Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-24

JOS. r. Dilley, manager OF the Eau
Claire, has received word from w. A.
Koch, postmaster of Brillion, that the
state convention of postmasters will
be held in Eau Claire July 10, 20 and
81.
Six gallons of moonshine and rs
quarts of wine confscuted by county
authorities in recent raids were stolen
when the Hurley municipal courtroom
was broken into by thieves. They also
stole two revolvers and $50.
A record for continuous living un-
der the same roof is believed to have
been established by Mrs. Christine
Kunze, who last week began the
seventy-third year of her residence at
English Lake, a few miles from Mani
toWOc.
The La Crosse Trades and Labor
council adopted resolutions opposing
the installation of any more one-man
street cars on lines of the Wisconsin
Railway, Light and Power Co., follow
ing the company's declaration that it
must install all one-man cars or in
crease fares from Z to 10 cents.
Edmund ]. Labuwi, so, former as
semblyman from the First district Of
Dodge county and a former sheriff
died at his home in Neosho. Mr..
Labuwi was born at Rubicon. He was
elected sheriff in the landslide of 1896,
being the youngest man ever elected
to that Office in Dodge county. He has
always been prominent figure in Re
publican politics.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mcmillan,
residents of Arlington for forty-six
years, celebrated their sixtieth we'd
ding anniversary in that city with
their children and grandchildren pres
ent. Mr. Mcmillan, up to few years
ago, was engaged in the mercantile
business. The couple were married at
Dekorra, five miles north of Poynette,
later moving to Arlington.
There has been a falling off of $685.
$50 tons in the amount of ore shipped
from the Gogebic range to the Ashland
docks in May this year as compared
with May, 1920 To date only 208,390
tons have been shipped from the
Gogebic range mines. Last year to
June /, more than 100000 tons had
been sent to Ashland from the Gogebic
range.
Contracts totaling nearly 100000,
calling for the largest amount of per-
manent road building ever undertaken
in the county, have been awarded by
the Dodge county highway committee.
Dodge county will pave almost 80
miles of state and federal aid high
ways this year, which exceeds the
mileage of road laid in any other coun.
ty in the state during 1921.
Fire of incendiary origin wiped out
all buildings except the house on the
Luxerin farm, two and a half miles
south of Fond du Lac, causing 100000
loss. The property, owned by Bernard
F. Sheridan, one Of the foremost
Guernsey breeders in Wisconsin, was
ranked as one of the model dairy
farms Of the state. Four horses, three
valuable calves and COW persisted.
Seventy-five tons of hay, straw and
alfalfa, 900 bushels of oats, IL tons Of
feed and a big supply Of beet pulp
were burned.
Results of thrift campaign intro
duced in the schools of Eau Claire
county last January, were shown in
perfect records made by CleghoTn, by
the model department Of the County
Training school, and by the River
View school of the town of Union.
Each of the three attained 100 per cent
in thrift, with every pupil in the
schools having opened a savings bank
account with an initial deposit of at
least 81. Wherever possible, the chill
dren made their first deposits in per-
son.
Mrs. Anne Carter and Mrs. Hattie
shares in the $4,000 estate left by
their father, the late James McKinnon
of Chippewa Falls, in decision hand
ed down by Judge James O'Neill. In
the judges decision the last will of
the deceased, made in 1919, which left
the bulk of the estate to the widow
Mrs. Elizabeth McKinnon, and cut off
the two children with 81 legacies, was
declared invalid due to undue infu
ence, exerted by Mrs. McKinnon. I'm
der the court ruling the estate will be
divided equally between Mrs. McKin
non and the two daughters, Mrs. Car.
ter and Mrs. Pannier.
The state of Wisconsin lost its suit
to unseat Judge Sherman E. Smalley
of the Fifth judicial district, charged
with violation of the corrupt practice
act in the election of April 5. Judge
Smalley, who took his seat in the Cir
cult court in Lancaster June 1, de-
feated Judge Levi H. Bancroft of
Richland Center, at the recent cleo
ton. Five hundred of the defeated
candidates friends petitioned the
states attorney general to bring suit
under the corrupt practices act, charg
ing that Judge Smalley had DETAINED
his opponents character through cir
cularization of derogatory statements.
The jury that returned the verdict in
Circuit court found that Judge Smalley
had not authorized distribution of the
circular in which the statements con-
corning former Judge Bancroft were
made.
A survey conducted by the Nc
Donough Manufacturing company OF
Eau Claire shows reduction of 2O.4
per cent in the cost of living in that