Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-20
The floor Of the building use for reg

from the 0u0CtS OIL DClnS overcome ny
fumes while sleeping above the en-
CINE room of a lake steamer on which
be was engineer.
Wounded by machine gun bullet,
but not until he had helped to drive
the Germans back fourteen miles in
one of the first engagements of the
allied offensive, is graphically related
in a letter from Corp. Harry Prange
to relatives at Neenah.
Claude Stark, of Appleton, who was
on the Joseph Cudahy oil tanker which
was torpedoed by German submarine
Aug. II, arrived home for few days
visit with his parents. Ahoat on the
high seas for more than two days was
part of Stark's adventures.
| No infections of late potato blight
have been found in the fields Of CEN
/ trail and eastern Wisconsin by the in
spectors of the college Of agriculture.
The disease is well under control in
the twelve fields in Barron county
where it was found last month.
Vernon Couillourd of Oconto, was
elected president of the Green Bay
| District, Christian Endeavor society.
Other officers are: Rev. Boose of Mar
inette, vice-president; Dora Fielder,
Sturgeon Bay, secretary, and Cynthia
Lau of Green Bay, treasurer.
Otto Westmeier, baker, is held
for trial at Amigo on the charge OF
making disloyal utterances. 1t is al
! i L. - y ichn an
orably discharged from the United
States army and that he was proud
of it. 1t is reported that he has three
brothers in the German army and that
he declared he would not fight against
them.
Word has been received at Mari
nette of the death of Fred M. Stephen
son, former Menominee lumberman
and sportsman of nationwide promi-
nence. He died at Santa Barbara, CAL,
from diabetes. Stephenson was a
nephew of the late United States
Senator Isaac Stephenson, and had
hunted and fished in every part of
the globe.
Threshing has been completed near
| Cumberland and the yield of the vari-
GUS cereals exceeded all expectations,
| the wheat acreage was increased 30
per cent, the yield running from sew
enteen to thirty-siX bushels per acre,
oats sixty to one hundred, rye twenty
to thirty-fve, canning peas netting
the farmer from sixty to one hundred
dollars per acre.
DR.. Charles Mccarthy, former state
| legislative reference librarian, now
aide to Herbert Hoover, arrived in
Washington from Europe, according
1 to word received at Madison. While
in France DR.. Mccarthy served as
volunteer for five days in the Red
Cross with the Wisconsin troops dur
ing the big drive and he states their
4 work was marvellous and the talk OF
all France.
A common law marriage cannot
be legally entered into ia Wisconsin,
according TO the opinion of Atty. Gen.
Spencer Haven, given to Dist. Atty.
G. H. Dawson of Crandon. In another
opinion the attorney general held an
Indian in the Lac COurte Oreilles res
ervation could not be prosecuted for
| abandonment under the laws OF Wis
consin, as he was not subject to the
criminal laws of the state.
| Gov. Phillip sent the following mes
sage to Provost Marshal General
Crowder, covering Wisconsin's part in
1 the registration: Wisconsin gladly
adds to it's honor roll 308,871 regis
trants as follows: 260,885 citizens,
,728 declarents, 26,258 aliens. Wis
consin eagerly awaits your instruc-
| tons to proceed with the selective
process. Wisconsin will furnish its
quota for October Wisconsin's quo
ia as estimated by tn eWar depart
ment is 100000 When it is consid-
cred that many within the age limit
are in the service, the number will not
fall far below 100000.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, famous preach
er and author, died at his home at
Tower Hill on the Wisconsin river,
near Madison. He was "a years old
DR.. Jones' death followed an opera
ton. He had been critically i'll for
private with the Wisconsin troops
through the civil war. He gained fame
as a crusader in Chicago almost half
century ago. For many years he
was a lecturer on English history at
the University of Wisconsin. He was
the father of Richard Lloyd Jones,
editor Of the Wisconsin State Jour
nal, Madison
Increased street car fares are be-
coming the fad in Wisconsin. A
number of cities already have the g.
cent fare and there is @ possibility
that one city may have a 7-cent fare.
The. first city to get Scent fare was
Eau Claire The fares were increased
in the city of Green Bay next, and
then followed adjustments Of inter
urban schedules in many localities.
GAINESVILLE has been given a Scent
fare and a scent fare in Racine was
ordered An application for Scent
fare in Madison is pending before the