Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-03-01
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Members of the Farmers Equity as
ISOLATION contemplate the opening of
a general store in Reedsville.
Every one of Menasha's twenty so
cieties was represented at a meeting
| of committees to discuss war savings
plans.
A farmers institute will be held at
Reedsville on March 5 and 6. A cook
ing school will be held in connection
with the institute.
The ''Wattles" barn, landmark of
Kenosha, situated in the center of the
business district, was destroyed by
fire Of mysterious origin.
Mrs. J. H. Patterson of River Falls
has a can of gooseberries which she
preserved forty-four years ago. The
fruit is in excellent condition.
Forty-one years in business is
the successful record of Gottfried
Ulrich, pioneer Neenah meat dealer,
who recently celebrated the anniver-
sary
Beloit college receives $4,000 from
the estate of Mary Dunbar, an old Be
lott resident, whose death occurred re-
Gently. This represented almost her
entire possessions.
Intense suffering, especially among
the poor families, was caused at
Neenah when the recent cold wave
struck the city and found dealers I'M
able to supply coal.
A campaign for 10000 war gardens
in 1913 has been launched by the Mad
ison Association of Commerce. An ex-
pert from the university has been en-
gagged who will supervise the work.
Waterpower users at Menasha have
petitioned the government to allow
the water to be lowered to two feet
below the crest of the Menasha dam,
The water is now eighteen inches
beneath this mark.
Mrs. Martin Field of Eau Claire has
received a telegram from the war de
partment, saying that her brother,
Arthur Nelson Harvey of Troop l,
10th supply train, is among the
known dead of the Tuscania.
Charles HI. Crownhart Of Madison,
former chairman of the industrial
commission, will be candidate for
the supreme court against Justice
NJ. B. Rosenberg. Crownhart made
this known a short time ago.
The Marathon county asylum man
agement has increased the cleared
acreage at the asylum farms and this
year will have 400 acres under cultiva-
ton. Rye, oats and ensilage corn will
be the principal crops.
BY unanimous vote the Manitowoc
council approved the park program
which for two years remained unde
,cided and authorized the purchase of
three sites for park and playground
purposes at a cost of SGT, ZOO.
Lieut. Frank Tillmann has left La
Crosse for an Atlantic port, whence
ne will sail for France He is a pilot
In the aviation corps. Norman Mol,
another La Crosse flier, has been or.
dered to Urbana, ILL.,, for training.
Directors of the Marathon County
Fair association have elected the fol
Judd S. Alexander; vice-president, j.
D. Christie; treasurer, A. A. thinner.
mann; superintendent of speed, G. A.
Mills.
Eighty-one young women employed
by the observation-disclosures company, Be-
lott, have pledged themselves to work
is body, one night each week, for
the Red Cross. The Beloit center has
been reserved for them for work on
Thursday nights.
The license question will be put to
a test in each CITY, town and village
IN Brown county On April 2, providing
1000 signatures are secured to petit
tons. The campaign for the dry sup
porters is in charge of F. w. Corbett
and his son, G.. C. Corbett, engaged by
the Green Bay and Brown County Dry
league.
The Federation of Womens clubs at
Manitowoc has filed petitions with the
city council and district attorney ask
in which Theda Bara is featured, be
barred from showing in Manitowoc,
Manager Peck, of the opera house,
Cancelled the engagement as soon as
he heard that clubwomen objected to
it.
Judge Isaac Cratic, 81, first munic-
ipal judge of Manitowoc county, died
at Manitowoc following a paralytic
ST. o6e. 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 a member of the state
legislature.
Assemblyman E. J. Labuwi was ar
rested at Neosha by the Shirt of
Dodge county. Later he was released
on $4,000 bond. The charges were pre-
ferred by Silas Mcclure before Justice
of the Peace J. d. Lyons and grew out
of the handling of the funds of a cele-
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