River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-07-04
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Commissioner of Banking A. E.
Kuolt has approved The change in the
name of the German-American bank
of Helenyille, Wis, to the Bank of
HelenviIle
Plans for recruiting Wisconsin's
army of poultry pro6ucerg will be laid
at the annual meeting Of the state
Poultry Breeders association, to be
held at Watertown on Aug. and 4.
With class one about to be exhaust
ted by the July calls for soldiers, the
La Crosse county exemption boards
have announced that no more releases
will be issued for enlistment of reg
istered men.
Miss Gertrude Gath, Madison, daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gath, has
accepted position with the Hercules
Powder Co. at Kenvil, n. j., as chem
list. She was graduated from the uni
versity in 1915.
All doubt about the Wisconsin Rail-
way company's line being extended
from Black Creek to Appleton this
summer was set at rest with the ar
rival of a crew of men, teams and
scrapers to commence work at once.
Formal announcement was made by
DR.. Frank E. Walters of Stevens Point
of his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for congress in the Eighth
district. to succeed Edward E. Browne
of Waupaca.
The war department has notified
Mrs. Bertha Korn of Madison that her
son, Private William Korn, aged "a,
had been killed in action in France.
Korn enlisted in the regular army in
Milwaukee and has been in France
six months.
Sheriff Morris arrested Ray M.
Funk. former Waukesha county clerk,
on a warrant issued by District Attor-
ney D. S. Tullar, charging the former
with embezzlement of $16,056 of coun-
ty money on the date of his leaving
office, Nov. II, last.
Bert Smith, of Neenah, captain of
Co. /, the crack unit in the old Wis
cOnsin National guard, will be given
his honorable discharge from military
service and will return from France
to his home, according to letter writ
ten in May received by Mrs. Smith.
Col. Douglas Mac Arthur, son of the
late Lieut.. Gen. Mac Arthur of Mil
waukee, and chief of staff of the Rain
bow division, who recently was wound
ed in a drive on the German trenches,
was among the colonies nominated by
President Wilson, in list sent to the
senate to be brigadiers.
The Chippewa Falls Wooden Mills
has received a government contract to
make 10000 wooden blankets for the
soldiers. This will necessarily make a
temporary shortage of the famous
Chippewa mackinaw, as practically the
entire factory will be devoted to MAX
ing blankets. The contract price for
the order is $4,000.
A tornado which struck Wood and
Portage counties near Milladore, de-
stroyed every building on the farms OF
G.. J. BuIgrin and George Stashik,
wrecked large barn owned by Jacob
Skibba, and wholly or partly ruined
other farm buildings. The Bulgrin and
Stashik families escaped to open fields
before the storm. Mrs. Bulgrin was
hit by flying timber.
Kicking horses of Iowa county in
iured several last week. Will James
of Dodgeville, was kicked in the head,
had teeth knocked out and when he
fell, he was kicked in the hip and
shoulder. Wilhelm Longseth, 10, OF
the same town, had his jaw fractured,
lips cut, forehead gashed and teeth
knocked out when, a horse kicked him
in the head and face.
The business men of Richland Cen.
ter have organized during the past
week with view to assisting neigh.
boring farmers with their rush of hay
ing and harvesting. At least one day
o. the week is planned to be spent on
nearby farms by business men and
employees. This assistance SO far as
can be will be furnished without cost
to the farmer
The Wisconsin Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION, in convention at Elkhart
Lake, adopted loyalty resolutions, and
at the same time asked the president
to grant commissions to registered
pharmacists entering the service, COM
mensurate with their ability to serve.
They argued that pharmacists are en-
titled to commissioned ranks, in lieu
of the fact that it takes five years to
prepare ones self for registration.
The community of Manawa has
learned by bitter experience that all
patriotic speakers are not patriotic, or
even honest A committee arranged
to have travelling patriotic" speaker
deliver an address, for which he was
to receive his expenses and SIS or $40.
depending on the size of the donation.
Before large audience he delivered
an eloquent appeal for large Red
Cross collection and 500 was taken
I'D for the cause and given to the