Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-04-11
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
News of the Badger State Arranged
....... in Condensed Form ......
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

ance company plans the erection of a
three-story Office building in Rhine
lander.
Scarlet fever caused the death of
Robert Reinert, 2, Plymouth, while his
father was in Sheboygan hospital
with blood poisoning.
! La Crosse Brewery workers signed
an agreement for weekly increase
of $3.50 for the coming year. They
had requested 81 more per week.
Senator Otto Bosshard, father of
many Wisconsin labor laws, was de-
feated for mayor of La Crosse by
Mayor Arthur A. Bentley. The vote
was: Bentley, 3,128; Bosshard, 2,159.
James Cannon, who fought with the
Princess Pat regiment, has returned
to Rhinelander. He joined the Cana
dian forces after he had been rejected
for service in the United States army.
| Citizens of Algoma organized to get
a memorial for soldiers and sailors.
suitable building. Membership is linn
| tied to those who have sons or broth
ers who are or were in the service.
Warden Henry Town of the state
prison at Waupun planted potatoes
over set of steam pipes on March "a
and hopes to have the earliest pota-
| toes raised in Wisconsin this year.
The steam will warm the ground and
put it in shape for early growth.
Twenty-four patrolmen for Langlade
county roads have been appointed by
the county board. Five will be on the
| federal trunk line and the rest on the
state and county aid roads. Three pa
trolmen are still to be appointed. The
patrols will average about seven miles
in length.
The Rev. and Mrs. Oscar Samuel,
Racine, recently celebrated their gold
en- wedding anniversary, which was at
tended by the Rev. Mr.. Rosenstengle,
Carthage, ILL.,, who performed the
marriage ceremony fifty years ago.
Two of their eleven children were
present The Rev. Mr.. Samuel is pas
tor of Emmanuel Lutheran church.
The judicial campaign cost the Su-
preme court candidates approximate
ly $4,000 According to campaign ex-
penditures filed with the secretary of
state, Justice M. B. Rosenberg spent
4,040.39, less an unexpended balance
of $195, and j. T. Dithmar spent ST.,
25626. Judge E. B. Belden, Racine,
spent nothing on his campaign.
A farm owned by John T. Collentine
was sold to Henry S. Stauffacher of
Jordan township, Green County, for
SIS, 0OO The farm contains 200 acres
and is located one and one-half miles
northwest of Monroe in Monroe town
ship. This is evidence of how farm
ers in Green County prospered. Mrs.
Collentine bought the farm twenty
years ago for 500 an acre.
Capt. Joel r. Moore, formerly a
member of the La Crosse normal
school faculty, has been awarded the
st. Ann medal by the Russian COM
mander in northern Russia for his eff
forts in organizing and assisting Rus
sian anti-Bolshevik forces, according
to report from Archangel. Captain
Moore is the first American in north
ern Russia to receive this decoration
So great was the interest in the
La Crosse mayoralty campaign be-
tween Mayor Bentley and former
Senator Otto Bosshard, that patients
in hospitals voted, and two men so
sick they were carried into the poll
ing booths to cast their vote. The
total vote cast was approximately as
large as in a presidential election,
despite the absence of some 400 sol
diers.
final checking of the Liberty bonds
taken from the office of the American
Brass Co., Kenosha, show the amount
taken to be $4,000. Two revolvers
found with other guns and ammuni-
ton in two grips behind a billboard
at the Green Bay and Burlington
roads have been identified as taken
from the Brass Co. Office, proving that
the robbers left the luggage in the
fight during which their command
eered taxicab was ditched near Bur-
Iington.
Frank and Leslie Kruger were
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree for killing Harry Jensen, station
agent at Withee, Wis, by jury in
Judge James ). O'Neill's court at Eau
Claire. Mrs. Caroline Kruger,
mother of the two men, and who with
them faced trial on a charge of first
degree murder, was adjudged not
guilty Immediately upon leaving the
courtroom, Mrs. Kruger was rear
rested by Assistant United States
Marshal Gantz on charge of melting
resistance to the draft law. She was
again lodged in the county jail. The
three Kruegers were placed on trial
as a result of the killing of Jensen,
who lost his life while member of a
posse, which came to the Kruger
farm to arrest the Kruger boys for
failing to register.
Following an attempt to kindle fire
in coal range in his home in Plain
view, near La Crosse, Willard Leinin-
ger, 10, is dead. The boy mistook gas
oline for kerosene. He ran from his
home, living torch.
Oconto's new and only labor union,
the Timberman's local, made their
first political fight in the aldermanic
elections, and won, electing three out
of four, Scherer, PAIL and Beekman.
Sunday, April 6, marked the golden