Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-26


lake, three miles west of Elcho
Davis, who came from lower Michigan
20 years ago, was a caretaker for
tourist cottages.
In circuit court at Ladysmith, Paul
Marley, convicted on al arson charge,
was sentenced to not less than one
year nor more than two years in the
state prison at Waupun. Leon Proch-
nicki, found guilty of assault with In
tent to kill, was sentenced to one to
three years.
At one of the most important meet
ings ever held by the Chippewa county
board Of supervisors, the board unani-
mously passed on the program out
lined by the road committee to build
4S miles of concrete road on state high
ways 16 and IL, at an estimated cost
Of $1,323,OO0.
Theodore Ezydore, 10, pleaded guilty
in Circuit court at Wausau to charge
of manslaughter in the first degree
and was given five to ten years in the
Green Bay reformatory. Ezydore shot
and fatally wounded William Kluck,
10, Sept. 30, following drunken row
at Galloway.
Sturgeon Bay will receive reduced
electric light and water rate from Its
municipality owned plant. Supt. ]. e.
Johnson, head Of the utilities, has
worked out lower rate, which will
oh Nv hn aiI
and will become effective as soon as
approved by the state railroad COM
mission.
Seventy-fifth anniversary services
were held on Nov. 10 in all Lutheran
churches of the Evangelical Lutheran
joint synod of Wisconsin, Of which the
Rev. G. E. Bergemann, Fond du Lac,
Is president. st. Peters church, Fond
du Lac, has been a member of the
Wisconsin synod since it's organization
in 1858.
Comment on his recent advice to
town mutual insurance company that
it. dissolve and go out Of business was
made by w. Stanley Smith, Madison,
state insurance commissioner, calls at
tention to the hazardous character of
cyclone, tornado and windstorm bust
ness when conducted by a small COM
pany.
An alleged extortion plot against
persons in Edgerton and Evansville
with threats of death for failure to
pay, was reported to state officials at
Madison Sheriff Charles l.. Burtis
and Dist Atty. George S. Gets, Rock
county, are understood to be investi-
eating the case. In an anonymous let
ter to Mr.. and Mrs Nalan, 81 900 was
demanded and threats were also made
against D. Willard North of Edgerton.
Hazel Brandau, 6, suffered fatal
gunshot wound while accompanying
her father on a rabbit hunt on his
farm near Tomah. The father, Ernest
Brandau, laid his shotgun across
brush. pile while he went to look at
trap, leaving Hazel and another child
with the gun. He heard shot, and
rushing back, found the little girl shot
through the side. She died shortly
after at a Sparta hospital 1t is be-
lieved the children attempted to play
with the gun while the father was
away.
While residents of the village list
ened idly to the changing OF a burglar
alarm, thinking it was being rung as
a test, four armed bandits looted the
capped in an automobile driven by Il
fifth member of the gang. The rob-
bers entered the bank five minutes be-
fore closing time, and drove the cash
Ter, John Wagner, two other employees
and four customers, into the vault at
the points Of revolvers. Then they
proceeded to loot the cashiers cage,
taking all the currency in sight
Hope of any light on the triple MUIR
der Of william, julius and Mary Bal
ger, who were dubbed to death at
their farm home in Sank county in
1922 and robbed of their boarded saw
ings, faded when Dist. Atty Bohn,
Baraboo, announced that repeated
questioning 6f William and Delbert
Bills had convinced him that they
knew nothing at all of the murder
The Bills brothers were recently ar
rested for attempting to cash two
bonds owned by the Blazers, but con-
vinced the district attorney that they
had found the bonds on the Balzer
farm. The Bills brothers worked the
farm for awhile after the murder.
Three times within four years the
Richland Center high school band has
won the state championship. Five
years ago at Elkhorn the boys from
Richland Center acquitted themselves
with credit in the first state tourna-
ment for high school bands ever held
in Wisconsin. When the state associa-
ton Of high school bands held it's first
tournament at Kilbourn in 1922 they
won first place and repeated the VIC
tory the next year at Two Rivers.
The following year at Lake Geneva,
Richland Center's band lost first place
by fraction of one point. This year
at ViroQua they resumed their leader
ship by winning three points over all
competing bands.
Members Of Oneida County Fish and
Game Protective association, in SEES
sion at Rhinelander, launched move
ment for establishment of a brook
trout hatchery on the Prairie river,