Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-14

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pany paid $5O,8OG as city taxes, the
largest single amount that has ever
been paid in Manitowoc for taxes.
A new high price for land in La
Crosse county was reached when
Henry Cronk of Onalaska sold his
farm to Otto Moss for $153 an acre.
The movement to close stores at 9
instead of 10 p. m. Saturdays is
backed by the Superior Trades and
Labor assembly for the benefit OF
clerks.
E. ]. Dempsey, Oshkosh. has re
ceived reappointmeht as resident
regent of the state board of normal
school regents. He was appointed five
years ago.
| The Menasha Filtermass company
has secured foreign orders for new
device known as car mover. Large
consignments have already been
shipped to Japan.
The ground hog saw his shadow
generally throughout Wisconsin Sun
day. Feb. 2, beat it back into his bur-
row and we'll have six weeks of cold
weather or the fable is lie.
Mary N. Clark, Portage, is the first
woman in the state to enter the cleo
ton contests in the spring. She has an
nounced her candidacy for Columbia
county superintendent of schools.
Frank Flynn, a settler near Bolton.
Villas county, was holding his right
hand over the muzzle of rifle when
the weapon accidentally discharged
Amputation of the hand was necessary.
One hundred boys and girls of Win
nebago county have entered competi-
ton to see which can raise the best
calf in the coming season. They con-
stitute the Winnebago County Gals
club.
Stricken with influenza shortly after
his return from a military training
camp after he had been mustered OUT
of the service, Reuben Resch sue
cumbed at his home in Menasha from
pneumonia.
According to figures compiled by a
Minneapolis expert, Appleton has a
population Of 26,377, "a gain of 5000
since 1910. 1t is not believed, how.
ever, by businessmen there, that Ap
pleton has more than $1,000 popula-
ton.
The Girls Glee club Of Lawrence
Conservatory of Music will make a
trip south in March, according to in
fr11, M N I,
taken up work as instructor of vocal
music at the college, succeeding Miss
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eugene Hannah, residing on farm
four miles north of Monroe, wac
brought to Monroe hospital suffering
from burns about the face and hands
He was heating a solution of lard and
kerosene for use on live stock, when
the boiler exploded.
Reinhold Rosinsky, Manitowoc, was
sentenced to two years at hard labor
in the county jail on charge Of non
support of his two minor children
Rosinsky had completed a tWo-year
sentence for the same offense less
than two months ago.
Leslie Kruger, Owen, draft evader,
alleged to have shot and killed the
depot agent at Owen last fall while
resisting arrest by officers of the gov.
eminent, will be tried in federal court
at La Crosse on charges of murder
and resisting an officer.
Miss Katherine WEIGH, teacher in
the public schools of Stevens Point for
twenty years and ward principal for
seventeen years, has resigned to ac-
cept a position with the Collegiate as
sociation. She will be assigned to a
school in Lake Erie district
AS a memorial to the soldiers of
Outagamie county who are and have
been in the service, Armory G at Ap-
pleton may be remodeled so when the
boys return they will not know their
own armory. This plan is now receiv-
ing much favorable comment.
The Office of the first district exemp
ton board of Appleton has closed its
doors, having completed all necessary
work. The board shares with all 9TH
ers in the state the honor of having
Wisconsin be the first state tos corn
plete the first part of the final work
The retail merchants section of the
Oshkosh Merchants and Manufacture
ers' association has formally declared
against the so-called luxury section"
of the proposed federal revenue bill
and will address communications to
that effect to Wisconsin representa-
tives in congress.
Jack Dupuis; who attained fame
overseas by breaking the back of a.
German officer in a hand-to-hand fight,
has arrived in New York and is in
hospital He is expected at his home
in Niagara, Marinette county, soon.
He has been wounded twice and has
had four operations.
O. J. Sorenson, former La Crosse
mayor, has announced that he will build
mayor, has announced that he will
build large new wood working fac
tory in that city. He will be assisted
by his sons, Ray and Roy, who worked
in the Curtis airplane plant at Buffalo,
N Y, during the war. Sorenson rec
emily sold his old plant to the Armour
Packing company, which vii convert it
to their own use.
The Masonic lodge of Chippewa
Falls has bought the Office building
owned by the Wisconsin-Mi Minnesota