Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-04-16

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The state guard was increased by
ninety when this number was mus
tered into the service at Beloit. Maj.
Colon H. Ball of the United States
army was in charge. More than half
of the men enlisted. saw army service.
Corp. Benjamin II. Buck, Wausau,
for many years member of Company
/ G., Third regiment, Wisconsin Ma
tional guard, received notice that he
has been awarded a distinguished
service cross for heroism while in
service in France
| Ice packing the intake to the tur-
bine engines of the Great Northern
Power Co., Superior, shut off the cur
rent to the city and left street car
stranded on the crossing of the Omaha
railroad tracks. A truck pushed the
car out of danger. Street cars were
| idle and electric lights were out of
commission several hours.
Shareholders of the Washburn
County Agricultural society and a
committee of the county board of SUI
Epervisors met together, and it was
voted to sell the county fair grounds
stock to the county at par. The
grounds probably will be placed in the
hands of a committee of farmers and
the county will back an annual fair.
| More than 100 Wisconsin herds Of
cattle, totaling 2.357 head, have passed
the first negative test for tuberculosis,
according to DR.. ]. S. Healey, repre-
sentative of the federal government in
/ tuberculosis eradication in Wisconsin.
Holstein herds lead the list with 49,,
the Guernseys are second with AZ
herds, Jerseys have s, and Short
horns, 8.
The public schools of Ashland will
cost the taxpayers about $4,000 more
this year than last, owing largely to
the increase in teachers wages which
was made. The average raise is Is
per cent, the minimum salary in the
grades being fixed at $1,000, and the
maximum $3.50. High school teach
ers will receive from $1,000 to $1,000,
and the superintendent salary was
fixed at $4,000.
DR.. Joseph Schafer, new superin-
tendent of the Wisconsin State Histo-
rical society, has arrived in Madison
from Oregon to take over his new du-
ties DR.. Schafer is the fourth super
| intendent of the society, his predeces-
sors being Lyman G. Draper, Ruben G.
| Thwaites and Milo QuaifG. The So.
ciety has made DR.. Quaife editor of
the society's publications and Dr.
Schafer head of the administrative
end of the society.
That the owner of land surrounded
/ by property of others and to which
there is no road, cannot be arbitrarily
refused a highway outlet by the town
board upon application made accord
! ing to law, after he has exhausted all
efforts to purchase way in and out
of his land, was the decision of Judge
] e. C. Higbee in circuit court at La
Crosse The suit was brought by
Oliver Bervik against the town board
of Hamilton, and the decision marks
the termination of controversy ex-
tending over period of two years.
To care for the dead as well as the
living is the self-imposed obligation of
the Farmers Mercantile Supply Co.,
Elkhart Lake, a cooperative, to its
customers and stockholders, the latter
nearly 200 in nsmber. The furniture
store owned by the company has an
undertaking department and its man
ager is licensed embalmer and fu-
neral director. Implements, lumber,
fuel, food, in fact, everything it's farm
er stockholders need except groceries
and dry goods are handled by the co.
operative, which did a business of
more than $4,000 last year Through
this agency the farmers also sell stock
and grain.
During 1919, total of $1,653, 684
was paid to injured workmen in Wis
consin as compensation, according to
the industrial commission. Medical
aid in these cases cost employers
$491, OO7 and total benefits were ST.
IA ,691 This does not include medical
aid paid in cases in which the disabil-
ity was less than seven days and in
which, consequently, no compensation
was paid Medical aid for these non
compensatable injuries amounted to
at least $4,000 more During 1919
there was a decrease of 15.4 per cent
in the number of compensate injuries
reported The total cases reported
were 17,2O7 and the total cases settled
1895.
A new chapter opens in the interest
ing story of the Fairchild & North
western railroad, with the news that
the Jones brothers will pay the
freight In other words r. E. and r.
A.. Jones, the largest buyers and ship
pers of farm produce along the west
end of the line. which has been closed
since the government returned the
roads to private ownership leased en-
gines, cars and the right of way from
Fairchild to. Cleghorn and will operate
as individual owners and not as
common carrier. Passengers will not
be carried nor freight other than
their own. The road temporarily be-
comes an industrial proposition with
schedules. A crew will be hired as
desired.
Adolph Haese sold his farm of 100
acres, one mile from the village OF