Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-15
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WISCONSIN
11U-11I- III

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head of the history department of the
Fond du Lac high school, died in ST
Agnes hospital. where he had been
confined for 10 days with pleural
pneumonia.
E. A. Thieman was reelected chair
man of the Florence county board
The board fixed the license fee for
dances in the county at 81 and the
inspectors fee ct the same amount.
Phe closing time for dances was ex-
tended from midnight to 1 a. m.
w. o. Hotchkiss, chairman, state
highway commission, announced at a
road hearing at La Crosse that an all
weather road between Madison and
La Crosse to connect with the new
Minnesota river scenic highway lead.
ing to the Twin Cities will be com
pleted next year.
Shawano county will spend $4,000
this year on construction work on
highways, and 100000 on mainte-
nance of roads already constructed.
This county has 240 miles of prospec-
tive state highways and 164fmiles of
federal roads, included in which is the
historic old military road.
Sam and Francis Virgins, Odanah
Indian youths, were bound over to
circuit court on the charge of bur-
glarizing the E. J. Lockard store at
Odanah on the night of Apr. II. To
bacco, clothing and other material
taken from the store were found at
the Virgins farm near Odanah.
Establishment of a tourist camp
near Dunbar, northern Marinette coun-
ty, is being pushed by the recently
organized Women's Booster club of
Dunbar. Attractive ground has been
secured by the women and efforts will
be made to make the camp one OF
the most attractive in that section.
Dedication exercises at the Odd Eel
lows home, Green Bay, for the new
100000 addition were held May 9Th.
OFFICERS of the grand lodge and Re
bekah assembly took part in the cere-
monies. Judge Henry GRASS was the
speaker of the day. Many groups OF
Odd Fellows from neighboring cities
were in attendance.
The village board of Camp Douglas
has let contract for the erection OF
a community building in that village.
1t will cost about $4,000 and will be
so by 100 foot frame stucco struc-
ture. The village owns square block
near the schoolhouse, upon which the
building will be erected. The re-
mainder of the lot will be turned into
a public playground.
A check for 1897 900 has been sent
to the collector of internal revenue
for the GAINESVILLE district by the ad-
ministrators of the p. B. Yates estate
as the federal governments share OF
the inheritance tax. There had al
ready been paid to the county treas
urer of RocR county 100000. This
is believed to be the largest tnher1-
lance tax paid for a number of years
in Wisconsin.
For the first time in Dane county
since the passage of the courtesy law
in 1921, man, by remarrying, has
been deprived of real estate left by
his wife at death. Andrew Peterson,
Sun Prairie, was deprived of rights to
his first wife's property by Judge A. G,
Zimmerman in county court. The
judge upheld the petition Of Peterson's
two sons, Ray and Tracy e. Peterson.
Mrs. Anna Peterson died intestate in
September, 1922 Mr.. Peterson re-.
married the following March.
When Harold Edwards, Buena Vista
farmer, was pinned to the ground by
a tractor and disc harrow weighing a
ton, which toppled over on him, he
resorted to strategy to effect an es-
cape. The evening passenger train
from Portage was due few minutes
later and when it passed the field Ed
wards tagged it by frantically waving
his cap with one free arm. His dis.
tress signal was seen and the train
stopped. 1t required 10 men to lift
the machine and pull Edwards out.
He was taken to Stevens Point hos
pital, where it was found he was not
seriously hurt.
Efforts to unite Waupaca and Calu-
met counties with Winnebago, Fond
du Lac and Waushara counties in the
ownership and management OF the trl-
county tuberculosis sanator1um at
Sunnyview, near Oshkosh, are being
made at the spring meetings of the
county boards of supervisors of the
first two counties. Ownership of the
institution is now divided on the basis
of Fond du Lac county, As per cent;
Winnebago county, "A per cent, and
Waushara county, II per cent. The
other two counties, if they decide to
accept share in the institution, will
be admitted on basis of their as
sessed valuations in 1922.
The city of Watertown must pay its
legal share of the cost of constructing
the new concrete bridge over the Rock
river on highway IS inside the city
limits, according to decision by the
attorney general. at Madison.
George Loescher, Menasha hardware
dealer and supervisor from the First
ward to the Winnebago county board,
-. - a1oo4a o1,oiy,,oon of tha Winnie