Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


ordinance which prohibits selling soft
drinks without license. The new IL
cense costs $50.
The first arrest under the new She
boygan dance hall ordinance prohibit
ing the presence of minors after 10 p.
M, was made when A. B. Sharp, pro-
prietor of a roller skating rink, was
taken into custody.
Charles Rock, employed in his broth
er's sawmill near Van Dyne, was ser1-
ously injured when caught in a saw.
One arm was almost completely sew
cred at the shoulder and one side was
gashed by the saw
The new town of Rat River in Mari
nette county has been formed. 1t was
carved from the town of Athelstane in
the southwestern part of the county.
This will give Marinette county
board of nine members.
Ozaukee county is going to spend
$4,000 in road maintenance this year.
-Four miles of concrete highway also
will be constructed. Recently large
consignment of road machinery was
purchased by the county.
The West Wisconsin Telephone Co.,
serving Glenwood City, Cylon, Emer-
aid, Downing, Connersville, Forest and
Springfield, has asked the railroad
commission to increase its rates 70
cents per phone month.
Oscar A. Oleson, for several years
connected with the state insurance
commission, was appointed by Com
missioner Platt Whitman as chief
deputy commissioner, succeeding. F.
W. Kubasta, who resigned recently.
The Rev. Hans Sagen, pastor of the
Norwegian Methodist church at Mon
dovi, is dead at an Eau Claire hospital
following an operation for appendi-
citis. The Rev. Sagan was one of the
best known clergymen in the Wiscon-
sin conference.
The city of Plymouth plans big
paving program for 1920, regardless of
the prevailing sentiment against mu-
nicipal improvement on account OF
high prices. The program includes ten
streets which will be covered with
concrete for total of several miles.
C. N. Maurer, graduate of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, has been ap-
pointed motor engineer to the state
highway commission. He takes the
place of Walter Alexander, res: gned,
who has gone to Milwaukee to become
manager of the Union Refrigerator
ana Transit Co.
Paving costing $4,000 will be laid
this year at Manitowoc. The city
council voted a bond issue for that
amount to carry on its program of
street work for 1920 At the same
time, the aldermen approved a COM
mittee report outlining about three
and a half miles of pavement to be
laid in 1921.
across the river from Menomonie to
Marinette, broke through the ice and
sank in five feet of water About two
weeks ago the moving began, but run
-ners, on which the house was being
moved, cut into the ice and were
frozen in. All efforts to move it were
in vain. The house will be torn down
William Hardell, one of Rhineland-
er's well known lumbermen, has dis
posed of his interests in the Rhine
lander Box and Lumber company to
w. a. Curtis of Chicago Mr.. Hardell
was one of the incorporators of the
company and served as secretary and
treasurer. He will engage in the land
and logging business with offices in
Rhinelander.
Mai Gen. Leonard Wood, candidate
for Republican nomination for presi
dency will visit Appleton and the Fox
river valley early next month, accord
ing to information received at Apple
ton by Fred Felix Wettengel, candi-
date. for election as Wood delegate
from the Ninth congressional d.strict.
Mr. Wettengel is now organizing a
Wood club in Outagamie county.
William O'Neil, son of Mayor O'Neil
of Chippewa Falls, formerly captain
in the American expeditionary forces.
was found not guilty of a charge of
pointing and aiming a revolver when
tried in municipal court by jury OF
six business men, as an outgrowth OF
the fsticuffs between the mayor, and
Editor George E. Dee of the Chippewa
Falls Herald, in the latter's office.
Peter jacob and Joseph Schwerbel
of WATERFOWL were awarded $3.50 dam
ages against the Rubicon Grain and
Mailing Co. in the circuit court at Ju-
neau. The compliments charged that
the company accepted their grain and
did not sell u2til loss had been oc
casioned for the owners, owing to
drop in the market. They charged
neglig ence in handling the grain.
while the defendant company cited the
car shortage as the cause of the grain
not moving. 1t is expected an appeal
will be taken to the supreme court
Boys, someone is trying to slip
bootlegging stunt over on us" said
Postmaster D. F. Blewett, Fond du
Lac, when he discovered liquid oozing
from a package in the parcels post
Eager hands tore the wrappings from
The package. inside was a dead liz
ard packed in ice.
Between Crandon and White Lake,
along the Wisconsin & Northern rail
road, there are $4O,OO0,0OO feet of logs
ready to be hauled to the mill. The