Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-21
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lips, head of the Wisconsin Office of
the employment service.
Peter Tobasin, farmer of Coleman,
Marinette county, has completed a
large new barn. He tarred it on the
exterior instead of painting it.
The Green Bay Association of Com
merce is planning auto freight service
to points not reached by rail. Dairy
and farm products will be handled.
Frank Tausche, 100 years months
and 1S days old, died at the home of
his daughter, River Falls. He came
to this country from Austria sixty
years ago.
Maiden Rock men have contract
| to cut 800 carloads of ice from Lake
Pepin, which is to be resorted to since
lakes farther south have not frozen
this winter.
Another Appleton man, Prof. L. B.
Rogers of Lawrence college, is plan
ming on entering the Y. M. G. A. re-
serves abroad. He expects to leave
| within a short time.
James H Hankinson, ousted by the
Racine county board as superintend-
ent of the poor farm, has filed a claim
for $2,O83, alleging breach Of contract.
A lawsuit is expected.
Charles Schueller of the Town of
Center, Outagamie County, has pur-
chased a farm of 1870 acres in the
Town of Greenyille for $4,000. This
included all personal stock.
Lyman W. Sayer, 81, former mem
Der of the state legislature and mayor
of Ripon, is dead. He is, survived by
his wife and four children. Mr. Saver
was in the legislature from 1893 to
1899 and mayor of RipoE from 1916 to
1918. He was born in Wausau and
was buried there.
Corp. George Bouril. of Manitowoc,
who has twice been reported dead in
the casualty lists and once reported to
have had both legs shot away, has ar
rived home and while not fully recov-
cred from wounds received at Chateau
Thierry and in the Argonne Forest,
is very much alive.
Adelbert d. Thorp, one of Door
county's pioneers, died at his home in
Sturgeon Bay. He was "A years old.
He came to Wisconsin in 1848 and to
Door county in 1874. He held the Of
fees of county clerk, county treasurer
and sheriff and represented the county
in the assembly in 1882.
The Wausau Farmers Cooperative
Packing company will be dissolved
and the stock taken over by the Wis
cOnsin Packing company to be organ
lied Feb. rs. The present stockhold-
ers will have first choice in the pur-
chase of common and preferred stock.
The new company's capital will be in
creased to $4,000.
Old-style launching festivities, with
fair sponsor and breaking of a cham
payne bottle across the bow as the
ship glides down the ways are gone,
at least at the Superior Shipbuilding
company's yard, where the freighter
Lake Fraichure was launched without
ceremonies. The company has abOL
ished the old custom, officials state.
Oficers of the Baptist Young Peo-
pies association of Wisconsin met in
Manitowoc to complete plans for the
annual state convention to be held
there for four days opening July 1.
President A. w. Giesecke of Sheboy-
gan, and Miss Kirschman of Milwau-
kee, met with the ManitOwoc commit
tee of the Kossuth Baptist church.
Paul O. Olson, Wausau, was bound
over to United States district court at
Madison for trial by Court Commits
sioner Riley. He is charged with u.s..
ing the mails to defraud. The com
plant was made by Postal Inspector
John A. Oniles, Wausau, who alleges
Olson has victimized cheese and but
ter makers for several years to the
amount of $4,000 or more.
After serving the city of Menasha
for the last fifteen years as mayor and
his resignation to the members of the
city council to take place at the close
of the first year of the term for which
he was reelected. He resigns to give
his full time to the great amount Of
work required of him as superintend-
ent of the Menasha Woodenware
plant.
Ben Carl, Merrill, of the Carl Broth
ers company, escaped death from a
bite of tarantula which was in a
bunch of bananas. Carl was bitten on
the finger. He rushed to a meat mar
ket and was about to cut off the finger
when bystander interfered, tied a.
cord about the finger as a tourniquet.
A doctor, who was summoned, scraped
out all the poison. It is claimel that
had he been bitten in the palm of the
hand death would undoubtedly have
followed, the poison of the tarantula
being so deadly.
When the independent telephone
company bought out the plant of the
Bell Co. in La Crosse, it added $50
subscribers to the independent list,
paying $33,919 for the plant, with
100000 for lines, cables and conduits.
These figures were among those pre-
scented by the company to support its
demand for increased rates, in a hear
ing before the railroad commission.
BY a vote of 4 to the Darlington
board of education tabled a petition
from the graded and high school
teachers asking a raise, amounting to
two weeks salary for the entire year.
The state banking commissioner