Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-09-28


| have begun serving fruits at cost in
order to secure a supply of pits for
| the masks.
| Owen-Ennis Kruger, youngest of
| the quartet who resisted the authority
| of the United States in the admins
| tration of the army selection law, is
dead, and one brother, perhaps two,
1 are trapped by federal deputies near
| Policy, twenty-five miles from here
Ennis Kruger, 20, was shot to death
/ in a barn two miles southeast of Pol
! ley, according to United States
| Marshall Joseph CAN'T, who brought
the body to Owen. Frank Kruger
/ 81, eldest of the brothers, is in a hos
| oital at Chippewa Falls, having sur
| rendered after the first battle on the
| Kruger homestead, in which he was
wounded. Leslie %, and Louis, 26, are
still sought
Madison--A naval section of the
! students army training corps, con-
sisting of 800 men of selective service
age, who voluntarily enroll in the unit.
will be established at the University
of Wisconsin oct, l, to train engineer
/ and deck officers for the navy, accord
! ing to an announcement received from
/ Washington. OF the 800 men in the
naval section, $50 are to be electrical
| or mechanical engineering students.
| The university is one of two Wiscon-
sin institutions which will have naval
( S. A. T. c. sections. The other is Mar
quette university which will have a
! quota of sixty men.
Oshkosh-Otto Spaedtke has been
| officially reported as having died of
wounds received in action He joined
Co. + of this city in 1917, when only
II. and went across with the Rainbow
/ division. He was wounded July 80.
He was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs
Robert Spaedtke. A brother is in the
navy. Official notice has been receiv-
j ed here verifying unofficial reports of
j the deaths of Sergt Elmer Bulls,
Louis Suess, Sergt. Richard Procknow
and Corp. Walter Thorne.
Wausau-Matt Wagner of Marathon
/ has received a telegram from the Red
| Cross informing him that his son, Ray
p. Wagner, a member OF headquarters
ambulance company, 107 Sanitary
train. is being held in a prison camp
at Mainz by the Germans since Aug. 4.
Private Wagner was the auto driver
! for Major Dirk Bruins of Milwaukee.
who is in the same camp. Wagner en-
listed and left Wausau a year ago
Oshkosh - Capt Robert P. Board
man, son of Brig-Gen. c. r. Board
man, is home from Fort Sheridan
awaiting orders for assignment as in
structor at one of the middle west col
| leges in the training of student mill
| tary corps. Since his return from
| service in France he has been serv-
| ing as an instructor in battalion of
men training at Sheridan.
Frederic-After being in operation
| here for a month during which time
over 500 barrels of dill pickles were
packed. farmers in this vicinity re-
celved $4,000 for their cucumber crop
from the factory which has closed
for the season. One farmer also real
lzed $40 from quarter of an acre
Of cucumber tract
Kenosha - The common council Of
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kenosha refused to sanction the
"skip-stop" plan of the railway COM
! pany The council held that the lines
, OF the company were too short and il
was just IS important to assist the
war workers in getting them to their
places OF employment as saving fuel.
which III this case would rot be much.
Madison - According to telegram
received from Food Administrator
Hoover by the Wisconsin Food Admin
lstraUon, the maximum price for Wet
beet pulp direct from the factory is to