Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-17
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staff of Atty. Gen. Hermann L. Ekern
He will join the law firm of DIN
Thomas, Butler, Stebbins & Stroud.
Fred L. Witter, for the last IL years
superintendent of the Burlington pub
lie schools, has been re-engaged for a
two-year term at a salary of $1,000 a
year.
w. H. Markham, Horizon attorney.
has been appointed state director of
poppy sales for the department of
Wisconsin of the American Legion
Villas Whaley, Racine, state command
n, made the appointment.
Valuation of $4,000 for the pur.
chase of the Washburn Waterworks
Co. by the city of Washburn has been
fixed by the state railroad commits
sion. The valuation does not include
improvements since Nov /, 1922, The
Washburn case recently was the sub
ject of proceedings in the supreme
court
Forty volunteers and 20 teams are
grading the grounds around the new
Memorial hospital in Burlington. The
building, constructed at cost of $780,.
900, is rapidly nearing completion.
The work of installing fixtures is now
in progress. The formal opening is
planned for May Is.
Ten cars, loaded with cattle and
hogs, were derailed near Horizon
when brake beam on one of the cars
broke. Fifteen hogs and Is calves
were, killed. The larger cattle escaped
injury. Passenger trains on the Mil
waukee road to Horizon were rerouted
via Minnesota Junction.
A nail saved the life of little Forrest
Perkins, 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Perkins of Dodgeyille. The
little fellow toddled to an open cistern
and, while peering into it, lost his
balance. A protruding nail caught in
his coat and held him. His cries at
tracted neighbors, who released him.
United States Marshal Chellis re
ceived word that Dominic Jancola, for
merly an undersheriff at Hurley, had
been arrested in Canada and would be
returned to this state to face charges
of liquor law violations Jancola for
feited a $1,000 bond some time ago
when charges were made against him
and has since been sought.
The. Green County house, Monroe's
well known Swiss hotel, for the sec.
ond time within year had narrow
escape from destruction by fire when
it's proprietor, Joe Theobald, lit a paper
to burn grease from the Kitchen venti-
lator. Flames were quickly carried
to the upper story and roof. Firemen
worked hard to save the hotel. Dam
age will be more than $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. William P. Bragg, Mon
roe, have just observed their fifty
eighth wedding anniversary. Mr.
Bragg, a former Green county farm
er, was one Of the incorporators of
the original electric service organiza-
ton in Monroe and an organizer of
the local telephone company, of which
he is still a director. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bragg have lived in the same home
Al years.
Opposition to- the levying of general
bank taxes against bond and invest
ment companies in Wisconsin was
voiced before the state tax commission
by Louis Quarles, Milwaukee, attor-
ney representing bond and investment
G +o+o he
of the hearing. briefs opposing the
tax were filed with the commission
and ruling is expected to be made
on taxes for the present year within
a few days.
Miss Harriet Wheeler, SIS, widely
known Wisconsin novelist and short
story writer, died at home in Beloit
of pneumonia Cubs Career, The
Woman in Stone, and A Knight of the
Wilderness were the leading books
from Miss Wheelers pen. She left
an uncompleted manuscript entitled
On Biackhawk's Trail. Her books and
stories dealt particularly with the In
dian life of the Lake Superior region,
where she spent her youth as the
daughter of a missionary among the
Ojibway Indians at Odanah, Wis.
Henry Netols, So, met instant death
at the Mcdonald street crossing of
the North Western road at Green Bay
when he was run over by locomotive
backing down to the station to take
out a northbound train. Netols, who
has been in the employ of the road for
"a years, was assistant foreman OF
section gang working near the cross
ing, which was blocked by a freight
train AS the train backed to let an
automobile across, Netols ran around
in front of the freight locomotive, the
noise of which apparently prevented
his hearing the passenger locomotives
approach on the next track.
A bounty on woodchucks is now IN
effect in Rusk county Applicants for
the bounty must show the heads OF the
animals to the town or village clerk,
or to the county clerk. Twenty-Five
cents is paid on each woodchuck.
With one exception, the Wisconsin
divorce rate for 1928 was the highest
Of any year in the history OF the state.
There was one divorce to every eight
marriages in 1928. The figures, as