Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-04-04
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

QIeQ AFTER a week illness Win 1nuu
enza and pneumonia. One child sur
wives.
Louis Willard, Jr., Peshtigo, wire
less operator in the radio corps
writes his parents that he and com
rade were the first American sailors
to enter Metz.
From single days lift fishermen a.
Little Sturgeon recently shipped 5000
pounds of fish, the largest lot broughl
in this season, to Chicago. The fish
were mostly perch.
Ray M. Funk, former Waukeshs
county clerk, was sentenced to sever
years in prison by Judge James Thorn
as. He pleaded guilty to embezzline
$4,000 from the county.
The postmasters of Marathon county
have organized in a county league tC
cooperate with state and nationa
leagues of postmasters. Frank Leusch
en- of Marathon is president
The Rev. A. Parker Curtiss closed
his ministry as vicar of st. Marks
Episcopal church, Oconto, and left fol
Peekskill, N. Y, where he will be res
ident chaplain at Mt. ST. Gabriel.
DR.. E. T. Case was elected president
Of the La Crosse District Dental so
ciety at the annual meeting attended
by about seventy dentists from nearby
cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A total of 957 applications, includ
ing seventy-seven discharged soldiers
and sailors, were placed in positions
by the United States employment sery
Ice in Green Bay between March / anc
March %.
Capt Edward Dayton, Kenosha, is
to bring back a score of motor trucks
from Hembach, Germany, to Mar
seilles, France, and has been given
seventy men with which to accomplish
this, according to letters to local
friends.
In the near future six or seven gov
eminent tugs will be launched at the
ship yards at Sturgeon Bay. The
Universal Shipyard has three large
$50 feet wooden tugs ready of launch
ing and the Lathem & Smith company
has four.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hirschinger
Baraboo, celebrated their Sixtieth
wedding anniversary during the past
week. Because of not being in the
best of health they passed the day
quietly. The aged couple have been
residents of this community since they
were married.
Methodist ministers from TT. Atkin
son, Whitewater, Beloit, Fall River
and GAINESVILLE, in conference at James
Vile, laid plans for the great cente
nary movement of the Methodist Epis
copal church. Bishop Charles G. Nit
chell and M G. Thomas, ST. Paul area
campaign director, also attended the
conference.
Indications are that lumber mills in
Oconto county will cut more lumber
this year than in many years past
The Oconto river and its banks are
piled high with millions of feet of logs
of the best hemlock hardwood vari
cites, and with the mills running full
blast it looks as though 30,000,000 feet
of logs will be cut.
st. Patrick's Catholic church, James
vile, will erect a $4,000 parochial
school. Plans are being drawn. A
campaign to raise money is in prog
ress. The assessment plan is being
used with success. The new building
will be two stories with basement and
central heating plant for the church
school, and convent.
Five hundred shopmen Of the Fed
eral uAion, Madison, voted to strike
with 1900 machinists who propose to
go out The vote was practically
unanimous and a telegram asking for
permission from the American Feedra.
ton of Labor, with whom they are
allied, was sent to Frank P. Morrison,
secretary, at Washington.
For the third time in the last several
weeks the "fiu" has been placed in
effect at Bancroft Many of the vii
lage residents are afflicted with the
disease and no public meetings are
permitted. The schools were closed
when more than half of the students
were absent because of illness. The
quarantine will be maintained until
health conditions materially improve.
More than $1,OOO,OOO worth of dairy
products were shipped from Langlade
county during 1918. Cheese ship
ments totaled 100000 pounds, and
butter shipments approached 100000
pounds. Many thousands of cans OF
cream were shipped from stations OF
this county. Latest government fig
ures credit Langlade county with
$4,000 milch COWS. The county has
twenty-three cheese factories and five
creameries. Thousands of acres OF
land are still in timber or undeveloped
for farming.
Wisconsin farmers increased the
area in cultivated crops in 1918 by
$4,000 acres over 1917 The total
acreage in cultivated crops in 1915
was S,7S3,O0O acres, compared with
8,685,000 acres in 1917.
H. L. Stein, Kenosha, says he is the
owner of the smallest dog in the
world. This distinction for Kenosha
came with the advent of toy black
and tan puppy which tipped the scales
at two ounces. The mother dog AM
another pup died and the lightweight,
champion survivor is taking his nour
ishment from an eye-dropper.
The Legislative finance committee
recommended $4,000 for free employ