Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

The Darlington board of education
has decided to raise the tuition of
nonresident pupils from 81 to So per
week, it being shown that the aver
age cost to the district for the past
year was 1.75 per student.
The Amigo Tractor Company for
the manufacture OF the four wheel
drive tractors, has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $1,000 DOC The
incorporators are D. S.. Stewart, Will
liam H. Wolfert and Chas. ]. Hanzel.
F. j. Sensenbrenner, w. 2. Stuart
and Harry Price are the incorporators
of the Neenah Building Company a
civic organization formed at Neenah
to build homes to relieve the house
shortage. The company is capitalized
at 500, 900.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, SO, ia
nous writer and native of
Wisconsin, who has been i'll in Eng
Olympic. Mrs. Wilcox has been suf-
fering with complications resulting
from sciatic rheumatism. She ex-
pressed a desire to see her native land
again and asked that the ocean trip
be attempted.
Lieut.. Robert Connolly, university
of Wisconsin student, seriously in
jured when the airplane which he was
flying at Waterfowl fell, is still in
critical condition. He has been I'M
conscious since the time of the acci-
dent. Capt. H. Dickinson, his passen-
ger, whose jaw and arm were broken,
was taken to the hospital for an op-
Grafton for internal injuries.
Memories of the old swimming hole
in northern Wisconsin prompted
Francis Pawling. IA. and Jesse Vim
cent, II, orphans, to run away from
the state school for dependent chill
dren at Sparta. They were found by
DR.. G. =. Egan near La Crosse, having
walked thirty miles In two days. They
said they lived on wild raspberries,
which they found in abundance.
DR.. Charles w. Hall of Milwaukee
was elected president Of the Wiscon-
sin State Dental society at the con
vention held in Milwaukee. Other Of
hcers elected we're: DR.. J. v. Muller,
Manitowoc, first vice-president; DR.
w. |. Mcfarland, Tomahawk, second
vice-president; DR.. w. F. Faust, Mil
waukee, secretary; and DR.. Adolph G.
Chopper, Milwaukee, treasurer.
Of the eight entries made by the
boys and girls of Monroe county at
the junior livestock exposition to be
held in Madison next November, there
is not a scrub animal in the lot. Belle
Bold, Tomah, is entering a Jersey bull
calf, and the other exhibitions will
show Guernsey, Jersey and Shorthorn
heifers. There are two entries from
the county for the baby beef classes,
one a Guernsey and the other a Short,
horn.
Making automobile license numbers
for Wisconsin is a new industry in the
state prison at Waupun. Part of the
machinery has been installed. An
enameling room has been Atted UP on
the second floor. Drying racks for
this department are now being built.
The fact that fully 100000 automobiles
are licensed in the state, indicates
that the industry viii employ many.
A modern laundry has been erected
at the prison.
Unless Houston county, Minneso-
ia, adopts and maintains that part of
the interstate road between the vii
lage of La Crescent and the west chan-
mel bridge, two miles, La Crosse will
on Sept. / restore tolls on the Missis-
sippi wagon bridge. The time limit
for adoption by the Minnesota county
of that part of the bridge turnpike ly-
ing within its border was prescribed
by the La Crosse common council in
a resolution adopted two years ago.
Launcelot A. Gordon, elected county
superintendent Of Portage county
while serving overseas, is en- route
home to take his job. He has fled his
acceptance by cable. The state super
intendent may be called upon to ap-
point an acting superintendent until
Gordon arrives. He is believed to be
thei only Wisconsin soldier elected to
Office while serving overseas. The
term of Miss Marion Bannach, former
county superintendent, expired July l.
"A campaign is under way at Keno
sha to have the city build a shelter
home for delinquent children. All
children held on minor charges must
be locked up with older criminals and
prisoners in the county and city jails.
Children brought in for violation OF
the curfew day must be held under
lock and key. This ~necessitates keep.
ing boys and girls under IS in the
same cells with older persons. The
drive for the shelter house is being
pushed by women's societies.
Sergt. j. w. Roberts, La Crosse,
railroad nan, during eighteen months
overseas, took part in seven battles,
was gassed twice and received five
bullets in his legs. While he was
gone. his wife, two children, father
and mother, all died of influenza. He
also learned on his return that six
brothers had been killed in battle in
France. Though in his early twenties,
Sergt. Roberts hair is white. He has
gone to Council Bluffs, Ia, to act as
crossing tender for a railroad com
pany.
Mrs. Ellen Adelaide Copp, Madison.
20, a grandmother, is a candidate fol
the highest academic degree, doctor OF
philosophy. She hasswon five college
daoraas and is a graduate student al