River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-09-25
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
I Arranged in Condensed Form

Chlorine will be used to purify the
Rhinelander city water, which has
been pronounced unfit for drinking
purposes.
Police arrested twenty men and
women, and coniscated a quantity of
gambling parapbernalia and liquor in
two resorts.
More than a hundred applications
for citizenship papers at Sheboygan
are ex-soldiers and sailors who are be.
ing granted their full naturalization
privileges upon presentation of honor.
able discharges.
Glasses in home nursing, being con.
Quoted in Darlington and at points
throughout Lafayette county under
auspices of the Red Cross, are being
largely attended and unusual interest
taken in the work
The first hunting casualty of the
season occurred when John Schaefer
Menasha, river foreman, was shot in
the neck when hunter shot over the
top of the rice in the local swamp
Mr.. Schaefer will recover.
New one-man cars will be run in
Beloit after Oct. 1, according to T. M
Ellis, Beloit Traction Co. A seven
minute service schedule will also be
inaugurated on both loops. Carmen
will get raise from As to so cents an
hour
Lawrence college at Appleton open
ed with record-breaking attendance
in sight. There are $50 male students
who cannot get rooms in the dormito
ries or fraternity houses. Five mem
bers have been added to the conserva
tory faculty.
Fifty Greeks of the Sheboygan col
ony are planning to depart for theil
former homes in Greece. Three have
already left and the others expect tc
follow soon. Most of the Greeks who
will return to their families in the old
country will bring them to America.
At the institution of a Knights OF
Columbus Council in Rhinelander
fifty new members were initiated by
the degree teams of Wausau and An
tigo councils. Twenty-eight old mem.
bers were transferred into the local
council from lodges of other cities.
G. M. Householder, state superin.
tendent of county agents for northern
Wisconsin, who was engaged as agent
Of Oneida county to succeed w. D.
Juday notified the county board
that he will not accept. Mr.. House
holder has been appointed on the
state immigration commission in Mad.
ison
Robert Rieben was killed in a cavein
at the pit of the Waupaca Sand &
travel Co., at Amhurst. Another
workman was buried, but was rescued,
The first cavein carried the men into
the pit and second followed. cover
ing Mr.. Rieben to such a depth that it
took an hour and half to recover his
body.
+. F. Kress and George M. Danke.
both of Neenah, pleaded guilty at
Oshkosh to the charge of adulterating
butter. Each paid a fine of $25 and
costs 1t was charged that they mixed
with the butter IAN inferior and
cheaper substance, namely, water, SO
as to lower and depreciate and injuri.
ously affect its strength, quality and
purity from 82.5 per cent of butterfat
to 1886 per cent of butterfat, so that
it tends to deceive and mislead the
purchaser and consumer"
The declaration of intention on the
part of Anton Leonard Hanson, alias
Anton III. Bergdalen, and Ole John
Bygstad, both of Eau Claire, to be.
come citizens of the United States
were cancelled and an order entered
by Judge James Wickham in the cir.
cult court there forever debarring
them from becoming citizens of the
United States on the ground that they
claimed exemption from the draft be-.
cause of being aliens of a neutral
country, thereby proving their un.
worthiness, their utter disregard of
the duties of those contemplating cit.
izenship. Thirteen, including five sol.
diers, were granted citizenship.
Approximately 20,75O carloads of Do
tatoes will be shipped from Wisconsin
this year, according to an estimate
made by the Wisconsin cooperative
crop reporting service, based upon
the condition of the potato crop on
September 1. CARROTS are estimated
at 700 bushels each. The commercial
potato acreage is estimated to be 95
per cent of normal, and the prospec.
tive yield, based on September / con
dition, So per cent of normal. Last
year $3.50 cars were shipped from
stations within the state Shipments
In year of full normal production
are estimated at $1,000 cars. The DO
tato crop in Wisconsin suffered a
slight decline in August. Weather
conditions in general were more fav
orable than during July, but consider
able damage was caused by insects
particularly the leaf-hopper and blight