Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-05-10
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

| eighty-fourth birthday anniversary.
] The Peshtigo Times has been sold by
| Editor P. O. Whittier to Thomas S..
Greer of Ulysses, Neb. Mr.. Greer
published the Ulysses Dispatch at
Ulysses, Neb., for the past six years.
| The Berlin Evening Journal is con-
Quoting a campaign to change the
name of Berlin to Boston It invited
| suggestions as to what the citizens
| wished to have the city called.
There was great excitement in the
| Superior Normal school when Is
| chicks were Matched from the incuba-
| tor in the agricultural department.
This is the first attempt at Matching
| in the school.
| Hortonyille village will have a new
canning factory in the near future.
The Fitzgerald Emde company of Mil
waukee has now completed all arrange
ments, and has the machinery pur-
chased for the new plant.
| DIR. L. H. Prince, Madison, long in
the states service, has been elected
by the state board of control, superin-
| tendent of the State School for De
pendent Children at Sparta, to sue
coed DIR. j. p. Brown.
| Adam Locke, of Rhinelander, who
was arrested at Woodruff several days
ago for making disloyal remarks
about the United States, has been ia
ken to the insane hospital at Oshkosh
| by Sheriff Rodd of Rhinelander.
| Brakemen on railroads, crossing the
| rivers at La Crosse have been order
er to stay inside Of their cars, while
the trains cross. The command came
from the war department which has
had guards placed on the structures.
| The Inland Sheep company of Wau-
saukee was organized last week. The
| company owns 800 acres of grazing
land two miles from Wausaukee and
| sheep on the ranch. 1t is the second
sheep ranch started in the county.
The Marinette & Menominee Box
company now has force of forty
| girls at work in it's factory doing the
| lighter handling of lumber and box
shocks. This is the first time that fe-
| male labor has been employed in the
Marinette wood working institutions
Fire starting in barn on the out
skirts of the village of Bradley, six
miles north of Tomahawk, swept the
| town, destroying about fifteen build
ings and causing a loss of perhaps $780,
| 900. Nearly all of the villages popu-
| lation of $50 is homeless.
Henry Winters, prominent Weyau
| vega farmer, died from injuries re-
| ceived when he drove his team and
| wagon in front of 500 Line passenger
train at Weyauwega. The horses
were killed and Winters was thrown a
hundred feet up the track.
At a conference of Republicans of
| the Sixth district held at Fond du Lac,
Florian Lampert of Oshkosh, now
| member of the city council there UNI
der the commission plan, was indorsed
as candidate for congress. The dis
| trict is now represented by j. Fl. Dav-
idson of Oshkosh.
The board of veterinary examiners
of the State Department of Agricul-
| ture has Chased the examination of
| graduate veterinarians for licenses to
| practice veterinary medicine and sur
| gerry within the state. Fifty-three
! veterinarians took the examinations
/ out of which number fOrty-tWo passed
| and were granted licenses.
Consolidation of the two breweries
| of Appleton may be expected this
year. The Walter Brewing Co. and
| the Appleton Brewing Co. received
| letters from Secretary McAdoo sug-
| costing the merger. The letters say
| the move would be in line with the
national conservation policy in that it
! would reduce consumption of food and
| fuel
Twenty-Five sticks of dynamite were
| found on the tracks of the Milwaukee
| road at the entrance of the quarter
! mile tunnel between Sparta and To-
| NAH. They would have wrecked the
| tunnel had not the Waterman discover
| ed them few minutes before the fast
mail went through. A short time be-
fore the discovery a freight train had
| gone through.
| Negotiations are now pending be-
tween the United States war depart
ment and the officials of Beloit col
lege to have 200 soldiers receive in
| tensive instructions at the college dur
ing the next four months. The fine
| equipment of the college would be
used and additional equipment in
stalled. The men would be trained in
radio work and motor mechanics.
| At the recent spring election at Eau
/ Claire the voters gave an overWhelm-
ing majority in. favor of bonding the
city for $4,000 to establish fuel
| plant. No campaign was made for or
against the proposition. The belief
| that a decided decrease in the cost of
fuel would follow Inauguration of such
a plant is evidently what gave the
proposition such an overwhelming vic
| tory.
At the close of a Liberty loan meet
! ING in Grover near Marinette the ma