Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-06

northern part of the state, have filed
claims at Crandon for inheritance
money which many have due them
from the estates of deceased relatives
in other sections of the country.
Although a wheelbarrow load of iron
seats fell onto him while in the Ma
jestic theater, under construction at
Stevens Point, Ben Winecki suffered
nothing but bruises, according to ply
sicians who were called to attend him.
The American legion plans to hold.
midsummer festival in Minocqua in
August. Business men of that town
will aid in arranging details. 1t will
probably be two-day program with
barbecue and corn roast and other
attractions,
The management of the fair is MAX
ing great preparations to have the 1920
Jefferson county fair the best ever
held in that county. Sam Frankstein,
representing the Garden City Electric
Stage Lighting Company, was in JET
! ferson and secured the contract from
Secretary Roessler for Illuminating
the night fair to be held Sept IA to IT.
Albert Schmeritzler was severely in
iured while at work in the Lindauer
| quarry at Kaukauna. The cable which
brings the car through the quarry up
to the shovel broke. While repairing
! it Schmeritzler came in contact with
an electric blasting cap which explod-
ed, blowing off the thumb and index
finger of his right hand His chest
was perforated with bits of copper,
also his left arm.
The only course in public health
work, specially prepared for public
health nursing, to be offered by any
state university will be offered in Wis.
! consin next fall, according to Miss
Florence Patterson, in charge of the
nurses training courses at the uni
versity. The course is offered to meet
the demand for public health workers
which is so great that throughout the
country only one out of eight requests
can be filed
Anton Brotz, Kohler, and Odin Tor
rison, Sheboygan, two Boy Scouts who
are camping with Sheboygan and Fond
du Lac scouts at Camp Shaginappi,
Lake Winnebago, were Mortified to I'M
earth complete skeleton of an Indian
squaw while they were digging in
small mound near the camp. Arrow.
heads and other Indian relics have
been found in the district and the two
boys were searching for similar relics
when their shovels struck stone.
Fred Marty of Monroe has been
awarded an honorary certificate by the
Wisconsin dairy school in recognition
of his work for the Wisconsin cheese
industry. This award was made
through Prof. E. Fl. harrington of the
dairy school of the University of Wis
consin. For several years Mr. Marty
4 acted as an instructor in Swiss cheese
making at the university He has
also been a member of the dairy and
food commission staff and is widely
known as a cheese maker and cheese
buyer.
Twelve years ago j. p Morris, Wine
gar, and j. H. Hall, now recruiting
sergeant at Ashland, served together
with the United States army of occu-
patton in Cuba. That happened before
the name buddy" had been coined,
and Morris and Hall were Comrades"
They served in the same army for six
years. Following their discharge from
service the two men went to their
homes. A few days ago while Morris
was walking on the street in Ashland
he met Hall, still wearing the familiar
1 khaki.
The Rev. j. H. Racette, pastor of
! the ST. Louis church of Fond du Lac
for the last two years, has left for
Rome as delegate to the Oblate Fa-
Tiers conference. Father Racette will
attend the convention as delegate from
the province of America, having been
selected at meeting of the chapter
held in Boston in 1914. At that time
Father Racette was on his way to
Rome, but the war caused the confer
ence to be postponed. This is the first
conference to be held since the signing
of the armistice.
Proposals of marriage and letters
from new found friends are coming
to Miss Edith Leuenberger, pretty
i little Monroe girl, whose smiling eye
and Mary Pickford curls have won
hundreds of admirers since entry in
national motion picture beauty con-
test. A letter from westerner, pre-
sumably cowboy, is perhaps the most
amusing of the lot. In proposing mar
rage the. western Romeo states he
has ranch and $4,000 cash Edith
is a charming little Miss of II,
! Junior in the local Monroe school,
What was probably one of the most
largely attended picnics ever held in
the Chippewa valley was staged at
Holcombe, Rusk county. The most
spectacular feature of the day was the
feat by Charles Roberts, an old time
river man, who rode a log over the
rapids of the Chippewa river at that
place. AS this is the first time the
i feat has been undertaken for many
years. the mere announcement of it
brought lumberjacks land river men to
4 Holcombe for miles about to see Rob-
i erts "ride the rapids"
Philip Printz of the town of Irving,
north of La Crosse, says that swarrns
of sparrows have practically ruined
4 his wheat crop. He has tried shoot
ing them, but says the birds do not
scare like crows or blackbirds and as