River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-23

not done the school must be closed.
The enrolment of the institution has
dropped to seventy. Operating ex.
penses total $4,000 per year.
Oshkosh - The board of normal
school regents has appointed Miss
Rose c. Swart of the faculty of the
Oshkosh Normal school dean of WON
en-. She is one of the best known
women educators in the state. After
graduation from the University of
Wisconsin, which in recent years pre-
scented her with an honorary masters
degree, she came to the Oshkosh
school in the winter of 1871-1872, the
first year Of the life that pioneer in
stitution, and has remained in the fac
ulty since.
La Crosse-The first La Crosse ava
ator to arrive home from overseas
Lieut.. Harold Beisel, son of f. C. Bel
sci, considers himself out of luck
| Lieut. Beisel was at no time nearer the
| scene of war than England, although
he trained for three months in that
blooming" country and was in fine
fettle for a scrap when the armistice
was signed. Lieut. Beisel is anxious
to go with Peary's aerial expedition
to the north pole.
Eau Claire-The city of Eau ClaiI e
plans to establish it's municipal fuel
plant, authorized last spring by the
voters of Eau Claire, during the sum.
mer The plant was to have been es.
tahlished last year but the government
recommendation that bond issues for
all unnecessary improvements be
postponed for the duration of the war
and war conditions generally caused
the city council to abandon the idea
of putting the new municipal enter
prise into. operation in 1918.
Eau Claire-As a part in the devel
Opment of the water power along the
Chippewa river the first item of
which was the erection of the $4,000,
900 Wissota dam, two miles above
Chippewa Falls, the Wisconsin-Minne
sofa Light and Power company plans
on building a 100000 dam at Chippe
wa Falls this summer. Work is to
start as soon as the spring freshets
are over.
Eau Claire - Mrs. Henry Toy, 35
years old, of Chippewa Falls, lost her
life trying to start fire in her kitch-
en- stove with kerosene. When the
firemen arrived on the scene five min
utes later she was found dead beside
the stove with all her clothes burned
off. Her Is year old daughter, who
was in the room with her, had her hair
burned off, but she is expected to re-
cover.
Fort Atkinson - A large piece OF
shrapnel, which lodged in his lungs
and was removed at the Fort Smell
ing, Mimi, convalescent hospital, is
priced by Private Oscar Wisch of this
city as a valuable memento of his
work at Chateau Thierry. Wisch, who
was gassed and wounded twice, is now
at his home here. He fought with
Company B of the One Hundred and
TWenty-seventh infantry.
Altoona-This city, which for many
years was known as the smallest in
corporated city in the world, but which
since claims to have outgrown that
distinction, is erecting a $4,000 mu-
nicipal water works plant which will
be completed early in the summer
The plant is being built by money
raised through a bond issue author.
lied at a special election last fall.
Birchwood-A fifth member of the
family Of Frank Witanen, residing
near Poplar, has succumbed to an at
tack of influenza, the victim being
Mrs. Witanen. Her three children and
her brother-in-law died last week.
Superior-Dr. E. T. Gauvreau, aged
rs. former United States pension ex-
aminer and city health commissioner,
died at his home here. He had lived
here nearly forty years.
Rhinelander-FredJ J. Gebhardt, for
merly cashier Of the Laona State bank,
has been engaged as cashier of the
Citizens State bank in Crandon. He
has been succeeded at Laona by Rob
ert Johnson, recently discharged from
army service.
Janesville-Mrs. Mary Casey, go |
years old, died at her home here. She |
has been a resident of Rock county |
for sixty-two years. She was born in |
Ireland and came to the United States !
when a girl. She married Dennis |
Casey in 1868.