Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-02-18

DR.. George F. King, 80, Green Bay,
captain in the medical corps, and at
tached to the Thirty-second division
during the war, died from the result
of gas poisoning. He was i'll since his
return from France.
Fred G. Borchardt, Manitowoc, has
been appointed by the state board Of
health as state hotel and restaurant
inspector, to begin work April 1, with
headquarters at Eau Claire. He sue
ceeds E. u. F. Loether, Eau Claire,
who resigned last June.
The Clintonville city council, on the
recommendation of the local board of
health, refused to pass an ordinance
that all milk sold in that city must
first be pasteurized before being of
fered for sale. The question was put
up to the local health board by the
city council
The Rusk County Land Development
association has been formed with
Myron Hoffman, president; M. O. EN-
mons, president, and County
Agent Schoepf, secretary and treas
urer. The new organization is plan
ming to clear 10000 acres in Rusk
county the coming season.
Threatening prosecution for VIOLA
ton of the pure food laws, Inspector
Servis of Green Bay has issued an
edict to all wholesale meat dealers
and to farmers who kill and dress
meat for sale that more sanitary con-
ditions must prevail. Complaints have
been made on account Of dirty meat.
Ashland has taken a hand in the
movement for cleaner moving pictures.
A committee of three aldermen has
been appointed to act with societies
leading the campaign. The city coun-
ell decided not to attempt the passage
of censorship ordinance, prefering
to have the state legislature act.
Samuel McKown, La Crosses oldest
resident, celebrated his ninety-ffth
birthday with family dinner. Mr..
McKown enjoys good health and FREE
quently walks from his home to the
business district and back. He has
resided in La Crosse county sixty-six
years.
Petitions asking for a referendum of
voters on the question of abandoning
the present, commission plan of city
government, which has been in force
in Eau Claire since 1910, for a mayor
and ten councilmen, one from each
ward were filed with the city clerk.
Seventy-one more names were signed
to the petitions than required by law
in all 1,524 petitioned for the change.
In circuit court at Stevens Point be-
fore Judge Byron B. Park, a fine of
$1,000 was imposed on the G. e. Blod-
gett & Sons Co., Marshfield, after a
plea of guilty had been entered to 40
of 176 counts in an information filed
by the state. The counts were based
on storage of eggs, which, the au-
thorities claimed, were not properly
marked.
The second cut in the working
schedule of the 500 line shops, North
Fond du Lac, since Jan. l, has been
made. The new schedule calls for a
four-day week. The locomotive and
coach departments will be affected,
but the freight car department will
continue the fye-day schedule. Be
tween 400 and 500 employees are affect
ed by the new arrangement.
Chief of Police Thomas Malone and
Dist. Atty. G. J. Leicht of Wausau,
have begun a campaign against the
sale of intoxicating liquors and gam
bling. Five gambling machines have
been confscated and operators fined.
Mike Wojtosik, Bevent, paid $50 fine
FOR operating a gambling device, and
William Hoppe, William Kamrath and
X. H. Simpler each paid 5000 fines for
Yelling liquor.
Plumbers desiring licenses will be
examined Feb. % at Milwaukee and
Eau Claire, the state board of health
announces. Candidates have choice
of either city for their test. The Mil
waukee examination will be held at
the School of Trades, 331 Virginia
street, and the Eau Claire examination
at the city hall Licenses for plum
bers are required in all municipalities
above 5000 population.
H. H. Kuehling, Merrill, county
highway commissioner, announces
that the price of cement now is $1.65,
as compared with $3.50 and $40 last
fall, and that Lincoln county will pur-
chase three or four carloads for Gull
vert and small bridge use. Steel for
reinforcing is also being offered at $40
less ton than last summer. Lumber
for forms. which sold for 500 to $110
last summer, has dropped to $46:
More than a million and half dol
lars ravage was done in Wisconsin
during 1920 by forest fires, according
to report of c.. L. Harrington, state
conservation commissioner, delivered
before the finance committee. During
the bad forest fires in this state last
year more than 404,059 acres OF land
were burned over, he stated. 10 of
set this the state spent some $4,000,
with an additional $2,813 spent by, the
federal government.
Jerome Healy, Jr., the year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Healy OF
Kenosha, choked to death. The child
was eating some food and it got
caught in his throat.
Owing to the low price of potatoes
many Oneida county farmers are re-
ported to be feeding their potatoes to
the hogs. There are thousands OF