Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-03-28
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

The Rev Paul Gray, pastor of Grace
Congregational church, Two Rivers,
resigned to accept call from the
First Congregational church at Wau-
kesha.
The Rev. J. S. Wilson, Presbyterian
pastor at Merrill. for nearly twenty
| five years, has accepted charge al
Hudson, Wis, and has moved his fam
lily there.
A Marathon County Cow Testing
association was organized by Guern
sey breeders in Wausau. Fred Bandy
is president and A. G. Burg is secre
tary-treasurer.
A Beloit street car got out of con
troll of Motorman Bruce Adams, ran
down hill and struck a Northwest
ern road locomotive. No one was Sc
riously injured.
| The Rev. J. c. Ralston, Mckay,
Idaho, has assumed the pastorate OF
the Methodist Episcopal church
at Belmont, recently made vacant by
the death Of the Rev. Mr.. Harris.
l
j School children of Oshkosh collect.
ed pennies to buy records for the
talking machine at the Army and
Navy club. When the boxes were
opened the total was found to be
be $50.48.
The Ellington Lumber Co, Hawkins
which last week finished its winter
logging, hauled over 100000 feet OF
logs during the season. This will keep
the mill busy until late July. The
mill is running night and day
/ Joseph w. McCray, 20, Oshkosh
student at the University of Wiscon.
sin, died at Madison, due to a clot OF
blood on the lungs following pneumo
MIA and influenza. He was graduate
of the Oshkosh High and Normal
schols.
i Sergt. Ray Rolain, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Erred Rolain, Rhinelander, win.
Iner of a distinguished service cross
arrived home, having received bis
discharge. He captured a machine
gun nest near Juvigny, killing or cap
CuA1AiS Liz N4OW.
Milton Drummer, member of Boy
Scout troop, No. 2, Kenosha, won $25
in the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co.'s contest for the best letter writ
ten on .sHoW | Helped the Govern
ment in Selling War Savings Stamps. Z
| He also possess several scout medals
and other awards.
4 Residents of Stevens Point and
other cities of the Wisconsin river
valley have begun movement which
they hope will result in the enactment
of legislation preventing pollution OF
the Wisconsin river by industrial
waste from paper mills. The conser-
walton commission has promised that
by July / devices will be installed to
prevent the pollution.
A city beautiful campaign, recently
launched at Fond du Lac, is meeting
1 with success, in excess of that expect
ed by those who have initiated the
undertaking. The campaign which has
as Ole of it's main features an effort to
have slightly lawns and pleasant out-of-
door surroundings in the city, is being
supported by the Association of Com
merce and other local organizations.
No relatives of Roderick Gaines,
resident of the town of Omro, but an
inmate of the Winnebago county asy.
| lum when he died, have applied for
administration of the estate, which
amounts to about $780, County Clerk
G.. w. Manuel, Oshkosh, filed a petit
ton asking that E. d. Pingry, town
i chairman, be named administrator, so
| that the county may receive the
money due for care.
A course in Americanization has
been introduced at the state Normal
school, Stevens Point, and will be
| offered throughout the remainder Of
! the school year. 1t is confined entire
/ ly to instruction OH questions of mod
ern political problems, current liter
ature, war and international affairs
and Industrial and social unrest.
Every student in the school will be
compelled to attend the course.
Nomination papers for T. A. Cor
/ don, Stevens Point, as candidate for
the office of county superintendent,
have been filed and his address is put
down as Bordeaux, France" Altho
serving in the army overseas, Gordin
seeks Office at home, believing he will
/ be discharged in time to serve if
elected His business is stated to be
/ United States soldier" Nomination
! papers were filed by his father
and were signed by 1875 voters.
"A movement is being pressed to in
clude the Fox river district in the
plans for deep water route from the
Great Lakes to the Atlantic. The ten
tative plan provides for ship canal
from Oshkosh to Green Bay. From
Oshkosh freight transport service
would pass through Green Bay to Lake
Michigan and thence east via the
Straits of Mackinac. Such an i'm
provement, added to the Canadian
American deep waterway plan, would
mean direct traffic for the Fox river
region.
| Wisconsin counties paid out $780,
453.19 under the provisions of the
mothers pension act, in the first year
of its operation. In 1918, the third
year of operation, counties paid out
! $402,930.O4. The figures are based on
reports to the state board of control
Pending motion for a new trial