Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-30

TO-, JaneSVlIIe, getting 0nly SOU In
money and $125 in checks.
William d. Hiestand, 90, for 80 years
the registrar of the University of Wis
consin, died at his home in Madison.
He had been i'll for a month with
stomach trouble
Twenty cans of brown trout were
brought to Fort Atkinson and placed
in Aliens creek, three miles south OF
the city. Sportsmen and fishermen of
the city superintendent the job.
After travelling seventy-five miles in
one week from Hazelhurst, an Angora
cat arrived at the home of P. T. Stone
in Wausau. The cat ha6 been left in
Hazelhurst by members of the Stone
family following an outing there.
Prohibition has not only served to
increase drunkenness in Milwaukee
county, but it is also responsible, with
its attendant poisonous liquor, for an
ever increasing percentage of insanity,
according to DIR. Albert f. Young, SUI
perintendent Of the county hospital
for mental diseases and the insane
asylum
The last act of the retiring city
council at Sheboygan was to repeal,
IL to 4, an ordinance requiring traffic,
to come to q stop before crossing rail-
road tracks. Aldermen declared that
since the ordinance was passed, Feb.
Z, 1924, police have made no attempt
to enforce it because it is contrary to
state law.
One of the largest mergers of in
surance companies on record was
formed at Milwaukee when the North
western Casualty and Surety company
of Milwaukee united with the Union
Indemnity company of New Orleans
to reduce operating costs and extend
underwriting facilities. Affiliation of
the two companies will give them
combined capital of $1O,OOOOOo.
John Evanson of Chicago paid fines
Of $527 as the result of crossing an
arterial highway at Eau. Claire with
out first making a stop. Policeman
Harry Johnson noticed a 1924 Illinois
license on Evanson's car as it ran
past the arterial highway stop sign
and when Evanson's car was stopped,
search revealed a 104 gallon cargo Of
alcohol in the machine.
Loggers of northeastern Wisconsin
have taken the initiative in prevention
of forest fires, which annually destroy
large areas of standing timber. Log
ging operators on the Wolf and Ocon-
to rivers, banded together ir the Wolf
and Oconto River Loggers' association,
met In Oconto to formulate a scheme
for fire prevention and systematic fight
ing of forest fires.
Dwight I. Parker, state banking
commissioner, took charge of the
Farmers State Bank of Allen, Eau
Claire county, at the request of the
banks directors, he announced. The
banks deposits were given as 5000
and capital $15,0OO Charles E. Mar
shall is president; William A. Stuber,
vice president, and G. HI. Swope
cashier.
A new oxide, called oxide of boron,
has been discovered by DR.. Herman
Head Kahlenberg, son of Prof. L.
Of the University of Wis
consin course in chemistry and direc-
tor Of the Kahlenberg laboratories at
Two Rivers. Boron can now be used
for the first time as an element in a
battery as a result of the experiments
completed by DR.. Kahlenberg.
Incorporation Of the village of Kill
bourn City In Columbia county as
city Of the fourth class has been ap-
proved by Atty. Gen. Ekern, it was
announced. The approval was sub
mitted to Secretary of State Fred Zim-
norman. Kilbourn City, having pop
ulation Of LAC, decided to incorporate
as city of the fourth class at re-
cent election.
The North Woods band, the city
band of Ashland, will be one Of the
many attractions for the tourist in
northern Wisconsin this year. The
band uniform will be the typical lum-
berjacks' outfit. The men will wear
gray caps, blue and black checkered
Jumpers, gray trousers and heavy
caulked boots with just a suggestion
on a red sock fringe over the top
In frank statement, officials of the
state railroad rate commission have
advised the city of Manitowoc to desist
in asking a new valuation Of the pub
lie electric utility plant for which rates
were recently cut by the commission
20 to 80 per cent and intimates that
the city is likely to find itself up.
against a still further reduction be-
cause Of the profits shown by the
plant.
AS result OF school board con-
troversy, which has agitated Racine for
some weeks past, Emma G. Dow,
school commissioner, through her at
torney, commenced a suit against
Frank M. Longanecker, superintendent
Of public schools, demanding damages
in the sum of $4,000 Mrs. Dow al
leges that Supt. Longanecker, by caus-
ing certain articles to be published,
"did so for the purpose of injuring the
plaintiff In her office"
The construction Of the new 10000
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