Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-11-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

publican town" In the state of Wiscon
| sin. 1t cast fourteen votes and every
one was for Harding and Coolidge.
Over 100000 pounds of parcel pos
mail was handled at the Green Bay
| postofice during the past month, &C
cording to Postmaster w. L. Evans
report for October. A total of 23,46.
parcels passed through the station
This is 20 per cent increase ovel
September.
A temporary successor to Mayor
Elmer S. Hall of Green Bay, who has
been elected secretary of state, viii
be appointed by the council to hole
Office until the spring election. This
will eliminate the expense of special
election and it is within the state laws
covering the commission form of gov
eminent.
A training school for nurses, afiliat
ed with the st. Mary's hospital, will
be opened in Superior by the Wiscon
sin conference, Catholic Hospital as
sociation, as soon as final arrange
ments for housing and instruction car
be made. A three-year course, lead
ing to graduated nurses diploma
will be offered.
Farmers near Brentwood are petit
tioning state officials for complete
test of cattle in this section, to de.
termine the healthful condition OF
cows. The test will be made for tn.
berculosis. The test is not desired be.
cause there is any known disease, but
farmers desire to know the condition
of the cattle in that section.
The village of Crivitz provides at
public expense hot lunches for all chill
dren transported from rural districts
to it's consolidated school. The county
school superintendent of Marinette
county, in which Crivitz is located, has
started movement for hot lunches at
noon for the children of all schools, at
the expense of the parents.
The cold weather has doomed up
the fishing industry at Green Bay and
the fleet of trawlers are reporting
good catches. Due to heavy out of
town orders but little of the fish is
available for home consumption. It
lis reported that many of the local fish
houses are three weeks behind on
their shipping orders.
Farmers in Brown county are trying
to cut down the high coal bills. Wood
cutters are in great demand, due to the
fact that farmers who are owning
wooded acres are clearing them up
and using the cutting for fuel. It is
said that the sale of coal to the farm
ers in that community has dropped out
20 per cent during the past two
months.
After buying three young men their
suppers and giving them money with
Olaf Lee, Superior, Norwegian Ia
borer, was robbed of $3.50 by the men.
Lee met the strangers, who declared
they were hungry. He took them to
a cafe and later showed them about
the city. When they left him for the
night he found that they had relieved
him of his pocketbook.
B. c. Christensen, Trout Lake, has
been appointed chief ranger of the
state forestry department to succeed
e. M. Weaver, who was lately assigned
to a position in the conservation COM
mission. For several years Mr.. Chris
Hansen has been in supervision of the
forestry departments nursery at Trout
Lake, and is thoroughly familiar with
The duties of chief ranger. Trout Lake
will continue to be his headquarters.
Following a heart attack which he
suffered while downtown on election
night, Charles e. Spindler, for forty
years identified with business interests
of ManitoWoc and member of the
Barnhardt Brothers & Spindler type
foundry firm of Chicago, died at his
home in Manitowoc. Mr.. Spindler,
who was reputed to be Manitowoc's
wealthiest citizen, passed his seventy
ninth birthday June 25. He was a
civil war veteran and was active in
affairs of the local G.. A. R. post.
A slump in export trade, due to the
low rate of foreign exchange, has hit
the condensed milk industry. The
Juneau plant of the Libby, Mcneil &
Libby Co. is curtailing it's product and
Instead of condensing is Swimming the
milk for shipment to butter manufac-
turers. The management decided on
this course rather than closing the
plant temporarily. A return to con-
densing will be made as soon as mar
ket conditions warrant.
Miss Fern Scott was elected regis
ter of deeds at Eagle River by plu-
rality of 500 votes and carried every
precinct over her Democratic oppo-
nent, w. Morris. Miss Scott is a
graduate of the University of Wiscon-
sin, leader in several clubs and has
taught Latin and German in several
been deputy register of deeds at Eagle
River for some time and for the last
two years has had complete charge of
that office.
The first contest in the new legisla-
ture will be over the speakership.
Riley S. Young, Walworth county,
speaker of the house at the last SEES
sion, will again be candidate for
that Office. He will be opposed by
Wallace ingalls,, Racine. Mr.. ingalls,
has served one term in the legisla-
ture.
Joseph Macitak, IS, farmer living
near Hawkins, was shot and instantly