River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-09-04


trees who find small reddish or light
colored punches on the leaves will
have to rest as easily as possible for
a while, says G. L. Fluke, entomolo-
gist at tie Wisconsin experiment sta
ton, for no control measures for this
particular trouble have been found.
The punches are gals caused by small
mites which look like tiny spiders.
They live within the gals and cannot
be reached by sprays.
Ashland - Mrs. Nick vamosh, As,
living at the Highland settlement, was
instantly killed when struck by light
ming while standing in field of oats.
Mrs. Vamosh and her husband had
been shocking oats. They were hur-
rying to finish the work before the
storm became too fierce They were
holding opposite sides Of the same
bundle when the accident occurred,
but Mr.. Vamosh was only dazed by
the bolt.
Fond du Lac - The quota of sixty
five members for unit in the Wiscon-
sin National guard was filled when six
young men signed. The company,
known as Co. F, will contain only
about half the number of old Co. E.
Capt. A. r. Burnett, who served with
the One Hundred Fiftieth Machine
Gun battalion, Forty-second division is
to be in charge, Through his efforts
the company has been formed.
Kenosha - Zion City police played
havoc with the Kenosha-C Chicago "beer
caravan" when fifteen special police.
men from that city hid behind a barn,
and surprised the drivers of fourteen
trucks carrying beer from Kenosha to
Chicago. The trucks were covered
with canvas, but the police arrested
twenty-six men. held the trucks, car
rying more than $4,000 pounds of beer.
Rhinelander-After travelling more
than 400 miles by automobile and
motor boat the state conservation in
spectors consisting of Secretary of
State Merlin Hull, State Treasurer
johnson, Attorney General Blaine
and accompanied by Lieut. Gov. E. F.
Dithmar, have returned to Madison
after two weeks inspection of state
owned lands in northern Wisconsin.
Racine-Judge Belden, of the First
judicial circuit. has refused the ap-
pointment as commissioner to Den
mark, tended him by Judge Halsey of
Milwaukee, to take dispositions in the
case of Theodore Johnson's will. The
will leaves an estate of $4,000 to
Mrs. Thomas Hahn of this city. A
contest over the will is being heard
in the Supreme court.
Wausau-Money has been raised by
local automobiles to open up a Sec
ton of road in the town of Flieth,
which will give a road from Wausau
to Mosinee, on the west side of the
Wisconsin river. The Chamber of
Commerce, which is fathering a gen.
eral plan of road improvement, also
will experiment with gravel on sew
eral streets in this city.
Maidstone Commissioner of Banking
Marshall Cousins has approved an
amendment to the articles of incorpo-
ration of the Wisconsin Trust Com
pany, Milwaukee, and the First Trust
Company, Milwaukee, consolidating
under the name of First Wisconsin
Trust Company, and increasing the
capital from 100000 to 100000.
Oshkosh Edmund Brelowske, Z
months old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Louise
Brelowske, Utica, met death by stran-
gulation. His mother had left him on
the bed. Returning she found that he
had crawled down to the foot of the
bed and had caught his head between
the iron crOssbar of the bed and the
mattress and was hanging.
Misunderstanding Dec. 18, the Unit
ed War workers Of Marinette, includ-
ing the Knights of Columbus, Y. M. c..
A., Salvation Army and other war bod
les, have fed more than 5000 soldiers
passing through. Three trains are met
daily and the returning soldiers
aboard are given substantial lunches,
including hot coffee.
Portage-John Shehan, Is, while
diving in a slough of the Wisconsin
river near the city, struck his head
against a rock. When he did not re-
turn to the surface of the stream his
brother and a companion Owed after
him and bringing him to the surface,
succeeded after several hours of work,
in bringing him to.
Rhinelander The board Of voca-
tional education in Rhinelander has
authorized the purchase of turning
lathes, gas engines and other ma
chinery to be used in the additional
courses of sheet metal work, gas en-
cheering and general mechanical en-