Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-20
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

land, Benton boys, victims OF the wal
Waupun is seeing one of the great
est house building seasons in it's his.
tory. Not less than twenty houses are
under construction. Contracts for five
more were made and fifty new homes
will be built this year.
Harold Ten Eyck, Balsam Lake, in
the Superior circuit court was found
guilty of obtaining 50 by representing
himself as a Red Cross agent. The
sentenced pronounced by Judge w
r. Foley was 5000 fine or six months
in Jail.
The Northwestern Engineering
works, Green Bay, will launch four
boats before July j, according to an
announcement by an official of the
company. The concern is now work
ing overtime to keep pace with its
program.
Declaring that disorderly conduct in
the city parks had made the places
centers of vice rather than pleasure
Chief of Police Owen O'Hare issued
an order stating that no person will be
allowed in the parks of Kenosha after
$50 p. m.
Some Green Bay saloon keepers dc
not think wartime prohibition will be
come operative at the close of June
| Applications for renewal of liquor Ii
censes were made by twenty-seven sa
loon keepers, about one-fourth of those
in Green Bay.
After fifty years of continuous serv
ice as proprietor of a grocery business
in Beloit Oliver j. Stiles has sold his
interest to his partner, L. J.. Rogers
and retired from commercial life. II
point of service Mr.. Stiles is the Oldest
business man in Belcit.
An addition Of SIS per month has
| been made to the salary of every
teacher>employed in the public schools
of WATERFOWL. The increase adds $5,
600 to the cost of teachers salaries
for the coming yes. The total mum
Der of grade teachers is twenty-three
and thirteen instructors r in the
high school.
Mic Simond, Appleton. has com
5000 pounds, the largest ever under
taken in Wisconsin. 1t will require
sixty factories and seventy-ive max
ers, the hoop will be seven feet high
and ten and a half feet in diameter
The cheese is for the national dairy
Ahow to be held in Chicago in October
The city council has %petitioned the
State Highway commission to erect I
concrete bridge across the Wisconsin
river at Grand Rapids. The bridge
will be 1913 feet long and will replace
the present structure which has beer
in use for fifteen years. The cost is
estimated at 100000, and will be
taken care of by the state paying one
third, the county one-third and the
city one-third.
For the first time in Wisconsin the
assessors are collecting statistics as
to the number of hens. Lamont, one
of the smallest townships in Lafayette
county, first to make returns, reports
that within the township are $500
hens. In this township there are IL,
275 acres and a population of 81. Al
this ratio there must be at least 150,
600 hens in Lafayette county. The
raising of poultry is generally left to
the women of the household, while
the men work in the fields.
With a simple service that included
a prayer and a brief commemorative
of his life, former United States Sena
tor John c.. Spooner was laid to, resi-
at Forest Hill. Madison. The services
were held at the Baptist church, the
Rev. ID. d. MacLaurin officiating. The
ceremony at the grave was in charge
of tho Masons, Senator Spooner hav
ing been a member of the Madison
chapter for ffty-two years. Men repre-
Senting the nation and the state gath
cred at the Baptist church to pay theil
final respects. Civil war veterans, leg
islators, members of the university
faclty, justices of the Supreme Court
state officials and many old neighbors
and friends of the family were pres
ent.
Some idea of the tremendous
strides Rock county is making along
agricultural lines can be gained from
a brief statistical statement issued BY
B. G. Packer, director of immigration
Wisconsin department of agriculture
This statement shows that since the
last census in 1910 the county has
added 1871 acres or nearly twenty
five square miles in leading crops. The
increased acreage was most noticeable
during the var when the demand fol
foodstuffs became greater than evel
before in history and a nationwide
campaign to increase production was
inaugurated. Farmers everywhere co
operated in the movement. To wha-
extent Rock county farmers participa
ted is evident from the increase il
acreage in the last eight years.
The Rev. Father T. Malkowski
priest at ST. Hyacinth's church, Anti
go, has been ordered transferred tt
Two Rivers by Bishop Paul Rhode O
Green Bay diocese, The Rev. Mr.
Malkowski has been in Amigo three
years and was very popular.
The soldiers and saiolrs of Algom;
were pleasantly surprised at a ban
quet given in their honor, when
purse of $1,000 was presented by M
w. Perry and P. M. White. With tn,
gift was a note from the two donors
saying that the money could be usec
for any purpose that the boys saw fit