Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-27
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

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and stole 800 pounds of butter valued
at $165.
The Rotary club drive at Rhine
lander for Boy Scout funds ended with
| $4,000 raised. Arrangements will be
made for a salaried scoutmaster to
take charge of the work during the
coming year.
Rustic Resort at Pine lake has been
/ purchased by Stein and Adams Of
| Clintonville who will replat the ground
and improve the lots and make the
place a most attractive and interesting
camping ground.
Mayor S.. G. Perinier, City Clerk
Thomas Wight, Aldermen Joslin and
| stoItz will represent Rhinelander at
| the convention Of the Wisconsin,
League of Municipalities which will be
held in La Crosse in September.
C. B. Lester and H. A. Whippler of
Madison are being considered for ap-
| pointment as secretary of the Wiscon-
sin free library commission to sue
| coed NJ S. Dudgeon, new public Ii
| prar1an Tor Milwaukee.
Herman Martin; 20, met death by
electrocution at the Booth Campbell
retail lumber yard warehouse at
Marshfield, where he was employed
Martin attempted to change the loca-
/ ton of an electric light wire. His
death was almost instantaneous.
Virgil Gustin. 13, of Tunnel City,
Monroe county, is hunter of proWess
and accuracy of aim. He shot and
killed large fox which had, during
the season, killed more than 100 young
| chickens from his fathers coops. The
youthful hunter not only saved the
| family flock of chickens, but has re-
ceived the state bounty of $40.
The Holstein and Guernsey Breeders
association of Waupaca county will
have a publication of their own with
which to promote the interests of pure
bred cattle. The first issue will ap-
pear in September and will be six
teen page publication. The new
magazine will be issued under the
| editorship of James III. Dance, county
agricultural agent of the county.
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Harry Zimmerman, a machinist in
the Omaha shops at Altoona, Eau
Claire county, remembers Ponzi, the
| coupon flnancier, when he was a
prisoner in the federal prison at At
| lanta where Zimmerman was then a
guard Ponzi went by another name,
or several, at that time, Zimmerman
said, but he recognized his picture at
! once and recalled him as being
"shrewd but crooked.
The Rev. Oscar Montan, Ironwood,
| was elected president of the Ogema
district of the Luther league at the
business session held at Merrill John
Burman, Bessemer. was elected vice
president; Miss Eva Swedberg, Rhine
lander, secretary; Miss Esther john
son, Wausau, treasurer, and Miss
Emma Worland, Wisconsin Rapids,
clerk, to prepare and file the sta
| tistical report.
According to the American Con-
tractors resume of building statistics
| from large cities for July. compared
with the same month for the previous
year, Sheboygan took first place in the
| state in the gain in building construc-
| ton and is second only to Milwaukee
| in the total amount of construction
| work authorized The total amount is
/ $500,8c4 against ST. ,819 for July, 1918
/ or a gain of GOA per cent.
! John Stevens, pioneer flour manu-
| facturer of Neenah, whose death oc-
Cured in that city Aug. 5, was man
] of considerable wealth, according to a
petition filed in the probate court at
Oshkosh. The decedent was the pos
SCISSOR of personal property of the es-
timated value of $485,O0O and real es-
tate from which there is an annual
revenue of $2,050 The petitioner,
John Stevens, Jr, of Appleton, asked
| thai he be appointed executor of the
estate.
Charging that he was without cause
or provocation, taken to the common
i iail in the city hall and held incOm-
municado for nearly forty-eight hours,
despite his requests for counsel or the
use of the telephone, H. L. Brown, a
railroad employee, has brought suit for
5000 against Patrolman Blain Thomp-
son and Night Desk Sergt John P.
Vending, La Crosse, alleging false
Imprisonment Brown was arrested
as a pepper" suspect, according to
the police
Barron county has again come to the
front as a fruit-raising section, worthy
of note. During the cherry season,
the Sullivan farm near Barron, was
one of many to produce excellent cher
ries Now the apple crop of that
county seems to occupy the center of
the stage. Apples from last years
crop, produced on the Perry Wicklow
| farm at West Dallas, are nearly as per-
feet now, both as to firmness and
flavor, as the day they were picked.
These apples were of the Malinda
variety.
At its regular meeting the Sheboy-
| gan city council by adopting COM
mittee report, placed the matter of
bonding the city for 100000 for new
bridge on North Eighth street in the
hands of the voters of the city, who
| will decide the matter at the Novem-
| Der elections.
F. M. Smith of Oshkosh, was elected
president of the Wisconsin Associa-
ton of Commercial Secretaries at the
final session of that body at Madison.
/ Other officers elected were: M. T.