Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-26

Milk went down 1 cent a quart In
Madison. The new cash price an
nounced by the Kennedy Dairy 90. is
8 cents a quart The decrease was
due to a drop from 1924 to $2.O6
hundredweight In the price paid to
farmers, together with the apparently
settled butter price level at SO cents
on the Chicago market
The civic improvement program for
1926 will entail cost of more than
100000, according to estimates. OF
$612, 900 estimated expenditures, which
will include new pavements, bridges,
sidewalks, crossings, sewers and traf-
fic systems, approximately $550,0OO will
be used In building additions to the
Junior and senior high school buildings.
Wisconsin Rapids has been made de-
PENDANT in a suit for the recovery OF
$4,000 paid by the three national
banks there in taxes on their capital
stock in 1924 The suit, which is SINH
lar to actions brought In a number OF
other Wisconsin communities, is based
upon the alleged unconstitutionality OF
the act of congress under which
tax on the capital stock of national
banks is imposed
Salvatore Di MARITIME, acquitted OF
the murder of Herbert Dreger, Madi-
son policeman, must be produced In
court at Madison on or before Mar.
or his .bondsmen will forfeit $l,OOO
bail bonds, Judge o. A. Stolen OF
superior court has ruled. ID MARITIME
was under arrest for false swearing In
connection with his application for
hunting license. He pleaded not guilty
and was released on bail.
A new student loan fund of $1,000
was given to the University of Wis
consin by Kemper X. Knapp, 70, of
Chicago This fund will be added to
the $4,000 loan fund given to the uni
versity by Mr. Kemper in 1923. From
the original $4,000 of the Kemper loan
fund, some 1853 loans have been made
to students, aggregating $8,O25 and
averaging $4765 per loan. Some 80
return payments have been made, and
$99.71 has been collected in interest.
The report of Manager D. S. Knight
of the Bayfield, Peninsula Fruit Assoc
citation shows total sales for 1924 were
$171,OOO, a gain of $4,000 over 1928.
Sales have been increasing each year,
due to the young apple trees coming
into bearing, as well as to the Increase
in acreage of small fruit, Strawberries
and red raspberries. Further in
creases are looked for during 1925.
The association shipped so carloads of
apples in 1924 to the Twin Cities, Twin
Ports, Chicago and upper Michigan.
Miss Mildred Morton of Hazelhurst,
who, in 1921, fell and broke one Of
her legs, is in a Chicago hospital,
where she has just submitted to the
tenth operation for osteolysis which
developed from the injury, according
to word received at Rhinelander
The Wausau Chamber of Commerce
has received a request from the At
lantic and Pacific Products company
for assistance in obtaining site for
a condensed milk factory In that city.
The company has plant for evaporat-
ing milk in West Bend.
Thies w. Thiesen. So, former mayor
of Racine, was killed when his automo-
bile went off the North Main street
pavement and tumbled down an en-
bankment into the Root river at RAJ
cine The North Main street bridge
had been opened to permit passage OF
the Goodrich line steamer Wisconsin
and it is believed that Mr.. Thiesen,
seeing the lights on the steamer
thought he was taking the right APP
proach to the bridge. The body WIS
removed from the submerged automo-
bile 20 minutes after the accident by
firemen and members of the coast
guard. but efforts at resuscitation
proved futile.
Patrick H. Martin, prominent Green
Bay attorney, is dead after an illness
of two years. Mr. Martin was for
mer president of the state bar associa-
ton, and vice president of the Amert-
can Bar association. Illness was
brought about by a cancerous growth.
He was 81 years old. Mr. Martin was
born In the town of Rockland, Brown
county, April 81, 1862. He received
his education in the schools of Rock
land and the city of De. Pere, and at
the age Of 18 began teaching school
in Brown county. In 1888 he began
reading and studying law, and in 1887
was admitted to the bar. The follow
ing year he was elected prosecuting
attorney for Brown county.
After lying two days unclaimed on
slab at the Milwaukee county
morgue, the body of the youth who
had died from self-inflicted gunshot
wound in Juneau park was identified
as that of Robert B. Minahan, II.
Green Bay, a medical student at
Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill.
The Identification was made by his
father, DR.. John r. Minahan, national
ly known millionaire surgeon of Green
Raw. The death of the young student