Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-07-03

was drowned.
The Taylor-Ewart Bond Co., Chicago
was awarded the sale of 100000 coun
ty highway bonds GAINESVILLE, upon its
offer of premium Of $S,S29. Twenty
one bids were received.
Mrs. Theresa Sovinski of Menasha
has been granted a divorce from mel
aged husband, rs, and is permitted TO
resume her maiden name They were
married here in 1913. Desertion and
failure to support her were alleged In
Mrs. Sovinski's complaint.
Charles Collins, international repre-
sentative of the meat cutters union,
paid fine of $75 and costs at La
| Crosse for breaking windows IN To-
cal meat shops, owners of which had
not signed the new union scale. Two
other men, striking meat cutters, were
fined $25 and costs.
Following Horace Greeley's advice,
Carl Block and Frank Nytes, Sheboy'
gan young men, left for the west,
| where they expect to remain, If they
strike anything that suits them Ihey
are making the trip on foot and will
continue to the coast unless they see
special opportunities on the way.
Dashing into the side of moving
interurban car, Helen, 11a-year-old
daughter of George Karagoles, OF
North Fond du Lac, escaped with
bruises. Motorman Orville Vilkman
of Oshkosh brought the car to sud
den stop, preventing the child from
being crushed under the wheels.
Asking taxi driver to wait min
ute until / see a fellow down here,
Patrick McVeigh, 81, negro puglllst,
walked out on the North Western ore
dock Ashland, and jumped into the
bay. Police are dragging the bay for
his body. McVeigh, who said he was
a pugilist, has been in this vicinity for
four months.
Mrs. E. Griffin, so, wife of paper
plant millwright, was discovered I'M
conscious and near death at her home
in Menasha, after having drunk
quantity of wood alcohol and then
turned on the gas in an effort to end
her life. Domestic troubles are thought
to have driven her to attempt suicide.
She will recover
Wisconsin issued an automobile Ii
cense every six and a half seconds dur
ing working hours from Jan. to June
[, Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman
announced recently. His figures show
that in 116 working days of seven
hours the state department issued 451,-
'787 pleasure car and truck licenses,
an average of 1896 daily
The fishing season opened in Sayner
with prize catch of 32-pound mus
kellunge by E. M Cramer, contractor,
Winnetka, ILL.,, on Lost lake. Forest
Primeval resort is on this lake. Plum
lake was also visited by score of
fisherman Two lads staying at 0. w.
Sayner's Plum lake resort landed their
limit of black bass in a short time.
With the appearance of warm weather,
tourists and fishermen are pouring in
daily
His skull fractured in fall from a
scaffold on which he was working with
carpenters, Irwin Blanck, 16, has been
unconscious for four days at his home
in Mt. Calvary, near Fond du Lac, and
is not expected to live The boy fell
20 feet and struck on his head.
Blanck's accident is the second of the
kind in his family within short time.
His father was thrown from a sleigh
two years ago and struck on his head.
He died of fractured skull
Enlargement of the Sunday school
room of the Algoma street Methodist
church, Oshkosh, made necessary cut
ting down a large red oak tree on the
premises, which, from an examination
of the growth rings, is believed to be
.2S0 years old. The tree was matured
when Nicollet landed on the shores of
Lake Winnebago and was more than
100 year old when the Boston Tea
party was held The trunk of the tree
will be sawed into lumber from which
will be made the outer doors of the
new building.
Damage totalling many thousand dol
lars was done to small crops in Fond
di Lac county June %, by the most
severe rain storm of the year. Sprout-
ing grain fields in many sections were
seriously washed by the downpour.
Lightning also did much damage, the
heaviest loss being on the John B.
Dewey farm near the city, where
barn, two automobiles and farm ma
chinery were burned with loss of
$4,000 Telephone and power lines in
many parts of the county were put
out of order by lightning.
A change in the administrative
forces of the Case Threshing Machine
Co. was announced with the election
of Leon r. Clausen as president of the
$2O,O00,000 corporation to succeed
Warren j. Davis, who has served
eight years as president and treasurer
of the company. Mr.. Davis becomes
chairman of the board of directors
and remains as treasurer. Mr. Clau-
sen, the new president, will take office
on Aug. 49, For IL years he was vice
president of the Deere Plow Co. at
Moline, ILL.,, and was also an official
of the Milwaukee road.
The bank at Couderay, has just re-
ceived circulars from the department
of tho interior listing about a 900 acres