Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

charged from the service and has ar
rived at his home in Neenah. He was
a member of the Eighty-sixth Division.
Articles Of incorporation Of the
Burnside Paper Company, a new prof.
ect at Neenah, have been fled. The
company is incorporated at $4,000,
| and will conduct a wholesale paper
jobbing business there.
Frederick w. Coon, SO, editor of the
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter, died at
Edgerton after long illness. Mr..
Coon was a graduate of the University
of Wisconsin and spent practically his
whole life in newspaper work in this
state.
A large amount of pork, half spoiled,
shipped into La Crosse by packing
firms, was condemned by DR.. w. w.
Armstrong, city health commissioner.
The meat was found in La Crosse
| shops. Kerosene was poured over it,
and it was burned.
A party of officials of the Wisconsin
| Telephone Company visited Mantle
voc on tour of inspection of plants
| in the state and it is reported that
while there gave assurance that some
thing would be done in regard to
new exchange building for that city.
Members of the coast guard at the
Kewaunee station do not view with
consolidate the coast guard with the
navy. The coast guard is composed of
picked men, superior, it is claimed, in
many respects, to the men in the navy.
The Central Labor Council has sub
mitted the proposition for a general
strike, tying up all industry in She
boygan, in sympathy with the tannery
workers, who have been out on strike
more than month, to referendum
vote of the individual unions. The
vote will be taken by secret ballot and
communicated to the central body.
The Rock county board of supervis-
ors through a special committee, has
bought ITO acres of the Hemingway
farm just south of the county poor
farm on which to built Rock county
tuberculosis sanatorium. The county
will pay 5000 an acre for the farm or
total of about $4,000. Final posses
sion and deed will be given the
county April /, 1920.
Cyrus c.. Yawkey of Wausau has re-
ceived a commission from Gov. e. l..
Phillip as colonel of infantry of the
Wisconsin state guard, Col. Yawkey
was first commissioned as captain of
Company C in August 1917. and pro-
NOTED to major of the First Battalion,
Tenth Infantry, in May, 1918. Col.
Yawkey is one of Wausau's most in
fuential business men.
Rhinehart Meyers, we'll known
Rhinelander lumberman, was arrested
by Stephen j. Gwide, conservation
warden on the charges of using a net
in the Some River. In court Meyers
entered plea of guilty to the charge
and was fined $50 and costs. Arrests
for violations of the state fish laws
have been frequent in Oneida County
this summer and conservation ward
ems are kept busy
Drivers of ice wagons at Beloit are
on strike because of publicity given
weights and charges by W. M. Won
Lone, food inspector, that short
weights were common and boycott
was threatened against those who
complained. The drivers say the allie
cations are unjust. The ice companies
are supplying hospitals and service. t.
houses where there is illness, but the
city is greatly inconvenienced.
w. G. Maxey OF Oshkosh has closed
deal for the sale of the City Gas
company's plant and extensions to c.
o. Somdahl of Fort Wayne, Ind Mr.
Somdahl has already taken possession
and plans important Improvements
After closing this deal Mr. Maxey still
owns two water plants and one gas
plant At one time he controlled four
teen utilities, including the Amigo
water works, now municipality owned.
The Eau Claire Airplane corpora
ton, G. R. Wood and L. S. Mcdonald
tncorporators, booked engagements for
exhibition flights by its aviators at a
number of Wisconsin fairs this fall,
and the aviation school which the cor
poration plans to conduct will be
opened within six weeks. The Joyce
farm, eighty acres of level ground
used by Ensign Grace as a flying
field, has been leased by the corpora
lion for its school.
Kenosha, South Milwaukee and Cud-
ahy suffered as a result of the strike
Of 100 men at the plants of the Wis
,onsin Gas and Electric company, Ra-
cine, many of the manufacturing
plants as well as several homes de-
pending upon the gas furnished by
that concern. The gas in reserve
tanks has been exhausted with the re
suit that the mains were shut off
TONES with gas 4anges, and relying
upon these for home cooking were
nard hit when the supply was shut of 1
Results of a hatch of ninety eggs,
set under six hens of Mrs Daniel
Kunkel, Oshkosh, it is believed have
made a record which others ran ai,>a
at for years. Every one of the eggs
produced baby cIllck ana all aIc III
Il healthy condition.
The sanatarium to be built on the
Pennoyer site will be a memorial to
the Kenosha men who fought and died
during the war. 1t is to be known as
st. GATHERINGS Memorial Hospital
and will contain $50 beds for soldiers
and sailors who were wounded and