Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-10-16

pany B, Three Hundred Tenth engi-
neers, a unit of the Eighty-fifth, or
Custer division, which trained in
Camp Custer. Sergt Desnoyers wrote
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs Frank
B. Desnoyers, that the engineers had
arrived on Russian SOIL The Custer
division went overseas over two
months ago and contained Wisconsin
and Michigan men chiefly.
Madison = Prof. William G. Mar
quette, associate professor of botany
at Columbia university, who had been
professor of botany at the University
OF Wisconsin from 1905 to 1910, was
sentenced to serve one day in the GUS
tody of the United States marshal for
refusing to register. When arraigned
in federal court in New York, Judge
Clayton, after a hearing, gave him one
days time to change his mind
Racine-A former Racine woman who
shows her patriotism, notwithstanding
her advanced age, is Mrs. ]. N. Pills
bury, of Los Angeles, Cal. Although
Mrs. Pillsbury is n years of age, up
to a short time ago she had knitted
200 pairs of stockings. She can knit
pair of stockings day. 1t is doubtful
If this record mas been exceeded by
any woman in the United States.
Green Bay Door county added
three more gold stars to it's service
flag, and increased the total to twenty
four. Besides the twenty-four who
have made the supreme sacrifice, there
are twenty-seven Door county soldiers
who have been wounded in action
Nearly all of the casualties occurred
among members of Company F, Fourth
infantry.
| Acknowledgement Frank E. Golf
of Barron had two close calls during
the American adva[Ges on the west
ern front. He writes from France
that during one attack a bullet went
| through his coat pocket and in another
encounter, his gun was shot out of
his hands. He went over the top four
times in six days without getting a
scratch.
| Green Bay-Lieut. Clarence G. No
BILE of Green Bay, died of wounds on
Aug. 5, two days after sustaining in
juries in the counter offensive of the
| learned from the war department
Lieut.. Noble was in Company G, One
Hundred Twenty-eighth infantry, in
| the Thirty-second division
Wausau-rThe name of G. D. Jones
of Wausau has been submitted to Gov
E. L. Philip by the Wausau Chamber
of Commerce as it's choice of that in
stitution for membership on a Wis
consin committee of fifteen to cooper
ate with Franklin r. Lane, secretary
of the interior, in his duty of land set
Element by returning soldiers.
Appleton = Onions measuring from
! ten to eleven inches in circumference
were raised by Herbert Rainbow, 10
years old, in his war garden in the
town of Center. The youthful gar
dener recently presented an onion
measuring 1114 inches in circumfer-
ence to F. o. Let's, rural mail carrier
on route No. 4.
notwithstanding to an estimate
by County Agricultural Agent Sell the
| loss by stripe in barley in Winnebago
county this year was about per cent,
of $4,000 bushels. That is considera-
bly, less than in many other counties
of the state, some of which lost as
| high as from 10 to Is per cent.
Racine-Percy Ludine, Racine
high school graduate but 16 years old,
entered Ripon callege recently, where
he was recommended for the S. A. T.
| C. at Fort Sheridan He received his
commission as lieutenant and report
ed for duty at the Rahe Auto school,
Kansas City.
| Neenah = Capt Frank j. Schneider
o. the Or, Hundred and Twenty-fifth
! infantry, writes home that the ma
| iority of German prisoners are glad
| they were captured and that some
| Germans come over to the American
lines and surrender voluntarily.
| Wausau- assessed valuation on
real estate in Marathon county is $751;
975,0O1, compared with $54,279,627 a
| &c
! 263, 1859. A year ago it was $780,
727.
Fond du Laf-CIarles ]. Scribner,
well known Wisconsin travelling sales
man and prominent in U. c. T. and
t. P. A. circles, died here, following
an attack of heart trouble.
Fond du Lac-Capt S. E. Gavin, well