Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-03-07

water Lake, Oneida county.
| Sixteen discharged soldiers were
provided with positions in January
through the Amigo Office of the Unit
ed States employment service.
The Neenah Eagles have adopted a
resolution condemning Bolshevism
and expressing the antipathy of the
members for 1. w. w. tendencies.
| John c. Wahl, wealthy Cumher
land farmer, was found dead in bed
Death occurred from stroke of apo
plexy which seized him during the
night.
William Sweeney of Temahawk
was arrested by United States Marshal
Frank O'Connor, charged with selling
liquor to Indians He was taken to
Madison for trial.
After remaining idle for many
months the Florence creamery is to
resume operations. B. E. Bliss and
son, E. w. Bliss, of Marinette, have
taken over the plant.
Judge Arthur H. 7Goss, of Oshkosh
has filed with the county clerk his
nomination papers as a candidate for
reelection as municipal judge. Judge
Goss is non-partisan.
William Barney, La Crosse, member
of the Fifty-second Ammunition train
went from France to Los Angeles, via
New York, and back to Camp Grant.
for a discharge in twenty-eight days.
Former Senator Otto Bosshard and
Mayor Arthur A. Bentley, La Crosse,
have started circulation of papers as
candidates for mayor of La Crosse.
Bentley has been mayor for two
terms.
Fred Ollhoff, 18-year-old son of F.
W. Ollhoff, prominent lumberman OF
Gilbert, near Rhinelander, died from
loss of blood, when his feet became
caught in log roller at his fathers
saw mill.
Burglars broke into the Cumberland
Auto company's garage and stole
about $1,000 worth of tires, castings
and auto accessories. City Marshal
Gilbert found most of the stolen
goods in an old barn.
Fifty war babies have been born in
La Crosse, according to record com
pleted by the exemption board
Fathers of all the babies were in can
tonments in this country or in France
when the babies were born.
The sheriff of Outagamie county
will be on a salary instead of q fee
basis, it was decided by the county
board. His salary has been fixed at
$4,000. The municipal judge had his
salary increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
Mrs. Catherine Black, lifelong resi-
dent of Portage county, died at St
MichaePs hospital, Stevens Point, OF
cancer. She was the widow Of Viii
liam Black, early settler in this part
of the state, who passed away IN 1911.
Peshtigo is to have new canning
factory financed by Milwaukee men.
Al site has been donated and two
buildings will be erected, one so by
200 feet and the other so by 80 feet,
two stories. Peshtigo is the center OF
a large farming region.
At meeting Of the La Crosse com.
mon council the aldermen refused to
increase the salary of the mayor from
$1,000 to $1,000, as proposed in an
ordinance drafted by Mayor A. A.
Bentley, recent candidate for con
gress. He was allowed $500 for clerk
hire.
The first of many suits growing out
Of the taking over of land by the Du
Pont Engineering company, OF New
Jersey, for the proposed powder
plant at Caledonia, Racine county.
was fled by August Krenzka. His
farm of fifty acres was a part at the
more than 1900 acres taken over as
the site of the proposed plant
M. M. Guhin, former Reedsville
man, who served as a K. of G. secre.
tary at the Paris club, was in Mani
towoc for a visit on his way to his nor.
mad school duties at Aberdeen, S. D.
A part of Guhin's time was spent ID
driving a car between Paris and st.
Nazaire, a distanced 225 miles, on
which route he said they kept seven
teen such machines busy all the time
Mai. John S. Woods has just been
appointed commandant of the military
department at the University of Wis.
consin. He is a : graduate OF West
Point, has seen overseas service, and
comes to Madison from Camp Travis.
Tex. The university has had no coIn-
mandant since the Rehabilitation OF
the S. A. T. c. and the departure OF
Mai. J. D. Holloway about Jan. 1.
Leland Soper, Brentwood, has re-
ceiyed word that his son, Clyde, is
stationed in Coblenz, Germany. This
is the first word Mr.. Soper has heard
from the young man in five months,
and is the first intimation the family
have that he had gone overseas. The
name of Earl Soper, which appeared'I
in the casualty lists caused the family
much anxiety until they learned ne
was from BlanchardVille, as they did
not know where Clyde was located.
Twenty-seven former residents of
Manitowoc county were present at the
annual Wisconsin Folks picnic held at
Los Angeles on Feb. IL. Thirteen
were former residents of the city Of
Manitowoc.
The Quincy is the latest of the IA
NOUS Diamond 10 line steamers to de-
sert the packet business on the up
per Mississippi 1t is owned by Capt.
John Streckfus,, La Crosse, and is be-