Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-27
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

James Moore of Ladysmith has
written his parents that he lost an
eye as the result of being hit by a
German shell. He is continued in a
French hospital.
Kenosha gave Uncle Sam it's 81. 0.
T." in connection with the last draft.
It was impossible for the local board
to meet a call for 103 men regardless
of the fact that every registered man
was called for mobilization. The list
was twenty names short.
The Denmark hotel and the Kri-
warek Bros. general store, Green
Bay, were fined $50 each for violating
| food regulations, and an Outagamie
| county creamery owned by H. j.
Fassbender at South Kaukauna was
fined $25 on similar charge.
According to a telegram received
from Food Administrator Hoover by
the Wisconsin Food Administration,
the maximum price for wet beet pulp
direct from the factory is to be 80
cents a ton, for wet pulp out of the
silo the maximum may be $1.25 ten,
and for dry pulp $40 ton f. o. b. fac
tory.
The common council of Kenosha re-
fused to sanction the "skip-stop" plan
of the railway company. The council
held that the lines of the company
were too short and it was just as i'm
portant to assist the war workers in
getting them to their places of en-
ployment as saving fuel, which in this
case would not be much.
Capt. Robert P. Boardman, son of
Brig.-Gen. C. r. Boardman of Oshkosh,
is home from Fort Sheridan awaiting
orders for assignment as instructor at
one of the middle west colleges in the
training of student military corps.
Since his return from service in
| France he has been serving as an in
structor in battalion of men train
| ing at Sheridan.
Matt Wagner of Marathon has re-
| ceiyed a telegram from the Red Cross
linforming him that his son, Ray P.
1 .
ambulance company, 1O7 Sanitary
train, is being held in a prison camp
| at Mainz by the Germans since Aug.
A. Private Wagner was the auto
| driver for Major Dirk Bruins of Mil
waukee, who is in the same camp
Wagner enlisted and left Wausau a
year ago.
Otto Spaedtke of Oshkosh has been
officially reported as having died of
wounds received in action. He joined
Co. F in 1917, when only II, and went
across with the Rainbow division. He
was wounded July 80. He was the old
est son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Spaedt-
Ike. A brother is in the navy. Off
cial notice has been received at Osh-
kosh verifying unofficial reports of the
deaths of Sergt. Elmer Bulls, Louis
Suess, Sergt. Richard Procknow and
Corp. Walter Thorne.
A naval section of the students
army training corps, consisting of 300
men of selective service age, who
voluntarily enroll in the unit, will be
established at the University of Wis
consin Oct. /, to train engineer and
deck officers for the navy, according to
an announcement received from WASH
ington, Of the 800 men in the naval
section, $50 are to be electrical or me-
chanical engineering students. The
university is one of two Wisconsin in
situations which will have naval
S. A. T. C. sections. The other is
Marquette university, which will have
quota of sixty men.
Ennis Kruger, youngest of the
quartet who resisted the authority of
the United States in the administra-
ton of the army selection law, is
dead, and one brother, perhaps two,
are trapped by federal deputies near
Policy, twenty-five miles from Owen.
Ennis Kruger, 20, was shot to death
in a barn two miles southeast of
Policy, according to United States
Marshal Joseph Gantz, who brought
the body to Owen. Frank Kruger,
81, eldest of the brothers, is in a hos
pital at Chippewa Falls, having sur
rendered after the first battle on the
Kruger homestead, in which he was
wounded Leslie, %, and Louis, rs,
are still sought
According to an announcement re-
ceived at Madison wholesale and re-
tail druggists throughout the country
have received communications enlist
ing them in the drive tc save the fruit
pits and nutshells for the manufacture
of carbon for army masks by Lieut.
Col F. F. Simpson, chief of the section
of medical industry, war industries
board. They are asked to establish
points of collection for pits at their
stores. Two hundred peach pits or
seven pounds of nutshells will supply
carbon for one mask. They must be
cleaned and dried before they are
turned in Bakers have also been no.
tilted by the United States food admin
istration, and confectioners and res
fo17raYof YoYopTi otOrS in various cities