Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-11-01
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

IN july, IS IN hospital in New York
receiving treatment.
Over $1,10O was subscribed in La
Crosse banks for the relief of Mime.
sofa fire sufferers, in two days. Ten
boxes of clothing were sent to north
ern Minnesota.
Miss Mary Larson, Wausau, resign.
ed her position as visiting nurse in
the city schools and will go to Camp
Sherman, Ohio, to prepare for army
nurse duties overseas.
Mrs. Newman H. Bells of Wausau
has received word that her husband,
Lieut. Bells, had arrived safely in
New York, and is now in an army hos
pital. He was wounded last July at
Chateau Thierry.
Mai. Paul B. Clemens, of Superior,
now in France, has been appointment
a lieutenant colonel. The appointment
carries with it the position of assist
ant chief of staff, of the Thirty-second
division, under Gen. William Ham.
Faith Helen Rogers, of Superior,
who has received an appointment as
member of the Y. M. G.. A. overseas
entertainment committee, has receiv.
ed her passports and has departed for
New York city.
A party of twenty farmers and dairy
men from territory in the vicinity of
Parsans, Kas., recently visited Win
nebago county farms where they
studied dairying methods and inspect.
ed herds.
Mrs. Knute Lee, Deerfeld, Dane
county, was drowned in Lake Kosh.
konong when the boat in which she
and her husband were crossing the
lake, capsized. Lee made frantic eff
forts to save his wife, but Jailed.
Ernest Dawley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. c. DaWley of Amigo, who is serv-
ing in France, has been promoted to
the rank of lieutenant colonel. Another
son, Lieut.. Paul Dawley, just arrived
safely overseas.
The city of Kenosha, which led the
entire Seventh Federal Reserve dis
trict in the fourth Liberty Loan, has
asked that the committee in charge
of the district request that United
States war ship be named "Kenosha"
in honor of the showing made by the
city in this and other patriotic drives.
A call for 1876 men from Wiscon
sin may be expected in the near flu.
ture. This intimation was given out by
Maj. A. Fitzpatrick, Madison, head of
the draft department It estimated
that Wisconsin has approximately TO-.
600 men between 10 and SO. The de-
partment at Washington points out
that there must be steady flow of
men to camp.
A decision in the case of John B.
Chase VS.. Victor Brazeau, Oconto, or.
ders the return to the city of ST..
75615, representing bills of goods, sold
the city by Brazeau & Son. Victor
BraZeau, it was alleged, was stock
holder in this firm and at the same
time an alderman and member of the
committee on accounts, and as such,
approved the bills.
Winnebago county will receive
twenty-one honor flags for going over
the top in the fourth Liberty loan
drive. The county as a whole will
get one, and three cities, two villages,
and sixteen townships, will each re-
ceive flag. The county has a per-
centage record of close to 100 per
cent, its allotment being So, POI 900 and
its total subscription to date being 3d.
487, $50.
Opportunity to learn wireless teleg-
raphy in order to become non-com-
missioned officers in the army signal
corps is offered to Wisconsin men who
registered Sept. IL, according to war
department orders. Men who qualify
will be admitted to the course in wire
less telegraphy in S. A. T. G.. vOca-
tional detachment, University of Wis.
consin. Applicants must be over Is
and high school graduates.
Managers of the Fourth Liberty
Loan in Waupun erected large bull
letin board on which was pasted the
names of all volunteer subscribers,
those who had to be solicited, those
who failed to subscribe their full al
1otment and of two citizens who re-
fused to subscribe. The bulletin
board, which is prominently displayed
in the business district, will be pre-
served until the soldiers return from
war.
Wisconsin has registered $685.
men between the ages of Is and As
years since the selective CONSUMPTION
act went into effect in July, 1917. This,
according to Adjt.-Gen. Orlando Hol
way, shows that the man power of the
state, including the members of the
National Guard and those already in
the army or navy, who were not re-
quired to register, makes the man
power of the state over 100000 citizens
or practically one out of every four cit
zens of the state, a record which will
compare very favorably with any state
in the Union.
Reported officially killed in action
on Sept. 8, letter has been received
from William Stegeman, Jr., of Osh-