River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-06-20
News Of the
Badger State

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Acknowledgement of the Crow
der work or-f1ght rule is sought by the
state council of defense in an order is
sued to county councils to cooperate
with draft officials in rounding up
idlers. It is requested that citizens
generally interest themselves in re-
porting to local draft boards regis
trants who are idlers, engaged in serV-
ing food and drink, elevator operators,
door men, ushers, attendants, sales
clerks, store employees, or employed in
domestic service.
Madison - George C. Humphrey Of
the University of Wisconsin has been
placed on the official list of judges of
Holsteins for American fairs and
dairy cattle expositions of 1918. Three
of the other nominees are w. l.. Car
lyle Of Canada, formerly connected
with the Wisconsin agricultural col
Iege; w. A. McKerrow, st. Paul, Mimi,
formerly of Waukesha county; G. E.
Morton of the Colorado agricultural
college, formerly a resident of Rock
county.
Madison ~ County boards of super
visors are to be urged by the Won
ans committee of county councils of
defense to proceed at once to estab-
lish sanitoria for the care of tubercular
soldiers. Already 434 enlisted men
have been returned to Wisconsin with
tubercular infection and the women
urge that steps be taken at once, not
only to effect cure of these men but
to prevent them from being sources OF
infection to others.
Racine = One hundred delegates to
the annual convention of the Wiscon
sin Federation of Womens Catholic
clubs here adopted a resolution which
provides that only the English Ian
guage shall be taught in schools and
that a movement to introduce the
o'clock Angelus in all American homes
and silent prayer for peace be carried
out.
Neenah-With the drafting of Alder
Mcmahon, city engineer, Neenah il
giving quite few of its officials tx
he country's service. City Attorney C
G. Fem is now captain at Camp Gus
ter; City Physician C. C. DelMarcellt
is with the boys in France, while
Mayor G.. B. Clark is member of thu
state guards.
rlington-Democrats of the Firs
congressional district will assemble il
Burlington on July 8, to recommend (
candidate for representative in con
gress to succeed Henry Allen Cooper
who is bitterly opposed for the republi
can nomination by a faction of his owl
party that named Judge Clifford Ran
dali, Kenosha, as their choice.
MISUNDERSTANDING the waters O
the Little Sturgeon in Door county a
night for illegal nets, Conservation
Wardens Kabrandt and Cranston were
fired upon by persons unknown OF
shore, but escaped unhurt. Automobile
lamps were used to illuminate the ba!
and disclose the position of the ward
ems. They seized several nets.
Ashland-Joseph Hoof, who runs
summer resort near Cable, planned
venison dinner for some Chicago
friends, but the game wardens go
there first. 1t cost Hoof $90.13 in fine
and costs for forty pounds of venisol
in his possession and the warden
would not even leave him a piece o
the meat after he had paid up.
Madion-While the weather thi
spring has been very favorable for tn
pea crop, in the older sections of tn
state and on soil that has been plant
ed to successive crops of peas or which
has been given improper application
of old pea vines infected with the pc;
ed
Madison-Birth registration agar
proved it's value when it became nee
essary to prove kinship of a Wiscon
sin soldier killed in action in France
His sister, adopted by another family
and assuming a new name, was able
to prove her right to his insurance
money.
Appleton-The city of Appleton viii
finance the industrial school sdurins
the special courses in industrial pur
suits essential to the war This wa!
brought about because the state anC
the indutriaI school board of the cit,
did not have any finances to carry OF
the work.
Madison-One the charge that NOR,
than 80 per cent of its normal amour