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

the hands of the council. But they
gave it back. Meantime, of course,
there's good deal of uneasiness and
some hard-feeling.
An agitator from out of town has
been hanging around the hotel for
about a week now. At least, they
say he's an agitator, but [ can't see
that he has agitated anyone yet ex-
cept the girl who keeps the office
during the daytime. He claims to be
the agent of a big drug company and
says that he is looking over the
ground to see about establishing one
of chain of modern drug stores in
our town. But he is known to have
approached several of the boys who
work in the tannery and asked them
leading questions about the hygienic
conditions in the vat-house and inti-
mated that perhaps the company
might do better by them in the way
of locker-r rooms. So he is being
watched.
We've had trouble too. with the
returned soldiers Not that we are
not grateful to them for what they
did for us. We know where we'd
have been without them, and when
they came back, safe and sound, all
three of them, we all turned out and
gave them reception when they
got off the cars Everybody tried to
do something for them. Every store
in town offered them cut of ten
per cent on anything they wanted.
And they were all offered back their
old jobs that had been kept open. for
them for two years.
But somehow or other, most of
them don't seem to want to work.
It's pretty big problem to know
just what to do with those three fell
lows. There's been some talk of put
ting them on the land. But it's
doubtful if they'd stay. Some say
the best thing to do would be to
send them out West. But they don't
seem to Wan5 to go.
Tt somehow seems like a sort of
restlessness. We all feel it in kind
of way. McFadden, the matchmaker,
was saying the other day that he
/ just felt restless all the time. And
the bus driver at the Continental
[ mean the night man that meets
the A. M. train-told some of the
boys that he didn't care whether he
quit or not. So we can't blame these
three soldiers. And, anyway, we
know perfectly well that all this is
|just the sign of new era and only
what we must get accustomed to.
And then there's the cost of living.
You used to get mighty good meal
in this town for quarter. Now its
thirty-five cents at everyone of the
three hotels, and only half portions
at that and no eggs given with
meat order. It's big change from
the old days. We're paying eleven
and twelve cents for fall cabbage
right here in town and they say the
price is going up again next week.
We realize that it's only what we've
got to expect. But at the same time
there's been good deal of profteer-
ing. There are men in this town
that hadn't cent before the war
that are riding in motor cars today.
i And the women are complaining
too. They say you simply can't get
help without paying more than you
want to pay for it. All the help at
the Continental quit last week
walked right out. At tie Jefferson,
for two days, there Was only Sadie
and one other girl. And you can't
get anyone to carry out garbage or slit
ashes They just won't do, it that's
all. We all admit, of course, that
this kind of thing has got to be. It's
just part, SO they say, of big social
upheaval But there's no doubt that
we are getting heaved up in this
town all right.
And then, Of course, we're dry. /
don't want to lay great stress on that
We all voted pretty straight for pro-
hibition in this town. But then, of
course, we could still get anything
we wanted from the outside and that
kept it out of the hands of people
that didn't know how to use it.
In the old days things were GER
tainly pretty bad You could hard
Ily go into the bar of the Continental
without seeing three or four fellows
hanging around drunken at any
rate, Motif you stayed awhile. But
the thing came to us at pretty short
notice. We hadn't really time to get
stocked up. And there'ye been a
good many cellars broken into. In
fact, there's regular crime wave
going about the town, though they
don't seem to take anything but
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