Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-16

ferred stock and $4,000 shares of COM
mon stock, no par value.
D. Ell Olson of Black Brook suffered
a serious loss when his left hand be-
came entangled in corn shredder
and was so badly mangled that it was
necessary to amputate at the wrist.
Few Portage county farmers are
bringing their potatoes to the Plover
market. Buyers are offering as high
as So a hundred pounds, but growers
are evidently holding for higher
price.
The Nonpartisan league has an
nounced that it will start publication
in Madison of a weekly newspaper.
The organization now has more than
$4,000 paid up members in the state,
! 1t is said.
| William Hayman, who served as
mess sergeant of Battery r of Racine
| in France during the late war, an
nounced his candidacy for the Office
of city treasurer, at the election to be
held in April.
George N Danielson, Appleton, now
naturalization examiner for southern
Minnesota has been transferred to
the northwestern Wisconsin district.
/ He succeeds Martin j. Kilsdonk, Little
Chute, who has been transferred to
Detroit
/ Neenah will not lose representation
in the Wisconsin National guard be-
cause of its failure to fully organize a
local company on or before Jan. 1,
1920. Capt. Dietz has secured an in
| definite extension of time from Adjt.
Gen. Holway.
The Thilmany Pulp & Paper Co..
Kaukauna, erected a plant addition
180xSO feet for the exclusive use of en-
ployes. The addition is equipped with
every modern convenience, including
standard steel lockers, baths, showers,
and other facilities.
B. M. Jostad, Madison, state proba-
ton officer, has announced his candi-
dacy for nomination as state treasur-
er on the Republican ticket. Mr.. JOS
tad has held the Office of probation of
ficer for ten years. He is a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin.
julius j. Goetz, Milwaukee will con
tinue as trustee of the Prefex Radia.
/ tor company of Racine. Judge Belden
of the Circuit court denied an order
ousting Goetz from the Office to which
he was appointed by creditors com
mittee, after the company had been
taken from the bankruptcy courts last
July.
Farmers in the vicinity of Chippewa
Falls ere now making their 1920 acre
age contracts with the Chippewa Falls
Beet Sugar company and in nearly
every instance will give more land to
beets this spring. The sugar plant will
probably be used to refine Cuban cane
sugar before it's own grinding season
opens.
Five hundred fans waited in vain in
the cold at the Neenah theater for the
flicker of the film, when the Neenah
club, owners of the theater building,
caused the heat to be shut off when the
tenant, Miss Clara Neubauer, theates
manager, refused to vacate the prop
erty to make room for another leasee.
Miss Neubauer threatens suit.
/ Construction work on the pea can
ming factory at Marengo has already
begun, according to County Agricul-
tural Agent Wright. The factory will
undoubtedly be the beginning of the
establishment of many more factories
lin Ashland county and will be ready
market for peas, beets and other veg
etables which the community will
raise.
John Boon, engaged in the ma
chinery business at Belmont fer the
past twenty years, disposed of his
business last spring and planned to
move to California and retire. But
he missed business activity SO much
that when one Of his competitors an
nounced that he was going out OF
business, John bought the business
anGl warehouse.
The La Crosse Housing corporation
has closed a deal involving $4,000.
i when it purchased the Seller farm of
rs acres, located just outside the city
limits. The land, valued at 500 an
acre, will be sold in acre tracts to re
tired farmers in the city now seeking
houses, where they may erect homes
and conduct small truck farms dur
ing their declining years.
P. r. Emmert of Madison, United
States deputy revenue collector, has
opened Offices in the federal building
at La Crosse as headquarters for this
revenue district which comprises the
counties of La Crosse, Buffalo, Trem-
pealeau, Jackson, Monroe and Vernon.
The division will have five or six dep
uties working in it. The personnel of
the field force has not been announced.
Leo German, on his 40-acre farm
near Wheaton, raised hog that
weighed 625 pounds. Dressed at a
market in Chippewa Falls it weighed
535 pounds and brought its owner
$9095. The huge porker could not be
scalded in barrel after usual fashion,
but was wrapped in blankets and hot
water poured over them for twenty
minutes. A farmer near Tilden
brought to the same market porker
weighing $40 pounds.
The Rhinelander Creamery & Prod
uce company has been incorporated
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