Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-16
EAGLE RIVER SHOWS
PROGRESSIVE SPIRIT
Year Now Drawing to Close
Has Been Marked by Many
Notable Developments
MOdernized in Many Respects, Our
Town Now Regular Little
Metropolis

During the year 1925, Eagle River
has made tremendous strides in
both private and civic improve
ments. No other year can rank
with the year just passed in good
solid expansion. The town itself
has spread out, principally to the
east and now it's outskirts are a
good half mile beyond the limits of
last year. The greatest need of the
community has been civic improve
ments. These wishes have been
gratified TO a certain degree and
ideas for future betterment are
assured by plans already laid down
and approved.
This year Eagle River paved
three blocks with concrete-the
first in it's history. 1t is always the
beginning that is the hardest; after
that the rest comes easily. Plans
are laid and money appropriated to
carry the pavement two more
blocks early IN the spring. Five adj
ditional blocks are contemplated.
The new lighting system works
wonders in the appearance of the
town. Ten light-posts and lamps
to the block makes the old system
seem like freely in comparison.
Then there are the new business
blocks completed this year. Early
in the season, Ray Troyer COM
pIeted his new up-to-date bakery.
With all the modern machinery
and improvements of the latest
type, his output has increased by
leaps and bounds. Our Bakery is
an addition to the town that we
can we'll boast of.
Larry" Kuehne's new store,
where you can find anything in the
line of sporting goods from a fish
hook to three mile gun, is as good
looking and as we'll stocked as any
sporting goods shop in the north.
Not yet completed is the new La
Renzie building on Wall street.
When this new two story brick
building is completed it will add
three very attractive stores to the
1otal business places now available
The second floor will give much
needed office room to the town.
The Eagle River Bottling Works
increased the size of it's establish
ments on Main Street by adding
brick addition. This addition is
we'll equipped for the making of
soft drinks and the Eagle River
Bottling Works is much better
known in the North Country be-
cause Of its increased output. This
company has also built a commod-
Jus new ice warehouse on Silver
Lake.
For many years Eagle River has
been struggling along with made
quate hotel accommodations. TRAY
cling men hated to be caught over
night in a place that had almost no
facilities for caring for transients.
The old Commercial Hotel was the
nearest approach to hotel that we
had 1t was as old as the Dark
Ages and about as up to date as a
stone quarry. Agitation for new
hotel In Eagle River was not new
thing. 1t had been talked of for
years. But although new hostelries
had been built all over the sur
rounding country the new hotel In
Eagle River proper was always
more or less a mirage. Two years
ago Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Knauer
took over the old Commercial; they
recognized it's weakness and they
also recognized the fact that a
good modern hotel in Eagle River
was an absolute necessity. They
planned and built the Arbutus Inn.
Situated in the heart Of the town,
it is modern city hotel in every
respect. 1t has all the comforts
and conveniences that the most
particular could demand, with the
homelike atmosphere of the Great
White North. It's cuisine and SER
wee is all that could be desired.
In 1925, Eagle River became the
posseSsor of two new up-to-date
churches. The first Congregational
Church opened early in the year
was an absolute necessity. For
some time it was known that the
church question of Eagle River es-
pecialIy in the summer time needed
some serious attention. The con-
2regation of the Congregational
Church were the first to take the
steps necessary for new edifice.
It's new church, costing well over