Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-12-03

Ruth Barklay, -, and was sentenced
by County Judge McCorkle to serve
seven years in Waupun.
Lincoln county, principally the cities
of Tomahawk and Merrill, has sub
scribed S2,443.25 to the Salvation
Army drive, according to a report is.
sued by George Ewing chairman OF the
campaign committee.
The Great Western Paper company
of Ladysmith has signed contract
for five years to furnish fifteen tons
of paper daily for the Chicago tele-
phone directory.
The executive committee of the
Wausau Boy Scouts will build large
log camp in the vicinity of Alexander
park, north of Wausau to be used as
camping place in summer and as a
hiking point in winter.
Miss Josephine l.. Hutchinson,
women's instructor in physical educa-
ton at Lawrence college last year, will
sail Dec. IL for China to accept sim
kilar position in ST. Mary's hall, Shang-
hal, a girls boarding school.
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Dr. G. w. Henika, for seven years
with the state board of health as
deputy state health officer and later as
organizer and supervisor of state
clinics, has submitted his resignation,
and on jan / will enter the life insur-
ance business in Madison.
Fox are unusually plentiful in
Oneida county. Hunters are bringing
in number of them every day. One
hunting party chased one of the ami
mails into a burrow and dug down I'M
til they were able to secure the fox
alive.
De Pere hay buyers have been I'M
able to buy hay from the farmers for
the last several weeks. They have Of
fered all kinds of prices, but the farm
ers refuse to sell, which leads the buy
ers to believe that the farmers are on
ia "hay strike"
A. H. Labisky has resigned as pur-
chasing agent at the University of
Wisconsin. His position has been tenn
porarily filed by F. x. Ritter, formerly
connected with the College of Agricul-
ture Examination for this position
will be held on Dec. /.
Because they refused to allow their
cattle to be tested for tuberculosis,
William and Albert Breitspresher,
brothers, who own farm near Turtle
Lake, were arrested and brought to
Barron, where they were brought be-
fore Judge C. A. Taylor, plead guilty
and were fined $25 and costs.
If a movement that is strongly IA
vored by the Winnebago county board
of supervisors is carried through, the
Winnebago county tuberculosis sana-
torium, known as SunnyvieW. will be
used and maintained jointly by Winnie
bago, Green Lake and Waushara coun
ties.
d. L. Plumer, Wausau, president of
the First National bank since its or
ganization in 1882, died after a years
illness. He was born in New Hahp-
shire in 1887, and came to Wausau
twenty years later, beginning his ca
reer as civil engineer and later in the
numbering, iron mining and banking
business.
The Weekly Madisonian has an
nounced it's discOntinuance. Increase
in the price of paper and labor are
given as the cause 1t has been pub
4 lished by the Billed Printing Co., and
edited by M. J. Puetz. At the head of
| its editorial columns appeared line
reading: Only English Democratic
Paper in Dane county.
i Three persons were killed and four
others injured when their automobile
was hurled 100 yards into a ditch by
Omaha train No. So at a grade cross
ing near Clear Lake, Polk county. The
automobile was smashed to bits, it is
reported. Persons familiar with the
crossing say that the train would be
visible for considerable distance in
either direction.
A crowd of many thousands includ-
ing members of the local post of the
American Legion, soldiers in uniform,
former service men and hundreds OF
women and girls, hauled the captured
German siege gun recently presented
to Superior from its storage place in
a city tool shed, to Fountain park, as
an answer to the action of the nine
Socialist members of the city council
in refusing to place the cannon in a
public place.
County registration of automobiles
is provided for in a bill to be submit
ted to the legislature by Frank H.
Smith, register of deeds of Brown
county. The bill. says Mr.. Smith,
seeks to give the automobile owner
greater protection. Every automobile
in the county will be registered at the
county seat and the owners will carry
such certificates of registration with
them, the bill says.
Wisconsin, with the enrolment OF
it's National guard brought to approx
imately six thousand by recent enlist
ments, leads the country in proportion
to population, according to Lieut.. Col.
Byron Beveridge of the adjutant gen
erals Office. Efforts are being made
to bring the enrolled strength of the
guard up to the required 10000 before
it's three year period has expired. I'm
der the recent reorganization act for
state militia, 500 guardsmen are to be
in service for each senator and con-
| gresham.