Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-12-26

John Bubanovich, 81, Russian, was
instantly killed at the Nash Motors
Co. plant, Kenosha, when his hand
was caught in a belt in the coal
cracking room and his body was
drawn into the fly wheel. His skull
was fractured.
The ice industry of Kenosha county
went glimmering when Chicago com.
panies announced that they would fill
only a few of the many large ice
houses of the county this winter They
declare that artificial ice is cheaper
because of the high price of labor
Discharging five foremen, who. he
alleged had allied themselves with
stockholders, seeking to gain control
of the business, Fred Opitz, superin
tendent of the Perfex Radiator com
pany, Racine, caused walkout OF
nearly every employe of the company,
causing a complete close down of the
plant
Mrs Johanna Reed, blind and liv-
ing alone, was burned to death in her
home at Oshkosh. Her body was
found in the dining room where it is
supposed her clothing caught fire at
the stove. No one saw the accident
She was aboutsdO years DID, She had
a sister at Chicago and brother in
Montana.
Because of an insistent demand from
IA oh hon rr6 6karc
the Outagamie County School News,
first rural school newspaper in Wis.
consin, has been forced to resume
publication after suspension of sew
eral months caused by the print paper
shortage. The paper is published
monthly by the county superintendent
of schools.
Deposits in state banks increased
$11O,O00,00O in the period of Nov. I,
1918, to Nov. II, 1919. when the call
was issued, according to an abstract
of conditions made public by State
Banking Commissioners Marshall
Cousins. Loans and discounts in
creased $67,OOO,O00 in the same pc
11OO. AC LOIcl IOSOUlCCS VI Lie ELctIC
banks is placed at S469, 1885,. 927.86.
A transaction has been completed
at Burlington whereby four condenso-
ries of the Wisconsin Milk company
of this city will become the property
of the Nestles' Food company of New
York. The condensories, located at
Burlington and Valders. Wis, and
Grays Lake and Prentonicee, Ill, will
be operated by the Nestles' Food COM
nany after Jan 2, 1920. The concern
row owns twelve factories in Wisconz
sin.
Development of an extensive mari
bed discovered under marsh near
Bloomer for Inning farm lands in the
older sections in that vicinity, where
clover and peas arc raised is being
started. Tests are being made Prof.
A. r. Whitson, soils department. Uni
versity of Wisconsin, has found that
the mari bed runs very high in lime
carbonate, which many farmers are
having shipped from long distances at
considerable expense.
In a collision between the Omro-
Berlin Oshkosh automobile bus and a
500 train seven persons were in
jured, three seriously, including Her
bert Exner, Berlin, hand and back
sprained; Miss Mary Williams, Ber-
lin, head cut; Mrs. Herman Wilkie Of
Oshkosh, head bruised. 1t is said the
gates were down as the freight ap-
but that the bus driver be-
lieved he had time to cross and, ap-
parently, went under the gate.
Men 5 feet inches in height, weigh
ing 116 pounds, may now enlist in the
national guard. This is one inch
shorter than the minimum prior to
the war but three inches. higher than
the draft minimum. These are the
regulations just received by
the adjutant general from Washing
ton Unlike the days before the war,
the young man between 18 and q
years of age does not have to have the
consent of his parents to enlist, but
under no circumstances is a boy under
Is years to be taken in.
Mrs. Adam Ogodzki, member of
the Catholic church congregation at
Independence, was awarded damages
to $4,000, by a jury-in Circuit court at
In her suit against the
Rev. A. w. Cara, pastor of the church,
who was charged with forcibly ejectina
her. Mrs. Ogodzki claimed severe in
juries and illness as result of having
been put out of the church She is the
wife of the organist Charles Marso
lex, independence postmaster. and
Simon Skruch, members of the choir
are joint defendants in the suit
At elections of Dec Is, three coun
ties voted down good roads bond is
sues, and one, Fond du Lac, voted ap
prevail. Dane county voted down a
proposed $10,OO0,O00 issue. Grant ono
OF $5,000,00O and Iowa county disap
proved it's. proposed bond issue of $4,.
100000 The bond issue approved in
Fond du Lac county calls for the ex'
penditure of $4,600,O 900 during the next
eight years. The vote was close, while
in the other three counties the pro
posal was defeated by overwhelming
majorities.
Adolph Emerson, Wisconsin uni
versity medical student, became i'll
and his fance, Miss Mayme Hackett,
Los Angeles, fastened to his bedside
with marriage license to cheer him.
He has until Jan. to get well and
enjoy his honeymoon before classes