River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
News of the
Badger State

Z DAGGER Otdt0 :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Washington-Ot A. A. Schwanke, |
Potter, and Jacob Kaeis, Sheboygan, |
we're awarded distinguished service
crosses by President Wilson, SchWan-
ke displayed devotion to duty, loyalty |
and courage by repeatedly volunteer
Inc night and day, to carry messages
andrr machine gun and shell fire from
his battalion commander to the COM
pany commanders, thereby maintain
ing efficient 1iaisOn.l Kaeis penetrated
the enemy's lines and patrolled a Sec
tor from the north bank of the Vesle
10 the town of MaZoches. With two
companions he entered an enemy dug
out and killed two Germans and loca-
ted mahine gun emplacement.
Madison - The Industrial commits
siOn's report for 1917-1918 shows that
benefits paid under the workmen's
compensation act averaged $108 as
against $92 the year previous. The in
demnity average increased from $23 to
SIT; average benefits for permanent
disability increased from $445 to 1924;
cases reported were 1851, as against
20,560 the year previous. Benefits paid
totaled $1,705, 1853, of which $1,276,388
was an indemnity and the balance as
medical aid. This is an increase of 8
per cent Benefits for 163 fatalities
tOtaled $332,95O.
! Marinette- Seventeen years ago, at
band concert in this city, Miss AIDE
line Pratt, deputy register OF deeds,
lost pocketbook with several dollars
and keepsake knife in it. She was
surprised on going to the post office
recently to receive packet contain
ing the knife and money without any
explanation. Whether she lost the
pOcketbook or it was stolen from her
she does not know, but efforts to re.
cover it by advertising at the time
failed.
Superior - Corporal Bert Haskell,
who was shot in the thigh two hours
before the world war ended, writes his
brother. Harry Haskell, of this city,
he was informed that hostilities had
ceased by two Germans, while lying
wounded and helpless in a shell hole
in No Mans Land. Haskell left Supe.
riOr last July and in month was in
England. After landing in France
some time later he was almost .contin'
uousIy under shell fire.
Beaver Dam - Lieut.. William d.
Morgan, who was reported killed in
action in the war department casualty
list, is alive and in good health. His
parents received a letter from him
written since the armistice was signed,
in which he stated he was in good
health and feeling fine. He was Sc
Verely wounded in September, but
fully recovered.
Green Bay-The Green Bay Review,
q weekly newspaper which has been
published for more than a quarter of
a century by Charles Kerr and his
father, the late James Kerr, has been
sold to Robert HI. Wright of Horton
Vile. Mr.. Kerr left for Fredericks-
burg, Va, to reside. Mr.. Wright will
continue the paper as a weekly publ
cation.
La CrOsse-La Crosse manufacture
ing institutions furnished Uncle Sam
with $8,0O0,0O0 in war supplies, equip.
ment and munitions from April 6,
1917. to Nov. II, 1918. All this was
done in plants which at the outbreak
OF the war were uneQuipped for special
government work. Fourteen factories
here were given war contracts.
La Crosse = Bereft of his parents,
brothers and sisters in an Indian mas
Sacre when IL years old and obliged
to earn his own living, l.. Kitzman,
after fOrty-six years service with the
North Western Railway company, has
been placed on the retired list and
will enjoy a substantial pension the
rest of his days.
La Crosse - George Holzhammer
and Roy Miller made $4,000 before
breakfast one morning. One haul of
a 400-fOot seine between two wing
dams on the upper Mississippi river
netted them more than 10000 pounds
of carp and buffalo, Buyers eagerly
bid in the fish at prices from 10 to Is
cents a pound.
Two MISUNDERSTANDING steps have
been taken by business men here
TO establish fund for initial payments
for workingmen's homes. The money
is to be loaned without interest and to
be paid back in installments.
Madison - Wisconsin people ate
100000 pounds of carp the past year
to conserve meat, says w. E. Barber,
chairman of the conservation commits.
sion, who estimates saving thereby
Of about $4,000 to the poor.