Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-21

his enumerators. A number Of rural
districts in Jefferson county have no
applicants.
One of the first cement block barns
to be erected on farm in Portage
| county has just been completed on the
| Chef GARDINER place in Buena Vista.
| The building covers ground space 34x
81 feet and is adjoined by new silo
of cement blocks.
By ignoring the faculty ruling which
prohibited the cutting of classes on
the Friday and Saturday preceding the
annual class rush., 200 freshmen and
| sophomores at the university may be
barred from final examinations and
given no grade for the semesters work
in classes that they missed.
Employees of one of the largest in
| dustrial plants of Oshkosh are work
| ing out a system to solve the high cost
of living. The 1900 workers at the
plant have been buying foodstuffs by
wholesale in carload lots. Teams
owned by the employing concern haul
| the products to the homes of the work
men.
Raymond Thoreson, II, usher at an
Eau Claire movie theater, learned of
his adoption and the fact that he had
| two brothers killed in service overseas
| from letter from the war department,
asking him to report at st. Paul. The
| boy was adopted when year old and
| had supposed his foster parents to be
his own.
e. E. Clafin, Mansion, thinks if
Jerry Van Huizen, Owen, can claim
to be the champion bean grower of
Clark county with a 6-pound bean, Mr..
Cla1in can easily claim the champion
ship of the state. He has giant New
Guinea butter beans grown from seed,
weighing 171a pounds and measuring
| forty-one inches in length.
More than half as much snow has
fallen at Superior this winter as fell
during the entire winter of 1888,
according to records kept in the city
hall. The total snowfall SO far is Is
| inches At the end of last winter 20
inches were recorded for the season.
had a snowfall of but Ola inches.
The $4,000 breach of promise YER
dict that jury gave Norma Guerke,
20, Green Bay, against Walter e. Kiley
former packing house official. was con-
frmed by Judge N. ]. Monahan. Miss
Guerke alleged that on Kiley's prom
Use to marry her she had received his
attentions on various motor car trips,
and that he then refused to marry her.
The First Presbyterian church at
Manitowoc was left $500 by Miss Har-
riet Bacon, 81, former resident, who
died at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Bacon
bequeathed her life savings to relig
ious institutions. A Cambridge church
also gets $500. Years ago she was
school teacher at Manitowoc. She is
survived by an invalid sister in Yer
mont.
Gov. E. L. Philip has called pri-
mary on December 8, and special
election on Dec 10, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the refusal of the house
of representatives to seat Victor l..
Berger as representative from the fifth
district. Berger may run for re-elec-
ton. Democrats and Republicans are
endeavoring to unite on nonpartisan
candidate.
Special efforts are being made to
spread the organization of Boy Scout
patrols throughout Marathon county.
In Wausau are several troops, the
largest having a membership of Al.
The purpose is to establish and main
tain a county council with skilled
executive in charge to select and train
scout masters. The movement is meet
ing with enthusiastic response.
AS the result of a largely attended
meeting of riparian land owners at
Oshkosh, it was decided to cooperate
with the water power users OF the
Fox river valley and prepare a joint
petition to the war department asking
that the level of Lake Winnebago be
lowered eight inches in the spring to
take care of the high water and to use
eight inch flash boards on tie Men
asha dam in summer months to give
the paper mill owners sufficient power
to operate their plants.
The state highway commission gave
notice of three additions to the Mon
roe county system of roads. One is
made a part of the La Crosse-Cashton-
Ontario highway, towns of Portland
and Jefferson; one on the Ontario
Wilton-Tomah road connecting with
the Sparta Mansion road town of
Ridgeville and one on the Sparta-Cat-
aract-Black River Falls road. A dis
continuance of the Sparta Camp Rob
inson road as part of the state trunk
system, was also made.
Reinhold Rozinsky, Manitowoc, un-
der sentence to two years at hard Ia
Dor for evasion of payment of $40 per
month toward support of his two
minor children, and who was ordered
to pay an increase of $50 per month
when he asked for a modification of
the original order, lost out on his hab-
Gus corpus proceedings also. Judge
Kirwan remanded him to the custody
of the sheriff During the time that
Rozinsky is in jail all of his earnings
over and above his keep go to the sup
port of the children.
Menasha Police have failed to find
any clews to the identity of two men
who forced an entrance to the home of
Herman Lueckenbach, bound and
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