Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-26


are ex-soldiers and sailors who are be-
ing granted their full naturalization
privileges upon presentation of honor
able discharges.
Glasses in home nursing, being con-
Quoted in Darlington and at points
throughout Lafayette county under
auspices Of the Red Cross, are being
largely attended and unusual interest
taken in the work.
The first hunting casualty of the
season occurred when John Schaefer,
Menasha, river foreman, was shot in
the neck when hunter shot over the
top of the rice in the local swamp.
Mr.. Schaefer will recover.
New one-man cars will be run in
Beloit after Oct. 1, according to T. NJ.
Ellis, Beloit Traction Co. A seven
minute service schedule will also be
inaugurated on both loops. Carmen
will get raise from As to so cents an
hour.
Lawrence college at Appleton open
ed with a record breaking attendance
who cannot get rooms in the dormito-
ries or fraternity houses. Five mem
bers have been added to the conserva-
tory faculty.
Fifty Greeks of the Sheboygan col
ony are planning to depart for their
former homes in Greece. Three have
already left and the others expect to
follow soon Most of the Greeks who
will return to their families in the old
country will bring them to America.
At the institution of a knights Of
Columbus Council in Rhinelander,
fifty new members were initiated by
the degree teams Of Wausau and An.
tigo councils. Twenty-eight old mem
bers were transferred into the local
council from lodges of other cities.
G. M. Householder, state superin-
tendent of county agents for northern
Wisconsin, who was engaged as agent
of Oneida county to succeed w. D..
Juday notified the county board
that he will not accept. Mr.. House
holder has been appointed on the
state immigration commission in Mad
ison.
Robert Rieben was killed in cavein
at the pit of the Waupaca Sand &
Gravel Co., at Amhurst. Another
workman was buried, but was rescued.
The first cavein carried the men into
the pit and a second followed, cover
ing Mr.. Rieben to such depth that il
took an hour and half to recover his.
body.
F. F. Kress and George M. Danke,
both of Neenah, pleaded guilty at
Oshkosh to the charge of adulterating
butter. Each paid a fine of $25 ard
costs 1t was charged that they mixed
with the butter an inferior and
cheaper substance, namely, water, so
as to lower and depreciate and injuri-
ously affect its strength, quality and
purity from 82.5 per cent of butterfat
to 1886 per cent of butterfat, so that
it tends to deceive and mislead the
purchaser and consumer"
The strike situation at Two Rivers
has resulted in the issuing of a call
for a special session of the Manitowoc
County Board to take action with re-
gard to deputies for the sheriff 1t is
reported that the factory owners are
clamoring for reopening of their,
plants owing to the large exodus OF
working men from the city of Two
Rivers. The latest reports place the
figure as high as 500 that have already
secured jobs in other cities, Racine,
Kenosha, Milwaukee, GAINESVILLE and
Hartford, with some few going to
Clintonyille.
The declaration of intention on the
part of Anton Leonard Hanson, alias
Anton H. Bergdalen, and Ole John
Bygstad, both of Eau Claire, to be-
come citizens of the United States
were cancelled and an order entered
by Judge James Wickham in the cir
cult court there forever debarring
them from becoming citizens of the
United States on the ground that they
claimed exemption from the draft be-
cause of being aliens of a neutral
country, thereby proving their I'M
worthiness, their utter disregard of
the duties Of those contemplating cit
izenship. Thirteen, including five sol
diers, were granted citizenship.
Approximately 2O,750 carloads of po-
tatoes will be shipped from Wisconsin
this year, according to an estimate
made by the Wisconsin cooperative
crop reporting service, based upon
the condition of the potato crop on
September l. CARROTS are estimated
at 700 bushels each. The commercial
potato acreage is estimated to be 95
tive yield, based on September / CON
dition, So per cent of normal. Last
year 25,510 cars were shipped from
stations within the state. Shipments
in a year of full normal production
are estimated at 81 300 cars The po-
tato crop in Wisconsin suffered a
slight decline in August Weather
conditions in general were more fay
orable than during July, but consider
able damage was caused by insects,
particularly the leaf-hopper and blight
is also reported in number of sec
tions.
The Oshkosh Fraternal Order of
Eagles made contribution of $500 for
relief of storm sufferers at Corpus
Christi, Texas. The grand worthy
president, Ebert D Weed, Oshkosh.
ordered that the sum be paid to the
Red Cross.
Watertown acquired second strike