Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-02
WISCONSIN.
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Business houses purchase coal at
Brentwood, finding it as cheap as
wood, although this section abounds in
| wood.
The Rev. T. Parker Hilborne, pas
| lor of the First M. e. church, Burling-
ION, has received a call to Grafton,
N. OAK, at an increase in salary.
The New Times, Manitowoc, daily
paper, backed largely by union men,
will begin publication Jan. 2. Wheeler
Long, Madison, is editor. The equip
Isment cost 100000.
The Rev. J. Baron, 40, rabbi in
charge of the Temple Montefore, Mari
nette, the leading Hebrew congrega-
ton there, died of typhoid pneumonia.
He is survived by widow and two
children.
C. j. Lamoreux arrived from Ocon-
to Falls, where he had been associated
with paper company and will be SUI
perintendent of the paper mills at
Marinette under the new management
of the Continental Co., New York.
Trustees of st. Stephens church,
Merrill, destroyed by fire, are plan
ming the erection of a new church
building. The new structure will be
ample to meet the requirements of the
| $500 communicates, and as nearly
freproof as possible.
Monroe county banks show a de-
post increase of nearly a million dol
lars since last June, when sixteen
banks showed total resources of S.
587, 969.58 Last reports show $685.
26082. Sparta's banks have total re-
sources of $2,037, 54371, and Tomah
$2,254,989.49.
| AS memorial to his son, Donald, a
soldier of the A. e. F., who died after
reaching his home at La Crosse, the
Rev. D. c. Dixon has presented to the
First Methodist Episcopal church of
La Crosse a memorial bible and q flag
of the United States. The bible will
replace the c. H. Cough1an memorial
bible, which has been in the pulpit
since 1859
general jubilee meeting in which the
whole country of Oconto will partici-
pate, over the winning of first place in
| the potato show at Milwaukee over
sixteen other counties exhibiting. The
exhibit with moving picture scenes
of the show and speeches by promi-
nent state leaders in agriculture, will
make part of the program.
Dick Lemin, Sheboygan, was not
getting an egg from his forty hens.
He figured that his hens were on a
strike because there was so much
profteering and price-boodling in the
egg market. So he hung this sign in
the coop: Eggs 10 cents a dozen. !"
Seven eggs awaited his next visit to
| the nests. 1T shows that the hens are
willing to do their part if the com
modify reaches the consumer at fail
price," he said.
Delegates attending the ]. w. w.
convention at Superior have been no
tilted to await the action of the Timber
Workers union before calling a gen
us next month";" said one of the dele
gates. 1--WE were scheduled to start a
general strike all over the country on
/ Jan. /, but we have orders to ley off
a little and wait for the timber work
ers. When they are well under way
about Jan. 10 or Is the whole l. w. w.
organization will get busy
The early trail from Prairie du
Chen to Chequamegon on Lake Supe-
rior, which has been almost forgotten,
although once an important Indian
and "paleface" highway, has recently
been traced satisfactorily, and a story
of it, written by the Rev. James H. Nc
Manus, of Coloma, appears in tie De
cember issue of the Wisconsin Maya
zine of History. This early Wiscon-
sin highway was first traversed with
wagons by the Rev. Alfred Brunson's
party nearly century ago. It runs
through Viroqua, Tomah, Black River
Falls, Mcmillan, Chippewa Falls, Lac
Court Oreilles, and onward to the
northern terminus at Shequamegon
Once it was the only connection be.
tween the Region of the Mississippi
and the lake region.
Three new officials are soon to be
appointed under Dairy and Food Com
missioner George J. Weigle. This step
will mean changing the general plan
of organization of the department, by
placing one official in charge of butter
and cheese directly under Mr.. Weigle
with a single official responsibility for
each of them. The new appointees
will be assistant dairy and food com
missioners, chief of the cheese depart
ment Carl E. Lee, assistant commits
sioner, resigned to go into other work.
Recently enacted laws have greatly iii
creased the work of the department
During January at least three impor-
tant hearings will be held. Ice cream.
s, and condeEsery operators at date
not determined.
Wenzel Barta, farmer of Two
Creeks, was badly burned when his
clothing caught fire from backfre of
gasoline engine His barn. horses
and COWS were burned to death Prop
erty loss is estimated at $3,200 He
is at the hospital in serious condi-
ton.
Mrs. E. A. Birge, wife of the presi-
dent of the University of Wisconsin,
who died recently, left an estate val