Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-28


sters employed at the Oconto Co.
mills, the entire plant closed. The
men had demanded extra pay for
three-fourths of an hour put in getting
| the teams ready for work every morn
ing.
lifted the ban on poultry raffles which
has been in effect there for the past
three years and raffles will again be
allowed as far as the county is con-
cerned No explanation was forthcom-
ing for action taken.
The decision of Judge Scion Perrin,
Superior court, which entitled IL dis
charged policemen to back pay since
| their dismissal May 20, will be ap-
pealed to the state supreme court, &C
cording to T. L. Mcintosh, assistant
corporation counsel.
| The Citizens Telephone exchange
will make extensive additions to it's
systems in Sheboygan estimated to
cost $4,000. Conduit and serial cables
will be installed in various parts of
the city where the capacity of the ca
bles has been exhausted.
Earliest for many years, ice harvest
| ing has started in Black river. Edward
Wiskerchen, La Crosse, ice dealer, cut
Is tons eight inches thick in two days,
to supply customers who have been
on short ration since the shortage de-
veloped early in September.
/
| The sugar famine is practically over
as far as Neenah is concerned, accord
ing to grocers there. All now have
plentiful supplies of sugar which they
are retailing at Is cents per pound,
claiming that they have to pay as high
as 1872 and 141l cents wholesale for
the product.
Patrolman Byron Johnson has re-
ceived enough pledges from lnd1v1du-
ais and corporations to insure i'm
provement of the county trunk line be-
tween Tomah and Sparta. The Mon
roe county board will duplicate the
amount raised, and one of the worst
sandroads will be turned into a fine
highway.
The county board has located the
proposed Clark county insane asylum
at Owen, a farm being purchased adj
| Joining that town and bonds ordered
issued to pay for the site. The new
asylum will cost about $4,000 and
construction is expected to begin in
the spring. Owen and Neillsville
were both candidates for the location.
For two nights the streets of Lady
smith were without street lights, ow-
| ing to clogging of the waterwheel at
the power plant by chunks of floating
| ice, large quantities of which are con-
stantly being carried down the Flam-
beau river Only a limited amount of
current could be generated, hardly
sufficient to light dwelling houses and
business places.
Arthur Peters, Superior, recently
served thirty minute sentence in the
federal court room at La Crosse. He
was convicted in 1915 of a minor in
fraction of the postal laws, but Judge
Lands failed to sentence him. Judge
Sanborn complied with request from
the department of justice to pass SEN
tence so that the records would show
disposition of the case.
Nearly all Oneida county officials
were voted salary increases by the
county board. DR.. H. L. Garner, who
recently returned from service in
France, was elected county physician.
A car load of sheep was shipped
from Grand View for the market in
| rL;oooo Cbooy1 +b rive in fhof loco Jitv
and other farmers are contemplating
taking up the industry.
The annual report of County Agent
R. L. Cuff to the Barron Co. board,
shows that the total amount received
by Barron county farmers for live.
stock shipped through the several
shipping associations of the county
was $1,O25,O36, and that Barron coun-
ty now has $50 purebred bulls, being
only 179 behind Waukesha county, the
banner pure bred stock county in
| Wisconsin.
In the Creamery Package Co. plant
at Ft. Atkinson, Ferdinand Endl has
the special duty to keep the bearings
of the drive shaft in the galvanizing
department well oiled. The shaft is
directly above a ten-ton molten metal
vat While he was oiling the shaft,
his clothing got caught on the revolv-
ing bar. He grabbed the supporting
beams above. Every bit of clothing ex-
cept his shoes were torn from his
body. He held on to the beams and
climbed to safety.
Following an investigation, the Out
agamie county board decided to con-
tinue the county workhouse. A group
of supervisors sought to abolish the
institution on the ground that it is a
needless expense because of the small
number of persons sentenced to it.
The committee reported that the fact
| that the county has WOrkhOuse
keeps many undesirables away. The
workhouse superintendent is paid ST.,
| 900 a year, out of which he must pro-
vide food and clothing for his prison
ers. He is permitted to keep the crops
grown on the workhouSe farm. Last
year 50 persons were sentenced to the
institution.
Brewery and saloon furniture in SUI
perior is practically valueless, accord
ing to Louis McKinnon, treasurer OF
the Northern brewery who appeared