Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-07-30
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

The Kenosha Bar association adopt
ed resolutions urging Gov. Philip tc
appoint Judge e. B. Belden to the va
cancy in the Wisconsin Supreme court
caused by the recent death of Chief
Justice John B. Winslow.
When Gene Literski, 6, Stevens
Point, lifted tame dove over his head
to protect it from a playful puppy, as
it suddenly jumped at the bird, the
dogs teeth lo@ged in the boys face
causing severe decorations.
Survivors of Wisconsin's Civil wal
regiment, the Twelfth infantry con
vened at Madison. The reunion com
memorated the fifty-sixth anniversary
of the battle of Atlanta. The Twelfth
was part of the Iron brigade.
Baby clinics will be held at the
Fresh Air. school at Sheboygan every
Wednesday. The city nurse and prom
inent physicians will be in attendance
and free medical examinations and ad
vice will be given to the children and
their mothers.
Here is a challenge to the hens OF
the state. A single-comb Rhode Island
Red belonging to George Kilboy OF
Oshkosh laid an egg that weighs q
quarter of a pound and is 81 inches
around, from end to end, and inches
in circumference.
Wire has arrived on the Wheaton
Tilden Road, northwest of Chippewa
Falls, for the construction of pens fol
silver gray fox The wire will run
eight feet above the ground and in
very fine mesh for three feet below
ground Pens of various sizes will
cover two acres. The farm will start
with 40 silver foxes.
Alleging that her husband had mar
ried her merely because he wished tC
avoid breach of promise suit that
was being threatened by another
woman, Mrs. Florence L. Martin OF
Kenosha, asked Judge Tully in Mu
nicipal court to grant her a divorcs
from Lawrence F. Martin. They were
married June % at Waunegan. She
asks for half of their property.
Bids have been opened by the ship
ping board at Washington for the sale
of sea-going tugs now operating at
Sturgeon Bay, Green Bay and Mani
towoc. They are part of the "a used
on the Great Lakes, which are to be
sold. Terms of sale call for Is per
cent of the purchase price on delivery
and the balance in semi-annual install
ments over period of three years.
George Tibbetts and Arthur Oster-
men, liverymen at Eau Claire, were
bound over to circuit court after a
hearing on the charge of stealing tires.
Harry Conley, II, was the principal
witness against them. He pleaded
guilty to similar charge. Osterman
is charged with having taken four
tires, Tibbetts with having taken
twelve, besides oil, chains and lenses
Both pleaded not guilty.
Mrs. Fred Lentz and two children
are dead, Fred Lentz, the husband
was terribly burned and may die, and
another child, 6, was badly injured
from an explosion of acetyline gas at
the farmhouse near Split Rock. The
light in the house went out and Mr.
Lentz started for the cellar with Ian
tern to make an examination. He had
not proceeded far when terrific ex-
plosion occurred.
Goodman, Wisconsin electors voted
TO issue bonds for new high school
to cost $150,000. The plans call fol
gymnasium, manual training depart.
ment, and other modern high school
features. A bank building to cost
$4,000 is also one of the new build
ings planned in this comparatively
new lumber town, the location Of the
big hardwood mill and chemical plant
of the Goodman Lumber company.
Besides holding the worlds record
for having the largest cooperative
creamery on earth, Barron county now
claims to have the strongest farmers
mutual fire insurance company in the
world. In June alone this year the net
increase of business was more than
$550,000. On the last day of the month
the gross business. handled by Secre.
tary Gulickson was $236,145. On July
l, 1920, the total amount of insurance
in force was $11, 085,173 Frank Rolin-
field of Prairie Farm is president and
Andrew Gulickson is secretary.
Fifty delegates representing eighty
building and loan associations in an
nuaI convention at Racine, adopted an
amendment to the constitution chang.
ing the name from the Loan and
Building Association league of Wis
consin to the Wisconsin League OF
Building and Loan associations. The
following officers were elected: Presi.
dent, F. w. Krueck, Milwaukee; vice
president, John A. Morris, Chippewa
Falls; secretary, Paul Berndt, Milwau-
kee; treasurer, j. F.. Lefevre, Green
Bay; delegate national convention,
Thomas A. Pagan, Racine.
F. K. Shuttleworth, Madison, was
in the three cornered fight for the re-
publican nomination for congress from
the Third district. Shuttleworth is
opposing Congressman John Monahan,
Darlington, and John M. Nelson, Mad
ison.
The Sheboygan city council has au-
thorized bonding the city for $3.50, 900,
necessary for the construction of the
new high school building at cost of
S75O,000, and a new bascule bridge
over the Sheboygan river. The inter
est on the bonds will be covered by
special taxation.