Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07

try. They are Arthur, Lester, Ernest.
and Raymond.
George Andrews, Baraboo, has pass
ed the examination for entrance 60
West Point, according to an announce
ment from Washington
The steeple of the Fifth Avenue
Norwegian Lutheran church, Eau
Claire, was struck by lightning for the
third time in it's history during re-
cent storm.
Supt. A. C.. Kingsford says that Ger
man will not be taught in the Baraboo
schools next year. OF class of forty
five students only two desired to take
up the study.
It. w. Gisling, Cincinnati, has &C
cepted the position as supervisor of
Wisconsin high schools and thereby
becomes a member of the state board
i of education.
i Despondent because of a falling off
of business due to the war, and be-
cause of i'll health, Max Omann, Osh-
kosh. tailor drank carbolic acid and
died within an hour
/ "A cream separator at the creamery
at Blanchardville burst last week, in
fiicting serious injuries on Clearance
Olson, farmer, who had just driven
up with load of milk.
E. K. McCurdy, for 20 years en-
ployed at the Madison postoff1ce, has
resigned as foreman of the mails to
accept a position with the Madison
kipp Lubricator company.
| Maj. C. C. Yawkey has mustered the
Tomahawk company OF the Wisconsin
State Guard reserve into service. The
organization numbers sixty men and
is commanded by F. E. Burbach OF
TolnahaWk.
Little Morris Johnson, Osseo, had
dentally struck by the shot which
some boys were putting on the
school grounds 1t is believed he will
recover.
While walking home in a rainstorm
along the tracks of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, Joseph Daley,
SO years old, of Green Bay, was in
stantly killed by a freight train at a
point six miles from there.
/ Master John Fuchs, son of Mr.. and
Mrs William Fuchs, who live five
miles southeast of Juda, Green county,
is in a serious condition at the Mon
roe hospital from the effects of skunk
bite Hydrophobia is feared.
Drys retained control in Mellen and
will continue to do so for at least an
other year, according to decision
handed down by Judge Risjord in the
Ashland circuit court. The vets will
not appeal, it is understood.
| w. A. Roberts and Grant McCutch-
in, OF the town of Arena, captured five
young wolves on the Francis Clevohn
farm in the town of Ridgeway. Mr.. Nc
i Cutchin got shot at one of the old
wolves, but was too far away to kill it.
A raid on Racine dance hall, where
police claim liquor was being sold
without license even to army and
navy men in uniform, resulted in the
arrest of Robert Scheppa and Joe
Letwinka and the confscation OF
large amount of whiskey, beer and
wine.
The German-American bank of
Madison, whose building front was
painted with yellow streaks recently,
was granted permission by the state
banking department to change its
name to the American Exchange bank.
The institution is run by American
citizens with American money, it's Of
ficers declared.
! A scare was thrown into Florence
visitors recently when detail of
mounted constabulary stopped each
auto met with on the Crystal Falls
/ Florence road and searched the occu-
i pants of the car and also the car.
| The officers were in search of liquor
attempted to be smuggled into Michi-
/ gan.
Louis Bempke, SO, Portage county's
champion runaway soldier, is pris-
oner at the county jail in Stevens
| Point, with a record of three deser-
tons from the National army against
! him. He was taken into custody a
| few miles from the home of his moth
er, Mrs. Augusta Bempke, in the town
of Carson.
/ The increase in the freight rates
authorized by the government will
cost the residents of La Crosse about
100000 year, according to the ship
pers' bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce. The flour mills, the rubber
mills, the breweries, the tractor plant
and the pillow company will be hit hard
by the new order.
DR.. Robert MclIutt McElroy, who
loudly criticised the University of
Wisconsin in the East following his
speech at Madison ON April 6, has
enlisted in the field artillery of the
| United States army, according to word
received at Madison. McElroy was
chairman of the education committee
of the National Security league.
! Construction OF new half-mile race
track on a 23-acre tract of land is part
of an Improvement program to be car
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