Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-05-09
WISCONSIN, NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Irma, Lincoln county.
An intensive campaign for the or
g~anization of all machinists and shop
workers has been inaugurated by the
La Crosse Trades and Labor council.
George Wilson, aged 81, n of the
pioneer settlers of Sheboygan county,
from whose father, David Wilson, the
town of Wilson derived its name, died
at Sturgeon Bay.
More~than 800 delegates came to La
Crosse to celebrate the Tooth anniver-
sary of the Odd Fellows. A. Wey-
hansen was the Oldest member in at
tendance, having joined in 1852.
The Kohler company of Sheboygan
has announced that it will pay every
enc of its employees 10 per cent of the
total wages and salaries earned in
1918, as a Victory bonus. A speciaS
bonus will be paid those men who
were in the service.
Plans to place the La Crosse fire de
partment on a two-platoon basis, as
approved by the recent city referen-
dunn, received a setback when Chief
F. G. McGlachlin informed the city
council it would take thirty-one add
tional men at a cost of $31, 1000.
The Fort Howard Paper Co., Green
Bays newest paper mill, has obtained
a river frontage site on Fox river near
the southern limits of the city. A
plant, costing about $3.50. 00O. 200, will
be built Immediately. The completed
plant will employ about 200 men.
Lamoine Kassabaum lies in a hospi-
tai at Eau Claire with a bullet hole
recover. While walking home he
recover. While walking home he
stumbled and fell while twirling a re
volver on his finger. The bullet missed
a vital organ by a hairs breadth.
William Fl. Rohr, an early merchant
and former mayor of WATERFOWL died
at age of 76. He served as postmas-
ter under President Cleveland, and
was an early superintendent of
schools. He also served fourteen
years as clerk of the court of Jeffer-
son county. He was a prominent
mason.
Lieut.. John CuInan, former Mari
nette newspaper man, who was award
ed the distinguished service cross for
heroism fighting with the marines at
Chateau Thierry, is en- his way home.
While in Germany, Lieut.. Culnan was
in charge of a troup called sThe Ma
rine Troubodours'' who gave perform
ances for soldiers, presenting n of
his own plays.
Special arrangements for accommo-
dating discharged soldiers going from
Camp Grant to their homes in Wis
consin and Minnesota have been es-
tablished by the GAINESVILLE VI M. G. A.
A lcunging room is provided together
with writing materials. Cots have
been placed in a separate room. Dur
ing the last four weeks more than 100
soldiers have spent the night at the
ssY".
A patriotic ambition which Forrest
Houlehan of Stevens Point has cher
ished during nearly two years of army
service has been fulfilled in France. in
his recent promotion from sergeant to
the rank of second lieutenant. Re-
jected as an officer candidate at Fort
Sheridan, he enlisted in the national
guard as a private, and after many
months of service overseas has won
his commission.
That the reds would not find Osh-
kosh to their liking is to be judged
from the position taken by Mayor A..
C. McHenry, head of the commission
form of government. That organized
expression Of bolshevism, l. ". W.ism
or any other form of lawlessness
would be met with all the force of OPP
position at his command, should It
to develop in Oshkosh, is the as
surance given by Mr.. McHenry.
David F. Sayre, aged 81, probably
the oldest member of the Psi Epsilon
fraternity in the country, died at his
home in the town of Porter, near
GAINESVILLE. He was admitted to the
bar at Paterson, N. j., in 1874, coming
to Wisconsin five years later. He held
many Rock county positions and was
elected representative in the state leg
.islature in 1873. He rode on the first
train driven from Detroit to Chicago.
A Walworth county Holstein cow,
Walcowis Ollie Mooie, owned by
Nathan Dickinson & Son, Lake Gene
has the worlds record. She is the
youngest of any breed to make a rec
ord of more than 1000 pounds of but
ter in a year, and in fact the fourth
junior tw~o-year-old of the breed to en-
ter the 1,O0O-pound list. Figures on
this COW, as sent out from the adj
vanced registry Office at Delavan, rec
ords made at two years twenty days
Of age, follow: Butter, Z days, 27.S7
pounds; milk, z days, $685. pounds;
butter, 80 days, 1863 pounds; milk, 80
days, 2,229.8 pounds; butter, 365 days,
1,O1O.68 pounds; milk. 365 days, 21,-
569.7 pounds.
The state railroad commission or
dered ten-minute service on all lines
of the Wisconsin Railway and Power
Co. in La Crosse. Street cars on out
lying lines are permitted to operate
with one man.
DR.. w. E. Nelson, Kenosha, city food
and dairy Inspector, refused to grant
licenses to a PROPRIETOR of a butcher
shop and a milk dealer, and held up
applications of fourteen other dealers
of foodstuffs. DR.. Nelson had warned
purveyors of food who were careless