Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-19
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

No. 973, Knights of Columbus
The Rev. F. J. Turner, former
pastor of the First Methodist church
at Neenah, has been appointed super
intendent of the GAINESVILLE district.
1t cost Winnebago county $8,238.18
more to maintain it's rural and state
graded schools during the last school
year than the previous year. The larg-
est increase was in salaries of teach
ers.
Due to shortage in labor the ice
companies of Rhinelander will be
forced to make irregular deliveries to
their customers. There is a large
supply of ice in the storage houses of
the company.
Owing to the shortage of ice Joseph
Kell, Menominee, has been obliged to
close his meat market in that city.
The long hot summer exhausted the
supply of ice stored, necessitating the
closing of the shop.
Judge William Shielding, Jr., Ra-
cine municipal court, resigned to Gov.
Philip to take effect Oct 1, desiring
to retire because of i'll health. Guy
Benson, Fulton Thompson and w. w.
Storms are candidates for the place.
Members of a committee in charge
of distribution of government. food at
La Crosse have taken to cover to es-
cape telephone calls as a result of :
carload of food en- route from Chicago
to La Crosse being lost. 1t was ship
ped eight days ago and cannot be
traced.
The J. l. Case PloW works and the
Walls Tractor company of Racine
have been merged into new corpora
ton to be known as the J. /. Case
Pillow Works company Articles of in
corporation have been prepared.
Harry M. Wallis is to be president and
general manager of the new company.
The capital stock is believed to be
about $5,O0O,000.
A demand for a 10 per cent increase
in wages and reinstatement of several
discharged employees was made by
unionized workers of the G. B. Lewis
Co., makers of bee supplies, in walk
out at WATERFOWL. The strike is the
first following unionizing of all fac
tory workers. The demands were not
met and the factory is operating with
an emergency force.
Discovery that a pupil in the
Franklin public school of Oshkosh has
smallpox has caused considerable anx-
iety in that city. The health repart-
ment has fumigated and disinfected
the school and all teachers and pupils
not vaccinated will have to undergo
the incubation or stay away for at
least twenty-five days. There are only
a few cases of the disease.
/ Lieut.. Francis Bradford, son of At
torney and Mrs. f.. S. Bradford, of
Appleton, is one of the lieutenants in
"Pershing's Pets, who paraded in
Paris, London and New York. An eff
fort has been made to keep him in the
army, but his father prefers him to
take up a civil occupation. He had
just finished high school when he
went to the first training camp.
Banks, lawyers and officials of
Madison are giving their services
free to soldiers in filing out blank
forms required under the soldiers
bonus law Many blanks have been
sent to the banks and the boys of
these communities can fill them out
at the banks. 1--WE think this is a
good plan, and want to thank the
people for aiding the boys" said Col.
John G. SALESMAN.
Approval of a project to build hos
pital at Madison costing several thou
sand dollars as a memorial to the late
Miss Mary Stoeber of Madison, who
died during the flu epidemic last win
ter, wis voted by the West Wisconsin
Methodist Episcopal conference at
Eau Claire The hospital, which will
be built within two blocks of
the Capitol square, will special
ice in maternity work and chill
dren's diseases.
A rehearing has been granted by
the railroad commission to the North
western road on the Racine grade
separation case From Stipulat1OnS
filed by the company and the town OF
Mount Pleasant, the commission or
dered a separation of grades, the rail-
road company to pay $4,000. The
company now says that the commits
sion did not fully. understand the stipu-
Iation. The rehearing will be held in
Racine Sept. "a.
VXT;coorci7o,c civfu.ninfh annual state
fair, which closed at Milwaukee, Sept.
10, after whirlwind week as to at
tendance and interest, presented the
supreme achievment in state exposi-
tions. The gate receipts totaled $685.
306.5O and with ather sources of in
come the gross receipts amounted to
approximately $4,000. The ex-
penses were met with this amount,
this year being the first time that the
fair paid for itself.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Peshtigo Pulp and Paper Company
was held at the Office of the company
last week, forty stockholders being IN
attendance. The proposition to in
crease the stock from 100000 to
$500 900 was carried unanimously.
Kenosha is facing a bread famine,
according to the statement OF master
bakers who have been asked by the
bakers for wage increase OF s.
week. Owners of bakeries declare
they cannot meet the demand, ana
the bakers, while no general strike
will h., ballad are walking out, one