Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-01
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Sheik pants, vanished hair, Pader
ewski haircuts, shiny buttons and the
rest Of the folderols affected by would
ems Point high school.
For stealing $57 from his daughter
inlaw, Jessie Pearl Johnson, while she
was visiting at his house, John Thomp
son, La Crosse, father of II children
was sentenced to a year at Waupun
by Judge C. w. Hunt.
Application for permit to issue
/ $0,280,000 of stock in the Wisconsin
Southern Railway Co. to finance a
railroad between Casco Junction, Ke.
waunee county, and Madison, was filed
with the railroad commission by
Charles D. Smith, Fond du Lac.
The necessity for registering births
and deaths will be told every city and
village in the state by placards to be
sent to postmasters by the state board
of health. By authority of Hubert
Work, postmaster general, postmasters
are asked to post the notice.
Some 200 delegates attended the an
nual meeting of the Green Bay dis.
trict of the Wisconsin Cheese Pro
ducers' federation, which was held in
Green Bay. Oconto, Door, Kewaunee,
| Outagamie, Brown and Shawano coun-
ties were represented.
O. S. Rice, for nearly twenty years
head of the township library depart
ment in the state department of edu-
cation, died of pneumonia at his home
In Madison. Mr.. Rice was 81 years
old and has been prominent in edu-
cational circles of the state for a
quarter of a century.
Charles f. Pratt has been selected
as secretary of the Sheboygan Asso-
citation of Commerce, and will take
up his new duties Apr. 1. Mr.. Pratt
is at present secretary of the Associa-
ton of Commerce at Plymouth and in
coming to Sheboygan will take the
place Of A. L. Sommers, who resigned
several months ago.
According to building statistics of
one hundred ninety-four American
cities for the month of December,
compiled for The American Contrac-
/ tor, Oshkosh ranked third in the value
of building work done in Wisconsin
cities during that month Oshkosh
was exceeded only by Milwaukee and
Madison, according to the figures
given. These were: Oshkosh, $685.
488; Madison, $276,945, and Milwaukee,
$2,224,963. Sheboygan stood fourth
and Kenosha fifth in the list.
The attention of the Walworth coun-
/ ty board was directed to the fact that
the northern section is being infested
with foxes on which there is a county
! bounty Of So and state bounty of So.
/ The pelts sell from $40 to SIS. Coun-
ty Clerk Grant Harrington announced
that within the past few weeks he had
paid bounties on IA pelts, the largest
number since he was county clerk
and more than he had paid out during
his 16 years clerkship. Farmers are
reported to be suffering big losses to
their duck and chicken broods.
Employment as a whole in Wiscon-
sin showed a slight decrease during
the last month, despite increases in
seasonal Industries, the state indus
trial commission reports. It concluded
that for 1922 employment conditions
were improved throughout Wisconsin
when compared with the previous
year Factory employment showed in
creases in pig iron and rolling mill
products, furniture manufacturing, tam
meat packing. The cost of living in
December increased only three-tenths
Of 1 per cent, according to the corn
mission report, and is now 1.6 per
cent less than it was in January, 1922,
and 22.3 per cent less than in July,
1920. Average weekly earnings in
factories were $23.36 in December,
compared with $23.69 in November.
and 1882 in January, 1922.
DR.. Paul S. Reinsch, American min
lister to China during the war, died at
hospital in Shanghai, China, from
tumor of the brain. He had been i'll
since October. DR.. Reinsch was born
In Milwaukee on June 10, 1870, the
son of George J. and Clara White
Rainsch He graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1892 with a
bachelor of arts degree, and continued
MS studies until he was made the
recipient of three other degrees from
that institution, that Of IL. B. in 1894,
Phi. D. in 1898, and LII. D. in 1917.
His Chinese service began in 1918,
when he was sent as economic advisor
and minister plenipotentiary from the
| United States. He remained in this
4 post for six years, after which he re-
turned to the practice Of law in Wash
/ ington, D. c., and in 1902 he was hon
ored by the Chinese government, being
| selected as counsellor and economic
expert. In the fall Of 1920 Dr. Reinsch
was the democratic candidate in the
| three cornered Lenroot-Thompson
Reinsch race for the United States
senate in Wisconsin.
What is thought may be worlds
record for accurate tipping was estab-
| lished in Green Bay recently when
Florence Reynen, 10, an employe Of
the register of deeds for Brown coun-
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