River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-11-28

1 son opened.
/ Two La Crosse doctors in the medic
cal corps, Lieuts. r. ]. Flynn and e.
A. 'Gatterdam, Jr., have been ordered
to France.
Employees of the traction company
operating lines between Neenah and
Green Bay have been granted an in
creased pay of cents an hour.
Lynn Meissner of Fort Atkinson was
taken into custody at GAINESVILLE, on
charge of giving liquor to a soldier
from Camp Grant.
Herring fishing is in full swing and
many tons are being received on docks
Of three fish houses in Bayfield,. If
favorable weather continues the catch
promises to be record-breaking.
The La Crosse county board defeat
ed the proposal of the county medical
society to take over the duties of
county physicians and divide the work
among all doctors.
Edwin r. Zweifel, former sheriff of
Winnebago county and for many years
conductor on the interurban lines of
W1SCOuS1u E1SCII1C
in Oshkosh, died OF pneumonia.
Word has been received at La
Crosse of the death of Frank w. Hop
kins, former Trempealeau county
citizen, at his home near Kent, Wash,
as a result of injuries received in a
runaway.
w. S. Hovey, for five years manager
of the Fairbanks Morse Co., Beloit, has
been made vice-president and given
charge of factories in Beloit, Three
Rivers, Mich, Indianapolis and Balti-
more.
George S. Parker was named presi.
dent and M. G. Mouat vice-president
of the newly organized GAINESVILLE Ro-
tary club. Supreme Court Justice M.
B. Rosenberg was the principal
speaker.
William Stegemann, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Stegeman of Osh-
kosh, is at hospitalsat Newport, Va,
recuperating from wounds. He was re-
ported killed in action on Sept. 8, and
later officially reported wounded.
Two Wisconsin boys-First Lieut..
Wallace Coleman, Racine, and Private,
First Class, Vincent Mastowski. Ke-
nosha-haye been awarded the dis
tinguished service cross for extraor~
binary heroism in action.
John Milton Mathews, one of James
ville's oldest citizens, who was with
Sherman on his march to the sea.
Fdied at his home in that city. He
served through four years of the civil
war with the Twelfth Wisconsin bat
terry.
H A. Burd, Madison, was elected
secretary of the Wisconsin Council CT
Defense to succeed J. B. Borden, re-
signed, to take up his work as an agri
cultural director at the university. Mr.,
Burd has been assistant secretary Of
the council for a year.
Lieut. John B. Nelson, former cit!
editor of the Appleton Evening Ores
cent, was killed by a shell in the Ar
come forest, France, according to g
telegram received by his wife at Eau
Claire, from the war department. He
was 35 years old and was graduated
from the officers training caIDp al
Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, year ago.
Awaiting instructions from the gov
eminent as to what shall be done with
| the property north of Racine, which
| it was proposed to use for a powder
plant, A. w. Tissel, Wilmington, Del.
one of the board of managers of the
Dupont Engineering Co., was unable
to announce when construction opera.
lions would resume there. More than
1000 men have been discharged.
George J. Weigle, Madison, dairy
and food commissioner of Wisconsin,
has issued a warning regarding the
sale Of the so-called "egg substitutes"
The commissioner points out that in
order that the so-called "egg substi-
tutes" can be legally sold in the state.
| it is necessary that these. products
meet all of the requirements of the
law and that they are properly labeled.
The Marathon county board Of
supervisors has made generous appro.
priations for ROAD and bridge work in
the county for 1919 Six thousand
dollars was appropriated for new ma
chinery, $1,000 TO purchase a gravel
pit, $4,000 for maintenance of state
trunk line system, and $42,419 for
grading and surfacing roads; $l9,622
was appropriated as the county's cost
of building bridges.
Business men of Kewaunee have ap
pealed to the federal railroad admins
tration for improved passenger and
mail service on the Green Bay & West
ern road. 1t is stated that no connec'
lions with trains leaving Green Bay on
the Northwestern for the south are
made by trains running from Kewau-
nee and that Sunday service has been
abandoned. Only two hours time is
allowed for answering business letters
on the same day they are received.
Acting upon the suggestion OF
Chairman J. c. Thompson, the Win
nebago county board Of supervisors
adopted a resolution creating build