Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-05-21
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Louis Packard, Forest county boy,
recently released on parole from the
Green Bay reformatory, has been re
turned to that institution He is al
legged to have shot and wounded a
member of his family.
The first meeting of the committee
of striking building trades workers
and employers, in an effort to settle
the strike of 700 men at La Crosse, re-
suited in a deadlock. Employers in
sist they will conduct open shops.
Harold Nix, 16, Viroqua, is in La
Crosse hospital with a fractured skull
and both jaws and arms broken as a
result of fall from an electric light
pole. The boy was employed as line.
man by the Observation-Disclosures
Light and Power Co.
Miss Lille Summers, nurse, was
arrested in Milwaukee and returned
| to Green Bay and assessed fines anC
costs amounting to $51.77 for lcckins
three young children in the home
where she was employed, and running
away, leaving a fire burning in the
house.
Gideon Bibles will be placed in
every hotel room in Wisconsin be-
fore Jan. /, 1921, it was decided at
the annual convention of the Wiscon-
sin Gideons at Appleton. More than
3 900 Bibles have already been distrib-
uted. Funds to place ESQ Testaments
in Appleton hotels were raised AND
the presentation was made.
Farmers should exercise special
, care in the purchase of oil meal OF
linseed meal at the present time, &C
cording to w. H. Strowd of the Wis
consin state department of agricul
ture. because an adulterated product
branded as pure meal has been
ST ipped into the state under the name
OF "Amco Old Process Linseed Meal
Four members of the Racine com
mon council were brought to the city
hall in the police patrol and under po-
lice guard to attend meeting of the
common council. There was no quo
rum when the meeting was called, and
as important matters were to be trans
acted. Mayor Armstrong ordered the
police department to hail the absent
ees into the council chambers.
The concrete factory building fol
the Menominee Motor Truck Co.,
which is to move to Clintonville from
Menominee. Mich, as soon as the
building is completed, is rapidly pro-
crossing and will be ready for occu-.
pancy by August. Clintonville sub
scribed $25O,00O for stock in the re
organized company. The new factory
will have capacity of fifty trucks a
day.
st. Patrick's Roman Catholic church
of Eau Claire is going into the mo-
ton picture business. A picture ma
chine has been purchased to give
shows in the auditorium of ST. Pat
rick's school Films that have passe,
strict censorship and educational
features will be exhibited at frequent
Intervals. Toprovide clean and whole
some pictures is the idea behind the
move.
About seventy five Indians attended
the Indian farmers meeting in Laena,
which was the first gathering of the
kind ever neld in Forest county. The
| meeting was promoted by the United
States indian department, Wisconsin
College of Agriculture, and A. w.
| Schmutzer, county agent. The In
dams displayed deep interest in all the
discussions and requested that the
| meeting be made an annual event.
Frank Harrington, II, is near death
in the hospital at Chippewa Falls, as
| the result of fracture of his skull
accidentally inflicted by boy chum
Frank was driving a cow home to his
fathers farm. The COW was balky and
Franks chum picked up chunk of
coal and threw it at the cow to speed
her up The COW had started to run
Frank followed, and the chunk of coal
hit him squarely between the eyes.
| Robert L. Joiner, member of the
state senate of Wisconsin from 1883
| to 1891, and earlier member of the
assembly, known throughout the state
as father of the local option bill OF
Wisconsin, died at his home in Dodge
vile after suffering for less than a
week with pleuro-pneumonia. He was
| 70 years old and had been a resident
of Iowa county since 1915, when he
came to Wisconsin with his parents
from Indiana
Jack Green, negro, who shot and
killed George Duncan, automobile me-
chanic, last November, was freed by a
white jury when tried on a charge of
murder at Lancaster. The negro and
| his two daughters, Deena, IA, and May,
10, were the only witnesses called
Green did not deny the killing, but
pleaded justifable homicide. He stat
ed that Duncan, who is a married man
and father of two children, had
wronged his young daughter and that
even after he (Green) had warned
Duncan to stay away from the girl,
Duncan kept up his relations with the
child.
| A partnership has recently been
formed to establish a nursery bust
ness at Ladysmith, under the name of
the Dahlberg Nursery company. e. M.
Dahlberg, who has been teacher of
science in the local high school for
several years, will manage the enter
prise.
| Ada Griffith, "redhaired queen" of