Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-06
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

George Delyo, Green Bay, age Is,
was drowned while swimming in Fox
river His body was recovered.
After being in hospital in Texas
almost since the time of his enlist
ment, E. Scubesky OF Neeaah has re-
ceived an honorable discharge.
Mrs Golden, SO years old, commit
ted suicide by throwing herself into a
creek near her home at Wrightstown,
in the southern part of Brown county,
it was reported to police officials at
Green Bay
While driving through woods near
Boulder Junction, Villas county, Leo
Seltz was instantly killed by lightning
and Dennis Poquette, ST., Arbor Vitae
hotel man, and John Teaks, were in
jured by the same bolt.
John Horn, Fond du Lac, truck
farmer and well known cattle buyer,
is being held on $500 bond charged
with having made seditious utteran-
ces. Horn was arrested by officials of
the department of justice.
A large cold storage plant will be
erected at Green Bay by Armour &
Co., Chicago meat packers. The COM
pany will make Green Bay it's dis
tributing plant for the northern part
of this state and upper Michigan.
Albert E. Voelz of Tilleda, who was
arrested by a government agent,
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brought to Shawano and taken before
a Justice, who fined him $50, which
was given to the Shawano Red Cross.
Frank Fault, As years old, resident
of Linden, Wis, was injured fatally
when an emery wheel in the plant Of
the Mitchell Motors company, Racine,
where he was employed, broke and a
piece struck Fault on the head frac-
turing his skull.
A record yield of sixty bushels of
Bros, owners of a dairy farm five
miles east of La Crosse. On five acres
of land 800 bushels of spring wheat
was raised. Bumper yields of grain
and corn are found on hundreds Of
farms in La Crosse county. Corn will
be ready for cutting next week.
Corp. George w. Chapman Of the
town of Johnson and Private Henry
Nehrbass of town of Halsey have been
killed in action in France, according
to kilograms received by relatives in
Wausau. Corp. Alfred Reimer, Private
A,,%1, Div 10 r nd
Seller of Wausau have been wounded
in action
Twenty-eigh. years ago on Thurs
day, Aug. 20, occurred the Whiting
Mill disaster, Menasha, in which a
score of workmen were killed when a
steam boiler exploded. Memorial serv-
ices were held at ST. Mary's church
in Menasha, eight of the men killed
being members of the Menasha con-
gregatiOn.
To meet the need for nurses, both
during the war and afterward, the de-
partments of medicine and home
economics, University of Wisconsin,
are offering courses recognized by law
and have arranged a course of study
whereby the requirements for the GER
tificate of registered nurse may be Sc
curd in the shortest possible time.
Several Racine people have given up
sugar to which they were not entitled.
w T. Harvey, food administrator, has
recovered 200 pounds of sugar, most
of which was voluntarily returned
Coma ,f tho c11cyo !. hoe honr, dict,c;hr+od
to the Jacks canteen, hospitals and
other institutions which have had diff
ficulty in obtaining complete supply.
In closing session of their sixteenth
annual convention at Green Bay, the
Wisconsin Association of the Master
Horseshoers' National Protective asso-
citation pledged itself to aid the war
department to procure hOrseshoers and
instructors for blacksmithing work in
the army. Officers elected were:
President, c. N Gehlinger, Wausau;
first yice-president, e. Hausch, Mil
waukee; second ice-president, Chas
Briggs; secretary treasurer, Walter G..
Pokerandt, Waukesha.
Thomas E. Corrison, Sheboygan,
head of the 0. Corrison company, for
mer mayor and prominently mention
ed as a candidate for congress, died
at the age of 81 years. Mr. Corrison
had been identified with business in
terests at Sheboygan for forty years
and for twenty-five years had been
head of the company which bore his
name. He has brother, Judge Oscar
Corrison of Chicago, and has been
prominent in public affairs in this sec
ton of the state for many years.
The officers of the Milwaukee re-
cruiting office for the Polish army in
France are proud of their latest re-
cruit. He is Stanislaw Pieklik, who
reported at the Office in the Juneau
building, after trip of nearly 1000
miles. Stanislaw lived at Tacoma.
Wash. He always wanted to join the
Polish army and last week. found he
had saved enough money to make the
trip to the nearest Polish recruiting