Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-07

a chapter of the war mothers OF
America was formed at Fort Atkinson
with fifty members.
According to A. J. O'Melia, Oneida
county chairman for the Red Cross
the total membership there is approx
mately $500.
i The railroad commission handed
down a decision denying the applica
ton of the Ashland Water Works
company for authority to increase its
rates.
i Officially reported killed in action
Oct. 4, Lieut. Melvin Miller, La Crosse
got word to his parents that he is
alive and well in Germany. His let
ter was dated Dec 16.
4 The Rev. Carlos c.. Rowlinson, La
Crosse, Congregational church, is re
covering at a hospital after having q
double goiter removed. He collapsed
! in his pulpit recently.
/ The Racine Public association has
been formed there by twenty-five citi
Zens, under the leadership of school
and medical men of prominence to
carry on campaign of hygienic edu-
cation
A mems club of f1fty-two members
has been organized at the Congrega-
tional church in Appleton. F. G.
i Wheeler was elected president, B. w.
Wells, vice-president, and F. F. Welt
engel. secretary.
Ewald Deters of La Crosse was
picked as one of ESQ men for the presi-
dental and peace commission guard
company, the American soldier con
tingent on duty at Paris during the
peace negotiations.
/ Sturgeon Bay. Washington island
and Marinette will be without boat
service the coming season, since the
Hart Transportation Co. has taken no
steps to replace the Bon Ami, which
burned early in the winter.
Just as the funeral of her son,
| Charles Ferguson, a grip victim, was
taking place, Mrs. Charles Ferguson,
died at the hospital at Neenah. She
also succumbed to Influenza. She was
never told of her sons death.
At the forty-fifth annual council of
the diocese of Fond du Lac, Bishop R.
H. Weller celebrated mass and deliY-
cred an address in which he said that
Jan. "a, 1919, when a league of nations
was assured, was the birthday of the
rights of man.
While residents of Racine county,
during the four Liberty loan drives
subscribed a total of $780, 5O, the
total deposits in banks of the county,
Dec. 81, 1918, amounted to $14,524, 700,
an increase of $2,596,307 over Dec. 81,
1916, when the first drive was made.
Two Neenah boys, 8 and 9 years old.
h1d thrilling experience drifting
Gown river on loose cake of ice.
! they had been skating below the dam
when chunk on which they were,
broke away. When the cake hit the
pier of a bridge they jumped to safety.
Prof. w. H. Lightly, acting dean of
! he University of Wisconsin extension
division, was reelected secretary and
treasurer of the National University
extension association at the confer
ence in Chicago. Wisconsin holds a
prominent place in the association be-
cause it is taking the lead in Ameri-
canization work, which was one of the
Dig problems discussed AT the confer
ence.
Prof. j. ]. .PettijOhn, graduate of the
University of Wisconsin in 1911, has
been named director of the federal
university extension division estab-
lished by the department of the inte-
i rlor. bureau of education, for preserv-
ing war material and collecting mate
rial on community center work, for
eign trade, visual instruction, for COM
mercial service and for package libra
ries.
A record of rolling tobacco into ci-
gars for sixty-seyen years is that of
j. l.. Spellman, GAINESVILLE, but he plans
twenty-five more years at the same
craft. He claims to be the only gem
uine Dutchman in GAINESVILLE, having
been born in Rotterdam, Holland, in
cents a. pound and filters for 40 cents
a pound. Now wrappers cost 81 to S.
pound and filters $780,
Plover, Portage county, now has two
things for which to be noted. It is the
exact geographical center of Wiscon-
sin and has a soldier. son, George
Benski, of whose death the govern
ment was so certain that it wanted toI
pay his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Benski, the $4,000 life insurance their
son carried. Since George, who was
wounded, has arrived in this country,
the parents do not want the money.
Exactly 205 musical organizations,
comprising approximately 10000 per-
sons from forty-elght counties in Wis
consin, have been enlisted in the Lib
erty chorus service of the state coun-
Gil of defense since it was first organ
lied year ago, under Prof. e. b.
Gordon, university extension division
From the many reports received at
Madison it is believed that these musi-
cal groups were responsible in large
measure for the development of the
spirit of patriotism and the determine
ton to support the government in it's
war policy Wisconsin was one of the
first states to organize such a musical
service and has thereby attracted ma
tional attention.
Eleven more rural schools in Quta
gamie county have adopted the plan
re cor1yin hot 111nnhnc af MON no.