Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-03-15
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


the Junior Red Cross. The High
school department is also 100 per cent
in the purchase of Thrift stamps.
Co. / of Marinette has arrived in
| France, according to a cablegram re-
ceiVed by w. C. Green from Maj. Rob
ert Conner of Marshf1e1d, formerly
commander of the Marinette militia
James Thompson of La Crosse, LIZ
Toilette candidate for United States
senator, and Victor Berger of Milwau-
kee, socialist, alone were without
champions when the Franklin club of
La Crosse debated the senatorial race.
Because of the criticism to which
the national body has recently been
subjected, the Ashland German alIi-
ance chapter has voted to discontinue
it's meetings, at least until after the
war. The action was unanimous.
Charles Van Der Schaas of Sparta
was elected president of the Western
Holstein BREEDERS association at the
annual meeting held at La Crosse and
the delegates decided to form county
organizations to push the work.
The Rev. Samuel Howell Murphy,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Delafeld the last several years, is
dead. He was about 70 years of age
and four daughters.
Frank Wendorf and wife of Wilton
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary recently with nine children
and twenty-seven grandchildren pres
ent Mr.. Wendorf is II years old and
Mrs. Wendorf is 72. Both were born
In Germany.
Whooping cough took 1872 children's
lives in Wisconsin last year, according
to state records compiled by the state
board of health. Deaths in previous
years were as follows: 1910, 200;
1911, 224; 1912, 1923; 1913. I'll; 1914,
155; 1915, 1856; 1916, $50.
The home of Frank Barino, Racine,
an Italian section foreman, was partly
wrecked and Barino and his wife and
three children narrowly escaped seri-
Gus injury when dynamite, set at a
basement window, exploded. A por-
ton of the house was torn out.
About fifty Wisconsin women ath-
letes will attend the athletic confer
ences of American college women at
the University of Chicago April IL
and -. Nineteen colleges and uni
versities of the west and middle west
will be represented at Chicago, as well
as seven colleges from the New Eng
land states.
To force the city to pay an auto
license fee on a motor fire truck is
unconstitutional according to the opin-
ion of officials at Neenahs Funds de-
rived from the licenses ares@used to
keep county roads in repair and the
fire truck never uses these highways.
That is, the point upon which the Off
Gals base their assertions.
All digitalis raised last year in the
drug plant garden at the University of
Wisconsin is to be used in the medi-
cal departments of the army and navy.
About $50 pounds of the powdered
drug, which is used as heart stimu-
liant, is now ready for shipment, and
almost as much that is not SO perfect
is available for the making of tine
ture.
The Wisconsin Sheep and Dairy
Cattle company, which is launching
project to convert northern Wiscon-
sin eut-over lands into sheep ranches,
established headquarters in GYeen
Bay. with H. M. Spang as manager.
Ten thousand acres Of land north of
Phil Ups, Price county, is owned by
the company, ard sheep are being
placsd on the land.
Mrs. Charles Rauk, 81, is one of the
moss active workers the Waupun Red
Cross chapter has. She has knitted
thirey-six pairs Of wristlets and has
made seyenty-f1ve> holders and two
quilts, which were sold, the money
going to the local organizations treas
ury Mrs. Rauk is in good health. She
is bright and active and takes inter-
est in events of the time. She has
been a resident of Waupun since 1855.
Former Gov. Francis e McGovern,
republican candidate for the senate
rial nomination, has withdrawn in
favor of Congressman Irvine L. Len.
root, making the issue clean
cut one between Mr. Lenroot, the 10y
atty conference nominee and James
Thompson, La Crosse, La Toilette can
didate Mr. McGovern in his formal
statement declares he is ready to
work for the election of Mr.. Lenroot
and offers his services. He--takes the
stand that the indictment in Chicago
of Victor L. Berger, socialist candi-
date virtually eliminates the latter
from the race, regardless of whether
or not he is convicted, and that the
pacifst vote will consequently be CEN
tered on Thompson. Mr.. McGovern
sees crave fears of the nomination of
Thompson under these conditions and
his subsequent election. This, Mr.. Nc
Govern says, would be party, state
and national calamity and rather than
see it occur he prefers to withdraw
from the contest.
A high divorce record marked the