River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-15


ter. The call was for four painters,
twelve chauffeurs, sixty-four laborers.
Lieutenant Gilbert Lance of Keno
sha, son of Capt. III. A. Lance, vice
president of the Simmons company,
has been ordered to Camp Meade to
act as instructor. He recently was
decorated for bravery in France.
Frank Little, Eau Claire, a widower
and father of six children, is under ar
rest on a charge of a serious nature
preferred by his 16-year-old daughter,
against whom the alleged offense was
committed.
ALI foreign language instruction in
the grades of Milwaukee public
schools will be eliminated at the close
of the next school year. This was the
action taken by the school board with
only one dissenting vote.
] Carl e. jacobson, pentecostal evan
gelist arrested at Fairchild some days
ago for verbal attack made on the
Red Cross at benefit sale, pleaded
guilty before Judge James Wickham in
circuit court at Eau Claire to charge
of violating the Wisconsin loyalty"
statute and was given one-year pris-
on sentence.
The First Baptist church of Albion,
Oswego counay, New York, will re-
ceive the sum of $500 for the pur-
chase of a bell. That is the bequest
made by Mrs Jane Jaquith Earl of
4 - in q
court at Oshkosh. She also gave $500
to the reading room of the Christian
Science church of Neenah,
In order to save the big crop of wild
raspber1ies in Langlade county, ar
rangements are being made through
the Amigo Association of Commerce
to have automobiles take berry pick
ers to the berry patches in the morn
ing and return them to their homes at
night. The Amigo Canning company is
experimenting this year with the can
ming of wild raspbeTTies.
Two notable gatherings of farmers
will be held in Shawano county this
month. The town of Seneca farmers
will have a big Fmelon feast on Aug.
Is, when County Agent Moore will be
one of the principal speakers. On Aug.
81, the town of Morris will have it's
annual corn roast, which will be at
tended by speakers from the state uni
versity.
President Charles r. Van Hise, of
the University of Wisconsin has ac-
cepted the invitation of the British
government to be one of the party to
visit England and France, learn the
war conditions in those countries and
explain the conditions in America to
the British and French. DR.. Van Hise
has been granted two months leave
of absence.
The Madison field hospital company
of the old First regiment, Wisconsin
National guard, of which Maj. William
Lorenz, State Hospital for the Insane
at Mendoza, is commander, has been
praised in general army orders issued
by Pershing's headquarters for eff
cient work. The bulletin is headed
'1Hospital Salvage Figures That
Count" The unit is the first Ameri-
can field hospital to work on German
soil.
Judge John M. Becker, of Monroe,
tried in federal court at Eau Claire,
on charge of having made unpatri-
otto utterances, was convicted by
! jury. Sentence was deferred. Two
addresses which Becker made last
February formed the basis of the
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he attempted to discourage enlist
ments. Becker denied the allegations
and asserted that his criticism was di-
rected at proiteers.
| The United States district attorney
has issued a permit opening thirteen
county which had been closed on &C
count of the fact that they were with
in the government radius of Camp
Herring, which had been used as an
army training camp for soldiers. The
permit for re-opening the saloons pro-
vides that they shall promptly close
at any time the war department re-
sumes the use of the camp.
The war department will establish
training unit for heavy artillery off,
GERS at the University of Wisconsin,
this fall, according to a recent an
nouncement, received by the univer
sity. The Wisconsin institution will be
one of the ten or eleven of the large
institutions of the coutry in which
such training units will be established.
Among the special courses which the
university will offer for the heavy ar
tillery work are practical gunnery
and artillery fire." to be given by Prof.
Wolff, and course in ~ballistics" by
Prof. c. S. Schlichter.
James Henry Davidson, so, member
of congress from the Sixth district, is
dead. He had been i'll at a Washington
hospital for several weeks with inter-
nal disorders and had been in failing
health for months. Mr.. Davidson was
chairman of the Republican congress
sional campaign committee from 1890
to 1896 and was elected t0 thA Fifty.