Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-05-02
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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build homes. The fund will be usee
to loan those who desire to build.
A pea canning factory will be es
t%ablished at Knowlton in Marathon
county. The capital stock is $500
The articles of incorporation will be
filed in a few days.
According to word received from
France, Lieut.. Ray Fish of Portage
who has served in the A. E. F. for six
teen months, has been promoted il
the rank of captain.
The price of milk in La Crosse has
dropped to s cents a quart. That is
at the municipal milk stations, how
ever. Milk dealers are considering {
drop to meet the competition.
George Dayton, IL, La Crosse, with
two chums started for Texas in a boat
provisioned with a loaf of bread and 3
pound of butter. They were founC
crying in a swamp two miles from
home after dark.
Contracts have been awarded fol
the finishing of more than thirty new
houses which are being constructed
at Nicholson, Waupaca county. The
workmen's homes will be electrically
lighted and modern in all respects.
The steamer La Violette, owned by
Charles Larson, Marinette, which sank
in eighteen feet of water off Green
Bay harbor, has been raised and is
not seriously damaged. Her cargo OF
$4,000 worth of groceries was washed
away
The KolIock farm in Portage coun
ty; which has been owned by mem.
bers of the Kollock family for more
than half a century, has been sold to
Ellery Frost of Almond. It comprises
120 acres and the consideration was
$500.
Brown county farmers are doing
early blowing this year Climatic con
to County Agricultural Agent e. A.
Carncross, Green Bay, the crop out
look in Brown county has never been
better.
A class of ffty-seven will be gradu-
ated from the TOmah high school on
May 27. This is believed to be a rec
ord for any Wisconsin city of this
size. The class will present 'All of a
Sudden Peggy" and there will be a
week of festivities.
A city plan commission will be ap-
pointed in Beloit following action by
the common council. The commission
will be charged with recommending
steps to be taken for a greater Beloit.
Seven men will act as an advisory
committee to the common council.
After enjoying wartime wages more
than twenty Beioit Greeks and Italians
have within the last few days left for
their former homes. They have
amassed enough money to live com
fortably for the rest of their lives back
home, they say, and are ready to re
tire.
Miss Avis j. Mooney, graduate of
Ripon college and member of the fac
ulty of that institution, was elected
dean of Grafton Hall, the Episcopal
school for young ladies in Fond du
Lac. Miss Mooney will assume her
new duties at the end of the present
school year, on Bishop Wellers' re
turn from Europe.
A ten per cent raise in salaries has
been granted, Grand Rapids public
school teachers for the coming year.
Grade teachers will be paid 3rom $40
to $50 per month next veal and high
school teachers will draw from $85
per month to $1,000 per year. Grade
school salaries formerly ranged from
$50 to $50 and the high school sala-
ries from SIS per month to $1,400 a
year.
Mystery surrounded the disappear
ance of leaf tobacco from warehouses
in Vernon county owned by the Bekke-
dahl & Rosenwald Co. Martin K.
Syverson and George Tollerud, La
Crosse, former residents of Westby,
were arrested. It is alleged they were
repacking tobacco. For months, it is
claimed, tobacco has been disappear
ing from warehouses in Vernon coun-
ty and billed as household goods has
been shipped to La Crosse via Viro-
qua and Sparta, repacked and sold to
the same county.
Efforts of commercial fishermen and
sportsmen to get a fshway through
the Keokuk dam on the Mississippi
river appear near realization. The
government, it is reported, has ap-
proved plans for a sluiceway in the
dam and work is expected to start
June 1. Recently a shortage of fish
above the dam had been reported and
fishermen declared this was caused by
the absence of a f1shway in the dam,
the esenc of which would have per-
mitted the fish which were carried
over the dam TO return. Fish below
the dam are reported plentiful.
Camp Robinson, explosive ordnance
depot near Sparta, will be permanent
ly retained by the government. The
camp site was originally purchased by
the army for an artillery range, but
no practice has been held there since
departure of the artillery brigade OF
the Eighty-seventh Blackhawk divi
sion about a year ago. At present the
camps personnel consists of more
than ten officers and $50 men, a ma,
jority of the latter negroes, members
of the quartermaster's department
Orders for dismissal of the soldier
guard have been received.
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