Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-19

The Rev. ]. s. Morris, pastor of the
Congregational church, was elected
president of the Fort Atkinson Cham
Der of Commerce at the meeting of the
recently elected board of directors.
Grandpa Lescheska, "a, Avoca, who
resides at Spring Green with his daugh
ter, Mrs. f. Riechland, enjoys remark
ably good health. He has his second
eyesight and recently cut three new
teeth
The Rev. Robert B. Condor, pastor
of ST. Mary's Catholic church, La
Crosse, was4 seriously injured when
run down by an automobile. He is
at a hospital witha fractured arm and
severe decorations about the head ard
face.
Revenue to the national government
from theater admission tickets in Wis
consin dropped from 1911, 845.09 in the
period from Aug. /, 1923, to Jan. 81,
1924, to $196,973.64 for the period from
Aug. l, 1924, to Jan. 81, 1925, the inter-
nal revenue bureau announced.
GRANDMOTHER Della Lemieus, 106, be
lieved the Oldest Indian in the north
west, died at the Indian reservation at
Odanah. She was born shortly after
tn war of 1872 and had lived her en-
tire life on the Odanah reservation.
The body will be inferred at Bayfield,.
Federal dry agents of Milwaukee
raided the Boomer Brewing company,
Monroe, and seized several automo-
bile loads of alleged real beer The
drivers of the trucks were held for a
hearing before United States commits
sioners at Madison.
For the first time In history, tax
payers of the town of Little Wolf,
Waupaca county, have been given an
additional period of two weeks in
which to make settlement of their 1925
tax assessments without the additional
2 per cent penalty, following action
taken at meeting Of the town board.
The Stevens Point board of educa-
ton has abolished the positions of
grade and kindergarten supervisors for
the coming school year. 1t may also
decide to make permanent an arrange
ment now being tried whereby two
other supervising jobs, those of music
and art instructors, are merged.
At a joint meeting of the Lincoln
County Rod and Gun club and the Mer-
rill chapter of the Izaak Walton league.
the two organizations were merged.
Funds Of the gun club were turned
over to the Walton league with the
proviso that they must be spent for
the purposes for which they were
raised.
Because he disliked being loaned"
to a. farmer in liquidation of debt
contracted by his father, Rufus Rae
kow, IA, set fire to the barn on the
farm Of Ernest Matzke, near Sturgeon
Bay, last July, causing property loss
of $4,000. The boy confessed his
guilt after an investigation by } r.
Greenwald of Green Bay, deputy state
fire warden.
r. w. Lathrop, supervising teacher
for Crawford county, met at Gays Mills
with the Crawford County Fair assoc
citation and the Bankers association
for the purpose Of starting campaign
to organize boys and girls of the coun-
ty into one by Boys and Girls club.
Every township In the county will be
The conference voted $500
to begin the work.
e. Leslie Osborne, cashier of the
defunct American National bank Of
Racine, and Edwin Berry, general man
ager of the Union Food Stores COM
pany, pleaded guilty to violation Of the
national banking act before Judge
Robert G. Baltzell in federal court, Mil
waukee. Osborne and Berry are both
under sentence for conspiracy to use
the mail to defraud In connection with
the Union Food Stores stock case.
Friends of Thomas B. Reid, former
editor and one time republican power
in Wisconsin politics, from all parts Of
Jnc- SJdIS dJlCHuCu puOIS IulICldl SClN-
ices at Appleton for Mr. Reid, who died
at Phoenix, Ariz., on New Years night.
The former editor was buried in River
side cemetery The public memorial
service was held In Lawrence college
memorial chapel after private services
at the residence, at which the Rev.
Faville officiated.k
Nearly two tons of pedigreed clover
seed was stolen from the warehouse
of the Vernon County Milling Co. in
Hillsboro, according to a, statement just
given out by the officials of the COM
pany. The seed was carried down
from an upper story, loaded into a
truck and hauled away. After the job
had been completed the building was
locked as before to avoid detection. A
quantity of homegrown seeds was left
untouched by the robbers.
The Wisconsin supreme court re-
versed the decision of Judge w B..
Quinlan, Brown county, and ordered
Peter Van Straten, former member OF
the De Pere school board, to pay back
$3.50 to the board treasury, the cost
Of transporting parochial school chill