Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-03
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NEWS OF THE
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with Joseph Wolter, veteran shipbuil-
er, as manager.
Arrangements are being made for
the second annual midwinter carnival,
to be held at Oconomowoc Jan. 10 to
II. All kinds of winter sports, includ-
ing fancy skating, hockey, curling, ski
ing, horse racing on ice, an ice carni-
val, and a mardigras, will be features
Of the event.
Indications chat the value of the
estate of Archibald T. Macarthur aged
Dodgeville recluse may drop to $780,
900 and that the state of Wisconsin
win lose its share of the inheritance
tax were disclosed in a report issued
by j. Charles Pile, public administra-
tor of Iowa county, to John Harring-
ton, state inheritance tax counsel.
Beginning next year, the Manitowoc
county board will hold three sessions a
year instead of two. A regular meet
ing in November and two special ses-
sions to be held on call will comprise
the program. Members of the board
say two sessions a year are not suffi-
cient in which to transact all business
properly.
The Arrow, an annual published By
Roland II. Deimer, son of Mrs. f.
Deimer of Oconto, at Aberdeen, s. D.,
was awarded second place in the ma
ton wide contest conducted by the
Art Crafts guild of New York. Mr..
Deimer is a graduate Of the Oconto
high school and was instructor in
manual arts there.
Herbert Hankwitz, former village
treasurer of LOmira, who disappeared
from his home Dec 10, 1924, after he
embezzled $4,000 of village funds, was
given an indeterminate sentence of
one to three years when he appeared
before Judge @. M. Dawson In Juneau.
He was arrested several months ago
In the south and returned for trial.
II. b. Burns, go, installed a new flag
cable on the Fond du Lac post office.
He is Fond du Laos pioneer steeple-
jack and one Of the, oldest active
steeplejacks in the United States.
Burns performed the task with little
difficulty, despite his years. He has
been a steeplejack for 40 years and
has never had a serious accident.
Walter Isabelle, %, who, on Nov. Is,
shot Grace Christian, %, Rhinelander,
pleaded guilty before Judge A. H.
Reid in Wausau and was sentenced
to the Green Bay reformatory for a
term of from one to three years. Jeal-
ousy is alleged to have been the cause
of the shooting Amputation Of Miss
Christians foot was necessary.
The La Crosse Aerie Of Eagles re-
Gently initiated a class of seventy-six
candidates. Col j. b. Schneider, Nee
nah, state president Of the order,
Harry r. McLogan, Milwaukee, grand
trustee, and Judge Albert H. Schmidt,
Manitowoc, chairman of the Wisconsin
old age pension committee, assisted in
the ceremonies. The La Crosse aerie
now has a Membership Of 1,2O0.
With his left hand badly mangled
as the result of being drawn into a
corn shredder, Harry Apple living on
farm in the vicinity of North Cape,
drove his automobile several miles to
the town of Waterford in search of
medical attention. The Waterford
physician was not at home and Apple
drove to Burlington, seven miles fur!
Their, where the hand was amputated
The Door county board has peti-
toned the state highway commission
to place the Sturgeon Bay toll bridge
on the state highway system. If the
commission acts favorably, the struc-
ture will become a free bridge and In
few years may be replaced The
bridge is the only medium of entrance
into northern Door county and carries
all the traffic of highways IL, 7S and
"a.
John Dahl, former speaker Of the
Wisconsin assembly, will be tried at
Barron for embezzlement despite any
restitution made to Andrew Haugsbo
the complaining witness This was
the statement of Dist. Atty. G. E.
Soderbcrg, after a report that Miss
Marie Dahl, Chicago the defendants
sister, had paid Haugsbo $4,000 al
legged to have been embezzled from hin,
by Dahl
A gift of 100000 from Lewis M
Alexander, Port Edwards, toward the
construction and endowment of a new
100000 gymnasium for Lawrence col
lege was announced by President
Henry M. Wriston, of the college. A
campaign to raise another 100000 tc
make up a $500,000 fund for this pur.
pose, the condition of Mr.. Alexander's
gift, was announced at the same time
About $4,000 of this has already beer
pledged by alumni and students. The
plan is to construct a building costing
100000 and to establish an endow
ment fund of 100000 to maintain it
ManitOwoc county is probably the
only one in Wisconsin in which Grim
inals will be hunted by airplane
Sheriff Edward HASTEN has appointed
Frank Shoblaska, local aviator, as
deputy. Shoblaska has purchased /
|urtiss plane and is ready to give the
fastest chase possible, he says.
Awakening to find the house il
flames, Glen Rhoads, a farm hand
aroused the members of two house
holds who occupied the Charles John
son farm house north of XenOsha an(