Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-22
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Three days before he died, John
Haensgen, Calvary farmer, Fond du
Lac county, sold his farm to Matt
Rieder for the sum of 100000. Mr..
Haensgen had been ill for six months.
He was 40. His family will live in
Fond du Lac.
The Standard Manufacturing Co., of
Appleton, has started the saving of
$50 900 feet of pine logs which were
ton The trees were cut in one dis
tant corner of the reservation thus
making it cheaper for them to be
shipped direct to Appleton instead of
| to the Keshena saw mill.
After pleading guilty to forgery,
Arthur Klett, 20, was sentenced by
Judge Agnew at Elkhorn to two years
| in Waupun. Klett was honorably dis
charged from the regular army in 1916
and later sentenced from Lincoln coun-
ty to one year in Green Bay reforma-
tory for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
The competition among the moon
shine makers in the northern part Of
the state is becoming SO severe and
the price of the finished product is
getting SO low, that the only way still
owners can make money is by quantity
production. AS evidence of this, Sher-
iff Joseph Volant, Iron county, found
two large stills operating at full blast
in the home of Barto Martini, who
lives just outside of Hurley.
| At the annual business meeting of
the Ogema district of the Superior
conference of the Swedish Lutheran
church at Merrill, the following were
elected for the year 1923: President,
Rev. A. julius Johnson of Unity, to
succeed the Rev. Fred G.. Olson of
Wisconsin Rapids; vice-president,
Rev. N Oscar Montan of Ironwood,
Mich; secretary, Rev. G. A. Bessemer,
to succeed the Rev. N Oscar Montan.
Mr.. and Mrs B. H. Atkins, age 70
years, persisted in fire which started
from an overheated stove in their
cabin home at Siding No. near Noun
tain, Oconto county A married daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Radcliffe, and son, who
had been making their home with the
aged parents, barely escaped with
their lives, making their escape
1 through a rear window. The son was
so badly burned that his recovery is
doubtful. The home and all contents
were completely destroyed.
There are five hundred fifteen stu
dents at the Platteville Normal and
many applications are on file asking
for admission to the school Presi-
dent Royce says it is not a matter of
more room but the necessity does
exist for more instructors and these
are to be supplied shortly. Incident
ally the president observes that the
attendance will continue high as there
are more applicants than can well be
taken care Of One teacher has sixty
pupils in single class and only a
small part can be heard in class reci-
| tation.
/ Land values in Rock county have
increased SIS an acre since 1917, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by T..
A. Polleys, tax commissioner of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
an acre last year as compared with
| $105.5O in 1912, and S126 in 1917, Mr..
| Polleys says In the distribution Of
taxes Rock county lands pay 2243
cents per acre for state taxes, 1888
cents for county taxes, 45.63 cents for
township taxes, and 59.43 cents for
district schools. The average rate of
increase for total taxes in the county
since 1916 is 1903 per cent.
Of the 5000 dwelling houses in the
city of Eau Claire, 1857 are connected
to and served by the city water works
| department, records at the city hall
show, which, according to officials,
means that practically every house
within the piped area of the city is
served by the city. Eau Claire's cor
porate limits embrace an unusually
large area-16 square miles and there
are many houses on the outskirts
which are not yet within reach of the
water main extensions Eau Claire's
water rates are the lowest of any in
the state, whether the plants are pri-
| vately or municipality owned. The
city acquired the water works plant
! in 1909.
A society for the welfare of male
students" is being organized among
men at the University of Wisconsin,
pledged against marrying college
women, it was learned at Madison.
Those rushing the society refuse to
permit their names to be used. The
new organization in addition plans to
head of the growing influence Of
women in university affairs and to put
curb on expensive social functions
which they assert the goods are fos-
! tering. Primarily, it is explained, the
society wants to influence men against
marrying college women, who, they
say. are unfit to be home builders
after their university experience.
Milwaukee will entertain the next
annual convention of the Wisconsin
Fish and Game Protective association,
according to a decision reached at a
directors meeting in the Republican
house. The convention will be held
| in December. The last was at Madi-