Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-05


$50 each on charges Of hunting deer
and trapping Illegally.
Emmett r. Hicks, former attorney
general of Wisconsin, and president
Of the Fraternal Reserve association,
was killed in Oshkosh when struck by
an automobile.
The city manager plan of govern
ment lost by a majority of 60 votes
in Sturgeon Bay, according to unoffi-
cial returns of a recent special cleo
ton. Only about 80 per cent of the
usual vote was cast. The result was /:
For the plan, All; against, 4S4.
Under the new law requiring all
BUSES to obtain licenses to operate
from the state railroad commission.
a total of four hundred sixty-fuur of
the passenger vehicles nave been legis-
tered by the commission with addi-
tfonal bus lines added to the list prac-
tically every week.
Judge A. H. Reid confirmed the de-
cision of the municipal court at Rhine
lander, when he heard an appeal at
Merrill in the case Of the state VS.
William Scott and Arvid Johnson.
The defendants were charged with US
ing an automobile headlight to hunt
deer during the night
Fathers of all University of Wis
consin students will receive personal
invitations from President Glenn
Frank to attend the university's second
annual Fathers day, Nov. IA. Last
year more than 1000 fathers respond
ed to the call, while this fall those in
charge Of the event expect more than
1000 to come to Madison.
George Coburn, 81, staff aid of the
national commander Of the G. A. r.,
died at Baraboo. He was musician
in a New York volunteer infantry
band and was born in Constable, N. Y.
Mr.. Coburn knew President Lincoln
personally and retained a mourner's
badge from the funeral Of the rail-
splitting executive.
d. e. Grandstaf, Tomahawk, who
while intoxicated drove his car into
team of horses, injuring one of the
animals so severely that it had to be
killed, was sentenced at Rhinelander
to go days in the Oneida county Jail,
fined $50, ordered to pay for the horse
and prohibited from driving an auto
mobile for one year.
A hospital, the first New London has
ever had, has been opened there by
Drs. A. G. and NJ A. Borchardt The
two doctors, the youngest of whom,
DR.. M. A. Borchardt, is a graduate Of
Marquette medical school at Milwau-
kee, have purchased large house and
converted it into hospital. An am
bulance service is also to be main
tanned.
The $4,000 damage suit of Fannie
Smith, Chicago, against Miss Edith
Klein, Oshkosh, which went to trial
in circuit court at Oshkosh, ended
abruptly when Judge Beglinger di-
rected a verdict in favor of the de-
PENDANT, there being no cause for ac-
ton. The case hinged on a collision
between the cars of Miss Smith and
Miss Klein.
Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. f. Stan
czyk Of Stevens Point, at whose home
truck loads Of loot stolen from Stevens
Point stores was discovered, were SEN
fenced in juvenile court to the Wiscon-
sin Industrial School for Boys at Wau-
kesha. The boys, Is, IL and 10 years
old, confessed to numerous recent
burglaries. Mr.. and Mrs. Stanczyk
face charges of having received and
concealed stolen goods and have been
bound over to circuit court for trial
A stray shot from a hunters gun is
believed to have caused the death Of
Ernest Uecker, %. Uecker was found
dead between the barn and the house
on his fathers farm, about 10 miles
north Of Appleton. The only explana-
ton of the death apparently is that he
was struck by bullet fired by some
hunter in woods about half a mile
from the house, but no one saw the
accident nor any hunter In that vicinity
SO far as is known.
Members of the Northern wisconsin
Tobacco pool, the largest cooperative
organization in the state, are prepar-
ing to decide whether the enterprise
is to be continued. The pool was or
ganized with the aid of the department
of markets to handle the tobacco crop
in the state in the belief that more
profits could be gained by cooperative
selling. The pool has come under con-
siderable criticism from some Of It's
members because Of delay in making
payments. Raisers now are receiving
checks on tobacco that they raised in
1922, they complain.
1t is expected by lumbermen that
logging operations in the timber re-
gions northeast of Brentwood will be
on less extensive scale this coming
season than during last winter Re-
duced operations are caused by an
oversupplied lumber market, timber
men state. Some companies may not
log at all this winter, while some will
reduce numbering operations by sub
hitting their demands for timber to
jobbing concerns. Others may pur-
chase their timber direct from logging
companies, so that the expense Of
operating lumber camps will be elimi-
mated.
Building activities for 1926 promise
to be large in WauSau. Work has re