Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-19


Clifford Grover, Marinette county, was
badly burned when his night clothes
caught fire as he was standing near a
stove at his parents home.
Reinhold, 2-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Reinhold Baerwald, living on a
farm near Juneau, is dead as the re-
suit of eating pills prescribed by a
physician for an older person. A doc
tor with the aid of a stomach pump
was unable to save the boys life.
An estate of 100000 of the late ].
Howard Palmer, president of the Madi-
son State bank, is left to his son,
Charles, and two daughters, and in
two funds which are established for
his grandchildren under terms of his
will just filed in Madison for probate
Exposure to smoke water and frigid
temperature following fire in the
home of her son, Joseph Grzyll, where
she was living, resulted in pneumonia
and the death of Mrs. Martha Grzyll,
81, town Of Union, Waupaca county.
Fire broke out in the home while the
aged woman was alone in the house.
About $4,000 will pass through the
hands of the board of regents of the
University of Wisconsin this year for
distribution to university students in
he form of scholarships and fellow.
ships. A total Of $40 Undergraduate
and graduate men and women will
share in the allotment.
The dates of the fifteenth annual
road school Of the wisconsin County
Highway Commissioners association
and the state highway commission
have been changed to Jan. 20 to 20.
The road school is held in the state
capitol. The time was changed from
Feb. to II.
A price war between rival gasoline
dealers in Chippewa Falls reached it's
climax when the price reached the alb
normally low level of S12 cents a gal
Ion. Filling station stats were kept
busy by delighted customers, many of
whom had come from points so miles
distant.
Births in Wisconsin in 1924 were
59,963, giving a birth rate of 21.7 per
thousand people. These figures are
contained in the final compilations just
made by the bureau of vital statistics
and show that although there is an in
crease of several hundred births, the
rate, based on new estimated popula-
ton yearly, is practically stationary.
A. j. Earling, II, pioneer railroad
man, and for years president of the
Milwaukee road, died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Fitch,
Milwaukee. Mr.. Earring had been in
failing health for several months, suf-
fering from a heart affliction. His
condition, however, did not become
serious until recently.
Battery G, One Hundred Twentieth
Field artillery, Chippewa Falls, is now
confronted with task of providing
stall room for thirty-two horses for
the winter months. The large stables
which were recently destroyed by fire
will not be rebuilt, it is understood,
and the barns at the fair grounds are
only built for summer use, and it now
seems that barn suitable for shelter
ing thirty-two horses is not to be
found.
The new ST. Thomas Catholic church
at Montfort was dedicated on Nov. 4
with ceremonies conducted by Msgr.
Kraemer, Genoa, assisted by Father
Doyle, Highland, who sponsored the
meeting at which the congregation
was organized Is months ago. The
Rev. Robert B. Condor, La Crosse,
gave the dedication sermon, and Fa-
Their Mlsna, who has been chosen as
pastor also spoke The church, built
of red brick and occupying an impos-
ing hillside site, cost $4,000.
President Glen Frank of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin satisfied what he
part of scientists as to Wisconsins at
titude toward extension of scientific
research" when he declared that the
university will neither cut itself off
from the cooperate efforts of Ameri-
can and European scholarships nor
retrench on it's research. Recently the
regents of the University Of Wisconsin
adopted a policy of declining gifts
from educational foundations for
scientific research, and the statement
was interpreted as having an indirect
bearing on that issue, over which
controversy has arisen.
According to an opinion filed with
the city council by Corporation Coun-
sci K B. Fleming there is no legal
method by which the council can call
a special election to pass on the ques-
ton of changing the present commits
sion plan Of government in Eau Claire
to the city manager plan. Some weeks
ago a petition containing 1,010 names
was filed with the city clerk asking
that such an election be called under
chapter GA of the Wisconsin statutes
In his opinion the corporation counsel
points out that the sections providing
for the method of calling the election
were repealed by the 1921 legislature
and that no provision had been en-
acted in lieu of these or supplying q
plan for an election under chapter "a
Seven children were led to safety
when the Vankirk farmhouse near
White Rapids, Marinette county, was
destroyed in the absence of the par