Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19

Neenah, which went from dry to
wet at the last municipal election, is
contemplating raising the saloon Ii
cense fee from 5000 to $1,000.
Mayor Hitchcock of Berlin has sue
ceeded in getting the common council
to pass an ordinance providing a fine
as heavy as $50 for "disloyalty"
Six steamers of the Reiss feet will
be equipped with complete wireless
apparatus when the leave their winter
quarters and other parts on the Great
Lakes.
The woman suffrage leaders in the
state will send out letters to all can
didates who enter the field for legisla-
tive nominations in the woman suf
.frage question.
Clemens Kaudy. So, retired BUSH
ness man and a resident of Oshkosh
for thirty-five years, died of pneuno-
MIA. The widow, two sons and two
daughters survive.
German instructions in schools at
Berlin will be dropped for the current
year F. Stanley Powles has been re-
elected superintendent of schools. He
will receive large increase in pay.
M. j. Cleary, insurance commissions
er of Wisconsin, delivered a patriotic
address at La Crosse when fifty cam
didates were initiated into the La
Crosse lodge of the Knights of Column
bus.
A candidate to succeed Congress-
man Lenroot will be chosen at con-
ference of the Eleventh district county
Republican representatives this sum-
mer if plans made tentatively at SUI
perior are put through.
Fifteen registered men in the sec
ond Outagamie district have failed to
return their missionaries to the
draft board, according to information
received Efforts have been made to
locate these men but to no avail.
A carload of WAR horses, valued
at an average of 5000 per head, and
purchased in Winnebago and Fond du
Lac counties, has been shipped from
Oshkosh to Camp Grant at Rockford,
ILL.,. and will be transported to France.
The supreme court has sent the
trading stamp case to County Judge A.
G. Zimmerman with directions to
take facts in the matter from the find
ings and report the matter back to
the supreme court at an early date.
A telegram was received by Arthur
Huguein, Racine, from the war depart
ment, announcing the death of his son,
Stanley, "a years old, first lieuten-
ant in the United States aviation corps
at Lincolnshire airdome, London.
when two airplanes came together
William Hicks, Oshkosh, son Of for
mer Attorney General E. R. Hicks.
has gone to Urbana, H., where he has
been ordered for instruction III techni-
cal work in connection with prospec-
tive service in the aviation section of
the signal corps. He is below the
draft age.
Lieut.. Alvin Began, Appleton, who
recently returned from France where
he was attached to the Rainbow divi-
sion, left for Spokane, Wash, where
he will be associated with the Elmer
gency corporation. Just what Lieut..
Bogan's duties will be is not known at
this time.
John Callahan, superintendent of
Menasha's public schools for the past
sixteen years, has resigned following
his appointment as director of voca-
tional education for the state of Wis
consin M Callahan will continue to
reside in Menasha. His successor has
not been chosen.
Two calls for selectmen to be sent
to camp were received at the executive
offices at Madison. Call 140 is for
1883 men to leave for Camp Custer
on April 26. These men will go from
the Eastern district of Wisconsin.
Call LA is for 2.477 men from the
Western district of the state.
Going about rs miles an hour off an
elevation on small bridge, Obert
Sorenson, of La Crosse, and his mo-
torcycle leaped about so feet over the
ground and alighted with a crash that
threw him a distance of almost 100
lCOCs A1O Will lCCONC1s 0O1 Cu0OA w QHo
dazed and senseless for about six
hours.
Ernest Weber of GAINESVILLE, who
claims to be Lutheran minister, is
held at Wausau for the United States
marshal charged with not having reg
istered as an enemy alien. Weber adj
mits not registering and said he
thought it was not necessary as he
was born in Alsace before it became a
German province.
State Railroad Commissioner At
wood heard evidence as to the danger
alleged to exist at the Dutch Creek
crossing, near Bangor, where more
than score of persons have met death
during the last few years. Speeding
railroad trains have caused most of
the accidents. It is proposed to build
a viaduct at that point.
Sheboygan now has six companies
in the service of Uncle Sam. The
fourth contingent of selectmen left to