Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

81.
The 1920 convention of the Wiscon-
sin Association of Real Estate Brokers
will be held next February in Green
Bay
Louis Wagner, La Crosse hunter,
was fined $50 and costs in Caledonia,
Mimi, for shooting more ducks than
the law allows.
The Eau Claire city council issued
saloon licenses to seven local saloon
keepers, who are selling 2.5 per cent
beer. The license is $500.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for a $4,000 housing company for
Edgerton. Subscriptions for $4,000
of capital stock were received at a
banquet of the Chamber of Commerce.
AS a result Of car shortage, Mari
nette lunbermen are obliged to ship
lumber by express. The shortage is
due to the cars being used for move
ment of wheat, for which this is the
season.
The compensation insurance board
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of ia per cent in the cost of policies
against compensation awards. An in
crease of 20 per cent was asked by the
companies.
Joseph B. Messmer, prominently
connected at Superior and Chicago,
was found guilty of manslaughter. On
June Messmer ran down and killed
Ben Johnson with his auto. Sentence
has not been passed.
George Wells, who succeeds Frank
=. Green as manager of the GAINESVILLE
Chamber of Commerce, arrived to take
up his duties. Mr.. Wells was former
" manager of the Corning, N. X,
Chamber of Commerce.
Manitowoc business men will have
to shave themselves or get shaved the
night before if they expect to appear
on time at their offices. Barber shops
have posted notice that they will
not open until 8 a. m.
Hard coal freight rates from Mil
waukee to Madison and vicinity will
not be increased, according to word
received by Carl d. Jackson, chair
man of the railroad commission, who
protested to Washington against the
proposed raise of 10 to 80 cents ton.
A collection of more than two hum
bred historical relics, belonging to the
late DR.. T. w. Evans of Madison is
among the recent acquisitions of the
state historical museum of Madison.
Dr. Evans was a surgeon in the Wis
consin National guard and served dur
| ing the Spanish-American war.
A shoe factory is to be established
in Oshkosh. Badger club hall will be
purchased and converted into shoe
manufacturing plant Most of the
| present stockholders will take stock
in the new project, more than $4,000
being subscribed already The CAPT
| tai will be 100000. About 100 hands
will be employed.
Another large addition to the in
dustrial life of Kenosha was started
when announcement was made that
the International Earth Boring Ma.
chine company of Chicago had pur-
north side of Kenosha and would start
building a factory early in October.
It will employ several hundred men.
Orders for seed are being received
daily by cabbage growers in Berry
vile from growers in all parts of
America. The Berryville cabbage is
unusually immune from disease,
flourishing in soil known to be in
| fected. The bariety was developed in
cooperation with the agricultural de-
partment of the University of Wiscon-
sin.
A pure bred bull roundup is SEIZED
uled for Princeton on Friday, Get. 81.
Live stock breeders, bankers and bus
| mess men in Green Lake county are
backing it and the arrangements are
being worked out by County Agent
James Lacey. Prizes have been Of.
fered. The celebration is in recogni-
ton Of the most successful year
Green Lake county has had in the
way of dairy Improvement.
The wealthiest packing company in
the world is defendant in suit at
Racine, in which the smallest dam
ages ever demanded in the history OF
the court are involved. T.. S. Hegard
Of Racine is suing Armour & Co., his
| former employers, for cents, which
he claims is due from money paid
into the company's pension fund. In
another suit he asks $3.50, which he
claims he should have received as a
bonus.
Graduates of Wisconsin high schools
encounter considerable difficulty in
| gaining entrance to colleges of the
country according to members of the
| Superior board of education who dis
cussed the problem at a recent meet
ing. It was pointed out that many of
| the schools fail to establish courses
| that will make entrance possible.
Several complaints have been re-
ceived from parents to that effect.
| The matter will be investigated at SUI
perior.
The railroad commission issued a
| circular statement to all Wisconsin
shippers asking for cooperation in
| avoiding freight car shortages during
| the ensuing months. A resumption OF
| the system of heavier loading fol
lowed during the war is requested by
| the commission in it's statement.
So large a surplus of the funds
raised last fall for relief work in lire
stricken northern Minnesota still re
of he anT10Y1 r