Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-27


scaffold upon which they were work.
ing collapsed at the Indian packing
plant, Green Bay
The machinery for the Lincoln
arrived from Battle Creek, Mich. The
plant will be in operation as soon as
the machinery is set up.
| Ground was broken for the new
Crandon First National Bank bldg. on
the Clifford corner. The building will
be 3Ox6O feet, one story high and built
of brick. It will be modern in every
respect
The La Crosse Telephone Co. has
applied to the railroad commission of
Wisconsin for an increase in rates for
residence telephones from s1.25 to
$3.50 per month and for business
phones from So to $3.50.
Toots, a pure bred Scotch collie, be-
| longing to J. E. Kurke of Green Bay,
died while protecting his masters
property. The collie was killed by a
prowler about the Kurke home when
the animal attempted to drive the man
away.
Carl Nelson, superintendent of the
Northwestern Steel and Iron Co., Eau
Claire, is suffering from fractured
skull. Nitric acid and sulphuric acid
mixed with. sand to clean castings ex-
ploded and the iron cover of the boiler
struck Mr.. Nelson.
The first week of September the
West Wisconsin conference of the
Wisconsin M E. church will hold a
meeting in Rice Lake. The meetings
will be held at the Auditorium. Some
200 ministers and delegates will be
present. Bishop C. B. Mitchell of Min
neapolis will preside during the ses-
sion and preach on Sunday.
e. w. Ellis of Wisconsin Rapids is
building new saw mill at Eagle
River, which will have 20-year cut
from mixed timber tracts in northern
Michigan The corporation which will
operate the mill is composed of the
same stockholders who now control
the "A. H. STANCE Co., Kinzel Lumber
Co., and Union Land Co. of Eagle
River.
Two broken steel saws were found
just outside one of the barred win
dows of the Kenosha county jail.
Sheriff Joseph Meyer believes that
they were placed there for prisoners
of the Jail who had failed to find them.
Four Chicago boys who were camping
near Kenosha and arrested for minor
charge. are thought to have been in
terested in the jail delivery.
At the annual meeting in New Hol-
stein of the Great Council of Wiscon-
sin of the Improved Order of Redmen,
the following officers were elected:
M. J. Dufhcy, Superior, great senior
sycamore; M. ]. Schlichter, New Ho-l
stein, great junior sycamore; Harry
E. Theurer, Arcadia, great prophet;
j. Holmes Daubner, Waukesha, repre-
sentative to the great council.
Construction work on state highway
No. 10, between Watertown and
Ixonia on the ukee-Watertown
highway, is progressing rapidly. Con-
tractor Van der Boom expects to have
the work completed in the near future.
The grading has been completed and
| the surfacing of sand and gravel is
being hauled for the final work. The
stretch is about two miles long and
lies northwest of Ixonia.
Two new products are to join the
made in Waupun" list. They will be
manufactured by George Haun and
Sam Darling, jr. They are fitting up
quarters in the Waupun Produce Co.
bldg. Their products are to be the
Easyback Suspender, manufactured by
Mr. Haun, and the Jack Rabbit Arch
Support, manufactured under the di-
rection of Mr.. Darling. Both articles
are patented, the arch support being
the work of Sam Darling, ST.
When the Wisconsin League of
Municipalities meets in La Crosse Oc-
tober IL, 13 and IA for its annual con
vention plan to dispense with spe-
cial charters and bring all munich
palities of the state under the oper-
alton of a general charter law will be
proposed, according to Mayor A. A.
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ments for the meeting. The conven-
ton this year will assume the form
of a school for municipal officers.
Father August ]. Hovorka. pastor of
St Mary's church, Stanley, Wis, has
resigned to become instructor at st.
Joseph's college, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Father Hovorka, popular in this sec
! ton, in charge of st. Mary's church for
year, was assigned this charge on
his return from overseas where he
served as chaplain in the United
States army Before going into the
service he was pastor of church at
Mondovi, Wis. His successor has not
been named.
| The Great Drought not only threw
bartenders out of a job but also the
crab fisherman There is no scarcity
of crabs but they're not eating crabs
now that the beer is gone. Like the
fate of the pretzel. One veteran crab
fisherman remains of the scores who
prospered at the trade in years gone
| BY He is Zeke Helgerman of Green
Bay. Zeke has been crab fisherman
all his life. His father before him.
He hates to quit now but. "This
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