Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-08-02
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week |
Around the Badger State

VI "A. "A. b0ull0y OF La crosse,
democrat, has announC he will be
a candidate for congress at the pri-
mary election, John j. Esch, republic
can, is the present incumbent.
Charles r. Smith, who claims to be
a travelling representative of the Rail
way Clerks association of Chicago,
was arrested at Sheboygan, charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
| lenses.
Cooperation between a Y. M C. A.
industrial department and the largest
employers of labor in Racine has re-
suited in the establishment of an in
dustrial hotel, which relieves an acute
housing situation.
Protests by the merchants of La
Crosse resulted in the Minnesota state
warehouse and railroad commission
ordering the Milwaukee railroad to re
store three trains running into that
city on the Southen Minnesota divi-
sion from Austin.
Rev and Mrs. A. Almquist and lit
tie daughter, and Rev. and Mrs. L. E.
Ost and four children, formerly of
Ashland, have gone to Seattle, whence
they leave with a detachment of work
ers for the Alaskan coast, where they
will care for Eskimos and Indians.
With sixteen more men joining the
navy through the local recruiting sta
ton at Oshkosh in the last few days,
Oshkosh is second only to Milwaukee
in its record. The grand total Of en-
listments through the local Office is
now 1,141,
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of the Rev. M v. Breed,
temporary pastor of the Edgerton Con-
gregational church, was solved with
the finding of his body in Lake Kosh-
konong. 1t is though the was victim
of cramps.
The loss of pocketbook containing
$3.50, for which he was searching, was
quickly forgotten by L. j. Roth of St.
Cloud, Mimi, when he ran into a khaki
clad man on the streets of Racine, who
turned out to be his son, whom he be-
ieved dead.
The fourth biennial conference of
health officers in Wisconsin will bring
together at Madison for discussion of
health problems several hundred Off
Gals from all parts of the state on
Aug. z and s. The program embraces
a wide range of subjects.
10 ~, ,,,.e -, e,rxro,, <.1,,,,,+;1 LII I ~ =
farm demonstration picnics in Aug
ust. According to the usual custom
these will be given in the county asy-
lum farms. Announcements have al
ready been made for picnics in Co
lumbia, Ontagamie, Waupaca, Chippe-
wa, Richland, ST. Croix, and Sank
counties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Sullivan of
Wausau have three sons in military
service and a daughter, Rozella, at
Trinity hospital Milwaukee, training
for service as a Red Cross nurse. Jo-
seph Sullivan has been accepted for
naval service and George is at Camp
Grant. William is in France with the
One Hundred Twenty-f first Heavy Ar
tillery.
at a meeting of about fifty business
men of Eau Claire, held to devise a
plan for providing farmers of the
country with farm hands, it was de-
cided to send questionnaires to city
workmen and business men to find all
who would be available for farm work.
1t is further planned that each town
chairman in the county send in a list
of the labor requirements in his town.
J. C. Schroeder of Manitowoc has
been fined 5000 by the Wisconsin food
administration for not using the full
amount of substitutes required by the
food regulations for bakers, and Dick
Brothers, also of ManitoWoc, have
been ordered to pay 5000 for exceed
ing their wheat allotment for other
products than bread and rolls and also
for using less than the required
amounts of substitutes.
Feeding soldiers in the environments
in America and abroad is taking a
large proportion. of the country's COM
mercially canned goods. The WiscOn-
sin food administration states that
government requirements are expected
to take one-third of the output of can
ned tomatoes, twenty-five per cent of
the total output of canned peas, corn
and string beans, about sixty per cent
of the salmon pack, and one-half the
production of canned cherries and
dried peaches.
Although the engine, tender and mail
car of 500 passenger train No. 4,
bound from Minneapolis to Chicago,
were overturned, near Neenah, the
track torn up for distance of 800
feet and the four box cars which had
slid onto the main track from a siding
badly demolished, neither the engl-
neer, fireman of any of the passengers
sustained as much as scratch, in one
of the luckiest wrecks in railroad an
nails. No. was travelling at the rate
of forty miles an hour when the crash
came.
Racine people strongly protest
against the application of Chief Engi-
y