Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-06-18

W
ed to Whitewater Normal school stu
dents at the commencement exercises
on June 10.
The Wisconsin Staatsverband Of
Catholic societies will hold it's nine
teenth annual convention in Madison
July II to II.
The Reeseville band of forty pieces.
organized last year, has given its first
public concert 1t is planned to have
weekly street concerts throughout the
summer.
The building and plant of the Phil
lips Times, weekly newspaper pub
lished by George E. Sackett, has been
destroyed by fire resulting from de-
fective wiring.
Paul Jacobs, aged 16, recent gradu-
ate of the Amigo high school, has
committed suicide by hanging. 1t is
believed that overwork in study un-
balanced his mind
Walter e. Wilson, cashier of the
First National bank of TigertOn, is
dead of heart trouble He served for
several years as register of deeds and
sheriff of Shawano county.
Ten valuable dairy cows on the farm
of Joseph Dawson, near Benton, were
killed when struck by lightning. The
animals were huddled under a clump
of trees, about which was a barbed
wire fence
At the graduating exercises of the
United States military academy at
West Point, the following men from
Wisconsin received diplomas: NJ NJ
Dawson, Viroqua; S. j. Horn, Colby;
L. Nefrud, Coon Valley "A. S. Peter
son, CrandOn.
Mrs. E. J. Morse, Of Platteville, who
recently attempted her own life with
pistol, will recover, physicians say.
The bullet entered the right temple,
passed through the skull and lodged
at the brain lining. 1t was removed
by an operation.
Plunging over high cliff and drop
ping 25 feet, Mrs. J. B. Fossion mir
aculously escaped death when trees
on projecting ledge, stopped the car
and saved it from drop of another
80 feet to the waters edge at Little
Sturgeon, Door county.
Prohibition agents have clamped
paddock on the door of the Andrew
Fischer Beverage company brewery at
Oconomowoc after pouring $50 barrels
of 4 per cent beer into sewer The
beer, at retail bootleg prices, would
have been worth $51 700, it is said. 1t
was the twelfth Wisconsin brewery to
be closed since the beginning Of pro-
hibition. Fifty state breweries are
left in operation under federal permit
to make near beer.
The Modern Woodmen of America has
decided to withdraw the quadrennial
convention from Milwaukee and to
hold it in Chicago instead. Arrange
ments had been made in Milwaukee
for entertaining approximately 10000
Woodmen during the week Of June
81. The convention is said to have
been withdrawn because the WoOdmen
feared smallpox and because they felt
that Milwaukee hotels had not given
them cooperation.
Fred J. Marien Of Milwaukee was
elected grand master of Wisconsin
grand lodge, F. & A. NJ, in closing
sessions Of the two day convention az
Scottish Rite cathedral, Milwaukee.
Mr. Marien succeeds Frank johnson
of Black River Falls. Other new Of
ficers elected and installed are: Depu-
ty grand master, d. H. Mooney, Ocon-
to; senior grand warden, #. L. Wright,
Milwaukee; Junior grand warden,
Frank jerks, Madison; grand treas
urer, G. B. Wheeler, Eau Claire grand
secretary, w. w. Perry, Milwaukee.
Following the questioning of almost
100 students, University Of Wisconsin
officials began an investigation of what
is believed to be the most serious case
of theft and sale of examination ques-
tions ever uncovered at the state uni
versity. 1t is said that original exam
ination questions stolen from the desks
of university instructors were copied
and the copies sold at So and $40 per
set. Officials have not yet been able
to determine the extent of the dishon-
esty, but believe that a large number
of students may be involved.
In an order issued by the federal
trade commission at Washington, the
Wisconsin Cooperative Creamery as
ISOLATION, Madison, and it's officers, di-
rectors and members are required to
discontinue certain business practices
found by the commission to be unfair
methods Of competition. The associa.
ton is composed of Wisconsin cooper
alive creameries mainly located In
Polk county. The commission found
that the association had adopted
resolution calling on dealers and citi.
zens of Polk county to discontinue the
sale Of oleomargarine and ito elm
mate butter substitutes from Polk
county, inasmuch as they are injuri-
Gus to public health" The findings
declare that oleomargarine is legiti
mate article of commerce, recognized
by the federal government as a food
product for human consumption.
The program has been completed for
the annual camp meeting of the Wis
consin Methodist Episcopal conference,