Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-05-02

Returned soldiers, many OF whom
wear woundstripes are assisting in the
Victory Loan campaign in Oneida
county. Oneida's quota is 100000.
AS to whether Appleton will con
strl1ct a viaduct over the Fox river t6
cost $3.50, 900 will PROBABLY be put to {
referendum. Two aldermen will be
eelcted at the same time.
DR.. Lloyd Harold Hough of Evan
ston, ILL.,, will be the commencement
speaker at Lawrence college. May
day will be celebrated on May %. The
May queen has not been selected.
The Marinette school board raised
the salaries Of school teachers from
20 to 29 per cent. Labor representa-
tives appeared before the board in be
half of the teachers appeal for an ad
vance.
The big saw mill of the Flambeau
River Lumber company, one of Lady
smiths leading industries, is now op
Grating day and night. The plant has
started on the largest lumber cut ir
it's history.
Manitowoc will employ a Landscape
gardener to improve new parks rec
emily purchased. First work in the
new acquisitions will be borne by pub.
lie spirited citizens who have yolun
teered to donate.
In a suit against the Eastrn Electric
company for $4,000 alleged damages
sustained while riding on one of the
company's street cars, Miss Ellen
Gerughty, Menasha, was awarded a
verdict Of $500.
Mayor Fred a. Baxter, Superior, ap-
pointed a citizens committee to plan
for reception for returned soldiers, to
be the biggest day Superior has ever
had. He promises that the council will
provide sufficient funds.
More than 5000 pounds of cheese
were sold at a public sale held in She:
boygan at almost half price. The
cheese was taken from the burned
warehouse of the Wisconsin Cheese
Producers federation at Plymouth.
Rock county may pay silent tribute
to it's soldiers, sailor and marine dead
in the form of a memorial arch to be
palced at the Observation-Disclosures state
line near Beloit. The project has been
suggested by Aid. Harker and has re
ceiyed favorable support. Action on
his proposal will be taken soon by the
city council.
Walter Houghton, the only Mani
towoc soldier taken prisoner by the
Germans, returned to his home. He
had been out with a lieutenant "clean-
ing machine gun nests when he was
sent back for help. On his return he
found his companion gone and him
self surrounded by Germans. He spent
five months in prison.
Kenosha churches will unite in OBJ
serving Sunday, May 4, as employ
ment Sunday. Clergymen will preach
on the need of providing work for re-
turning soldiers and will explain the
plan of the United States employment
bureau. With the return of 200 of Ke-
nosha's fighting men with the Three
Hundred Fortieth infantry, the need
for employment has grown.
Superintendent of Schools, w. p.
Roseman, who left Sheboygan recent
ly for Washington to aid the govern
ment in it's educational program for
disabled soldiers, has been assigned to
lSheboygan as a special representative
of the government and is giving sol
diers and sailors, disabled in the war,
advice on how to get the benefits
which the government offers.
At a public sale at Manawa, fifteen
registered bulls were sold to erstwhile
owners of grades and scrubs. The
Waupaca county farmers are so en-.
thusiastic over this sale that they are
planning another to be held in Wau.
paca early in May. Sponsors for the
better bull drive in that county are
confident that such sales will do much
in eliminating the scrub sires.
The historical committee of the JET
ferson county chapter, War Mothers
of America, has begun compiling a
record of every nan of the county who
went into service. A list of questions
will be sent to every discharged sol
der which he is to answer and re
turn. The record aims to be as com.
plete as it is possible to obtain and
will be bound in permanent form.
Twelve Oshkosh ward schools have
organized parent-teachers associations
within the past three weeks as a re
suit of the after war institute held in
March. They are being organized
with the assistance of the University
Of Wisconsin extension division. Each
association will work for better mu-
tual understanding between parents
and teachers, al well as to urge com
munity improvement and to study the
problems of adolescence as related to
the school and the ward.
Prof. A. H. Wright, agronomy de-
partment, college of agriculture,
Madison, is completing arrangements
in Brown county for the culture of five
acres of flax as an experiment. Plant
ing conditions are said to be ideal and
it is the opinion that the crop will be
satisfactory. The county has dona-
ted the use of the land without charge
and will take are of the cultivation.
This work will be given to Belgian
farmers, who have had experience in
flax cultivation in the old country.
Necessity Of cities along the upper
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