River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-12
Badger State
Happenings

The Green Bay health board has
ordered schools closed until after the
first of the year to prevent spread of
| influenza. Over 300 homes are quar-
| antined.
julius J. ellison, son of Mrs. Alvina
Gibson, Green Bay, at the marines,
school in Quantico, Va, submitted to
| blood TRANSMISSION operation to save
the life of a brother marine.
The G.. Heilemann Brewing com
pany, La Crosse, one of the largest of
the five breweries which closed Dec.
1, has advertised it's plant, machinery
and all saloon fixtures owned in Wis
| consin and Minnesota for sale
Grocerymen from all cities in the
| Fox River valley met at De Pere
and planned an organization which
will be perfected within the next few
/ weeks. The next meeting will be held
at Green Bay.
The Fox River Valley Mooseheart
legion elected F. J. Foreman, Apple
| ton; F. C. Schermitzler, Kaukauna; c..
J. Williams, Green Bay, and James
| Mccoy, Fond du Lac, heads of the
north, south, east and west districts.
Livestock production and dairying
were discussed at meeting in Madi-
son Of agricultural workers and coun-
| ty agents. Dean H. L. Russell, Reid
Murray, former food agent in Winnie
bago county, and DR.. 0. H. Eliason,
state veterinarian, were the speakers.
The K. Schreier Co. and the Gutsch
Brewing Co., Sheboygan, will continue
| the bottling of beer. The tanks of the
company are filed with beer which it
will take to July 1 to bottle. No pro-
vision for a change in output has been
made.
Francis D. Valley of Rochester,
Mimi, is the only son and heir of Mrs
| Bertha James, who died recently in
| La Crosse and whose $4,000 estate
| Valley claimed, according to a deci-
sion rendered at La Crosse by Judge
John Brindley.
The state council Of defense has
been asked to cooperate with govern
ment plans for rehabilitation of the
nations fighting forces and has been
notified that definite directions on
| how such cooperation can be carried
on successfully will follow shortly.
There are now eight candidates out
| for the office of council commissioner
to fill the vacancy caused by the ele-
walton of FIorian Lampert to congress
| fgom the Sixth district. The latest
person to circulate petitions for the
| Office is former Assemblyman Charles
| F. Hart of Oshkosh.
When James Anderson of Marinette,
who is with the American forces in
| France, learned that his comrade,
| Corporal Charles KronQuist, also of
| Marinette, had fallen on the battle
| field, he went out between the lines,
| and risked his own life searching for
| Kronquist whose lifeless body he car
| ried back to the trenches.
That the reassessment statute, I'M
| der which the state tax commission
was able to correct many mistakes
| was so modified in the closing hours
| of the last session of the legislature
as to hamstring this work is stated
| in a report of the state tax commits
| sion. The commission asks the legis-
| lature to restore the old law.
Lieut.. William Hicks, son of for
mer Attorney General and Mrs. F. r.
| Hicks, Oshkosh, who has been under
going special training for the aviation
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army, will remain in that service. He
| has completed training at the Uni
| versity of Illinois and Rantoul-Chan
ute and has re-enlisted to go into re-
| serve aviation service.
The railroad commission has handed
down a decision granting as emer-
| gency relief to the Wisconsin, Light
| and Heat company, authority to in
crease it's heating rates in the city
! of Berlin about IL per cent, the in
crease to be effective, unless otherwise
| ordered by the commission, until the
| end of the present heating season.
| The applicant company operates cleo
| trio, gas and heat utilities in various
cities of the state.
No president of Wisconsin univeE-
sity will be suggested before early in
| January. This was decided by the
board of regents. A committee COM
posed of Regents T. M. Hammond,
| Milwaukee, G. D. Jones, Wausau, and
| c. H. Villas, Madison, was appointed
| to report upon plan for continuing
the administrative work. 1t is under
| stood that as soon as the committee
has formulated it's plan, the regents
will be convened in extra session to
| consider the report.
Orders were issued by Dist. Atty.
| Adolph Janecky, Racine, to all saloon
| keepers of the county to at once re-
| move all slot machines and other
gambling devices from their places, or
| be prosecuted. Some of the saloons
in the country districts are said to
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