The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1918-08-29
MADISON. WIS, THURSDAY AUG 20. 1918
WISCONSIN NEWS

news agent ON a railroad train
running between Milwaukee and
La Crosse, was arrested at the lat
ter city, Friday, by United States
Deputy Marshal Gantz on a charge
of selling liquor to soldiers. Alt
man was arraigned before a court
commissioner at La Crosse and af-
ter pleading not guilty was com
mitted to the La Crosse county
Jail to await action of the grand
jury. Bail was fixed at $4,000.
esville-CongresSman Henry
Allen Cooper suffered a severe
strain of his neck when thrown
against the top Of taxi. He was
driving to Edgerton to deliver
speech.
Milwaukee-Within the next six
weeks Wisconsin must supply 49,
$50 common laborers for war in
dustries, under government orders
from the labor department re-
ceived here Friday.
Ripon-Ripon college has been
made an official institution of mil
itary training by the United States
war department. Dean W. II. Bar
ber has received a notice that Rip
on has been placed on the accred-
tied list and that a regular army
officer would be detailed to the
college to take charge Of the
work. Under the plan all male stu
dents will be subject to military
training.
Sheboygan-lIis two sons, Wer-
ner and Helmuth, in active service
in France, the Rev. John G. Runge
has resigned as pastor of the Lu-
theran church in the town of She
bOygan Falls to enter the service.
He preached his farewell sermon
last Sunday and among other
words said that he felt his country
needed him more than his congre-
cation.
Milwaukee The first soldier to
be cared for at the Milwaukee Sol
diers home during his period of
coRyalescence has arrived from
France. The wounded man is
Maurice Leahy, who reached the
Soldiers home Friday. lie had
seen twenty-four years service in
the regular army before the pres
ent war broke out. He volunteer
ed, however. and went to France
with an Ohio regiment of The
Rainbow division. He was wound
ed some months ago in the head.
Sheboygan F. Ilinze, a let
ter carrier at Sheboygan, was
dropped by Postmaster Franz
Gottsacker for his pro-German ac
tivities and sunpatriotic actions.
Milwaukee AT a meeting of the
| Wauwatosa chapter of the Wis
consin Loyalty Legion resolutions
were adopted asking United
States District Attorney Ii. a
lSawyer to take immediate steps
to present to the grand jury evl'
dence of the alleged un-Americar
actions of Victor Berger, editor
of the Milwaukee Leader, a social
istic candidate for e. S. Senator
and that if true bill is founC
against him urge an immediate
trial.
Milwaukee Tables, chairs, bed
and other articles will be made
lmore simple and in only five or si1
different styles, while brass bed
will be eliminated until after th'
war, according to members OF tn,
Wisconsin Retail Furniture Deal
er's association attending the an
nual convention Of that body II
Milwaukee this week. The manu-
lfacture of furniture will be stand
SPECIAL NOTICE
The editor of THE Blade" vii
be in a position to ship three thou
sand Colored people from tn
South into the Eastern, Northerl
and Western cities. The war ha
been the means of thousands o
doors being opened to Black me-
and women which heretofore hav
been closed, and they are gettini
the same wages that the whit
man has received. Hundreds o
factories now are employing Co
ored men and women on salarie
ranging from $3.50, $3.50, $50
and $3.50 per day. The proprie
; tors of these large institutions tel
us that these Colored men and VIC
men are making good, and the
could use a hundred more daily
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