Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-04

l.. j. RuSk, Chippewa Falls, WaS ap
pointed by the supreme court as ;
member of the state board of bar ex
aminers.
A. M. Linsman, and son, Calcin, Aus
tin, Mimi, were badly burned when al
explosion occurred on the launch Len
ME en- route to Portage.
The Monitor-Herald, Tomah, weekly
newspaper, ran an ad for a Brooklyn
Wis, young man who wants a wife
Qualifications: Age Is and does moi
drink; photos desired"
All the stock in Clintonville's new
bank, which will be known as the
Dairymen's State Bank, has been sold
Stockholders will meet within two
weeks to perfect the organization and
elect officers.
The funeral of DR.. Clara M. Lane.
SO, well-known medical woman, was
held at Berlin. She vas a pioneer
resident of Plainheld and had prac.
ticed medicine there IS years. She
was also the oldest person in the
county.
At a meeting of all ~Sheboygan
union men, resolutions were adopted
protesting against the employment by
the city of detectives from out Of
town, TO handle the tanners strike,
pledging support to the tonners in
their demands.
Fifteen Oshkosh physicians pur-
chased a large apartment building, in
the center of the city, and will have
Offices there, organizing the Oshkosh
Clinic, which has been incorporated
by DR.. C. J. Combs, DR.. H. w. Nor
genroth and DR.. G. HI. Minis
Resolutions repudiating Bolshevism
and condemning l. w. w. and other
radical agitators were adopted by
Great Lakes District Lodge No. /, In
ternational Brotherhood of Boiler
makers and Iron Shipbuilders, and
Helpers in convention at Superior.
With the consent Of Sturgeon Bay
business men to indorse a plan pro-
posed to the cities of Kewaunee and
Door county for installation of power
service from the plants of the Wis
consin Public Service Co. in Green
Bay, the entire project is now assured
and work will be started upon the
transmission lines.
Oshkosh is taking steps to provide
a suitable landing place and will do
all possible to bring extension of air
mail service to that city. It may be
some time before the service reaches
there as city officials have been in
formed from Washington that there
is not enough money appropriated to
take care of many extensions at this
time.
Frank Weinke, William P. Meikle
and Edward Burkhardt, farmers own
ing land in Caledonia, Sank county,
near the Wisconsin River were award
ed $3.50, $4,000 and 500, respectively,
for damages done their land. The
erection of a dam of the Wisconsin
River Power Company at Prairie du
Sac made their lands soft, soggy and
until1able.
A jury at Green Bay awarded Miss
Nellie Kruger $4,000. She charged
Doctor Hickey with malpractice and
sued for $4,000. Evidence showed
that while the plaintiff was under ana
esthetic, having a tooth extracted, a
filling from another tooth was Jared
loose and went into the windpipe, and
the lung where an abscess formed, re
sulting in tuberculosis.
The annual tournament of the East
ern Wisconsin Firemen's Association
was held at New Holstein and was a
fine success. The departments OF
Brillion, Cascade, Chiffon, Denmark,
Elkhart Lake, Hilbert, Kiel, New Hoi-
stein, Kohler, Plymouth, and Sheboy
gan Falls participated. A delegation
Of 100 Kohler residents accompanied
the fire fighters Of that enterprising
village.
The taking of testimony in the case
of the state against Louis Ruehl,
detective for the Milwaunee railroad,
charged. with the killing Of two sol
diers On the right of way on March
10, was finished in the La Crosse cir
cult court. Ruehl told the story Of his.
life, and said that the men he shot.
Fred Bunker and J. B. Schomers, at
tackled him with two others and that
he shot in self-defense.
Mobilization of Young America to
gather Wisconsin's cherry crop is on.
Nearly every train entering Sturgeon
Bay brings "Y' boys who are to earn
"school money by picking cherries
this, summer. The boys are expected
to earn from $3.50 to $3.50 per day. A
camp, to be under Y supervision, is
being constructed. Six hundred boys
are expected. Early prospects point
to a record cherry crop . The season
will begin about July Is.
A petition has been forwarded to
Congressman John J.. Esch and the
war department to have the Black
river made ~navigable a mile and a hall
above Onalaska or six miles from itf
mouth to La Crosse. The request
specifies a three-foot channel thirty
feet wide in low water, sufficient fol-
motor boat navigation. Granting OF
the petition would open up for sum
mer cottages miles of shore frontage
which cannot be reached by road.
The will of Mrs. Elizabeth M
Moore was admitted to probate at Ke
nosha. No suit was filed nor protest.
made. The will, disposing of an es-
- @MAEn mn $1,000