Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-12
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

plan.
Appleton is now the possessor of a
rapidly growing and enthusiastic or
ganization of Boy Scouts. There has
been an urgent need for an organiza-
ton of this type in Appleton.
The Mortified company, Sheboy-
gan, manufacturers of couches and
dayenports, will erect large four
story addition to its plant, ground to
be broken as soon as the weather per-
mits.
Women will vote in the referendum
on the municipal daylight saving plan
to be submitted to the voters of Madi-
son at the April election. A resolution
permitting women to ballot was
adopted by the city council.
Guy Muzzy, C. & N w. railway fire.
man, was badly injured at Summit
lake when he fell from the top of a
locomotive boiler. He had gone up to
stop leak in the whistle when a plug
blew out throwing him down
w. B. Dawes and John Ryan were
instantly killed and Herman Miller,
section foreman on the Chicago &
was seriously injured when handcar
in which they were going to work was
struck by train at GAINESVILLE.
Unable to secure counsel for Mrs.
Stanley Blomsl1i, charged with the
murder of her little son, the case was
delayed, when it came up in Rhine
lander circuit court The court will in
all probability appoint an attorney for
the woman.
The remains of the late Private 10
seph zaglaniczny arrived at Crivitz
from Fairbanks, Alaska. He was on
DUTY as member of the signal corps
when he was fatally shot by COM
rade according to information receiv-
sd by the family.
John Olson, aged so, a grave digger
in the Onalaska cemetery, failed to
come home for supper after going to
dig the grave for Frank Nichols, a
wealthy lumberman Relatives found
Olson's body in the open grave. Heart
disease caused his death.
The Beaver Board company of Buff
falo, largest manufacturer of beaver
board products, is looking for site
in Green Bay for the purpose of estab-
fishing a factory. The plant will be
he largest in point of number of en-
ployes in the city if it is located.
The calling off of all road work
planned for 1920 by the state highway
commission will not prevent work be-
ing pushed next summer on the con-
c1ete highway between Oshkosh and
Neenah. The Winnebago county board
has taken steps to have the improve
nent carried out and money for the
work appropriated.
The car repair work of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway in Langlade
county, which has been under the SUI
pervision of the master mechanic of
the Ashland divisioN, in the future will
be supervised by a regional master
car builder who will have his Office at
Green Bay A. E. Ward has been ap-
pointed to the position.
While walking home with his wife
al o'clock in the evening, George
Gleason, Rhinelander, travelling
salesman, was held up and robbed of
$50 by a lone robber. The holdup
man allowed Gleason to remove $3.50
IN checks from his purse. This is the
drst holdup to occur in Rhinelander
this winter. The authorities are in
clined to believe it to be the work of
local talent.
A post of the World War Veterans
has been organized in Superior with a
membership of $50 former service
men. Members believe that they will
be able to enroll membership equal
to that Of the American legion post
there, which has more than 500 mem
bers. The Superior post will be
named the Dewey N. LePage post in
honor of the first man to fall while a
member of a Superior company.
Mrs. Peter Kirsch was driven from
her home in Pleasant Prairie at the
point of shotugn following family
quarrel in which the husband became
Infatuated, it is alleged in charge
placed against him. Mrs. Kirsch
walked five miles to neighbors home
where call was sent to the Office of
Sheriff Joseph Meyer, who took the
man into custody. She was over
come by the cold and her condition
necessitated the care of a physician
Matt Meyers, a farmer living near
Conrath, sold $1,000 worth of clover
seed which he raised in the season of
1919 Soil and climatic conditions are
SO well adapted to clover growing in
that region that a greatly increased
acreage will be sown n Rusk county
the coming spring. In addition to the
valuable crop of clover seed the farm
.er harvests the early cutting for hay
Glover growing furnishes an addi-
tional advantage in that the crop is
highly beneficial to the SOIL
The La Crosse Trades and Labor
council has asked the common coun-
Gil to order a referendum at the April
election on the daylight saving ques.
ton. The move to set the clocks ahead
one hour has been Endorsed by the
labor council and citizens cooperative
committee.
Through the efforts of dairy and
food inspectors, fourteen Marathon
county cheesemakers have been fined
for selling cheese containing more