Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-05-16
WISCONSIN, NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

A resolution passed by the Oneida
county board asks that aliens be
forced to remain at home during the
homecoming celebration planned for
the R~hinelander company.
twenty-five patrolmen and nine
crews are working on Sheboygan
county's highway. This county leads
the state in highway Improvement, ac-
cording to reports from the state high
way commission.
Despite the fact that the big bond
issue for highways failed to carry in
the vote at the last election, Winnie
bago county will lose no time in start
ing two important pieces of road build
ing to cost $4,000.
BARRIERS in La Crosse will receive
$40 a week and so per cent of all bust
ness over $50 hereafter. Employers
agreed to the new scale and a threat
oned strike has been averted. BARRIERS
heretofore received SIS a week.
The Dells Paper and Pulp Co., Eau
Claire, and the 400 union sulphite
workers and papermakers who have
been on strike for eleven days, have
come to an agreement and the plant is
now in operation. Under the agree
ment, the plant remains an open shop.
Wage increases were granted.
Oddfellows of Wisconsin are max
ing elaborate plans for the celebration
Of the centennial anniversary Of Odd
fellowship in America during the Sew
enty-third annual convention of the
grand lodge of Wisconsin in Green
Bay, June Q, 8, 4 and 5. The Rebekah
assembly will hold it's thirty-fourth an.
nIal session On the same dates.
Elaborate preparations are under
way for the annual state convention
Of the Fraternal Order of Eagles,
which is scheduled to be held at APP
pleton on June 10, IL and u. Large
delegations are coming from most of
the cities in the state, and indications
are that the convention will be of
the largest in the orders history.
The La Crosse Telephone Co, an in
dependent concern, which bought the
Bell system a few weeks ago, was
granted an increase in rates by the
state railroad commission. Business
phones went up so cents a month and
the ordinary house phones were in
creased Csc per month. Increased cost
of operation was given as the cause of
the increases.
The twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton of the grand temple of Pythian
Sisters will be held at Sheboygan June
16, IL and 18. The supreme chief,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson, Wood
fords, Me, will be a guest. All the
thirty-four temples in the state are
planning to send delegates. Mrs.
Louis C. Meyer, grand chief, Sheboy-
gan, will preside.
A jury in the Racine circuit court
awarded 5000 in suits for $4,000
brought by ex-Postmaster Hiram J.
Smith and his wife against the Vel
low Cab Co. In October, 1918, Mr..
and Mrs. Smith were returning from
Milwaukee in an automobile. It was
alleged the Smith car ran into a taxi
of the defendant company, which was
being run on the left side of the road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith were hurled from
their seats and injured.
Believing that a meat shortage is
imminent in the near future, TOmah
citizens have gone into chicken rails
ing on a general scale. Nearly every
backyard supports a flock of young or
old fowls, and the tendency is for still
more. Eggs and broilers should be
plentiful later on, while the sale of
other meat should show a noticeable
decline if present activities are cor
tinued. Many backyard poultry rails
ers have reduced their living expenses
considerably during the past year.
Thirteen revenue stamps of SIS each
decorated a deed recently recorded in
the Office of Register of Deeds Ed.
Larson in Stevens Point. The deed
transferred 1000 acres Of land in the
Portage county drainage district from
MI. and Mrs. Fred Fisher of Peoria,
ILL.,, to Rudolph H. Hicken. At the
legal rate Of 81 per thousand the
stamps represent a $65, 900 transaction.
The value of the stamps was greater
than on any instrument previously
filed in the registers Office in this
county.
The annual spring Holstein .Friesian
Breeders association sale at the stock
sales pavilion at Waukesha Melted the
second highest average on cattle Of
any sale ever held in the state except
the National Dairy show at MilWau-
kee. The average was figured out at
$407.03 a head, a total of over $4,000
for the 1T heads sold. The highest
single price was $500 for a 7 months
old bull, Baird Brothers Nockdair Su-
perbus Supreme. The next highest
was Pabst's Korndyke Cornf1oWer, 5
months old, $2,425. The top prices for
cows were Aitken Brothers, Segis
Pontiac Burke, sister Of the highest
living record COW in the state, $1,000,
and Baird Brothers. NOckdair Segis
Lottie, from a sister of the Aitken COW,
a 2-year-old, also at $1,000.
Loss Of evenue through abolishing
saloons in Superior is more than off
set by increase in fines collected by
the Municipal court, chiefly through
prosecution of liquor vioaltors. Dur
ing the year ending May /, $4,000 had
been collected, exclusive of the part Of
the fines belonging to Douglas county.
Even by deducting the $4,000 which
has constituted the income during the
past three years, when one-half if the