Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-05-31

! Andrew Fl. Dahl, former secretary
of state, was elected chairman of the
Vernon county council of defense.
Brown county's honor flag, won with
a 21O per cent subscription to the third
Liberty loan, was hoisted to the flag
staff on the courthouse.
Frank Hoard Crawford, River Falls,
and Gilbert William Burnett of Amigo,
were commissioned second lieutenants
/ in aviation signal corps.
Admitting that he stole $40 from
| William F. Anderson while he slept,
Frank Davis, Marinette, was sentenced
1 to one year in Green Bay reformatory.
The Oneida county board at meet
| ing adopted resolution urging Ira
E. Smith, former chairman, to become
q candidate for the assembly from
| Oneida, Forest and Florence counties.
John Stolt, 70 years, living near Bay
! City, was killed by an angry bull. The
body of the aged man with chest
crushed and badly torn was found in
! the pasture where he had ventured
alone
The East Madison station Of the
i Milwaukee road and the Illinois Cen
j trail depot will shortly be closed, in
. line with the governments policy to
do away with duplication in the rail-
4 way service.
i Beloit has met all requirements, and
military units will be sent there for
instruction in signal work and motor
construction during the summer
months The buildings and campus
of Beloit college will be used.
Closed since early in March because
of the dry zone established by the gov
eminent about military barracks, Clin-
/ tonville saloons may reopen if the ru-
mored removal of an army motor in
struction school proves true.
Mrs. Catherine Carr, an eye witness
of the assassination of Abraham Lin
coin, died at Highbridge, Ashland
county, at the home of her daughter,
being 80 years of age. She was born
in the District of Columbia.
George Christensen, Hartland, the
hermit, has been committed to the asy-
lum at Mendoza, and his farm is being
plowed for the first time in eighteen
years. The Waukesha county council
of defense has taken charge.
/ Mrs. Otto Knoll of Prairie du Sac,
charged with dog poisoning, was held
by Justice andre of Baraboo to circuit
court In default of bail the woman
was taken to Baraboo jail to await
examination as to her sanity.
Milton, 12-year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter West, Praisie du Chen,
was shot by an 8-year old playmate,
the charge tearing a hole through
Millions neck. The injured child was
taken to La Crosse, where he died at
the city hospital.
Michael Roth, mason contractor of
Two Rivers, was instantly killed and
three other men seriously injured
when the steel frame for the steeple
of new ST. Michaeps Church at Ere
mont, north of Appleton, collapsed in
sudden gust of wind.
/ Postmaster Stapleton, Rhinelander,
has received the first letter to come
by way of the new aeroplane mail. The
letter bore one of the new 24-cent
stamps and carried a New York post
mark. The letter was sent by the
Aerial League of America.
! Corp Leonard Hit was the first Eau
4 Claire name to appear on Gen. Perish
ing's daily casualty report, when an
May Is he was listed among the slight
ly wounded He is the eldest son of
4 Mrs. Dora Hit, an aged widow, and
long a resident of Eau Claire.
| A telegram to the Wausau board Of
education from the capital issues COM
mittee at Washington announced that
approval would not be given for the
issuance of 100000 in municipal
bonds for the building of the first unit
of the proposed central school build
ing.
Angered because GAINESVILLE school
authorities did not heed protest of
the town board, which passed resO-
luton condemning the teaching of
German, citizens committee remov-
ed the German text books from the
high school and burned them in the
street.
F. l.. MCGOWAN Of Endeavor, who is
member of the Equity Publishing
committee, states that the society will
soon issue daily paper at Madison.
The membership of the Equity society
has grown since January from $4,000
to $4,000 and has guarantee of s.
900 subscribers for any paper that will
present it's cause.
1t is proposed to create a fund of
$15O,OOO to conduct a campaign by en-
ploying workers at Mari1 cite to guard
against shipping liquor into dry Me-
nominee across the line. More than
$50 cases of beer and twenty-five gal
Ions of whisky were confscated in
Delta county, Michigan, in the first Of
series of raids made on saloon prop
eTty.
Kenosha has given up it's bottle