Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-09-17
UPPER WISCONSIN
COU Mites UNITE
In Forming Upper Wisconsin
Advancement Associa-
tion---Meeting at
Rhinelander


spirits of Tomahawk got together and
decided that it would be a good
thing to extend the hospitality OF
that city to the business men OF
Merrill and Rhinelander and form
an organization for the purpose OF
boosting and advancing the COM
mon interests of those towns. Last
Nav the first meeting was held at
Tomahawk and the advantages OF
such purpose we're so plainly seen
that the organization was made per-
manent and a later meeting was held
at Merrill 1t was felt that more
could be accomplished by enlarging
the scope Of operations to include
Villas, Iron, Forest and other near
by northern counties whose IN
terests that intermingle. Accord
ingly E. C. Barstow, secretary OF
the Rhinelander Advancement Asso-
citation planned meeting to be.
held at the Armory in Rhinelander
on September 18th to which invita-
lions were issued to as many as
could be reached in the counties
comprising the upper part OF the
Wisconsin river valley. We were
fortunate in being included in a list
of about thirty from Eagle RiYe<
At $50 gathering Of men froSy
Merrill, Tomahawk, Wausau, Hur-
ley, Crandon, MinocQua, Eagle Riv-l
er and Rhinelander were seated at
the tables and the count revUaleds
that considerably over $50 were
present, and that number was in
creased by later arrivals. After do
ing Justice to an excellent repast
furnished and served by the
ladies of the Rhinelander Woman's
Club, the program of the evening
began, starting with a song by Miss
Alice Schliesman, accompanied by
Miss Margaret Gary, whose selec-
tons received so many encores that
the master Of ceremonies had to call
a, halt to let the rest of the pro-
gram proceed.
Equally pleasing was a song by the
Rotary Quartette of Rhinelander, and
it was simply impossible to let them
off with less than two or three songs
of the kind that all good quartettes
sing. Rev. Cambell Gray, well known
in Eagle River, fills leading part in
the quartette, and when some OF the
Eagle River gentlemen rashly COM
plimented him on his accomplishment
saying that they had not known he
was gifted that way, he said he was
not greatly surprised at that consid-
poses of what is to be known as the
ing that he had met met SO few of
them in church on his visits here.
District Attorney A. J. O'Melia then
read a report of the aims and pur-
poses of the organization called the
Upper Wisconsin Development Assoc
iation whose business will be to pro-
mote and develop every form ofaction
desirable and important to the terri
tory included. One idea, OF interest
to every county represented there is
some plan of national aid in clearing
and settling the large area of cut
over landsand which the Review has
often spoken Of as being a perfectly
feasible government undertaking.
The need of taking urgent action
to oppose further encroachment of
the forestry fad upon a large portion
of the district was ably discussed and
plans proposed for concerted move
ment along that line.
More and better railrad facilities for
the entire territory is another matter
that is deemed possible of accom-
within few more years
aided the growth and development of
the upper counties that is positively
sure to come.
Several years ago the state board
of normal school regents investigated
locations for the next normal
school to be belt and decided that
when the time came for one, that
Rhinelander was the logical location
for it. That time is now close at hand
and action will be taken regarding
it this winter and during the dis
cussion of the matter it struck us
with satisfaction that back in the
beginning the Review grasped the
meaning of what the location of
the school at Rhinelander would
mean to the people of Villas and
neighboring counties and we sup
ported the suggestion
Any town may we'll be anxious to