Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-28

AT the annual meeting OF 81. JOHu .
Evangelical Lutheran church, Merrill,
| it was decided to celebrate the forty
/ fifth anniversary of the congregation
on Sunday, April "a.
The Jail in Wausaukee, Marinette
county, has been sold to Joseph Jejols
for $50. Under prohibition the jail,
which had been in service for thirty
years, has been idle. The new owner
will use it for a woodshed.
The Ministerial union of Fond du
Lac county was organized at a meeting
of the ministers of the county. The
Rev. L. f. Kiekhoefer of Fond du Lac
was elected president, and the Rev.
w. C. Kurz secretary-treasurer.
The overturning of lantern in the
barn of F.. j. Gehrke, prominent
farmer and dairyman, near Manawa,
caused $4,000 fire. Twenty head of
young stock were burned as was the
hay, grain and two silos. The cows
and horses were saved by neighbors
/ Dist. Atty. Carl F. Young, Green
Bay, in plea to citizens, asked for
cooperation in making the Green Bay
district clean place in which to live.
His initial drive on the Wurtzel road
house is to be followed by others, it is
said, and an attempt will be made to
mop up all the saloons in the country
territory.
A campaign against slot machines
and punch boards is in progress at
Wausau. A raid resulted in confsca-
ton of six slot machines and one
punch board. Four offenders pleaded
guilty and were fined $50 and costs
each. 1t is expected the law enforce
ment crusade will be carried into the
country districts, where there are
many gambling devices in operation.
Edward Rogers, James King and
Charles Turner were found guilty by
a jury in Oshkosh on the counts, as
sault with intent to kill, in connection
with the holdup at the Exchange Bank
of Oshkosh on Sept. "a. Attorneys for
the defense made application for a
new trial. The jury had been out for
more than "a hours Each was SEN
fenced to 80 years Imprisonment,
Ripon college co-eds have put the
ban on card playing, theater going, and
dancing on Sundays, through legisla-
ton passed by the executive and legis-
lative boards of the Women's Student
Government association. Owners of
ice cream and candy shops have Of
| fered their cooperation by discourag-
ing or forbidding dancing in their par
1ors on the Sabbath.
Believed the last remaining member
of the old Ninth Wisconsin regiment,
organized in Manitowoc during the
Civil war, Richard Bergman, 85, died
at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs
August Ohm, following stroke of
paralysis. He was born in Germany
in 1885 and came to this country in
1857. In 1861 he enlisted in the COM
pany, then re-enlisted two years later.
He has resided in Manitowoc since
1865, when he returned.
A mid-winter fair and farmers win
ter school will be held in Manawa dur
| ing the latter part of February by the
management of the Union Free High
school. Prizes will be offered for the
best exhibits of grain, potatoes, corn
and garden vegetables. The Junior
Poultry association will also offer
prizes on poultry Prizes will be Of
fered for exhibits from every rural
school in the adjoining townships and
free dinner is planned for all at
tending. The fair and school will last
five days.
The Superior commission passed an
ordinance which will put the motion
picture houses under the direction Of
the commission so far as license is
concerned, and will no doubt also
effect the censoring of films The ordi-
nance is a result of the campaign
which Mayor Fred A. Baxter has been
carrying on to prevent the houses from
showing pictures and particularly
serials which show burglary, or i'm
moral or other scenes of the under
world. Heretofore picture was
granted a. license by the city clerk
without investigation.
Racine is assured a 100000 memo
rial building as a result of decision
by Atty. Gen. Morgan, that money held
in the war relief fund can be used for
the erection of war memorials. There
| is a balance Of $15O,OOO in the Racine
County War Relief fund. A total of
$500 900 was raised and .$550,000 was
donated to different causes. It is
planned to erect a 100000 building.
OF this amount 100000 will be appro-
priated from the war chest fund, $780,
900 will be appropriated by the city,
and the balance raised by public sub
scriptions.
| While many other Wisconsin cities
are seeking industrial supremacy, APP
pleton has embarked on a campaign
which will make it famous as the gar
den city of the West" when plans of
the city beautiful department of Apple
ton Woman's club are carried out. The
city will be huge flower garden, with
carefully planned plots in every front
ward and vacant lot and in street
boulevards if the club secures the CO.
operation it desires. School children
are being enlisted in the movement by
offer of prizes for most artistic gar
dens.
Sugar beet growers of Wisconsin are
banding together for higher prices
from the sugar factories, according to
Hugh Hemingway, GAINESVILLE, who
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