Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07


Grand Rapids. He came from Penn
sylvania in 1864 and lived in this vi
| cinity ever since.
That Gordon Hildebrand and Ber-
nice Kohanski of Menasha, both 6,
died of natural causes and were not
the victims of poisoning as suspected
by physicians, was revealed in autop-
sizes.
For the benefit of young people who
cannot attend school during the dag,
Miss Marie Lang Of the Wausaukee
high school faculty has opened night
school with an enrolment of four
teen. Sessions are held two nights of
each week.
Twelve cents per pound on cash
and carry basis and 1919 cents for
kcharge and delivery are the maximum
iiprices retailers may charge for sugar
in Wisconsin, according to announce
ment made by C. HI. Tenney, fair
price commissioner for Wisconsin.
| A Berger, owner of herd of prize
Jerseys in Oconto county. as rec
ord breaking milk producing COW. The
animal produced 1,2O7.7 pounds of
milk and 70.76 pounds Of butter fat
during June. He says this is the Off
cial worlds record for that month.
WATERFOWL launched its drive to
raise funds for monument to veter-
ans Of the world war. w. r. Thomas
has designed the monument. A COM
mittee of Is directs the campaign
The monument will commemorate all
soldiers called from Dodge and Jeffer-
son counties.
| Trial of the suit against the city of
KenOsha by Mrs. Bertha Smith and
Mrs. Margaret Strang, asking $780,
900 damages for the death of their
husbands, who were killed when the
automobile in which they were riding
ran into an excavation in a pavement,
began in circuit court. Contractor
Sullivan had permission of the city to
dig the excavation.
At a meeting at Oshkosh of the
state board of vocational education.
e. E. Gum, Jr, district supervisor of
vocational education, reported that
while a year ago there were about
thirty schools for vocational educa-
ton, on Jan. /, 1920, there will be
about fifty such institutions in Wis
consin, many of them being in cities
of not more than 5000 population.
Scores of hogs are coming into
Shawano county daily that are priced
around 81 a pound. During the past
week farmers near Shawano unloaded
l118 purebred Poland China sows,
weighing $50 to 100 pounds apiece,
with cost of $3.50 per head. They
are the pick of Illinois, Iowa and
Ohio best stock. Bears registered
Poland Chinas were brought in also.
valued at $3.50 each.
| Milk producers of Kenosha county
pledged SIS each toward a fund to de-
| fray the expense of defending the
eight directors of the Milk Producers
association on trial in Chicago. The
pledge was made at a meeting of the
Kenosha organization in Pleasant
Prairie, where ex-County Judge d. T.
Smiley, woodstock, Ill, spoke. The
directors are accused of conspiracy to
boost the price Of milk.
| The Rev. G. NJ. Olsen, Denmark
Wis, was elected superintendent Of
the Southern Wisconsin association of
the United Danish Lutheran church
of America at its convention at Ra-t
cine Other officers: Secretary, the
Rev. NJ O. Block. Racine; treasurer.
Chris p. Nielsen, Racine. The dele
gates participated in laying the cor
nerstone of the Gethsemane Danish
Lutheran church to be constructed at
cost of $4,000.
| The KenOsha school board took
new step in its schools when it hired
j. C. Crawford, former minister. to
take charge of their school for bad
boys" Plans for the school include
/ the installation of a course in manual
| training, more complete than found in
any other school of the city. They will
also furnish hot dinners to pupils, If
they are necessary, On the idea that
one of the real causes of delinquency
is improper nourishment.
Clarence W. BOOKINGS, Burlington,
one of the largest and best known
poultry raisers in the United States.
| is putting electric lights in his chick
en- houses to increase egg production.
He contends that hens lay the larg
est number of eggs during the month
of April, and he figures that If he can
give the hens the same number of
hours of daylight during the winter
months as they have in April, he can
get more eggs during the cold months.
Fourteen are known to have per.
ished and six are reported still miss
ing as the result of the sinking Of the
steamer City of Muskegon, of the
Crosby Transportation Co.. Milwaukee.
at Muskegon. The boat was caught in
a severe gale and in trying to make
/ the harbor before daybreak, was
caught by huge wave and tossed up
on the south pier, smashing in the
side and after being pounded by the
heavy sea for a few minutes, the boat
broke in two and sunk in about fifty
1 feet of water Seventy people made
up the crew and passenger list. and
| those who saved themselves did so
by jumping over the rail to the pier.
Mayor Elmer S. Hall, Green Bay,
designated Nov. IL, the date for spe-
cial election there to decide whether