Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-30


managed to drag herself to chair and
there sat two hours awaiting the ar
rival of members of the family.
Yu Shen Huang, Chinese student.
was awarded first place in the inter
class oratorical contest at Lawrence
college, Appleton. His subject, "What
About China, was vital one to him
self, and he won the audience with his
sincerity.
Forty teachers of Marinette county
schools completed organization of the
Marinette County Teachers associa.
ton. The teachers will become afiliat.
ed with the state organization for the
betterment of school conditions and to
further the movement to secure sub
stantial increases in pay.
| The large ship building plant of the
Universal Shipbuilding company at
Sturgeon Bay has temporarily sus
pended operations for the first time in
many years. The early freeze up pre-
vented numerous boats from making
this port for repairs so there is a lack
of work Many men are taking their
first vacation because of layoff.
Farmers organized and purchased
one of the Lomira elevators and ware.
houses in the name of the Equity SO
ciety to ship stock and farm produce
directly to city buyers. Possession of
the warehouse and elevator is de-
signed to enable the farmer to reap
the benefit ma0e by the shippers here
tofcre. The purchase price was $4,000
The Tomah Armory association,
composed of 80 business men of that
city, has turned over the armory prop
erty to the state. The value of the
property is $4,000 and it has been
maintained by the association for a
quarter of a century, The state will
expend a sum of money equal to the
value Of the property on improve
ments.
| Because Neenah parents objected in
so many cases to having their chill
dren -vaccinated against smallpox, the
city physician has found it necessary
to issue a signed notice to the effect
that all students in the high school
and Fourth ward grades who have not
been successfully vaccinated within
the past five years will be barred from
school
Pattison park, fifteen miles south Of
| Superior the gift Of Martin Pattison,
retired Superior lumberman, was ac-
! cepted on behalf of the state of Wis
consin by the state conservation COM
mission, w. E. Barber announced al
La Crosse. The land contains Mucu-
wan Falls, which has sheer drop of
! 212 feet, and is one Of the states
beauty spots.
Six miles Of showed in roadway be-
| tween GAINESVILLE and Evansville were
cleared by men working for the auto
trades of Rock county as an expert
ment to prove to the county board of
supervisors that keeping the highways
open during the winter was practic
able Two motor trucks with scrapers
and four teams of horses were used.
No difficulty was experienced.
Confessing to the sale of the car
casses of twenty-five deer to twenty
five different parties, said to be hunt
ers unable to secure their own game,
at prices ranging from $25 to $50 each,
during the hunting season of 1919, Ed
ward Pease, keeper of a Washburn
county resort at Eau Claire lake, faces
both a heavy fine and from nine
months to years imprisonment.
During the hour and thirty minutes
that he was away from his house at
tending a movie, Henry Laycock, re
| tired Eau Claire contractor, real estate
owner and financier, suffered a severe
loss. When he left home large-and
! it was absolutely flll-barrel of Whis
ky reposed peacefully in the basement
of his dwelling, which is located on
Eau Claire's main business street and
next door to meat market, but when
, he returned it was gone.
The DR.. Freudenberg case now occu
plying the columns of the public press
is of rather unusual interest to at least
one Clintonville resident Mr.. H. r.
Kopitzke, local undertaken, while
operating an undertaking business in
Markesan, had charge of the burial of
four persons whose bodies are likely
to be ordered exhumed for the purpose
of examination. Mr.. Kopitzke has
been advised to hold himself in readi-
ness to obey summons to testify in
the case now pending.
ANY movement to change the boun
dairy line between Michigan and Wis
consin to include approximately 400
square miles of Iron county in Gogebic
county will be bitterly contested by
the Badger city. Hurley is the county
seat of Iron county and is loyal to Wis.
consin, in fact residents declare they
prefer to move than to come under the
jurisdiction of Michigan. It is believed
the present boundary will be legally
established by the Michigan commits.
sion which is not expected to make
any attempt to claim the early estab.
lished line farther west.
The Wisconsin highway commission
has compiled it's records of road con.
struction done in the state during the
wear 1919. The total estimated cost of
the 1919 work is $3,769,853.17 for state
aid road construction and $707, 1861
for county aid road construction.
Motorists in Neenah and Menasha