Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-23

luth.
The Eo. M. Hammes company will
erect plant at Eagle River for the
manufacture of wood products. Plans
are for a factory which will employ
about forty people and to be operated
by electricity.
Enrolment in the La Crosse eve
ming vocational schools has reached
,037 persons Glasses have been or
ganized in large variety of subjects,
and hundreds of adults are learnig use
full trades.
A. j. Stronger, who lives on the
banks of the lower lake. near Nee
nah, narrowly escaped drowning when
he fell through an air hole while cross
! ing the ice Members of an ice cutting
crew saw his predicament and came
to the rescue.
In drilling well in De Soto village,
Willis Hustin, Victory well driller, at
a depth of ia encountered an OBJ
struction of wood, presumably log
which has lain there for countless
centuries. Pieces of the log were
brought to the surface, but they were
in too advanced a stage of disintegra-
of the original tree.
Under the Wisconsin statutes, NOM
nation papers for president, vice-presi-
dent and delegates to national politi-
cal conventions may now be circula-
ted in this state. The same law pro-
vides for the filing of the papers with
the secretary of state on Tuesday,
Feb. "a, being the last day this year
on which they may be filed to get on
the election tickets for the primary in
the spring.
Appleton home-builders are facing
another increase in the cost of build
ling now that the masons, bricklayers
and plasterers have presented a de-
mand for SIPS an hour, effective on
March l. They are now receiving 81
and $1.1O an hour. Carpenters and
plumbers will soon present a demand
for 81 an hour They are now being
paid at the rate of IS cents an hour for
eight hours work.
/ Confronted with insistent public de-
mand for cheaper food, Badger farm
ers will meet at Madison, Feb. 3 to -,
for a statewide conference on 'How to
Meet the High Cost of Farming. !"
Production costs in farming are
mounting at an alarming rate and
Wisconsin farmers are calling in some
of the best authorities of the country
| to aid them in planning their years
production program.
Some Kenoshans will probably have
| their might cap drink, even after the
national prohibition becomes legally
effective. An entire carload of real
whisky reached there and was unload
Kenosha. In less than an hour persons
waiting for the consignment had the
| forty-seven barrels and fifty-one cases
out of the car and the car back on the
siding. 1t was valued at $127,0
| Many applications for notifications
of the state building code have beel
filed with the State Industrial Com.
mission, in the last few months. In
these applications builders and build
ing owners have sought to secure per,
mission to make use of somewhat
cheaper construction than is required
| by the state building code for, assem-
bly, halls, hotels and apartment houses
and other public or quasi-public
buildings.
Ptomaine poisoning resulting from
the eating of canned corn in a down
town cafeteria caused considerable ex
element in the establishment of the
Zahn Dry Goods company, Racine.
when ten of the lady clerks became
violently i'll in quick succession. PLY
sicians, nurliedly called, succeeded If
neutralizing the result of the poison
ing, although it was found necessary
pital for treatment.
The first real logging camp seen in
| this section in fifty years or more will
be getting under way four miles south
! Of Eau Claire this week, when William
j Wolfe, who recently retired as Chippe
wa county highway commissioner, and
crew will begin cutting down tract
of Norway and white pine belonging
to C. r. Donnellan of Eau Claire, com.
prising 10000 feet of timber. The
cut will, it is estimated, be completed
within month or six weeks. The logs
will be hauled to the Kaiser Lumber
company's mill, Eau Claire, to be
sawed up into lumber.
DR.. John r. Freudenberg, Markesan,
arrested on a charge of having caused
the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs
Nettie Duties, was released on Cash
bail of $4,000, put up by his wife. The
amount of bail was set by Judge Ches
ter N. Fowler at Fond du Lac. DIR.
Freudenberg is alleged to have caused
the death of his mOther-in-laW thru
| the injection of mustard gas. Mrs.
Duties is the fifth member of the fam.
ily. one of the wea1rhiest in that sec
ton of the state, who died under cir
cumstances considered unusual. Dis
| trict Attorney Paul, in charge of the
prosecution, will urge a speedy trial.
| 1t may be assigned to the June term
of the Green Lake county Circuit
court
Kenneth Schussman, son of Prof.
and Mrs. Leo G. Schussman, Kaukau-
ma, has received an appointment to