Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-27
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The state county agriculture
agents will hold their annual conven
ton in Sturgeon Bay, July % and %
About sixty county agents are expect
ed.
William Cordes, residing near
Honey Creek, La Crosse county, suf
fered the loss of a forearm and severa
fingers on the other hand while cut
ting wood on his farm with a circular
saw.
Mrs. jeanette Schunk, Madison, is
seeking a divorce from Godfrey
Schunk, alleging that in the two years
she has been married to him, he has
never taken a bath, nor washed his
feet. She also accused him of cruelty
and inhuman treatment.
P~rincipalship of the Outagamie
county training school at Appleton
was rejected by Arthur G.. Menting
county superintendent of schools.
when the position was offered him by
the training school board. A dozen
applications for the position made
vacant by the death of John e. Hale
have been filed with the board.
Waupun public schools made an en-
viable record in sale of Thrift and
War Savings stamps, and may hold
the record for the state. Supt, l.. F.
Smith of the public schools said ST.
210.85 has been reached at the end OF
the school year. That sum represents
nearly $40 per pupil from kindergar-
ten through high school.
Nellie Kruger, Oconto, asks $4,000
damages from DR.. G. r. Hickey, Green
Bay dentist. The plaintiff alleges that
a piece of filling from n tooth was
swallowed by her while under an ana
esthetic. The filing went into her
lung causing an abcess and tubercu-
losis, she alleges. Expert medical
testimony has been taken in the case.
The Ashland Home Telephone Co.
property was sold at sherif's sale to
O. G. Roehling, Chicago, as follows:
Ashland plant, $4,000; Mellen ex-
change, $500; toll line between Ash
land and Mellen, $3.50. The sale did
not include the switchboard and other
equipment of the Home Telephone
Co. in Ashland, as they are held by a
chattel mortgage for $685..
Due to increased cost of conducting
mission work, the Lutheran Brethren
church convention, held at Superior,
decided against adding to the number
of missionaries in the field next year.
Construction of one or two buildings
at the church's Bible school in Grand
Forks, N. D., was authorized and it
was decided to start a fund for the
needy within the denomination.
Discrimination of farmers to expert
ment with fax raising is responsible
for abandonment of the plan to estab-
lish a fax ginning factory in Appleton
DR.. j. B. Grove, Chicago inventor of a
flax gin, who was endeavoring to pro
mote the factory, has gone to Oregon,
where he has been promised support.
He offered to erect a factory, financed
by local people, if farmers would agree
to raise 1000 acres OF iaxseed each
year.
Kenosha teachers have announced
that they are about to form a chapter
of the proposed Wisconsin state
teachers organization which will be q
part of the American Federation OF
Labor. After a long fight for higher
wages, the teachers managed to get
a raise from the school board and nov
the educators consider organizing thai
the next time an emergency presents
itself they will be able to cope with
the board.
More than 100 acres of vacant lots
within the city limits are being farm
ed by La Crosse residents. The use
of lots was given freely by ners
More than 200 people from Portage
and adjoining counties attended the
picnic Of the Central Wisconsin Jer
sey Breeders association at the farm
of G.. G. Springer near Keene. The
best Jerseys aver exhibited in the
county were on display. A stock
judging contest featured the program
According to Postmaster Gustave
Keller, Appleton, who attended the In
nual convention of the Wisconsin
Postmasters association in Milwaukee
the amount of thrift and war savings
stamps cashed in Wisconsin up to
June 1 was only Is per cent of the
amount sold and the amount cashed
in Outagamie county was only 6h per
cent of the sales. The maturity value
of thn stamnS sold in OTtapamia1
county during the year 1913 was STA,
$50.
Maj. George D. Whiteside, P1over,
zeal Stevens Point, Afromer assembly
man, has been awarded the medal Of
honor by the French government, for
distinguished service in hospital work
in France. He is still on active duty in
France. After twenty months i'll
France as an ambulance driver for the
French government. Charles Nc
Creey, Stevens Point, has returned
decorated with the French croix de
guerre. He is one of three brothers
who were in the world war.
The industrial school board of An
tigo has voted to establish a voca
tional training school and the secre
tary has been directed to engage
teachers and obtain equipment. Three,
and possibly four teachers will be
hired.
Grocery stores of the Fox river val
ley will close each Wednesday after
noon during the summer months, it