Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-06
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Waukee, has submitted a proposition
to Portage to locate a shoe plant there
that employs 500 workers.
When the Manitowoc schools open
next fall, the vocational training de
partment will have added a complete
printing plant for instruction pur
poses.
A narrow gauge railroad is being
built from Tomah to Camp Robinson
where the government is storing ex
plosives at the rate of nine carloads
per week.
The Army and Navy club sent flow
ers on Decoration day to each Neenah
family who had a son or brother killed
in the war. The flowers were accom-
panied by messages of sympathy.
Forced off the La Crescent turnpike
by the binding headlights of a speed
ing car. City Engineer George II. Bro.
dish, La Crosse, suffered a broken
collar bone and had his a wrecked
He was buried under the machine but
crawled out.
George borrow, Menasha, was sen
fenced to thirteen months in Green
reformatory, and his companion,
William Jensen, also of Menasha, was
placed on probation for two years.
They pleaded guilty to the theft of an
automobile at Brighton Beach.
Mrs. Lena Geary, La Crosse, who
suffered injuries which will cripple
her for life, when thrown from a taxi
cab Nov. IL, was awarded damages OF
5000 against A. G.. Won der Ohe, taxi
cab driver, and Otto Nugtad, driver of
another machine, by a jury in circuit
court.
Arrangements are being made for
the organization of the eastern dis
trict Woman's Missionary federation
which will be effected at S~toughton
June 81 by those affiliated with the
Norwegian Lutheran church of Amer
lea. Delegates are expected from 240
pastorates in the region east of the
Mississippi river.
Thomas Tomandel, Stangelville,
Kewaunee county, so, had a peculiar
accident happen to him when he got
up in his sleep. He walked to the
window, jumped from the second
story, landed on a hitching post and
fell to the cement sidewalk. He had
four ribs broken and received other
internal injuries.
The George W. Diamond Co., a cor
poration recently organized, has made
plans for a paper mill structure which
will be build in De Pere. The COM
pany has two sites in view, n on
either side of the river. A dock will
be constructed adjacent to the plant
for water transportation of finished
and raw materials.
A monument to Lieut.. Ray G..
Bickop of the One Hundred and
Twenty-seventh infantry, who fell in
action in France, was unveiled in the
Beloits Catholic cemetery on Memo
rial day. Lieut.. Bickop has been men
toned by Gen. Pershing as one of the
heroes of the war. After being badly
wounded. he led an attack until shot
to death.
The proposed Farmers National
bank and the State bank of Lady
smith have consolidated, making M
of the strongest financial institutions
in thai part of Wisconsin. The cap
ital, now S35,OO0.OO, will be in
creased to $500 0 90, and surplus of
$25,O00.0 90. The merger is expected to
give the people of this section a better
banking service.
Frank Holton, president of Frank
dolton & Co., will build twenty-five
lew houses in Elkhorn on property
recently purchased of O. B. Rogers in
the north part of the city. Work will
start soon and it is expected that the
houses will be completed before win
ter. The houses will be modern five
and six room bungalows costing from
$4,000 to $4,000, and all will have diff
ferent eXteriOrs.
The scope of work conducted by
Lake Superior Mission at Superior I'M
der the direction of the Rev. w. T. d
Powe is being extended, as the pastor
has invited pastors of all churches to
call on him for work in any part of
the city. The mission is especially
getting the good will of the soldiers.
The Rev. Mr.. Powe was a chaplain in
the Canadian army and understands
the peculiarities of fighting men.
Another pardon application is to be
filed for the release of John F. Dietz,
dofondAr of Govonron nan He abil-
dren are circulating petitions through
out the state, and during the pasl
week have been in Winnebago cOun-
ty gathering names to be filed with
the governor asking an immediate
pardon. The application for the par
don will not be filed until 1000, 900
names have been recorded. These
will be gathered all over Wisconsin.
Dietz is in the state penitentiary at
Waupun, serving a twenty-year term
for having killed Oscar Harp, a dep
uty sheriff, Oct. 8, 1910, at the time of
the famous battle. Dietz' sentence
was for life, but was committed.
Judge William G.. Bunker. aged IS,
died at his home in Portage. He had
lived there ffty-fve years and served
thirty-two years as Municipal judge.
He was the oldest living member and
organizer Of Wauona lodge I. O. O. F.
Of Portage.
The annual meeting of the Wiscon-
sin State Bar association will be held
at La Crosse July 1-3. It will be a
joint gathering with the Minnesota
State Bar asSnciation. Ex-President