Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-08-15
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Arranged in Condensed Form

The annual school census just COM
pleted shows GAINESVILLE to be grow
ing. An increase of 800 is noted over
last year.
Hiram Simmons, former Beloit col
lege student, who refused to perform
military duty at Camp Grant and was
sent to prison at Leavenworth as a
conscious objector, has been released.
The Barron Cooperative Creamery
Company the past month paid to the
farmers for cream $98,844.63. Every
pound of this cream is hauled by team
or truck and none is shipped in by
rail.
Oshkosh is all spruced up and need
no longer hide its head in shame. The
new street cars, fifteen of them, have
arrived. They replace cars, some of
which have been in operation since
1897.
Irene Boyle. Calamine. has been Sc
lected as one Of the supervising teach
ers of Lafayette county common
schools She fills a vacancy caused
by the resignation of Nate Speth, Bel
mont.
Because of the dry we,ther and an
epidemic of potato bugs the La Crosse
county potato crop will be small.
Many vines are growing entirely to
stalks while others yield potatoes the
size of marbles.
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elected to represent the board of uni
versity regents on the state board of
education, He takes the place of DR..
Charles II. Villas, Madison, whose term
expired on Aug. 1.
The seventeenth annual reunion of
the old soldiers of Jefferson County
will be held at Jefferson, Aug. 81. A
feature will be an old-fashioned pork
and beans dinner in the park. There
will be parade and camp fire.
AS a result of threatened ice fam
inc in La Crosse, ice dealers have
stopped shipping ice to Bangor and
other nearby villages. Ice dealers es-
innate the supply will not last beyond
Sept. /, if warm weather continues.
Conrad Hauge, Caledonia, who
claims to be the champion ski jumper
of Minnesota, brought two quarts of
his private stock of whisky and his
automobile to La Crosse. In two
hours he skied into police court,
charged with running the car at forty
five miles an hour. He paid fine of
$25 and costs.
Importation of potatoes, rutabagas,
apples and possibly -four and sugar
into Racine by carload lots, to be sold
under municipal control at city mar
kets is being considered by city Off
Gals. Food bought by the city would
be sold at cost, plus the freight
charge. The city sealer would have
charge of the sale.
Mistaking the hair of eight year old
Norman Kletfer's head for mad dog
he had driven into the basement of
the Klefter home at Marshfield, po-
liceman shot and killed the lad. The
boy, on the outside of the house was
looking through window of the base
ment and the officer had only a dim
med glimpse of his hair
The state railroad commission has
been appealed to by the common coun-
Gil of Beloit to compel the Beloit
Water, Gas and Electric Co. to extend
it's services on numerous streets
where pavements are to be laid. The
council charges because of failure of
the utility company to press its work,
street improvements are being de-
layed.
His entire family in service during
the this is the record Of Dr.. G. b.
Clark Of GAINESVILLE who has just re-
turned from fifteen months service
overseas in the m 4dical corps. His
twin sons, Harry and Charles, enlisted
in the Prairie division when 10. Mrs.
Clark had charge of a, hostess house
in southern cantonment. The en-
tire family is now reunited.
Army men in Kenosha have started
to organize a state cavalry troop This
movement is under the leadership Of
Lieut.. F. W. Steiner; and several ap-
plications have been signed. All for
mer service men are urged to enlist.
According to new law Kenosha is en-
titled to at least three companies OF
the state guard. 1t is assumed by
military leaders that two of these will
be infantry, and the other either ar
tillery or cavalry.
With the filing of the brief of the
State of Wisconsin with the Attorney
General of Minnesota the state has
opened it's fight to claim certain lands
near Superior now claimed by the
State of Minnesota. The matter will
be argued in the United States Su-
preme Court in October. The Ques-
ton involved is the boundary line of
Minnesota between Superior and Du-
luth If the contention of the state is
upheld about 100000 worth of prop
erty will go on the Wisconsin tax roll
as dock and other improvements have
been built there.
Private Thomas Stafford, of Rhine
lander, serving with Co. L, 127th in
fantry has been awarded the D. S. G.
for exceptional heroism under fire, at
Juvigney, France, Sept. l, 1918. He
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Stat
ford.
1t took a fish disease expert from
the state hatcheries to tell what was
killing off the prize rainbow and spec
killed. trout in Louis Herzinger's pri-
vate pond near Neenah. The expert