Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-12-17
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

booths. w. e. Wagner, manager, pre-
dicted milk will drop to s cents.
Due to many available and per
cent interest investments, Rock coun-
tvs 5 per cent highway bonds are find
ing no market. The result may handi-
cap the completion of the 15-mile
acknowledgements road, only three
miles of which have been laid.
Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist,
has made standing offer to Anton
Klein, well known orchestra director
of Ripon, of $4,000 for violin Klein
owns. Mr.. Klein refused the offer,
contending that it is now impossible
to replace the instrument at any price.
and also stating that personal senti-
ment prompts him to hold the violin
in high regard.
At meeting of seventy-fve cattle
breeders of Rock county it was decided
to erect a pavilion on the fair grounds
for sale of stock of the various cattle
organizations of the county which
yearly hold sales in GAINESVILLE. A
building to cost $4,000 was decided
upon. The money will be raised by
subscription, $4,000 being raised at the
meeting.
Two movements for a change in city
government came to a head in Osh-
kosh, when leaders filed two petitions.
One petition asks for special election
to decide whether to go back to the
aldermanic form of government and it
had 1875 signers, 400 more than re-
CURED The other calls for the recall
of Mayor A. C. McHenry of the COM
mission council and has 2,430 signers.
A new psychopathic hospital to be
built by the state at an estimated cost
of 100000 for the care Of former serv-
ice men who were injured during the
war will be asked of the next legisla-
ture by the American Legion, it was
announced by Maj. w. F. Lorenz,
speaking in Madison before members
of the William B. Cairns post. The
building would be erected on the uni
yersity grounds.
Friends of the late DR.. H. w. Abra-
ham, president of the Wisconsin State
Medical society, who died in Appleton
a few weeks ago, are raising $1,000
for establishment of an Abraham
memorial" at Northland college, Ash
land. Half of the sum was offered by
G. e. Buchanan, a lifelong friend Of
the decedent, provided others pledged
an equal amount.
According to C. w. Staples, assessor
of incomes, only 10 per cent of the land
in Burnett county is under cultivation.
One-third of the land in the county is
in farms, either incloseI in fences and
used as pasturage or used for cutting
wild hay. Two-thirds of the land is
not fenced, is not part of any farm
and brings no return. Most of this I'M
developed land is owned by speculat
Ors.
A pine tree, said to be the largest
in Lincoln county, was hewed down
by Pollack Bros. at Heller. The stump
was Sc inches in diameter and Alb
feet of lumber scaled from the logs,
of which six were taken from the trunk
and four from the top. The average
carload of logs from new wood is 5000
feet. The tree had $50 rings of growth,
showing it to be 400 years old. Three
men were just able to clasp hands
around the tree.
Litigation covering a period OF four
years and half was ended when the
Casualty Insurance Co. paid D. J. Nc
Kay of Marinette $4,000 for injuries
suffered at the N. Ludington Co. lum-
Der camp in April, 1916, when tree
fell upon him. Mckay was awarded
$3,147 damages three times by the in
dustria1 commission and twice the de-
cision was reversed by Judge StevenG,
Madison, upon appeal by the insurance
company. The last trial resulted in
a settlement.
In one weeks operation out of Stur-
geon Bay the state obtained 100000
whitefish spawn, the greatest amount
obtained by the state for Matching pur-
poses in one year The eggs have been
taken to the state fish hatchery at She
boygan The Sturgeon Bay state hatch
cry at present is carrying 100000
trout eggs, and Supt. Frank Suthers
expects a high percentage hatch OF fry
which will be planted in the waters OF
Green Bay and Lake Michigan early in
the spring
The war history of Langlade coun-
ty has been published and limited
quantity are ready for distribution.
Most of the book is devoted to photo
graphs of Langlade county service
men, of which there are over 80O, To-
gether with their service records. Inc
book also contains four colored inserts,
a general summary of the war with II
Illustrations, photographs OF President
Wilson, Gen. Pershing and Marshal
Foch and brief reviews of activities
of local wartime organizations such as
the Red Cross, Council of Defense, ex-
emption board.
After serving fourteen years as pres
ident of the Manitowoc County Fish
and Game association, E. L. Kelley re-
fused to have his name considered for
reelection, and George Mclaughlin
was named to head the organization.
The organization reiterated its stand
taken a year ago in favor of the one
buck law.
One of the largest deer ever killed
in Villas county weighed 286 pounds
and was shot during the recent hunt-
ing season by William Murphy OF Chi
cago. Another deer that weighed 262
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