Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-20
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

popular girl in the city by the Fond du
Lac Trades and Labor council in con-
nection with a carnival
Gov Philip took under considera-
ton committing the sentences of Mike
Dreher, Buffalo county, sreving a three
year term for arson, and Frank Ing
land, Superior, serving a fifteen year
term.
Pieces of rock discovered on the
farm of Charles Johnson on the Wis
consin river, north of Rhinelander, are
believed to be iron ore. The samples
have been forwarded to an expert for
examination.
Port Edwards will soon open a new
community building. This building is
part of the community enterprises of
this village of 1900. 1t contains a large
gymnasium, a stage and is modern in
every particular.
A city nurse on full time service
was retained by the Watertown city
council at the last session, when an
ordinance was passed providing for
the expenditure Of $125 monthly for
the salary Of this official.
The Prentis. Wabers Stove Co. of
Wisconsin Rapids is shipping it's
Auto KampKkook Kits to all parts of
the world. From a small beginning it
has in two years become one of the
important industries of centeral Wis
consin.
f. J. Lawrence of Florence, has Sc
cured an option on lands near there
owned by George Boyer and Emily O..
Fisher and will explore the property
for iron ore. The property adjoins the
Florence mine on the east and looks
promising.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 is being
expended on the Hurley-Ashland high
way via Saxon and Odanah. Most of
the work is now being done on the
road through the Bad river reservation
between Odanah and Birch. This road
is IL miles shorter between Hurley
and Ashland than the state highway
via Mellen.
Because Of trouble with machinists
and tool and die makers, that has in
terfered with factory operation, the
Hamilton Beach company of Racine, af-
ter a conference with committee rep
resenting locked out employees, an
nounced that the plant will never be
reopened, and that the entire product
will be manufactured at Waterbury,
Conn.
j. M. Beals, who for IL years has
served Uncle Sam as rural mail
carrier at Clintonville. and who has
reached the age of Y years was. re
tired on pension. In the early years
he had but dozen letters or twenty
letters to take out on his route, but
he has seen it develop until every day
small wagon load goes out on each
of the four routes.
Gerald Cornell. Chicago. has been
visiting at the Mackinnon home on
First ST., Menasha Mr. Cornell was at
enc time rector of the st. Stevens
Episcopal church in Menasha, but has
been for four or five years an actor,
playing in Fair and Warmer, and The
Masquersder. Mrs. Cornell an Eng
lish girl, formerly Miss Ruby Gordon,
acts with her husband.
The power plant of the Consolidated
Water Power & Paper company in
| Stevens Point is to be connected with
| the consolidated mills at Biron, max
ing a high line running all the way
L - Wy r~ix
| to Merrill Completion of the line will
put the three mills of the company at
Grand Rapids, Biron and Stevens
Point in direct connection electrically.
Mis- Lois Johnson, an employe of a
Minneapolis bank, passed through Eau
| Claire on a walking trip to Fond du
Lac. She spent six days walking to
Eau Claire from Minneapolis, dis
lance Of 104 miles. She accepted oc-
casional lifts along the way and some
| times rode on street cars but not on
the railroad, though she plans to re-
turn, that way She was travelling
alone and with great enjoyment.
Marinette was recently sold to the
| Goodyear Rubber Co. Not Marinette,
| Wis, but a town of the same name in
Arizona, few miles from Phoenix.
The big rubber concern recently pur-
chased several thousand acres of land
near Phoenix for cotton raising and
| the deal Included the town of Mari
nette. This town was founded by
Marinette people, who about fifteen
r-oo &c ooo v,17rcha SeH the land for in
vestment purposes.
Evidently the Johnsons throughout
| Northern Wisconsin think more Of be-
coming a sheriff than they do of Sc
curing any other office In Washburn
county, James A. Johnson, OF Shell
Lake, is 6. candidate for sheriff on the
Republican ticket In Sawyer county,
adjoining Washburn county on the
east. John S. Johnson is a candidate
| for sheriff and in Barron county ]. II.
| Johnson is a candidate for sheriff. In
Barron county, also, ]. A. Fl. Johnson
is candidate for county surveyor.
AS a result of tests made of drinking
water taken at Sheboygan, the North
western road has isuued a warning to
| travellers against drinking the water.
Authorities at Washington have adj
vised city officials to install a plant for
treating the water with liquid chlorine.
The ordinance forbidding the park
| ing of cars on the principal streets OF
Wisconsin Rapids for a longer period
than twenty minutes created so much
s-11 God