Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-31

John Zanecsmits, and three other in
mates on a charge of gambling.
Mayor Meade has issued orders to
the police to suppress all gambling in
Hurley and to strictly enforce the Sun
day closing law. Several saloon keep
ers have been warned against con
tinuing the sale of whisky.
While George Glover was fishing on
Teal lake, near Hayward, he ran
across a wild cat which was attempt
ing to swim across the lake With a
revolver Mr.. Glover killed the bobcat
and will have it made into rug.
The county tuberculosis sanatorium
at Jefferson rs expected to be compile
ted for enclosure by Dec. 1, according
! to Supervisor Ernst Kruger, who has
charge of the project. The building is
expected to be complete for occu-
pancy by June /.
Is Clintonville in the midst of a
gold ore section? Recently Adam
Schmitz of the town of Deer Greek
filed four leases which give him the
right for fifty years to mine gold and
silver on the farm properties of Carl
Due and Harold Link of Deer Creek
and on the farms of John Kiefer and
Louis Hoffman of Bear Creek
The sawmill, owned by the Yawley
Bissel Co. at White Lake, is going to
double it's capacity and when compile
ted will have run of $4,000 feet of
i 1,,, xxyi1 - ~.
most modern mills in the state. They
/ will have clubhouse for their men,
with bowling alleys, pool tables and
other games, besides having all other
conveniences.
G. Eby has sold large tract of
land in the town of Newbold, Oneida
county, to J. w. Miller of Milwaukee,
who will establish sheep ranch there
next spring. Mr.. Miller is sheep
man of many years experience and
says there is no section better suited
for sheep production than upper Wis
consin. He plans to start his ranch
with at least 1000 sheep.
The states soils laboratory at Madi-
son lis running overtime to keep up
with applications for soil tests com
| ing from farmers of the state. Nearly
$50 applications have been received
during the past year and large num-
Der of these applications have been
made by owners or operators of sandy
or marshy soils. This is the best time
of the year for farmers to apply for
chemical analyses of their soils.
| At a district meeting of Eagles
Aeries of the eastern section of Wis
consin the largest class in the history
! of Manitowoc AeTie' was initiated,
there being almost four hundred in
the class. Grand Worthy President
Gen. E. d. Wood of Helena, Mont, was
present at the meeting, the degree
work being done by the officer of the
Milwaukee Ae1ie and the floor work
being performed by the Milwaukee
drill team.
Thomas M Evans died at his home
at Dodgeville day after being in
jured by a road grader He represent
ed Iowa county in the legislature of
1911, being member of the assem-
bly,. Mr.. Evans was working on the
| road and was assisting in operating a
heavy road grader and to avoid being
struck by an approaching auto stepped
too close to the grader. The rear
wheel of the grader caught his foot,
throwing him to the ground. His head
struck on the grader blade and the
heavy wheels passed over his legs.
Louis Versea, 26, and William Better,
20, colored residents of Milwaukee, ar
rested in South Milwaukee after hold
ing up saloohkeeper and two patrons
were sentenced to state prison, when
tried at acme. Versea, who when ar
rested, was found to have an auto
matte pistol in his possession, was sen
fenced to serve six years. while Better
was sentenced to serve five years
Beter's wife and child live in Milwau-
kee. Both prisoners claimed to have
served in the United States army in
France They refused to give their
Milwaukee addresses.
The Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows of Wisconsin closed their grand
encampment at Platteville, electing
officers for the coming year as fol
lows: Grand patriarch, j. H. C. Bau-
mann, Milwaukee; high priest, j. w.
Christensen, Berlin; senior warden,
P. l.. Patterson, New Richmond;
scribe, James A. Fathers, GAINESVILLE;
treasurer, j. w. Salter, Unity; junior
warden, E. N. Bowers, Rice Lake;
representative, J. M. Ostrander, Min
eral Point; marshal Fred H. Dugdale,
Platteville; trustee for three years,
J. G. Upthegrove, Ashland
Although the first student bonus
pay under the Nye educational law
was to have been made this week,
State Treasurer Henry johnson has
announced that he will not make the
October payments until the Wisconsin
Supreme court bas announced it's deci
sion in the test cases brought to de-
termine the constitutionality of the
two bonus laws. Arguments will be
heard on Nov. s. The holding up of
the payments has caused consterna
ton among students already attending
the university and who had depended
on the payments being made this
month. Many have applied for leave
to become parties defendant in the
case.
Gordon Ridgeway, 10, La Crosse,