Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-06-04

Prof. w. E. Smith, head of the Lang
lade Normal school at Amigo, has re-
signed and will enter business. The
position will be filed by j. H. Lasher,
principal of Thorp schools.
Because of the high cost of building
materials and labor difficulties, the La
Crosse common council postponed un-
til next year the erection of two new
school buildings, to cost 100000
The body of George H Shemels was
taken from the Fox river by Edward
PAIL. Shemela, who worked on the
heaters in the Combined Locks paper
mills at Kaukauna, disappeared May
IA.
Farmers in the eastern part of the
state are planting their corn and say
that although the cold weather has
made planting late, they believe that
warm weather and a late fall will in
sure good crop.
A coroner's jury investigating the
deaths of Mrs. Magdalena Koss and
Jacob Soukop at Wausau, returned a
verdict in which it was stated that
Soukup had murdered the woman and
then committed suicide.
Trustees of Kernper hall, an Epis-
copal school at Kenosha under direc-
ton of the Sisters of st. Mary, an
nounced payment of the bonded in
-debtedness of 100000 at the fftieth
anniversary of Founders day.
You're liar" called out L. Shaw
of Gary, Ind, at an officer in the mu-
nicipal court at Kenosha, who charged
Shaw was speeding. Fine him SIS
and $25 for contempt of court, or
dered Judge Tully. Both fines were
paid
The airship "Kenosha" had a bad
opening of the season when Lerger
Reed, its pilot, fell 1000 feet in it. The
plane landed in plowed field and
Reed jumped just in time. The pro-
pellers were badly damaged and Reed
slightly injured.
The present trunk highway, which
runs from Eagle River and Three
Lakes to Crandon, will be extended to
Laona, Wabeno and Green Bay. This
will give Crandon two state trunk
highways and will increase travel
through Forest county so per cent.
County Judge R. A. Richards of
Monroe county has instituted an adj
justment of his court machinery to
save time for farmers who are called
as jurors. They need not report in a
body, but must come in only when
cases for which they are called are
to be tried. The farmers are in the
midst of the rush of planting.
Two-year scholarships in Lawrence
college were awarded Paul Freiburger,
New London, and Harold Scoring, Sha-
wano, for winning first places in the
annual interscholastic competition in
oratory and extempore speaking con-
Quoted by Lawrence college. Thirty
three boys, representing seven Wis
consin high schools, participated
Licensing and regulation of the auto
bus lines operating between Neenah
and Appleton may result from the war
between the bus line management and
the traction interests. Traction rep
resentatives have demanded that the
bus lines be placed under the same
regulations and restrictions as the
street car company is subjected to-
Thieves, who probably concealed
themselves in the high school at Chip
pewa Falls, during dance, broke into
the Office of C. F. e. Nelson and it is
believed that school money banked
earlier in the day was sought Finger
prints on the library table were photo
graphed and will be examined by ex-
perts. Finger prints of all the boys
in the high school were made.
Edward Mcleod. SO, Hurley lumber
jack, confessed slayer of 5-year-old
Gwendolyn Sherman at Powell, Wis,
was arraigned before Circuit Judge G.
N. Risjord at Ashland, and after plead
ing. guilty, was sentenced to life i'm
in the state penitentiary.
Talk of lynching, that spread rapidly
among the angry people of the district,
led to the removal of Mcleod to Ash
land and his speedy arraignment.
1u0 Mdflu0LC0 park COllul1SSlOu, IT,
Gently created, has started its work to
beautify parks and create new ones.
Postmaster Leo J. Evans and George
Waiter have volunteered to plant elm
trees throughout the entire length of
the Carney Blvd. parking, over mile
in length Small parks in the lower
end of the city are planned and more
pretentious work will be done along
Ave, in the heart af Mari
nette, and on Stephenson Isle, midway
between Wisconsin and Michigan.
Without ceremonies, the last boat
contracted for by the government with |
the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. was
launched. Before the launching it was
known as Hull No. 116. Now it is the
Sioux City, named in honor of the
Iowa city. The ocean going craft will |
burn oil for fuel 1t is the thirty-flfth |
vessel to be built by the Manitowoc
Co. since war was de-
clared in 1917 Thirteen of these
boats were requisitioned after build
ing, including craft built for Norwe-
gian interests. On Oct. 8, 1917, the |
first boat built in Manitowoc for war |
purposes left that port.
During a heavy rain which caused |
high waters in all the streams, Mrs. |
Isaac Best. near Viroqua, lost her life