Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-12
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

sons since they located at Phelps and
are cutting more than $4,000 feet of
hardwood timber every day.
The Nineteenth annual reunion and
picnic of the Racine and Kenosha
county civil war veterans was held
in Racine Labor Day with 200 veter-
ans and their wives present.
One Of the most unusual marriages
ca record at Ladysmith occurred when
Leroy Cox and Eva Brown, well
known in that city, went out with a
crowd Of friends for days picnic and
were married by Rev. Fisher.
The Waterloo and Danville roads
leading from Watertown into Dodge
county are being placed in fine condi-
ton by the highway commissioners
of Dodge county. The work is to con-
tf4sae through the towns of Portland
and Elba.
Four operations in a single family
in one day happened to Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Heller, Monticello. Their four
children were brought to Portage to
the st. Savior's hospital, and their
tonsils were removed. The patients
are all doing nicely.
Several farmers near Tomah began
cutting corn, new early record. The
crop is a fine one and most of the
corn is beyond danger of frost. For
the past week, the thermometers have
gone down to within seven degrees of
froo1in0 ounrv NIGHT
The Marathon county chapter of
the American Red Cross has received
large, fully equipped, automobile
ambulance and it has been placed at
the disposal of residents of Marathon
county, and surrounding country.
Calls will be answered night and day.
H. S. Crosby, Rhinelander, secretary
of the post of the American legion,
was elected as one of the two dele
gates from Wisconsin on the national
executive board. Kirk White, post COM
mander of the Rhinelander post, is a
member of the state executive board.
The Thunder Lake Lumber Com
pany, which recently purchased the
large Robbins timber holdings and
sawmill in Rhinelander, are making
extensive improvements in that
plant preparatory to one of the big
gest lumber cuts of many seasons.
At a meeting of ali Eau Claire high
school and grade school teachers at
the opening of schools, City Super
intendent w. A. Clark, emphasized
the Importance of the work of
Americanization as part of the school
curriculum and urged them to develop
methods that would be the most eff
fective and far reaching; also to work
along lines that would tend to COM
bat the present feeling of unrest at
tendant upon the after-the-war recon
structiOn.
The Wausau Rotary club will OBJ
serve the anniversary of the adoption
of the constitution of the United
States, Sept. IT, A night meeting
will be arranged. Monday, Sept. Is,
the club will entertain Harry B. Grad
dick, district governor, at which Rota-
rians from Merrill, Stevens Point and
Grand Rapids will be present. On that
| day a trip will also be taken to Marsh
| field to deliver a charter to the Ro-
tary club, recently organized. In the
evening there will be banquet at
Marshfield.
Patrons of rural telephone lines in
western Wisconsin are stirred over
! the ruling of the railroad commission,
| effective Sept. 1, that limits free ex-
change service to the immediate COM
munity in which a patron resides. Toll
rates are in effect if one desires to talk
to a farmer who lives two or three
miles away. Under the old system,
patrons could talk to friends over a
wide expanse of country at flat
month"; rate. Another hearing will
be asked of the commission, in an eff
fort to modify the ruling.
The biggest farm under one manage
ment in Portage county has changed
hands. 1t is known as the j. p. Malik
place in Linwood, and has been sold
by A. e. Dafoe to Albert E. Brandt
and c.. M. Healey, Chicago. The farm
comprises $50 acres, a three-story
brick and stone dwelling, supplied
with all modern conveniences, large
barn and other buildings. The trans
fer includes all crops now growing on
the place, livestock and machinery. 1t
includes 100 acres of potatoes, largest
patch in the county.
Martin Worden, IS, Adell, was run
down and instantly killed by an auto
mobile driven by his son, Grin, near
Beechwood. The aged man was walk
ing along the edge of a narmow road
about a quarter of mile from his
home when his son and friend came
along in his car. The elder Worden
was apparently not in danger, when,
without warning to the automobiles,
he turned directly in front of the ma
chine. He was hurled to the ground
with such force that he sustained a
fracture at the base of the skull.
While canning peaches, Mrs. Peter
Roy, Fond du Lac, found small piece
of cardboard imbedded in a peach
stone. 1t bore the number A.
It is probable that new banking in
stitution will be started at Grand View
Bayfield, Co., this fall. A bank has
been wanted in that village for years
and local people have been handicap
ped greatly.
With the completion of its new in,
Urinary and research hospital, the
| University of Wisconsin is planning to
| increase next fall the scope of the