Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-08-20

A course in the science of paper
making will be added to the curricu-
lum of the Neenah evening school
when 1t resumes sessions in the fall.
Michael Hallen, deputy sheriff and
former sheriff of Marinette county,
died suddenly of heart disease shortly
after he had walked into a hospital
at Marinette for treatment.
Joseph Wolter, veteran shipbuilder,
has been appointed receiver for the
large plant of the Sturgeon Bay Dry
Docks Co, formerly known as the
Universal Shipbuilding Co. The plant
will start operation soon, after being
idle for two years.
With continuous stream of auto
mobiles on the highway Sunday after
noon, one farmer on the road to Muk-
wonago found 1t necessary to form a
traffic squad in order to get his dairy
herd across the highway. Three men
were on duty, two holding up traffic
while third drove the cows across
the road.
Marked by unusual pomp and solem-
nifty, the field mass featuring the Fond
du Lac county Holy Name rally at
st. Mary's Springs academy was at
tended by more than 5000 persons.
The mass, which was the first of it's
kind ever held In this community, was
celebrated by the Rev. T. ]. Cosgrove,
Fond du Lac.
A person carrying liquor anywhere
outside Of his skin is transporting
liquor and can be fined for violating
the prohibition law, according to the
Interpretation of the Severson act by
the Dane county Superior court. Four
men were fined 500 and costs each at
Madison because each had a partly
filled bottle of liquor In their clothing
when arrested.
Frank Grunn, owner of restau-
rant and boarding house at Mansion,
which burned down on Aug. 1, causing
the death Of Louis Frank, boarder,
was arrested, charged with murder and
arson and bound over for prelimi-
nary hearing on Sept. 10. The charges
were preferred following an investiga-
ton by William Greenwald, Green
Bay, deputy state fire marshal.
The memorial edition of La Fol
lette's Magazine to sketches
Of the career Of Senator Robert M.
La Toilette, and to tributes by his
friends-was issued Aug. II The edi-
ton contains the announcement that
the publication of the magazine will
be continued, with slightly reorgan-
lied staff. Robert M. La Toilette, jr.,
succeeds his father as editor
A stick of dynamite placed alongside
a basement window of grocery store
in the Waukesha Italian quarters re-
suited In the injury of Miss Kate Dono-
van, who lived next door, although the
bomb was apparently intended for the
family Of Mrs. Mary Marconi and her
five children in the grocery store
Mrs. Marconi and her children were
knocked out of bed but unhurt
Seven men who appeared before
Judge Douglas Mangan, in Milwaukee
District court on charges of operating
their automobiles while intoxicated,
were deprived of the right to drive a
car for six months. They were or
dered to report regularly to a proba-
ton officer and, If 1t is found they
have been driving cars during this
period, they will spend six months in
the house of correction.
OF the $4,000 persons who have re-
ceived degrees from the University Of
Wisconsin since 1854, nearly $4,000 are
recorded on alumni records as still
living The number of living nongrad-
yates Is estimated by the Alumni Re
corder as $4,000, making a total living
alumni body of $1,000. The oldest liv-
| ing graduates are John B. Parkinson,
Madison, and William Penn Powers,
Los Angeles, Calf. They are members
of the class Of 1860. Both attended
the reunion Of their class in June.
Active steps to keep overloaded mo,
to trucks off the state trunk high
ways will be taken soon, the state
highway commission has announced.
The commission at a recent meeting
authorized the purchase Of loado-
meters, which will be used to test the
weight of trucks at certain points
along the highways The law requir
ing the removal Of excessive weight
will be enforced, M. w. Torkelson,
! secretary of the commission declared
The law restricts the weights of trucks
to IL tons on class A highways and
seven and one-half tons on class B
roads
A group of University of Wisconsin
students are engaged this summer in
raising in their home towns $150,000
for the construction Of a new church
building near the university campus.
| The students are members Of a con-
gregation unlike any other church
body In the United States. They be-
long to the University Presbyterian
church of Madison, in which no uni
versity teachers or townspeople are
members. They elect their own board
Of elders, board Of trustees, pastor and
other officers. They conduct their
church activities as do most churches.
| The membership of the church Is now
one hundred thirty.
The offices Of registrar and secre-
tary Of the faculty Of the University
of Wisconsin will be combined into
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