Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-12


Instead of the annual Junior prom,
Tomah High school gave Liberty
| dance The proceeds of the party
were donated to the Red Cross.
Joseph Subian and Joe Parvick, his
brother-in-law, are under arrest at Ra-
cine following three fires which oc-
Cured at Ives, and which are believed
to have been of incendiary origin.
Alvin Grove, of Menasha, is given
the credit for taking the first swim
of the season. 1t was not his fault,
however, for he fell out of canoe
in which he was crossing the stream.
David H. Palmer. II years old, one
of the city's most prominent business
men, died at La Crosse. He was for
years president of the German
American bank
c.. A. Wolford, for thirty years a
La Crosse mail carrier, died at the age
of so years. He was the father Of
Jack Wolford, forme well known WI
baseball pitcher.
Thieves forced entrance into the sa~
loon of Robert Bonek, in the town of
Weston and carried away a small safe
There is no clew. Money in the cash
register was not taken.
Neenah will send it's first quota to-
the farms about April Is. Ten boys.
will be placed on adjoining farms in
this territory and later contingents
from the classrooms will follow in
short order.
The entire Wisconsin state guard
consisting of 5000 men, will mobilize
at Camp Douglas in August providing
the necessary funds and equipment are
available, Adjt.-Gen. Orlando Holway
has announced.
The first spring hunting in violation
of the law has been discovered across.
the river from La Crosse in Minnesota.
Fred Allen of La Crescent paid fine
of $28 and costs and his gun and boat
we're confiscated by the warden.
A number OF La Crosse potato
spectators who have been holding
supplies all winter have been hard hit
The price here dropped suddenly from
Is cents to IS cents per bushel. Some
of the men bought the tubers at 81 a.
bushel.
Wisconsin has 10000 soldiers in
France and more than $4,000 in some
branch of the army or navy, accord
ing to Adjt- Gen. Orlando Holway of
the Wisconsin National guard. Under
the draft 1850 state men are in
service.
Unable to enlist in the army be-
cause he was too old, Andrew Peter
son, former Wausau policeman, at
tempted suicide. Peterson shot HIM
self in the head. Physicians stated he
would recover unless complications
develop.
v. C. Buel of Appleton, recently ap-
pointed state field secretary for the
Wisconsin State Propagation and Pro-
tective association, in his first address,
urged the sportsmen of the state to-
organize in order to combat the COM
mercial hunters and fishers.
Attorney John O. Miller, acting for
the village of Niagara, near Marinettes
has let contracts for the new water
works and sewage system, costing a.
total of $4,000. The Waterworks will
cost $4,000 and the sewage $4,000.
Work will begin Immediately.
The name of Justice Marvin B.,
Rosenberg appeared on the official
ballot at Racine as Marvin B. Rosen-
berg. 1t is claimed that the error
caused many men to vote for Crown
hart 1t is doubtful, however, whether
the ballots will be thrown out.
Wisconsin men in the Rainbow divi-
sion are billeted in haylofts and empty
houses, somewhere in France ac-
cording to Lieut.. A. J. Began, one Of
the three Wisconsin Rainbow officers.
who have returned from France.
Lieut.. Began says American tobacco
is the most welcome gift an Amer
lean soldier can receive.
The crop reporting board shows an
enormous gain in the milk industry of
the state, the former standard of a.
$100,000,000 dairy output per year hav-
ing, scared to SITS, 100000 for milk
sales alone in 1917. Milk averaged
S21O per hundredweight for that year.
The average output was 4,780 pounds
of milk per cow, or 181 pounds butter
fat.
The Wisconsin supreme conrt held
that where father misrepresents to-
an employer of labor that his son is
Of employable age and such son is
employed pursuant to such represen-
tation and sustains injuries while in
such employment the employer may
maintain an action against the father
to recoup himself for any damages he
may have sustained by reason of the
boys injuries.
Beloit heirs of the late Miss Alice
Broder will oppose the probating Of
her will, which makes liberal be-
quests to Marquette university and
three Beloit Catholic churches. John
J. Riordon and Elizabeth Todd Eldred
are named as executors and ask to
have the will probated, but relatives
said to be nieces of the deceased, will
onnaar in 0nnOSition Miss RrOdnr'e