Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-27

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state banking department to organize
a bank at Tony, Rusk county, with
capital stock of $4,000.
Mrs. Lille D. Sargenat, Amigo. re-
ceiyed the croix de guerre which was
conferred upon her son, Lieut.. Harold
J. Sargenat, killed in action Sept. %.
E~ighty-four students were gradu-
ates from Plymouth high school and
awarded diplomas. 1t was the largest
class in the history of the school and
is said to be the largest number OF stu
dents that has ever graduated at one
time from a high school in a city the
size Of Plymouth. The population is
5000.
A plan for a committee of judges
and lawyers to work for uni1cation of
laws in the two states will be launched
at the joint meeting of the Minnesota
and Wisconsin State Bar associations
at La Crosse July /, 2 and 8. Former
President Taft will speak on the
League of Nations, and DR.. J. w. Mayo,
Rochester, will discuss child welfare
work.
The Two Rivers Knights of Column
bus council, No. 1857, purchased the
beautiful residence property owned
and occupied by e. r. Mueller and will
convert it into a clubhouse. The
grounds will be improved for outdoor
recreation, bowling alleys will be add
ed. This council was organized less
than six months ago and already has
a large membership.
Prof. F. L. Bliss, Merrill, well
known band and musical director, who
gained much of his knowledge while
a cOrnet player with the Wisconsin
military band during the Spanish
American war, has lost his sight and
is gradually losing his n of hear
ing. He has been director of the Mer-
rill Concert for years, and also had
charge Of musical organizations and
societies at Grand Rapids and other
cities.
Little pigs are Ill great demand
among the farmers in Jefferson
county. AT the last cattle fair at
Waterfowl they brought the highest
prices eyer paid for porkeTs of similar
size. Three months pigs were sold
by Emil Kreuziger for $22 each;
Julius Ohrmundt, Neoso, sold ten six
weeks shoats for $780,. Fifty horses
were offered and buying was brisk.
Calves are scarce and the few shown
brought high prices.
Credit for the remarkable growth of
Lawrence college, Appleton, which
has more than trebled it's enrolment,
and increased the value of it's build
ings and grounds more than ninefold,
and its endowment funds from $83, 900
to $1.100,0 900 in the past quarter cen
fury was bestowed upon President
Samuel Plantz by speakers at exer-
cises commemorizing the twenty-6fth
anniversary of his presidency, at Law
renee Memorial chapel, one of the ex-.
ercises of commencement week.
Theodore Luck, town of Hubbard, is
the owner of high cow in the Dodge
County Cow Testing association for
the past year. Lady, a registered HoI-
stein, produced ffty-nine pounds less
than seven tons of milk from April /,
1918. to April l, 1919. The butter fat
record for the same period was 1885
pounds. At an average price of So per
hundredweight, the COW would net its
owner 1920 pei year. The record is fol-
lowed closely by several other COWS
from Dodge county's fine herds Of Hol-
stems.
Salaries of all Kenosha policemen,
fremen, street workers and garbage
collectors were raised by the common
council. Police and fremen will re-
ceive $125 per month, a raise of SIS. |
Captains will receive $135 and the two
chiefs will receive $500. The raise is
to take effect from June l.. Garbage
men will receive not less than 500
per month and will have their hours
shortened to seven hours for five days
and four hours on Saturday. Street /
laborers will get wages not lower than
40 cents an hour.
The collection of Indian copper and
stone implements owned by Henry P.
Hamilton, Two Rivers, one of the
largest and best of it's kind in the
world and valued at more than $50, 600, |
is to be presented to the State Histo-
rical museum, Madison, and will be
on exhibition in the fall. The greater
part of the collection has been OBJ
tanned from Manitowoc county, along
the seven-mile lake frontage between
Two Rivers and Two Creeks, which
was formerly the site of Indian vii
lagos and is rich in material.
A report of casualties of Co. B One
Hundred Twenty-1rst machine gun
battalion, formerly Co. X, Third Wis
consin National guard of Tomah,
shows that 129 per cent Of the original
company strength suffered in some.
way. Landing at Waco, Texas, they
had 120 men and officers. In France
the number was reduced to 102. Re
placements up to Oct. % added 112
men. From this number there was
sent to the hospital IT'S men, sixty-five
returning to the command. The num-
Der of men dying from disease was
four, killed in action and died of
wounds twenty, wounded twenty-sev-
en-, gassed thirtyrsix, shell-shocked
thirteen.
Fifteen sheep OF the farm of Fred
Paroon, near ~Sheboygan, were killed
by dogs. They were valued at SIS
each. Among them were six full
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