Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-12-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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The Stevens Point council elected
John N. Welsby mayor to succeed
w. F. Owen, who becomes county
Judge in January. Mayor Welsby
holds office until April.
The Rev. S. Cookson, for three
years pastor OF the First Methodist
church of Menasha, has resigned to
accept the pastorate at Wautoma
His successor has not been named
Byron Mcdonald, foreman at the
plant of the Dells Paper and Pulp
company at Eau Claire, is minus one
foot as the result of getting the mem
Der caught in the spokes of wheel.
P. w. Sherwood, Appleton, is new
chairman of movement to work fol
passage of bill in congress changing
the department of the interior into 9
one called department of public
works.
Complaints that gambling fever
seems to be epidemic in Eau Claire
has impelled the city council to put
under ban all games of chance, includ
ing dice. punch boards, cigar slot ma
chimes, etc.
After pleading guilty to statutory
charges. Willard Bailey and Mrs. Eta
Tackett were sentenced by Judge A
B. Goodrich, Amigo, to prison terms
of year and nine months and two
years, respectively.
Bound copies of the 1919 session
laws are now ready for distribution
according to M F. Blumenfeld, super
intendent of public property. One
copy of the laws is given to eacE
member of the legislature on writer
application.
The Marinette and Menominee fire
tug is frozen in at Sturgeon Bay The
| tug towed the schooner Mary Cook t.
little Sturgeon and while laying II
port there over night the harbor was
frozen over solidly and they were I'm
able to leave.
Charles Crabb, Milwaukee. Sigma
Chi senior, was voted by students t.
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lege and Miss Dorothea Hickok, Ian
caster, most beautiful coed. Prof
Marion Hedges was declared to be the
most popular faculty member.
Grandma Sjolander, 95, acted as
bridesmaid at the wedding of hel
granddaughter, Miss Laura Marie
Sjolander and John Stewart Reid
manager of Hotel Medford, Milwau
kee. The ceremony took place in tht
| home of the brides parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. C. A. Sjolander, Onalaska.
Roy Kacerovski, in charge wheI
| the steamer Virginia was converted
| into the troop transport Blue Ridge
at Manitowoc, has been appointed
| feet engineer of that district and will
have charge of all ships owned by thu
navy department including the Ger
man submarine. Mr.. Kacerovskl has
gone to Chicago to begin his new
work.
The use of United States army aero
planes to expedite the work of eradi
eating the menace of white pine bills
ter rust from the forests of northern
Wisconsin is suggested by State Ento
mologist S. B. Packer, who for some
time past has been working on vari
Gus methods of stamping out the bari
disease, which is threatening thu
Badger white pine output.
According to figures given by T. A
| Polleys, tax commissioner of thu
Northwestern road, Wisconsin farm
land values have risen fully so pc
cent in the last ten years. The aver
age value was $41.25 an acre in 100:
and is now $64 Dane county farm
land rose from $3.50 to $136.75. Lane
| in Milwaukee county, highest il
the state is worth $604.25 an acre
Racine county land is second
| SI7375.
In order to give the city of Greer
! Bay a larger representation on thu
Brown county board of supervisors
| the city council is considering a pla1
of establishing twenty wards, instead
of the fifteen precincts into which the
city is now divided. The present fiji
| teen precincts comprise only eigh
wards, and the city's representation
on the county board is eight, while
there are twenty-seven towns and vii
| lagos, and the city of Depere repre-
scented on the board
The office of city treasurer is hare
| to keep filled in Stanley. With the
| resignation of Tom Foster and the ap
pointment of Lawrence v. Broughton
| the books and city purse go into the
| hands of the third man to have chargt
| of them within tie two-year term
| Carl M. loft took over the treasure
ship at the spring election in 1918
Early in 1919 he resigned because his
| personal business demanded his time
Mayor G.. H. Chapman appointed Ton
Foster, who kept the work little less
than a year. Recently his resigna
| ton was accepted.
Edwin L. Huebner, Beaver Dan
| letter carrier, has a way of beating
| the high cost of living. He planted {
city lot to popcorn and has just har
vested and sold it for $4845 net. A
! this rate an acre planted to popcorn
would net $193.80.
Mayor Elmer S. Hall. Secretary
Frank H. Smith of the Association O
Commerce. and Herman Greiling, al
three of Green Bay, are in Washing
ton to attend the rivers and harbor'