Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-11-15

government. The vote was 1910 to
464.
The advisory wage board created
under the act which will fix mini
mum wage for women in Wisconsin
has been named by the state industrial
commission at Madison.
r. T. Cronin, Oconomowoc, city at
torney, will leave in few days for
Camp Taylor, KY, to enter the artil-
1ery officers training camp, for which
he recently passed examination.
Herman J. Verhusen, Madison, a
clothing merchant, died from the eff
fects of fall from a passenger train
returning from Milwaukee. He was
62 years of age.
The Northern Wisconsin Veterinary
association met at Chippewa Falls and
discussed ways and means of handling
live stock under present conditions.
State Veterinarian o. H. Eliason made
an address.
Volunteer subscriptions amounting
Ito $21 800 have been made by Green
Work campaign previous to the formal
opening. Brown county's quota of the
war fund is $112,500.
Milwaukee county will receive $685.
343.6S from the state and federal gov
ernments for maintaining the roads.
This will constitute the last money
the county will receive for this pur-
pose until 1920.
Adjt Gen Orlando Holway of Madi-
son has announced that Wisconsin has
125,00O men fighting in this war, u.s.,
900 soldiers and 10000 sailors. OF this
number Milwaukee has furnished 49,
900 soldiers and 1000 sailors.
Leo Ziervogel, aged years, son of
Mr.. and Mrs Ben Ziervogel, Ocono-
mowoc, was painfully burned when
his clothing became ignited from the
candle in a pumpkin lantern with
which he was playing.
The Association of Commerce has
sent letters to all it's members in an
attempt to raise Milwaukee's quota Of
$4,000 to be sent to the forest fire
sufferers of northern Wisconsin and
Minnesota. The members of the asso-
citation are being asked not to send
less than $40 nor more than 500 to
William M Post, secretary of the as
sOciation.
Word came to Marinette from Ath
elstane, Marinette County, of the
death of Charles Wall, the fourth
member of the family to die within a
few days Mrs. Wall and two sons
died few days before. The whole
family succumbed to influenza. Mrs.
Hardiman, sister of Mrs. Wall, who
made her home with her, died, and
her husband is critically ill.
Three of the five breweries in La
Cross will be converted into plants
making products deemed essential in
time of war after the ban goes on the
brewing industry Dec. /. The two
largest plants, owned by the John
Gund Brewing company and the g.
Heilman Brewing company, will be
closed and await resumption of the
brewing industry after the war.
Chippewa Indians are preparing for
elaborate burial rites to be held at
cemetery in Superior where the bones
of nearly 200 of their tribesmen have
been inferred again after being re-
moved from their former resting place
near the harbor The old Indian burial
ground is being converted into the site
for an industrial concern and the
company engaged in the work is plac-
ing the skeletons of the redmen in the
new cemetery.
A federal probe of the explosion at
the Stewart-Warner grenade factory,
Beloit, that resulted in the death of
one man and serious injury of five per-
sons, is under way Within an hour
after the terrific blast that endanger-
ed lives of $50 employees, many of
them women, guards were thrown out
and no one allowed to enter Federal
investigators will examine debris
closely for traces of bombs or Internal
machines. The blast occurred in a
coredrying oven
Hats off to Wisconsin, the leader
among the dirt road states BY this
is meant that in a group of states
where the preponderant type is the
dirt road, Wisconsin leads them all in
the condition of it's highways. This
eliminates groups of eastern states
such as New York and Massachusetts,
which have been building surfaced
roads for about thirty years" This is
taken from Good Roads, the official
publication of the Good Road associa-
ton of Wisconsin. The authority for
this statement is r. A. Woodall of the
Automobile Blue Book
In an effort to reduce unnecessary
calls on physicians because OF inf1u-
enza, the United States Public Health
service has issued a bulletin calling
on the people to learn something
about the home care of patients i'll
with the disease. Physicians every
where have complained of the large
number of unnecessary calls they
have been compelled to make because
of the inability of many people to dis