Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-08-16
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events Of the Week
Around the Badger State

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Neenah city council.
An increase of passenger fare to 4
cents is asked by the La Crosse &
Southeastern, railroad operating be-
tween La Crosse and ViroQua.
! The Racine county poor farm, York
vile, will be auctioned off together
with crops, stock and machinery, Aug.
i &c. The farm of 100 acres is appraised
| at $40 an acre.
Private Henry Meyer, son Of Mrs.
Louise Meyer, town Of Sheboygan,
died in the base hospital at Camp
Zachary Taylor from the effects of a
/ heat stroke.
/ The Board of Education of Beaver
Dam by an unanimous vote decided
that hereafter the study of the German
language in the public schools of the
/ city will be eliminated
Neenahs honor roll, a huge framed
| affair bearing the names of all Neenah
boys in service, has been hung on the
side of a building, on one Of the main
thoroughfares. 1t contains over 400
names.
/ Overcome by heat at the Charles S.
Weisse & Co. tannery, Sheboygan, Au-
gust Splittgerber fell into vat Of
| boiling liquor and sustained severe
cut on his jaw and painful burns about
his body
The selection of a new postmaster
at Neenah will be made from five
prominent citizens who have success
fully passed the civil examinations, ac-
cording to a. recent announcement by
postal officials.
| Three buildings on the Herman Al
brecht farm near Beaver Dam were
destroyed by fire. Neighbors succeed
ed in saving a large barn and resi-
dence on the farm. Mr.. Albrecht lost
all of his farm machinery.
An exhibit of the crops grown by the
boys and girls of the Oshkosh schools
i will be held at the high school early
in September under the direction Of
r. G. Brown, supervisor of agriculture
in the schools.
i A meeting of the Wisconsin Live
Stock Breeders association will be
held in Green Bay the second week in
October, according to an announce
ment by County Agricultural Agent e.
A. Carncross.
Harold Hart, KenOsha, manager of
the truck department of Nash Motors
company, and one of the best known
men in the automobile game in the
middle west was commissioned a cap
tain in the United States army.
No county fair will be held in
Shawano county this year, as the
grounds need considerable improve
ments and officials believe they can
use the labor to better advana age in
helping take care OF, the crops.
Federal authorities laided the
Hagenbeck-W Wallace circus at Stevens
i FONT just before it left for Portage
/ and took $50 men from the show as
Stacker subjects. The show left with
small boys filling places of men taken.
Martin Pollen, farmer in the town
! of Cassian, near Rhinelander, was shot
and instantly killed by George Tomlin-
son, on Tomlinson's farm, in Rice Lake
| on the Tomahawk river. The shooting
is said to have resulted from debt
| Tomlinson owned Pollen.
| A committee of the State Council
| of Defense met with Gov. e. l.. Philip,
and considered plans for preparing a
| military map of Wisconsin to be pre-
sented to the war department, which
- ~, ofn If
! the entire country.
The small grain crop in Dodge coun-
| ty this year is breaking all records.
| Oats are yielding as high as ninety
! five bushels to the acre. wheat forty.
and barley forty-five bushels. There
! has been more wheat raised this year
| than for a number of years
| Secretary of State Merlin Hull is
| already laying plans for collecting the
soldier vote at the primary election in
| September Representatives Of the
| state secretary will be sent to each of
| the cantonments in this country where
| Wisconsin voters are now in training.
| In a special meeting, the Brown
| county board of supervisors adopted
| bond issue for building highways at
| cost of $4,000. The chief job will be
| done in the town of Lawrence on the
Green Bay-Appleton road, the appro-
priation being 100000. The road will
| be OF concrete, and will make a con-
tinuous road from the Fox River valley
| points to Green Bay.
| j. T. Auer, publisher at Der Eerold,
a German weekly published at Eau
| Claire, was sentenced by Judge Evan
| in federal court to eighteen months
| in Leavenworth Kas., on his plea OF
! guilty, made to charge of violating
the espionage act by printing seditious
articles in his paper and also failing
| to file with the postmaster translations
of articles printed in German in his
| paper.
Excursions are entirely dispensed
| with this summer and it is only &C.