Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-24
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

Wnlle claiming in Lake Pepln
Reuben Morrison of Maiden Rocl
| found pearl which he sold for 81,
400.
| l.. M. Jacobson. who six months age
paid $4,000 for a 40-acre farm neal
1adysmith, has refused $500 for the
property.
| DR.. E. Gerechter, for twenty-seveI
years rabbi at the Temple Zion
preached his farewell sermon at Ap
pleton. He will leave for New York
shortly.
i Guns belonging to party of young
fellows from Madison, who were mo
toring through the country near Tun
mel City, were seized by Game Ward
carrying ready" guns in automobiles
Williams Bay settlement voted, sc
to Al, to incorporate as village. The
plat includes some handsome summer
homes and valuable resort property
and it will make one of the richest
villages in Wisconsin
/ A resolution indorsing higher sala-
/ ries for ministers was the outstanding
feature of the closing session OF
| the three days convention Of the
| State Baptist association, held at
! GAINESVILLE. r. A. Ashworth, Milwau.
kee, who sponsored the move, showed
1 that the street sweepers were paid a
better living wage than the average
| minister.
Charles Bader resigned as president
council to remain in the state guard.
/ He said he had been criticized by
union men because he was a member
/ of the guard and had responded when
called out recently in connection with
the strike riots at Two Rivers. He
has been union labor leader at Green
| Ba for years.
At a conference Of field workers of
the state department of health, al
! Madison, DR.. Robert I. Oleson, federal
representative. announced the ap
| po!ntment Of DR.. G.. A. Harper, state
health officer. as collaborating epide-
mologist Assisting him will be five
| deputy health officers. The idea is to
have a more efficient organization
! with which to combat epidemics.
Killing frosts in the early part of
Oc-ober seriously injured Oconto
county's potato crop, according to A.
Amundson, county agricultural agent
From all over the state have come re
ports that the frost was later than for
many years and that practically no
damage was done, while state crop
report says the long delayed frost en-.
abled millions of bushels of growth tic
be added to the states potato crop.
The First-Fond du Lac National
bank, a recently consolidated institu-
ton, issues a little periodical called
Farm News, which presents items of
interest to farmers, including pictures
of purebred stock and of exhibits of
farm produce. There is also For
Sale and Want column in which farm
ers are allowed to advertise, without
charge. things that they need or have
for sale. The paper is gotten out by
Rufus R. Runke. the banks agricul-
turist
Disappointed because the village
was not given a state trunk highway
to connect with the new route laid
out on the Calumet road out of Mani
towoc, agitation has been started in
the towns of Schleswig and Eaton and
the village of Kiel to withdraw fro
Manitowoc county and become part
Of Calumet county Information has
been asked of Madison as to the prop
Ell procedure and the contention is
that Chiffon is more accessible than
Manitowoc for the towns and village
in question
The Eastern Railroad Co. filed no
tice of appeal from the decision of the
circuit court, in the matter of the city
Of Oshkosh, forcing the company to
pay $4,000. alleged to be due the mu
nicipalitv for a franchise granted to
he company's predecessor, the East
ern Wisconsin Railway & Light Co.
Under the franchise contract the city
was to receive $1,000 a year for 35
years. and payments to the amount of
$4,000 had been made when the rail
way changed hands. The new owners
claimed not to be bound by the con-
tract, having taken an tndeterminate
franchise and surrendering its city
franchise
Charles FandlNch. Grand Rapids,
while digging for angle worms at
Hazelhurst. found a medal dated
1875. which was evidently issued in
commemoration of the independence
of the colonies. On one side is bust
of George Washington, and on the 9th
er side the bust of Gen. Frederick Won
Steuben The medal is about the size
and thickness of a $40 gold piece. and
when he first saw the piece Mr.. Fand
rich thought that was what he fOund
The relic was rather rusty. but when
polished was found TO be in good
state of preservation. Hazelhurst Is
little summer resort town few miles
south of Minocqua.
Another we'll has been dug in the
vicinity of the one recently completed
on the H. r. Johnson farm. near Wash
burn, where Oil and iron ore was
struck, but no such strong indications
were found in the last well. The well
is PSI feet deep and now has 63 feet
of water
The immediate calling of a grand
Jury as the only feasible way to probe
vice conditions III Superior is urged
by Chief of Police McKinnon. Dur