Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-10-12
News of the
Badger State
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

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Green Bay-Evidence that sor1e
Wisconsin and Michigan men are in
Russia is contained in letter from
Sergt. Harry B. Desnoyers of Com
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 hearing, gave him one
days time to change his mind.
Racine former Racine woman who
| shows her patriotism, Notwithstanding
her advanced age, is Mrs. ]. n. Pills
bury, of Los Angeles. Cal Although
Mrs. Pillsbury is II years of age. up
to a short time ago she had knitted
ESQ pairs of stockings. She can knit
pair of stockings day. 1t is doubtful
If this record has been exceeded by
any woman in the United States.
Green Bay Door county added
three more gold stars to its 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.
Acknowledgment Frank E. Goff
OF Barron had two close calls during
the American advances on the west
eIn front. He writes from France
| that during one attack a bullet went
| Though his coat pocket and in another
| encounter, his gun was shot out of
! mis- hands. He went over the top four
times in six days without getting
scratch.
Green Bay-Lieut. Clarence G.. No
| Bile of Green Bay, died of wounds on
Aug. S, two days after sustaining in
iuries in the counter offensive Of the
Americans in France, his parents
learned from the war department.
Lieut.. Noble was in Company G, One
Hundred Twenty-eighth infantry, in
the Thirty-second division.
Wausau-The name of G. D. Jones
Of Wausau has been submitted to Gov.
E. L. Philip by the Wausau Chamber
Of Commerce as its 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. 0. Let's, rural mail carrier
/ Vn route No. 4.
! Oshkosh---A ccording 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 Ludne, a Racine
high school graduate but Is years old,
entered Ripon callege recently, where
/ he was recommended for the S. A. r.
! 6. at Fort Sheridan. He received his
z
/ ed for duty at the Rahe Auto school.
/ Kansas City.
| Wausau-The assessed valuation on
/ zeal estate in Marathon county is $57.-
/ 975.001, compared with $54,279,627 a
year ago. Personal property is $16,-
263 ,059. A year ago it was $13,950,
727.
Fond du Lac-Charles J. Scribner,
well known Wisconsin travelling sales
man and prominent in U. c, r. and
! T. P, A. circles, died here, following
IN attack of heart trouble.
Fond du Lac-Capt S. f. Gavin, well
ynown Fond du Lac surgeon in charge
( If the base hospital at Camp Colt Get
/ -ysburg. Pa, has been advanced 10 the
rank Of major
+ Green Bay-The Green Bay Commu-
nity Music association has been in