Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-10-11
On the second day of the Liberty

result OF Two OlHef autOnODlieS
crashing into his machine while on
his way to Appleton.
Men arrested at La Crosse on the
charge of trespassing on railroad
property are being indicted into the
army under orders of Judge Brindley,
before whom they were arraigned.
Daniel Higgins. GAINESVILLE hotelman,
paid fine of $4,000 in United States
court at Madison. He was recently
convicted on a charge of furnishing
liquor to Camp Grant soldiers.
BY order of the department at Wash
ington, the postoffice at Camp Robin
son has been closed and will be dis
continued for this season. All sol
diers at Camp Robinson returned to
Camp Grant.
More than $1,000 was collected at
| Appleton for the army and navy
board of the Wisconsin and Missouri
Lutheran synods. The campaign was
conducted by the members of the st.
Pauls Lutheran church.
Because La Crosse is threatened
with a big reduction in revenue next
year as a result of five breweries and
$50 saloons going out of business,
plans for the motorizing of the fire
department was abandoned by the
council.
A bumper crop of potatoes is being
turned out in Waupaca County. Two
! to 800 bushels an acre are reported.
! The tubers are arriving at the Man
ava market on daily average of l.
500 bushels Prices are $125 per hum
dred pounds.
Wisconsins allotment of sugar for
October was cut 10000 pounds under
the September allotment according to
announcement of the state food adj
ministration, Madison. The state is
allowed $4,000 pounds for all pur-
poses for October.
The Agricultural Engineering de-
partment of the University of Wis
consin will place no limit on the age
or sex of the students who are to be
taught to operate farm tractors in the
three weeks course in December, it
was announced.
While working about gasoline en-
CINE at his home in the town of Win
chester, Winnebago county, Harold
Johnson, sustained three broken ribs,
a broken jaw and an ugly wound in
his arm when a portion of his cloth
ing became, caught in the fly wheel.
The Marathon county council of
defense has asked all timber survey
ors, hunters and others interested in
forest products to keep lookout for
available supplies of walnut wood.
necessary in the manufacture of air.
planes, propelers, shipbuilding, and
other war construction.
There were 1860 volunteer sub
scribers out of 1851, to the fourth
Liberty Loan in Brown county. These
volunteers subscribed 1920 900 in two
days Only 2,022 men and women are
delinquent to date, and all will be
given a chance to subscribe at head
quarters of the committee.
The Wisconsin food administration,
Madison, within a few days will an
nounce prices on all cuts of meat sold
in Wisconsin meat shops. The price
must be posted in each market in
plain view of the patrons. The order
to grocers to display prices on all ar
ticles offered for sale became effective
throughout the state on Oct. 1.
Atty-Gen. Spencer Haven, Madison,
held in an opinion that license to
+ sell cigarets does not permit selling
them to minors in Wisconsin and that
the sale to minors is prohibited by law.
In an opinion given to State Supt. G.
p. Cary it was held that the same in
dividual cannot hold the offices of
school treasurer and city treasurer.
Gov. E. L. Philip, speaking at the
Pepin county fair at Durand, alluded
| to the great accomplishments of the
Wisconsin soldiers abroad and to the
way in which Wisconsin has assumed
leadership in all of the war emergen-
cies of the country. He said he was
proud of his states record in the war
and of the way the citizens had shown
their willingness to meet every de-
mand of their country
Maj. George A. Huntzicker, Marsh
field, who took two companies Of the
state guard to Owen to assist in
searching for the Kruger brothers,
believes that neither Leslie nor Louis
Kruger were home at the time Off
GERS were fired upon. Msj. Huntzick-
er, in Madison on busint SIS, declared
that he had been infornI ed that nei-
Their Leslie nor Louis HAY been about
the place for several weeks, and that
in June Louis declared lie was going
to Mexico.
BY the application of business prin-
ciples to it's management the Wiscon-
sin state prison, at Watpun, has be-
come more than self-usta;ning, as the
report for the year ending June 80
shows. The receipts of the prison
for the fiscal year were $402, 579 81.
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