Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-13
Badger State
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The Green Bay health board has
ordered schools closed until after the
first of the year to prevent spread of
influenza. Over 800 homes are quar-
antined.
julius ]. 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.
/, 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 viii be held
at Green Bay.
The Fox River Valley Mooseheart
legion elected f. j. Foreman, Apple
ton; f. G. Schermitzler, Kaukauna; G..
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.. O. H. Eliason,
state veterinarian, were the speakers.
The X. 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 to bottle. No pro-
vision for 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 disqualification 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 commissioners
to fill the vacancy caused by the ele-
walton of Florian 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
of the last session Of the legislature
as to hamstring this work is stated
in 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
department of the United States
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 decision granting as emer-
gency relief to the Wisconsin, Light
and Heat company. authority to in
crease it's heating rates in tne 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 univer-
sity will be suggested before early in
January. This was decided by the
board of regents. A committee COM
posed of Regents T. NJ. Hammond,
Milwaukee. G.. D. Jones. Wausau, and
c. III. Villas, Madison, was appointed
to report upon plan for continuing
the administrative work. It is under
stood that as soon as the committee
has formulated its 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
have been running wide open and
considerable money has been lost in
gambling games. Complaints were
filed with the district attorney, who,
on making an investigation, ordered
that all gambling devices be removed.
Undertakes who inter bodies be-
fore death certificates have been filed
arc subject to prosecution, warns the
state board of health. The influenza
epidemic has revealed cases where, in
the rush of many burials, undertakers
have given bodies burial before the