Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-11-22

The Whiting Plover Paper company,
Stevens Point, was electroeuted when
he was repairing wires at the mill
]. H. Koehler of Wausau was re-
elected president of the Ginseng Crow
ers, association of Wisconsin at the
annual meeting held at Wausau
A litter Of skunks excayated a den!
under the schoolhouse in the village of!
Fayette. near Darlington, and it was
necessary to dismiss school on ac-i
count of the odors.
Orville, 5, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dollar Castonquay, Amigo, was born
on March IS, 1913, and died on the
thirteenth day of his illness at the
thirteenth hour after sunset & a. n.y..
Burial was Nov. ID.
Gov. e. L. Philip has approved the
suggestion of the American Forestry
association that public highways be
lined with trees in honor of soldiers.
The letter to the governor suggests
that this would be a fitting recognition.
Mrs. Anthony Kramer, Racine, 80
wears old. was fatally burned and her
husband and Joe Krestler, a boarder,
were seriously burned when she used
a can of kerosene to start a fire in
range.
Baby girls born in st. Joseph's hos
pital. Menominee, while the city was
celebrating signing of the armistlce,
were named Mary Victoria. One is
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Augue and the other daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James LeClaire.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul railroad has decided to allow its
depot to remain at Neenah. When
the company proposed to discontinue
! the station such a storm OF protest
arose that the action was reconslu-
cred
Three hundred men employed at the
mills of the Marinette and Menomlnee
PAPER Co., went on a strike after their
demand for minimum wage OF 50
cents was refused The men assert
they would have walked out some time
ago had it not been for the war.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles d. Parker,
River Falls, received many messages
Of congratulation on their sixty-hfth
wedding anniversary, Nov. 10. MI
Parker was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tor
four wears, a regent of the university
and a member of the board OF control
Secretary of War Baker telegraphed
Gov Philip saying that the signing
of an armistice in no way lessons the
responsibility of civil communities for
the protection of soldiers from bad
women and sale of liquor He says he
lis determined to return soldiers to
their homes uncOntamiaated.
A Washington order received by
Maj Gen. Holway, Madison, lifts the
ban on fraternities. 1t rescinds the
previous order restricting all but bus
mess meetings. Fraternities may now
pledge and initiate new members and
hold what meetings and parties they
please as long as they observe mill
tary regulation.
After fifteen months army service,
Roland T., son of Assemblyman .. t.
| Vaughan, Wauzeka, died OF pneumo-
MIA in France. He was the first volun-
teer from Crawford county and en-
listed May 25, 1917. He trained at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, on the field
where fifty-two years ago previously
his father had prepared for civil war
service.
Officially reported died of wounds
are: Sergt. Charles Gislason, Wash
ington Island. t. w. Ashlswede, Brus-
sells; Ole Olson, Sturgeon Bay and
Walter Cunningham, Sturgeon Bay
This totals thirty-five deaths from
Door county. The first three were
volunteers in the old Co. F, which
trained at Sturgeon Bay, then at Camp
Douglas, and in Texas before going to-
France.
Erection and operation by the state
of a plant for the manufacture by
prison labor of reapers and movers
will be proposed in bill which will
be presented to the Wisconsin legls-
lature, with the backing of the Amerl-
can Society of Equity. The plant is
/. that the initial cost shall be 100000
| Such a plant is now maintained by
Minnesota at Saltwater. The bill will
be introduced by Assemblyman-elect
L. A. Pierron, Ozaukee county.
Instructions were received at Ra-
cine from the Dupont Powder COM
pany at Wilmington, Del, to not be-.
gin the construction of new buildings
at the powder plant at Ives, north OF
Racine, where $500 men are en-
ployed. All buildings now under con-
struction will be completed. None OF
| the employees of the company, now IN
Racine, appear to know what will be
done but believe that a factory will
be erected for the manufacture OF
some other product than powder.
Henry Clark, Is, Kenosha, who is
/ said to be the youngest soldier in the
/ \, inv