River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-10-03


cial notice that officers training
camps have been thrown open to
civilians over Is and less than 46.
The seventy-frst annual session of
the grand ehcampment of the l. 0. O..
F. of Wisconsin and the tWenty-sixth
annual session of the department
council, Patriarchs Militant, will be
held in Marinette, October Z, s and 8.
When his horses became frightened
at an automobile, Robert Tipler, Nee
nah, aged 80, was thrown from the
drivers seat in the runaway which
followed and sustained severe inju-
ries about the head.
Although two Neenah boys, DeFor-
est Kevill and Charles Nelson, have
been officially listed in the casualty
reports as severely wounded" both
are known to be recovering nicely in
French hospitals.
Kenosha gave Uncle Sam it's II. O..
u" in connection with the last draft.
1t was impossible for the local board
to meet call for 103 men regardless
of the fact that every registered man
was called for mobilization. The list
was twenty names short.
The Denmark hotel and the Kri-
Warek Bros general store, Green
Bay, were fined $50 each for violating
food regulations, and an Outagamie
county creamery owned by H. J..
Fassbender at South Kaukauna was
fined $25 on a similar charge.
The common council of Kenosha re-
fused to sanction the "skip-stop" plan
of the railway company. The council
held that the lines of the company
were too short and it was just as i'm
pOrtant to assist the war workers in
getting them to their places of en-
ployment as saving fuel, which in this
case would not be much
Capt Robert P. Boardman, son of
Brig.-Gen. &C. r. Boardman of Oshkosh,
is home from Fort Sheridan awaiting
orders for assignment as instructor at
one of the middle west colleges in the
training of student military corps.
Since his return from service in
France he has been serving as an in
structor in a battalion of men train
ing at Sheridan.
Matt Wagner of Marathon has re-
ceived telegram from the Red Cross
informing him that his son, Ray P.
Wagner, a member of headQuarter'
ambulance company, 1O7 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 Mil
waukee, who is in the same camp.
Wagner enlisted and left Wausau a
year ago.
Otto Spaedtke of Oshkosh has been
officially reported as having died of
wounds received in action. He joined
Co. F in 1917, when only IL, and went
across with the Rainbow division. He
was wounded July 80. He was the old
est son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spaedt-
Ike. A brother is in the navy. Off.
cial notice has been received at Osh-
kosh verifying unofficial reports of the
deaths of Sergt. Elmer Bulls, Louis
Suess, Sergt. Richard Procknow and
Corp. Walter Thorne.
A naval section of the students
army training corps, consisting of 800
men of selective service age, who
voluntarily enroll in the unit, will be
established at the University of Wis
consin Oct. /, to train engineer and
deck officers for the navy, according to
an announcement received from Wash
ington. Of the 800 men in the naval
section, $50 are to be electrical or me-
chanical engineering students. The
university is one of two Wisconsin in
! situations which will have naval
S. A. T. C. sections. The other is
Marquette university, which will have
a quota of sixty men.
Ennis Kruger, youngest of the
quartet who resisted the authority of
the United States in the administra-
tiOn of the army selection law, is
dead, and one brother, perhaps two,
are trapped by federal deputies near
Policy, twenty-five miles from Owen.
Ennis Kruger, 20, was shot to death
in a barn two miles southeast Of
Policy, according to United States
Marshal Joseph Gantz, who brought
the body to Owen. Frank Kruger,
81, eldest of the brothers, is in a hos
pital 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.
According to an announcement re-
ceived at Madison wholesale and re-
tail druggists throughout the country
have received communications enlist
ing them in the drive to save the fruit
pits and nutshells for the manufacture
of carbon for army masks by Lieut.
Col F. F. Simpson, chief of the section
of medical industry, war industries
board. They are asked to establish
points of collection for pits at their
stores. Two hundred peach pits or
oe ,AcI 1e. will "