River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-16


pursuaslon by three government Off
Gals on strength of promise to salts
factory adjustment within three
weeks. Men are now laid off by en-
ployers and within ten days some will
be without food and fuel Any effort
to hasten award will be greatly appre-
ciated.'
Fox Lake-The village of Fox Lake,
with population of between $50 and
600, has had remarkable health rec
ord for the year 1918. Only six
deaths occurred during the year, and
not one was caused by Influenza. Two
OF those who died were over the age
OF 80, two between the ages of IS and
70, and two were children under
year OF age. The last death on record
occurred Oct 5.
Madison-Almost 1000 students are
back at the university this quarter.
About $500 students have registered
Total enrolment last year was 4,043.
The men are back in their fraternities
bourne, Barnard and Lathrop. More
than 400 old university men are back
from training camps and it is estima-
ted that more than one-half of the
S. A. T. c. men have returned.
Madison = Summons and informa-
ton were issued at the request of Dis
trict Attorney Sauthoff against the
Madison Railways company on evil
dence furnished by A. c. Sundstrom
and Frederick Kilgust, alleging failure
to heat cars properly. 1t is alleged
that in a car leaving South Madison
at $50 a. m. on Jan. the temperature
was IL degrees below zero.
Marinette- city of Marinette
liquidated a debt of $4,000 to three
banks of the city, wiping out it's en-
tire Indebtedness. Henceforth the
affairs of the city will be conducted on
cash basis, according to Mayor JOS
eph Fisher. The major portion of the
money borrowed was for school budg-
cts.
Madison-The Beavers, a fraternal
benefit society, with headquarters
here, took over and reinsured the bus
mess of the National Fraternal league,
of Green Bay, which for sixteen years
operated in the Fox river valley and
has fifty locals in Wisconsin with 81
900 members and carries $4,000,000 in
surance. The home Office at Green
Bay is taken over by the Beavers.
Portage-While hunting rabbits at
Water Mills, near Portage, Miss Kath-
arine Allen accidentally shot and in
stantly killed Robert Hart, Is years
old. The lad was a sophomore in the
Tomah High school He was the son
of Leslie Hart of Tomah and had just
recovered from pneumonia.
MadisOn-Announce was made
at the university that Prof. Charles K.
Leith, head of the department of min
eralogy at the university, had been
called to Europe to give advice at the
peace table. This is the fourth man
to be called from the University OF
Wisconsin faculty.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. M. Gavin, col
lector of customs has announced that
the duties collected for December,
1918, exceeded that of December, 1917.
by $1,997.45. The receipts for Deem
Der, 1917, were $13,199.06, while the
receipts for December, 1918, were $751;
1861.
La Crosse - Camp Robinson, near
Sparta, which served as an artillery
training field during the war, will be
used this winter as an ammunition
storage camp. Quarters are to be
provided for 800 to 900 soldiers and
thirty-six officers. Already sseveral
carloads of dynamite have arrived at
the camp.
Superior Bids will be advertised
for this spring for dredging an anchor.
age and turning basin just inside the
Superior entry of the Superior-Duluth
harbor. The cost will be around $780,
600 and an appropriation of 100000
is available. The work will make the
Superior entry one of the best.
Oshkosh = Numbers of Oshkosh
women who were employed to take
the places of men in industries who
were called to war have been or are
being released, but thus far the fem
mime labor market does not appear to
be congeSted.
River Falls-The state normal
school here opened on Monday, Jan. 6,
after having been closed for more
than two months on account of the
influenza epidemic.
BeIoit = Herman A. Mason was
found dead in the cellar Of his home
here. He has been i'll and it is thought
by his family that he was attacked
with apoplexy.