River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-07-04

to carry mail for the government. She
took an examination but in accordance
with regulations her name was not
announced.
After having her picture taken, pre-
paratory to registering as an alien,
Mrs. Clara Drews of Neenah was Sc
yerely injured when she fell down the
flight of steps, leading to the gallery.
The body of John Heinrich, aged
resident of Wausau, was found on the
cement sidewalk beneath the window
of a hotel. His roommate is being
held as witness pending the inquest.
Bean Sundays are proving a success
in Wisconsin, and the State Food Ad-
urges the continuance of
the substitution of beans for meats,
especially for beef.
George NJ. Sheldon of Tomahawk, a
Progressive, announced that he will
be a Republican candidate for con-
gress in the Eleventh district, to sue
coed Irvine L. Lenroot.
Rev. John Meyer, pastor of st.
PauPs Lutheran church, Oconomowoc,
the past three years, has accepted the
presidency of the Lutheran normal
school at New Ulm, Mimi.
The Canadian government paid
John Goldthorpe, a farmer west of
GAINESVILLE, $4,000 for two cows. One,
which brought $4,000, was bought
when a calf for $1O5 by the owner.
Four Clintonville men miraculously
escaped death when the automobile in
which they were riding turned turtle
on the Coup road near Menasha. None
of the party was more than slightly
bruised.
Camp Herring and the ordnance in
struction school which has been main
tanned at Kenosha for nearly year
were closed by the war department.
1t was stated that the school might
be reopened later.
A lion belonging to a carnival COM
pany at Wausau escaped while being
transferred from one cage to another.
He attacked two horses and severely
lacerated them before being pounded
into insensibility.
Argyle Scott, one of the wealthiest
men of La Crosse and a director OF
the chamber of commerce has enlisted
as a private in the engineer corps de-
spite the fact that he is above draft
age and married.
Former Atty. Gen. Levi H. Bancroft,
who is duarantined at his home at
Richland Center with smallpox, is on
the road to complete recovery, accord
ing to a statement given out by his
physicians, DR.. f. w. Mckee.
The premature explosion of charge
of powder in toy cannon caused pain
full injuries to John Jirusch and Frank
and Tobias Hoyek of Racine. John re-
ceived the full charge in his left hand
and will lose two fingers.
Joseph Sokup of Chippewa Falls
was fined $40 for selling five pounds of
flour with only three and one-half
pounds of oatmeal and for selling corn
syrup as a substitute with flour, and
his store was closed for three days.
Testimony was filed against ].
Feldman of Madison that he bought
two bales of Peruna wheat, which be-
ing unable to dispose of, he sold with
out substitute. He was ordered to pay
$40 to the Red Cross.
The farmers starch factory, at
Grantsburg, during the spring run just
closed, bought 1868 bushels of pOta-
toes, paying to the farmers $37, 701.90.
A total of $4,000 pounds of starch was
manufactured or an average of 7.13
pounds per bushel.
The body of Louis Kleinheintz,
drowned in Lake Wissota, last Octo-
Der, was found floating on the surface
of the lake by fishermen. 1t was while
searching for this body that DR.. A.. G.
Nussie, Capt A. e. Greenwald and
Thomas Tibbits of Chippewa Falls
were drowned.
Harry Carson, Canadian hroncho
buster and former lariat expert with
Barnum & Bailey's circus, who has
been in Marinette for several weeks,
was summoned by the Canadian gov
eminent to rejoin the mounted police
service on a new expedition. Carson
will leave Regina, Can, with a relief
party to seek Steffanson, the great
Arctic explorer, who is i'll in the Far
North.
The Edgerton electric light COM
pany is extending a $500 horse power
line to the city limits on Blain street,
where a syndicate from Cambridge
will meet the line and carry it to Al
bion, Hillside, Rockdale, and finally to
Cambridge. 1t is planned to furnish
light and power to the farmers along
the route and it is expected to build
branch lines and cover the entire AL
bion Prairie with light and power.
Fred Kuebler of Oshkosh has been
appointed special inspector for the
wisconsin Food Administration to in
spect the books and business of
wholesalers, jobbers, and as many re-
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