Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-13

Housewives of Minocqua are work
ing a boycott on eggs in order to de-
crease the price locally. One dealer
was forced to ship sixty cases of fresh
eggs out of town.
A shortage of soy bean seed is ex-
pected, according to Ray L. Cuff,
county agricultural agent of Barron
county. Mr.. Cuff advocates the early
purchase of bean seed by farmers in
that section.
Ten acres of land have been bought
along the south bank of the Chippewa
river at Chippewa Falls for the estab-
ishment of mud bath sanitorium. A
building to accommodate fifty pa.
tients is planned.
The Watertown Liederkranz society
has decided to disband after an exist
ence Of over twenty years. The mem
bers met for a program of singing
every Friday evening. Recently in
terest seemed to be lacking.
Officials of the Armour Leather com
pany, owners of the Badger State Tan
ming company plant at Sheboygan, re-
Gently destroyed by fire, have an
nounced that the buildings, valued at
100000 will be REPLACED Immediate
ly.
Wausau employers of labor an,
nounced that they will adhere to the
"open shop" plan which has prevailed
there under all circumstances and that
the matter of union membership will
not be considered in giving employ
ment.
Leon Maciejewski. 3-year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Maciejewski of
Fond du Lac, is dead as the result of
swallowing number of pills pre-
scribed for an older member of the
family but which were too strong for
the child.
Announcement was made by Presi-
dent Harry Barrows of the Sheboygan
Rotarians, that camp has been pur-
chased for the use of the Boy Scouts
of Sheboygan. The camp fronts on
Lake Michigan about two miles south
of the city.
DR.. Charles E. Bovard, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Waukesha, as
sumed his duties as chairman of the
Presbyterian synod of Wisconsin. He
will also direct publication Of the Wis
consin Presbyterian from the new
headquarters there
Many tons of fish are being taken
through the ice of the bay at Oconto
by venturesome fishermen who go oui
seven or eight miles for the purpose.
Much of the fish is sent to Chicago,
but the price is SO low that the bust
ness is not paying.
The University of Wisconsin, follow
ing the lead of many eastern and west.
ern universities, has announced that
the salaries of its faculty will be in
creased an average of nearly 25 per
cent effective at beginning of the sec.
ond semester, Feb. Is.
The Appleton Crescent, Oldest news.
paper in Outagamie county, ceased
publication, having been acquired by
the Appleton Post, which was recently
purchased by Green Bay interests
The merged paper will bear the name
Appleton Post Crescent.
The former Palmer house buffet will
become a, millinery store when the
Gerretson Co., recently burned out of
it's Main st. home at Fond du Lac, in
stalls its millinery department store.
moving it from the temporary head
quarters, which proved too small to
accommodate all departments
E. s. Goodell, for sixty-five years a
prominent resident of Vernon county,
died from acute pneumonia at the age
of Y at his home in Viroqua He HAD
been sheriff, member of the legisla-
ture, postmaster of Viroqua and nearly
forty years a member of the county
board. He is survived by one daugh-
ter.
Benjamin Schmitz, resident OF
Sheboygan county, and Edward Frank
st. Cloud, Fond du Lac county, were
arrested by Deputy State Conservation
Warden August Wolf of st. Cloud, and
pleaded guilty before Judge Trester in
Sheboygan, to the charge of having
cut down a tree and killed two rae
coons. They were fined $50 and costs
each
Frank Suppang, farmer of Oconto
county and giant in strength sue
cumbed to heart failure and was
found by his wife dead in the snow.
He had returned from a trip for pro
visions and had notified his wife of
his arrival home The wife went to
call him and found him lying face
down in the snow He had reputa-
ton of being the strongest man in his
neighbornood
A charge against ST. MarX's hospital,
an Oshkosh public institution, has
beSn made by Dr.. F. N. Oium, an este
opath physician. He charges that the
hospital refused to take in one of his
patients, who was i'll with intestinal
trouble, and gave as the reason that
the medical staff OF the hospital had
made the rule that no person outside
the regular medical profession could
practice there O4um declares he in.
tends to carry his protest to the limit.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Ouragamie County Equity Exchange