River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-03-07
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Beaver Dam = Assemblyman e. j.
Labuwi was arrested at Neosha by the
sheriff of Dodge county. Later he was
released on $4,000 bond. The charges
were preferred by Silas Mcclure be.
fore Justice of the Peace J. D. Lyo
and grew out of the handling of the
funds of a celebration held last July
which, it is said, was advertised as
benefit for the Red Cross.
Manitowoc-Judge Isaac Cratic, g.,
first municipal judge OF Manitowoc
county, died following paralytic
stroke He was born in Manitowoc in
1856. Judge Cratic was admitted to
the bar in 1890. Five years later he
was elected municipal Judge and serv-
ed for six years Between 1887 and
1889 he was member of the state leg
isfature.
ManitoWoc - The Federation OF
Women's clubs here has fled petitions
with the city council and district at
torney asking that the motion picture
Cleopatra, in which Theda Bara is fea-
tured, be barred from showing in this
city. Manager Peck, of the opera
house, Cancelled the engagement as
soon as he heard that clubWomen OBJ
jected to it.
Baraboo - Parents of boys, saved
when the Tuscania was torpedoed,
have sent to President Wilson and
Secretary of War Baker communica-
ton expressing their gratitude for the
efforts made by the war department
and the administration in Informing
them promptly OF the safety of their
loved ones.
Green Bay The licepse question
will be put to test in each city, town
and village in Brown county on April
2, providing 1000 signatures are Sc
cured to petitions. The campaign for
the dry supporters is in charge OF F.
w. Corbett and his son, G. G. Cor
bett, enageged by the Green Bay and
Brown County Dry league.
Beloit - Eighty-one young women
employed by the Fairbanks-Morse COM
pany, have pledged themselves to work
as a body, one night each week, for
the Red Cross. The Beloit center has
been reserved for them for work on
Thursday nights.
Wausau-Directors of the Marathon
County Fair association have elected
the following officers for 1913: Presi-
dent, Judd s. Alexander; vice presi-
dent, J. D. Christie; treasurer, A. Fl.
Zimmerman; superintendent of speed,
G.. A. Mills.
Kenosha--A KenoSha father and son
both graduates of West Point, have
landed in France. Col. Charles J.
Slmmonds, and his son, Lieut.. Robert
Symmonds, have reached France on
different transports.
Manitowoc - BY unanimous vote
the city council approved the park
program which for two years remained
undecided and authorized the purchase
of three sites for park and playground
purposes at cost of $27,700.
MadisonlMiss Ruth M. Boyle, grad
date of the University of Wisconsin in
1916 and woman's editor Of Farm and
Fireside, sailed for France to take up
journalistic and secretarial work in
connection with the army Y. M. c. A.
La Crosse - Lieut.. Frank Tillmann
has left here for an Atlantic port,
whence he will sail for France. He is
pilot in the aviation corps. Norman
Moll, another La Crosse fifer, has been
ordered to Urbana, H., for training
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Langlois, living
at Pound, near here, found bear cub
in large hollow log, which he hauled
fom the woods to his farm. He has
kept the animal. which is becoming
Qnlt6 tame.
Maiden Rock - Rev. w. Merzdorf,
FOR several years pastor Of st. Pauls
Evangelistio church in Ellsworth, has
resigned and accepted call to st.
Luke's church, Cincinnati, O..
| GAINESVILLE - After waiting for three
months for the call, Leo Chase and
| Archie Heating, GAINESVILLE young men,
have been ordered to report at Cham
payne for training as aviators.
Beloit-Beloit college receives $751;
900 from the estate of Mary Dunbar.
an old resident, whose death occurred
recently This represented almost her
entire possessions.
Menasha - Every one of Menasha's
twenty societies was represented at a
meeting of committees to discuss war