Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-05-23
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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ing guilty to stealing an auto. was
charged with a similar offense.
Superior is one OF the only three
places in the country, outside Of the
south, to report a shortage of labor.
The other places are Fall River, Mass,
and Akron, O.
The Advancement association OF
Minocqua is arranging for a soldiers
and sailors reunion on July 4. 1t will
be one of the biggest celebrations in
the history of Oneida county.
The Kenosha Boiler and Structural
Iron Co. received special mention from
the Kenosha county Liberty loan com
mittee for it's work in the Victory loan
drive. Every one of the employees took
a bond.
Erection of a fOur-room brick
schoolhouse, adjoining the Jewish syn.
iagogue, is being planned by the Ke'
;nosha congregation. The structure is
to be completed about Aug. 1. The
REV. Hartman will have charge of the
school.
Officers of the Kewaunee County
Agricultural association are making
preparations in an effort to surpass
all previous programs for the county
fair, which will be held Sept. 2, 8 and
"A. An aviator will be secured to give
flights daily.
Although two new schools are now
beng erected in Kenosha, Mrs. Mary
ID. Bradford, superintendent, has regis.
tered the complaint that still more
schools are needed. Rapidly increas-
ing attendance makes the building OF
at least two more schools imperative,
says Mrs. Bradford.
President Samuel Plantz, Lawrence
college, Appleton, has announced re-
lceipt of a check for $4,000 from the
UNITED States government to pay for
losses sustained by the college be
cause of the disarmament of the S. A.
r. C. after the armistice. The amount
received from the government is still
$40, 900 short of the actual losses, it is
claimed.
The centennial anniversary of Odd
Fellowship in America will be cele-
brated at the seventy-third annual con-
vention of the grand lodge of Wiscon-
sin at Green Bay, June 2, 8, 4 and 5.
The Rebekah assembly will hold its
thlrty-fourth annual session on the
same dates, Odd Fellows and Rebek-
abs numbering $500 from throughout
wisconsin are expected.
Wisconsin will have a good alfalfa
year in 1919, predicts L. G. GRADER,
Madison, secretary of the state alfalfa
order. The new seedlings of last fall
are in ideal condition. In 100 reports
from farmers in many sections, partic-
ularly the southern counties, the con-
dition is almost unanimously pro
nounced good, fine and excellent. Red
clover is showing equally well, accord
ing to the reports. The acreage of
both clover and alfalfa is larger than
that of last year.
The Wisconsin death rate for the
first quarter of 1919 was no higher
than the average for the last several
years, despite the prevalence of infiu-
enuza, according to the quarterly NOR
tally report of the state bureau of
vital statistics. The rate was 1872 per
1000 population. The death list was
1896. The large increase in the num-
Der of deaths reported from pneumo-
MIA and influenza for the first quarter
of 1919, as compared with similar re-
ports for other years" says the state
board of health, lis offset by the de-
cline in number of deaths reported
from practically all of the other COM
municable diseases"
Unable to reach any kind of an
agreement after having been out forty
hours, the jury trying Raleigh A.
Ives, Fond du Lac, for the Staying of
Herbert P. Loehr was discharged by
Judge Chester A. Fowler. During the
time they were out the twelve men de-
voted more than 20 hours to actual de-
liberation on the case. The last vote
taken by the jurors stood seven for a
third degree manslaughter verdict and
five for a fourth degree manslaughter
verdict. Even though the maximum
difference between the penalties on
the findings is but two ears impris-
onment both sides refused to COM
promise. The first ballot taken by the
jury was on the question of guilt or
innocence and stood eight for a YER
dict of guilty and four four acquittal.
After several hours all but one man
stood for conviction, and on the sec
ond day he was brought over to sup
port fourth degree manslaughter YER
dict. Court officials stated that Ives
would be tried again at the fall tArm of
court, probably in November. 1t was
thought that it might be necessary to
take the case into another county for
trial at that time, owing to the wide
publicity the affair has received. At
torneys think there are few men in
Fond du Lac county who would now
qualify for jury services. Ives will
continue to have his liberty under bail
of 100000.
Wholesale prosecutions will result
of the practice of selling tobaccos and
cigarettes to minors is not stopped"
said Chief of Police Thomas Malone,
Wausau. who has learned that $50
school boys, ranging in age from Z to
Ia years, confessed to school teachers
that they were tobacco users.
June 10 has been set as Guernsey
day al La Crosse when Guernsey
breeders of the county will have an
exhibition of more than 100 head of