Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-04-09
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Larson saw action IN france with the
A. E. F. and was gassed.
Census figures for two additional
Wisconsin cities were announced from
Washington recently as follows: u
paca, 1889, increase of so or 1.8 per
cent. Marshfeld, 1894, increase Of
1911, or 27.9 per cent.
The 60-mile lap between Sturgeon
Bay and Green Bay is now being Gov
cred by an auto truck freight line. Ali
points between the two cities are
served by the new line which in many
respects excels express service.
At a special meeting of the board
of education the resignation of Edgar
F. Strong was accepted as superin-
tendent of Oconto city schools. Oak
man A. Ellis resigned from the board
following the acceptance of Supt.
Strong's resignation.
Col. Joseph &. Barzynski, a Mani
towoc man, has been called from
Poland to Washington by the state de-
partment to give information wanted
first hand, concerning the new repub-
lie. The colonel has been serving as
liaison officer in Poland The officer
is a son Of Mrs. Anton Chrapikowski,
of ManitoWoc.
Demands of the international Tim
Der Workers of America for an eight
hour day have been presented to the
manufacturers of District No. which
comprises all of northern Wisconsin
and Michigan Decision of the manu-
facturers is now being awaited and
plans made for a strike vote in case
the demands are denied.
Monroe county is to have a pea
viner, machinery and material for the
plant having been shipped by the
Bangor Canning Co. The company is
encouraging farmers to raise peas, for
canning and has contracted for a
seventy acre crop in this district.
for the canning company.
The proposed action before the rail
road commission against the w. T.
L. Fl. & P. Co. to compel the latter to
supply adequate electric light serv-
ice at Neenah will probably be
dropped. Company officials have given
promises for betterment of the serv-
ice providing full cooperation on the
part of the city council is secured.
Judge E. B. Belden, in circuit court
at Racine, denied the appeal of DR..
Frank Newell, Burlington, from the
award of the court commission of tenn
porary alimony of $125 a month to
Marie Newell, who is suing for divorce,
The court ruled that the amount is
not excessive in view of the fact that
DIR. Newelps income is $1,000 a year.
Arrangements have been completed
by the Oconto Chamber of Commerce
with the Montana Tractor Co. of Chi
cago for the erection of a $4,000
by the company after many weeks
looking over sites in Wisconsin for
place to build distribution plant for
the tractor, which will be known as
the Badger
Maj. James j. Quill, Milwaukee, re-
Gently spent two days in Ladysmitk
arranging quarters for the cavalry
horses that are to be issued to Troop
f. Arrangements were completed for
the use of the stables on the Rusk
County Fair grounds. The matter of
making necessary improvements on
the buildings was taken up with the
officials of the fair association.
By drilling well six inches in
diameter for depth of 4071A feet,
lrillers have completed an unusual
contract at Beaver Dam. The drillers,
Dowd and Malwaitz say that it is sell
dom that such large diameter is
maintained to the entire depth of
well A satisfactory flow Of pure
water was struck at the plant of the
Badger Canning Co., where the shaft
was sunk.
Streams in the central part of Mari
nette County have been swollen by
The recent rains and melting snow.
Bridges have been carried away, cul-
verts washed out and roads greatly
damaged The bridge over the south
branch of the Pike river was totally
destroyed. The bridge was built on
what is known as the old Stoddard
dam. Four bridges east of Amberg
near the K. c. camps are also demol-
ished and the roadway covered with
water.
Charles Vite, 43 years old. who,
twenty years ago, was acquitted of
the charge of numbering Tony"
Bruno, king of Kenosha Italians"
died at the Willow-Brook sanitarium
at Kenosha from tuberculosis. Vite's
trial years ago was one of the most
sensational in the annals of Kenosha
crimes. The killing took place in the
engine room of the old Allen tannery,
and Vite had killed Bruno when the
latter tried to tell him that his bride
to be was untrue to him. Following
his trial Vite was hailed as a hero
among Kenosha Italians.
Carl Carlson was electrocuted while
working for the Ashland Flour Mill
Co. Young Carlson was clearing
space near the mill when a tree felled
by him, struck high powered cleo
trio wire, breaking it and throwing it
ON him. A widow and one child sur
vive
Henrietta Boucher, IL years old, was
drowned at Niagara while trying to
rescue a younger sister, Marion, g.
who had fallen in the river. A man