Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-10-22
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

ening to refuse to serve on eI0cuoH
day in the polls at La Crosse, the COM
mon council raised their pay from 81
to $40 day. Previous to primary
election this year the clerks received
SIS day. They claim woman suffrage
has doubled their work and therefore
they are entitled to double pay.
The vocational school of Fond du
Lac has completed plans for a course
in commercial law. The purpose OF
the new course is to teach the fun
damental principles of law which are
Of interest and help to business men
and all men who aspire to control or
manage any business entailing deal
ings with others.
Sugar beet shipments are now arriv-
ing at the plant of the Green Bay SUI
gar Co., Green Bay. Due to delay in
construction, the refinery is not ready
to start operations, but, according to
Supt. w. e. Corey, the plant will be
running before the last of the month.
More than 5000 tons of beets are now
stored in the company's warehouse
here.
The Lincoln Canning company of
Merrill has received one carload of
Early Alaska seed peas and is await
ing carload of Advancers. The two
carloads, containing total of 1000
bushels of seed peas, will be enough
to seed 500 acres. Most of this has
been fall ploughed and will be har-
rowed and dragged next spring before
it is put into crop, in order to assure
as big a crop as possible for next year.
Federal agents in Marinette were
disappointed when they searched the
schooner Edward Lee, which arrived
from Canada. They had waited for
the schooner's arrival three days and
nights on a report that man who
had collected considerable money for
the purchase and importation OF IL
quor had his cargo of booze aboard the
boat. The boat carried very dry
cargo of lumber.
Employing printers of the Fox river
valley, from Green Bay to Fond du
Lac, formed the Fox River Typothetae,
a branch of the United Typothetae of
America, at meeting in Appleton.
Twenty printing plants were admitted
to membership. The organization is
making arrangements for installation
of standardized cost accounting sys-
TENS in all member Offices.
The assessment returns for Wal
worth county place the valuation of
property to be nearly $70,000,000. This
is an increase of nearly $4,000,000 in
the last year Automobiles number
five hundred and ninety-seven more
than in 1919. The assessed valuation
Of Walworth county bank stock is
$1,O59,523, with the city of White
water, 1926. 800, in the lead.
Farmers who took part in Rusk
county's. .$1,O00,000 land clearing con-
test, which added 5000 acres to the
county's tillable land, will hear the
list of prize winners Nov. 6. at a ban
quet in Ladysmith During the cam
paign, which began last April and en-
rolled more than 800 farmers, 100000
pounds of dynamite were used in blast
ing stamps. The need for develop
ment in Rusk county is clearly shown
by the fact that only per cent of a
possible IS per cent of tillable land
is now under cultivation.
The STANCE private park with $780,
600 improvements, has been donated
to the city of Merrill The park con
sists of seven acres of choicely kept
park surrounded by lagoons of the
Prairie river. Its many trees are ex-
cellently arranged, some in an avenue
and others scattered about. 1t has
long been favorite outing place for
church picnics and private parties to
which use it was generously loaned by
its former owner, A. III. STANCE. The
gift was unanimously accepted by the
council.
Louis Radiker, a farmer, 81 years
of age, performed two noteworthy
feats during the recent Rusk county
fair: He brought display of vege-
tables, grains, and fruits from his own
farm, grown entirely by himself, con
sisting of about $50 varieties, which
constituted the entire township exhibit
for the town of Richland; he also took
his first ride in an aeroplane. Harry
B. Crewdson, the aviator who has
made 1000 flights, said that Mr.
Radiker was the oldest passenger that
he had ever taken for a flight.
The Wisconsin Certified Seed Pota,
to association has orders for seven
carloads of certified potatoes, to be
shipped during October. They all GO
to Galveston, Texas, and all are of the
Early Triumph variety. Five carloads
go from points in Barron county and
the other two from Marinette county
The price is $2.65 per. hundred pounds
Bishop Paul Rhode of the Green
Bay diocese confirmed a class of zoe
at st. Johns church, Amigo, and dedi
Gated the new ST. James church al
White Lake. The Rev. Father J. S.
Landowsky is pastor of the new
church.
State Treasurer. Henry Johnson is
planning to pay 100000 of the state
Civil war debt. The 1915 session OF
the legislature provided for the grad
ual payment of this debt and it is be
ing reduced each year by about $500,
600. Mr.. Johnson said that applica
ton of the state land Office called fol-
loans by the state school districts and
municipalities amounting to $1,200,000
The annual meeting of the Wiscon
sin State Grange will be held in Nee