Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-01-15
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Dodgeville, shortly after being found
on the floor of her home where she
haC lain for an entire night in freezing
temperature after suffering stroke.
Jens Wilman, merchant at Ashland
has been forced into involuntary bank
ruptcy by 80 creditors, according to
information received from Madison
Allan T. Pray has been appointed re
ceiver
Miss Elma Anderson, former For
est county resident and now with the
department of agriculture, has left fol
Europe, where she will spend Is
months gathering statistics in connec
ton with the operation of the Dawes
plan.
Fond du Laos loss from fire during
1924 was $66,144.75, according to the
annual report of Chief James Russell
jr. OF the total $19,70261' was or
buildings and $46,442.14 on contents
The fire department apparatus trav
eled 1901 miles in responding to 29s
alarms last year.
Harold Scott, II, town of Ringle
and Marvin Krahn, IA, Wausau, are
being held on bail of $500 each
charged with malicious destruction OF
school property. 1t is charged they
broke into schoolhouse in the town
of Ringle and demolished an organ
large globe, clock and desks.
Professional gambling houses, which
are said to have dourished in Stevens
Point for several months, have been
ordered to suspend operations at once
and for all time by Chief of Police
John S. Hafsoos. The cleanup order
bans punch boards as well as poker
and dice.
If postal receipts may be taken as a
trade barometer, business in .Neenah
is steadily on the upgrade. According
to the report of Postmaster j.. B
Schneider for 1924, the Neenah post
office gained 21.5 per cent in receipts
over those of 1923. The 1924 receipts
were $68,118.89, while in 1923 they to
tailed $56,174.O1.
Eugene w. Roby, So, mason contrac-
tor of Waupun, fell from scaffold
in the dining room Of the central state
hospital for the criminal insane and
died few minutes after the fall His
skull was crushed. Mr.. Roby was In
specting work done by his workmen
He had lived in Waupun nearly all OF
his life
The first frame house built in Che
tex was destroyed by fire CAUSED FROM
an overheated stove. The house was
built so years ago and its present
owner, Mrs. Jennie Smith, has lived
in it for 40 years. When Mrs Smith
bought the property the taxes were &c
cents, but last year the taxes were
more than $26.
S. w. Keys and Maurice Fitzsim
mons accepted their reflections as
president and treasurer of the Fond
du Lac County Fair association, pro
vided the county assume the 100000
Indebtedness contracted by the organi
cation. S. d. Boreham, who has
served as secretary for eight years
declined reelection His successor
has not been named.
By vote of IL to the Kenosha
county board passed an ordinance tC
regulate public dance halls in the
county. The ordinance establishes 9
plan for licensing dance halls at $1(
year and for issuance of permits fol-
each public dance at fee of 81 each
The 81 will be used for paying super
visors to act as censors of the dance
The closing hour set in the ordinance
is midnight Saturday and a. m. Other
nights No person under II is allowed
to attend the dances unless accom-
panied by parent or guardian.
Judge Egbert Wyman, 70, one O
the pioneers of Forest county, died al
Columbia hospital, Crandon. Deat1
was caused from cancer from which
he had been sufferer for some time
but it was not until about three
months ago that he was compelled t.
resign his office of municipal judge
of Forest county. Judge Wyman was
| the first district attorney for Fores
| county, having. been appointed to thai
office by Gov Rusk in 1886 when the
county was first organized Previous
to that time he was employed in the
government land office at Madison.
Building in Green Bay amounted tC
| $2,550,409 in the year just ended, &C
cording to the building commissioner
report The 1928 total was $3,460,9
Green Bay erected 148 new homes
last year, at cost of $750,O00, ant
% new business buildings, COSTING
$348,877, as compared with a cost q
| $1,541 ,27O for 81 business buildings {
year before There were 281 garages
erected, at a cost of $164.3 Thirty
nine homes and Is business buildings
were remodeled at a cost OF abou
| $150,000. Fifteen warehouses were
built; three clubhouses erected at al
expenditure of $S1O,375 and one new
church was built, which cost $4,000.
Harry Bowling, farmer, was treated
at a Dodgeville hospital after losing
/ his thumb in a peculiar accident. HI
had prepped wagon pole with sticl
which slipped allowing the pole to fal
onto his thumb, caught between tn,
pole and the wagon hounds, shearins
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