Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-06-11
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State |
Arranged in Condensed Form


the Grand Rapids band. of which E. A.
Lambert is director.
The nineteenth annual state con-
vention of the knights of Columbus
will be held in Chippewa Falls June
% and %. Each council in the state
will have representation of two dele
gates, total of 100.
Eugene Allie, Manitowoc, county
supervisor, is dead at his home in Two
Rivers. He was a retired fisherman,
having had large interests in that line
until two years ago when i'll health
forced him to give up active life.
J. E. Rolfe, formerly the New Lis
bon school superintendent, was chosen
by the Grand Rapids school board to
succeed w. A. Baldauf as principal of
the high school there. Mr.. Rolfe is
a graduate of the La Crosse State Nor
NAL and the University of Wisconsin.
The Daily Northwestern, leading
newspaper in Winnebago county, has
| increased its advertising rates. An
nouncement Of the increase was made
public through an advertisement car
ried by one of the firms affected by
the increase. It was presumed that
the shortage of print paper occasioned
| the increase.
The body Of William Goetting, tele-
| phone lineman foreman, who was
drowned in the Mississippi river
south of La Crosse when he reached
over the edge of boat for a floating
oar, was foupd half mile below the
point where he plunged into the river,
| five days after the accident. William
| Huebner, who found the body, received
$3.50 reward.
Clearing the bar at feet 61a inches,
freshman girl broke the woman s
high jump record at the University
| of Wisconsin and failed in but three
| quarters of an inch of attaining the
American woman's collegiate reco1s'
established at Vassar in 1911. Another
| freshman, Esther f. Mainland, OsE-
| kosh, cleared the bar at 4 feet Az
inches.
A total of TAO Bachelor degrees have
been conferred during So commence
ments at Ripon. The senior classes
have grown in size from four members
in 1867, to As in 1910, and again rs in
1918, the two largest classes in the
colleges history. Seven foreign lands
and 81 states in this country have
Ripon alumni within their boundaries
according to records.
! Appleton is to have a new 200-bed
| hospital as a result of two-day cam
paign to raise $500, 600. The hospital
| will be built by the Franciscan sister,
of ST. Louis. The new hospital will
be the largest in the state, outside of
Milwaukee. 1t is said the total cost
will exceed 100000. The Franciscan
sisters have agreed to assume all OBJ
legations in excess of 100000.
Mrs. Arnold Mas, SIS, pioneet
resident of Juneau, was drowned II
Rock river while fishing. The age1
woman went out alone in a boat. Short
ly after she had starting fishing, scr
on shore noticed that the boat was
empty. He secured another boat and
found his mothers body underneath
her boat, held near the surface by the
anchor rope, which had become en-
| tangled about it.
Charles Fritz and A. Galtenkonk
two employees of the Dunnebacke Feed
Co., of Kenosha, were killed when the
truck in which they were riding was
struck by northbound passenger
train at the Park street crossing. The
men were thrown from the truck
against the moving train and both suf-
| fered severe fractures of the skull
They never regained consciousness
and died ON the way to the hospital
| DR.. F. C. Haney of Watertown has
been named an assistant surgeon OF
| the United States public health serv.
ice and will have supervision of the
| federal health work in number OF
| Wisconsin counties which will com
prise the Watertown district. Primary
| features of the work are the examina
| ton and treatment of discharged sol
diers and sailors. DR.. Haney succeeds
DR.. L. H. Nowack, also of WATERFOWL
who asked to be relieved of the duties
some time ago.
The Wisconsin supreme court in an
opinion by Justice Eschweiler held
that a sheriff appointed to fill a va
cancy was ineligible to succeed him
self. The question came up in the
case of S. J. Johnson, Barron county
| Sheriff Johnson was appointed by Gov
Philip to fill a vacancy and in the
1918 election was elected to the Office
| The constitution provides that sher
| ifs shall be ineligible for two years
next succeeding the termination OF
| their Office. Johnson was held by the
court, however, to be the lawful sheriff
because he was appointed in 1917 anC
no one had been elected since thai
date He will hold the office until an
| other appointment is made or unit
the next election.
An eight truck motor ammunition
train is being organized in Crandon BY
D. ]. Scory. Many ex-service mer
are existing and it is expected to fl
the full quota of IS men within few
days. Wabeno and Soperton, in For
est county, are organizing infantry
companies.
The directors of the Marathon Coun
ty Agricultural society have voted tt
hold a county fair the last week il
August without horse races. Because