Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-08-22
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


nasha land along Washington street
provided the municipality will convert
it into parks
Or. w. L. Thompson, Sheboygan, has
purchased an eighty-acre farm in
Fond du Lac County from Robert Nc
Claim for $4,000. He will keep a
herd of twenty-five cattle.
A social hygiene campaign has been
commenced in Wausau Motion pic
lures will be shown, lectures delivered
in the schools and other methods en-
ployed to make the campaign effective.
The Latex Tire and Rubber COM
pany, Fond du Lac, recently organized
here, has broken ground for its fac
tory, a two-story concrete structure,
so by $50 feet, with a capacity of ESQ
tires day.
Henry C. Klein, Sheboygan, who
years ago was bell hop at Foeste .Ho-
tel, has purchased the 100-room Euro
pean Transient hotel in Minneapolis.
He recently resigned as manager Of
the Nelson hotel at Rockford, Ill.
Grocefs of Green Bay and the north
eastern part of the state to the num-
Der of 333 have made purchasing con-
tracts with the L. Z. Creasey co-opera-
tive wholesale grocery syndicate and
a wholesale house will be established
in Green Bay.
C. p. Crosby, well known lumberman
of Rhinelander, has purchased from
the Gagen Lumber Company a LOO
acre tract of timber land near Gagen.
The deal was the largest recorded
there this season and the considera-
ton was $4,000.
When the Rice Lake Lumber COM
| pany at Rice Lake disposed of $4,000
acres of land near Winter to the Ed
ward Hines company, the deal marked
the end of the Rice Lake company,
| which has operated in northern Wis
consin for almost forty years.
Application for an increase Of 5
cents in the fare on the line between
North La Crosse and Onalaska, three
miles, has been filed with the railroad
commission. The company asks per-
mission to charge workingmen 10
cents and others Is cents for the short
| ride.
To discover water mOccasin play
| ing his forked tongue over his temple
as he fished near high bank OF the
Mississippi river, was the experience
| of Raj johnson, La Crosse, automo-
| bile man. He dived into the river and
/ escaped before the reptile could strike.
Mr.. Johnson is sure, he says, that il
he had attempted to brush the snake
/ away as he would have bug, he
would have been bitten.
After a search of several days, Chief
of Police O'Hare, Kenosha, has located
"Raky' Martini, alias John Crozone,
who is wanted in Kenosha on a charge
of stealing bicycles and shipping them
to Chicago. Martins wife and girl
named Mildred Perry we're arrested
here weeks ago ON suspicion. Martini
was arrested in Chicago and is being
held until the Kenosha officials arrive
He has waived extradition.
An effort is being made to have the
old military road incorporated into the
/ state aid highway system. This road.
which was one of the first routes OF
| travel, opened into northwest WiscOn-
| sin was built by the government about
j 1862 ard ran from Oshkosh through
Butte des Mortes, Youngs Corners,
| Hortonville, New London, Clintonville,
Shawano, Keshena, and the Menomi-
ME Indian reservation up to Post Lake.
With approximately $15O,O0O in the
treasury of the Racine County War
Relief Fund, it is proposed to use that
amount in the erection of a county me
mo1ial hospital, provided that the
County Board of Supervisors will make
an appropriation of from $4,000 to
/ 100000 and agree to maintain the
structure, which will be memorial to
the soldiers, sailors and marines who
enlisted for service during the world
war
That James Thompson, La Crosse,
who was defeated for United States
senator by I. L. Lenroot, Superior, two
years ago, will enter again for this
place next year, is the belief of close
political friends. He is accepting all
invitations to speak at public gather
ings and is piling up considerable cam
paign timber in demanding that the
government take action to punish cam
4 paign profiteers and stop gambling
in food commodities.
Miss Elizabeth Baker, Oconomowoc
had the unusual experience of teaching
agriculture to 500 American soldiers in
the khaki university at Beaume
France. After graduating in 1915
from the college of agriculture, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Miss Baker was
connected with the agricultural staff
of the New Jersey reformatory for
women. In 1918, she went overseas TIC
work with the committee on rehabili
tation of devastated France.
/ A $4,000 damage suit against G. J.
Schmidt, Waunakee, has been brought
by Mrs. Frank Sadowsky, Madison
who was injured, July 49,, when a cal
she was in collided with Schmidt's au
tomobile. Numerous external and in
ternal injuries are alleged by Mrs
Sadowsky.
According to figures from the city
clerks Office the total assessed valua
ton of the city of Rhinelander this
year is approximately $6,500,000, an
increase of about 100000, over las1