Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-12-05
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


expect to continue operations for some
ended.
La Crosse county saves from $3.50
to $40 on every cord of rock it uses in
highway construction, by operating it's
own quarries, according to the annual
report of Highway Commissioner John
Hintgen.
A gift of $1,000 was made by the
Newport Turpentine and Rosin Co.,
Milwaukee, to the course in pharmacy
of the University of Wisconsin, to be
devoted to research work in pine
products during 1920.
Eau Claire county board from 5000 to
$1,1OO year, County Agricultural
Agent George R. ingalls, has with
drawn his resignation, filed some
months ago, and will remain in the
service of Eau Claire county.
Health Commissioner A. w. Arm
strong, La Crosse, with the assistance
of state officials, started a campaign
against dealers handling impure milk
and ice cream. Several prosecutions
are promised after analysis of samples
is completed.
More than $4,000 worth of stock
has been subscribed toward the can
ming factory to be erected at Durand
under the management Of the Wiscon-
sin Canned Food Co. Peas and beans
will be canned at first, but the plant
will be so arranged that it will be pos
sible to can other articles. Cabbage
and pumpkins will be canned after
little, also pork and beans.
Following a weeks membership
drive conducted by the Appleton court
of the Catholic Order of Foresters,
that court leads the whole order in
the number of members enrolled.
Approximately seventy-five new appli-
total to 7f8, more than the number
boosted by st. AIMS court of Law
renee, Mass, which has been leading
the order with 678.
Claiming that the resolution passed
few days ago by the Sheboygan
county board, providing for referen-
dunn on the question Of issuing $4,000
900 in bonds for county highway i'm
provement, was illegally drawn up,
District Attorney Charles Voigt de-
manded that the document be revised
so as to be constructed correctly. The
special committee.
The Chippewa Valley Telephone
company, operating the Ladysmith
exchange, has been authorized by the
railroad commission to increase it's
city service rates. Hereafter the fol
lowing rates will be charged: Bust
ness, one party, $50 per year; bust
ness, two party, $24; extension, SO;
residence, one party, $21; two party.
S.; extension, $3.50; switching rate
for roadway lines, SO.
With one of the largest tOundries in
the middle west under construction at
GAINESVILLE, the Samson Tractor Co. an
nounced plans for erection of two
more foundries of the same dimen-
sions. The farm implement plan OF
the old GAINESVILLE Machine Co. will be
turned over to the manufacture of
Samson farm trucks and nine-passen-
ger touring cars. A new Samson farm
implement plant will be built.
Miss Helen Jackson, Brentwood,
student at Wellesley college, Boston,
has been chosen from 200 sophomores
to represent the college at a conven-
ton to be held at Des Moines, Iowa,
during the Christmas holidays. Miss
Jackson was born and raised in Iowa.
A student vote was first taken and six
students selected. Miss Jackson be-
ing chosen by the faculty from the
six. Her father is a wealthy cattle
man of Brentwood.
Real estate men assert that Green
Bay has more home owners than any
city of it's class in Wisconsin. 1t is
claimed that not more than per cent
of the population are renters. This
is due, according to the real estate
men to the shortage of rentable
houses in the city, and that many
renters have been forced to buy to
obtain houses. Business men and
manufacturers say they have been I'M
able to take on more help because of
inability of newcomers to rent houses.
That the state board of education
which administers the soldiers bonus
law is able to give diversified sys-
tenn of education to soldiers, was in
dicated by the assignments which
have been made A boy from Oshkosh
wanted to be assigned to a diving
school. He will be sent to Seattle,
Wash, where a diving school is main
tanned A young man from Rhine
lander wanted to be educated in
flute school and will be sent to Ashe-
Vile, N. C. A shoemaker says he
wants to change his vocation and Sc
cure training in mechanical dentistry.
He will probably be assigned to Mar
quette university.
The Deger Brewing company plant
at Jefferson has been sold and will be
converted into a plant for the manu-
facture of ice cream and butter substi-
tutes. The factory will be owned and
managed by Carl Bauman. The brew
cry was one of the largest in southern
Wisconsin.
Fire of unknown origin in wooden
shed adjoining the main plant of the
Northern Furniture company, Sheboy-
gan, caused a loss of $4,000. When
the automatic sprinkler system oper-