming to Madison from all
| sections of the state show that Wis
consin is not only going to maintain
| her winter wheat acreage of $4,000
! acres, but that the rye acreage will
| be increased at least SO per cent
After being missing from his home
for three months, Charles F. Schultz.
| Campbellsport, believed dead, was
/ oIz eli q
| Oshkosh He was arrested and charged
! with desertion.
If dry zone is to be established
around Lawrence college, it will proba-
| bly, be half mile one, in the opinion
| of Lieut.. Black, military commander OF
the Student Army Training corps at
the college.
| Miss Edna V. Meuret, r. N, of Wau-
sau, soon will leave for France with
| Red Cross unit. She was graduated
! from Mt. Sinai hospital at Milwaukee
in August, 1917, and since that time
has held the position of surgical super
| visor at that hospital.
Capt. Frank j. Schneider, of Neenah,
| OF the One Hundred and Twenty-ifth
| infantry, writes home that the maJo-
| rity of German prisoners are glad they
were captured and that some Germans
| come over to the American lines and
| surrender voluntarily.
Onions measuring from ten to elev-
en- inches in circumference were rails
| ed by Herbert Rainbow, 10 years old,
| in his war garden in the town OF Cen
ter, near Appleton. The youthful gar
| dener recently presented an onion
measuring liz inches in circumfer-
ence to F. O. Let's, rural mail carrier
| on route No. 4.
| The name of G.. d. Jones of Wausau
| has been submitted to Gov. E. L. Phil
| ipp by the Wausau Chamber of Com
| merce as its choice of that institution
| for membership on Wisconsin COM
! mittee of fifteen to cooperate with
| Franklin r. Lane, secretary of the in
| terror, in his duty of land settlement
by returning soldiers.
Corporal Frank E. Golf of Barron
| had two close calls during the Ameri-
can advances on the western front. He
| writes from France that during one at
| tack a bullet went through his coat
| pocket and in another encounter, his
| gun was shot out of his hands. He
went over the top four times in six
days without getting scratch.
Lieut.. Clarence G. Noble of Green
| Bay, died of wounds on Aug. 5, two
days after sustaining injuries in the
counter offensive of the Americans in
France, his parents learned from the
war department. Lieut.. Noble was in
| Company G., One Hundred Twenty
eighth infantry, in the Yhirty-second
division.
A former Racine woman who shows
her patriotism, Notwithstanding her
| advanced age, is Mrs. J. N. Pillsbury,
of Los Angeles, Cal. Although Mrs.
Pi1lsbury is II years of age, up to a
short time ago she had knitted ESQ
pairs of stockings. She can knit a
pair of stockings day. 1t is doubtful
if this record has been exceeded by
any woman in the United States.
Prof William G.. Marquette, associ-
ate professor of botany ut Columbia
! university, who had been professor of
botany at the University of Wisconsin
from 1905 to 1910, was sentenced to
serve one day in the custody of the
United States marshal for refusing to
register. When arraigned in federal
court in New York, Judge Clayton,
after a hearing, gave him one days
time to change his mind.
Evidence that some Wisconsin and
Michigan men are in Russia is con-
tanned in letter from Sergt. Harry
B. Desnoyers, Green Bay, of Company
r, Three Hundred Tenth engineers, a
unit of the Eighty-ffth, or Custer di-
vision, which trained in Camp Custer
Sergt Desnoyers wrote to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Desnoyers, that
the engineers had arrived on Russian
soil The Custer division went over
seas over two months ago and con-