Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-19
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NEWS OF THE :
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ing team defeated the team Of Cam
bridge university, England, in an argu-
ment on the prohibition question.
G. w. Wissilink, 40, chairman Of the
Sheboygan county board of supervis-
ors for five years and member for IL
years, hung himself at his home in
bingham, this county. Financial wor-
ries are believed to have been the
cause.
Petitions have been filed with the
Kenosha county board asking that
early action be taken to pave highway
80 from the Fox river bridge to the
west county line, distance of four
miles, and highway SO, the Antioch
Twin Lakes road.
City officials are up in arms over
the reported plan of the Outagamie
county board to ask the city Of Apple
ton to pay about 6 per cent more of
the county and state taxes than was
paid last year. At the same time the
announcement was made that taxes
Of towns and villages in the county
would be decreased about the same
amount
Tardy book borrowers saved $50 in
elinquent fines during "fneless
week." a checkup shows at the close
Of a moratorium period at the Beloit
city library, during which overdue
books could be returned without pen
atty. One borrower saved $50 on a
single volume which had been accumu-
Eating fines at the rate Of 2 cents a
day since 1920
A concrete highway program for
Dane county was adopted by the board
Of supervisors, Endorsed by a As to 10
vote Under the plan the county in
the next five years will expend 81
728,2SO for one hundred fifty-nine
miles of concrete roads. The board
favored issuance Of bonds to the
amount of $2,50O,OOO to be retired
within fifteen years. The balance of
the money needed for the project will
come from property taxes and from
the state.
The body Of Archibald Macarthur,
80, eccentric spiritualist who was re-
ported to be worth between $4,000
and 100000 at the time of his death,
was exhumed in Dodgeville. The ex-
humation Of the body was the first
move on the part of Luther Macarthur,
a nephew from California, acting for
the Macarthur family, in an attempt to
break the will which left the bulk of
the old mans estate to a Florida man
who had befriended the elder Nc
Arthur.
Police in Racine are trying to solve
the mystery which surrounds the dyna-
hitting of "Happy's" lunch wagon,
Main and High streets, in which Stan
ley Happy" Packamore %, it's pro-
prietor, was killed. and Ralph Meyer.
20, a customer, was Injured. The
blast, which occurred shortly after
midnight, wrecked the lunch wagon,
catapulted residents of adjoining
homes from their beds, smashed win
dows in buildings in a wide area and
was heard throughout the city.
For the first time in 20 years there
will be no Bayfield, county fair next
year unless the public raises the funds
to put on the show. The county board,
which has made annual fair appropria-
lions, has tired of voting money to pay
deficit each year and at the annual
meeting 1t voted levy for last years
deficit, but did not provide funds for
the 1926 fair. The board likewise dis
continued the practice of voting money
for community fairs which are sup
posed to be feeders for the main fair
at Iron River.
Fifteen boys who were arrested in
Marinette for Halloween depredations
have been busy since that time, under
supervision of policeman, in repair
ing fences and repiling wood, in addi-
ton to apOlogizing to the owners Of
the property they destroyed. Others,
who broke windows in schoolhouse,
had TO raise money to replace the
glass and will be obliged to apologize
to the school board at its next meet
ing This was the punishment meted
out to the boys by Judge A. E. Davis
in juvenile court.
With the World war ended seven
years ago, Wisconsin veterans are dis
covering that the state is granting sol
der bonuses at the rate Of fifty a
month and indications are that the
bonus paying time limit will end with
out some of the veterans ever real
izing that they might have obtained
money from the state by merely ask
ing for it. To date Wisconsin has paid
C soldier bonus to 1888 veterans and
new applications continue to come in
daily. Besides this lumber there are
still five hundred making use Of the
state educational bonus. All state
bonuses will cease July 1, 1927, under
present laws.
Dedication Of the court of honor
erected to the memory of dead soldiers
and sailors featured the observance of
Armistice day in West Salem. The
court is block long, the cement drive
way being fianked by brick pillars sur
amounted by electric lights, making it
particularly attractive at night Adjt.
Gen. Ralph NJ Immell delivered the
principal address at the dedicatory
exercises.
The Oneida county board, in session
in Rhinelander, appointed committee
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