Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-20


!, ing to an opinion by Attorney General
John J. Bluaine to the state fire mar
shall
Judge Martin Lueck as candidate
for Justice of the Wisconsin supreme
court, will be urged on Gov. Philip by
committee which was named at a
picnic of the Waukesha county bar.
William F. Weichel, Eau Claire, 80,
years old, was sentenced to thirty days
in Jail when he pleaded guilty to strik-
ing and knocking down his father, who
is SO years old, during an argument.
Letters from three different families
in Pennsylvania have been received by
District Attorney Bohn, Baraboo,
claiming the young man who was
lskilled at North Freedom on July % as
/ their son.
A merger of the laundries at Water
town has been affected, the several
plants having been combined into the
Watertown Laundry Co., which con
Germ is installed in a new plant on
South Third St.
Two changes in the routing of state
highways were decided upon at a
meeting Of the state highway commits
sion at Madison. Highway No. SO, was
re-routed to take in Union Center. The
state trunk highway from Marshall to
Columbus was removed and the route
from Waterloo and Columbus substitu-
ted
The Rusk County Journal, owned
and edited for many years by Judge
D. w. Maloney, Ladysmith, has been
sold to r. w. Richardson and son, r..
w. Richardson, under. whose manage
ment the paper will henceforth be
conducted. Mr. Maloney is retiring
from the newspaper business on ac-
count of ill health.
After travelling 100000 miles dur
ing forty-four years of service as rail
way mail clerk without missingla train
or being in a wreck, Charles Cooper of
Eau Claire, will retire on the newly in
stituted government pension, Aug. TO-
Cooper left the publication of the Bad
ger. State Banner at Black River Falls
!. in 1877 to accept an appointment as
railway mail clerk.
Mrs. Stella Dyba. IS, of Sobieski.
was found at Abrams, Is miles dis
tant, by Lester Whitcomb. Her clothes
were in rags and her hair down, from
her two days Wanderings in the
woods. Relatives were notified. She
began acting queerly and was brought
i to Oconto. Upon examination she was
pronounced insane by County Judge
Jones and sent to the Lutheran hospi-
tai at Oshkosh.
The Claire Chippewa Falls con-
crete highway was opened for the full
distance through the Eau Claire ap-
proach, including Birch st. The via
! duct over the 500 tracks, and road
way to the Seymour road are still I'M
j der construction The work in pro-
cess, will be finished by September.
1 The route is laid out to eliminate all
grade crossings and shortens the dis
lance between the two cities to 8.8
miles, instead of the accepted II.
Forged signatures on soldier bonus
4
to State Treasurer Henry Johnson. He
has received several complaints from
former service men that their checks
have not been delivered, while investi-
i cation by the state reveals that they
had been endorsed and cashed. E. j.
Loebe of Milwaukee is one of those
who has not received bonus, al
Il oh hoe
received in the treasurer's office at
Madison.
Three year old Marietta Rooney
fell 20 feet from the iron railing OF
East Grand av bridge at Chippewa
Falls into the swift current of Duncan
creek Albert Norman, drayman,
saw her disappear and rescued the APP
i parently dead body from the East Cen
i trail bridge block down stream. After
4 20 minutes efforts at resuscitation, the
/ workers were about to cease when
some one noticed warmth in the bloat-
ed and discolored forehead and restQr-
atives were reapplied with success.
No increase in prices except for hull
ing clover seed will be made by
i threshermen of southern Wisconsin,
according to information issued after
a meeting of Southern Wisconsin
i Threshermen's association at James
Vile. The scale adopted follows: Rye
and wheat, cents per bushel; barley,
4 5 cents per bushel; oats, cents; mil
let, 6 cents; timothy seed, 35 cents;
buckwheat, Is; speltz. 5 cents, and
clover seed, 6 cents per pound. The
maximum price charged for setting a
threshing outfit preparatory to thresh-
Game Warden c. S. Little of Chippe-
wa county, reports the destruction of
sixteen beaver dams in the vicinity
of Holcombe. The dams were SO SUBJ
stantiaIly built that it required more
tAan a week for the officer to accomp-
1ish their destruction with the use of
dynamite This is the third time that
i Little has been obliged to destroy
these dams this season and he pre-
diets that the beavers will rebuild
them again before the advent of win
ter. Much damage is done by flooding
of valuable lands where streams are
obstructed by the activities of the
animals.
The booze selling charge against
Herman Wurtzel, Shawano road inn