Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-23
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the BADGER State
Arranged in Condensed Form

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capital stock of $4,000
The Marinette school board has
granted an increase of 10 per cent to
teachers effective between Jan. /. The
increase will be paid as a bonus to all
teachers who remain the rest of the
year.
Two Rivers had added to its list of
achievements with the founding of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks No 1880 with eighty charter
members. George Anders was elected
exalted ruler.
For the first time in the history of
the congregation, st. James parish,
Manitowoc, is out of debt through the
$1,000 gift from the late John Schuette.
All of the churches of ManitoWoc have
expressed their thanks for similar
gifts.
Andrew Searls of Grand Rapids,
grand old man of the cranberry in
dustry in Wisconsin, was reelected to
the presidency of the Wisconsin, State
Cranberry Growers association at the
closing of the twenty-third annual con-
vention at Madison.
Four tow boats and nineteen barges
for transportation work on the upper
Mississippi river are now in the course
of construction and may be ready for
service this year according to word
sent to Capt. w. A. Thompson of the
river Improvement service at La
Crosse.
Oliver E. Remey, Milwaukee. secre-
tary of the Wisconsin state fair, has
been selected by the Massachusetts de-
partment of agriculture to discuss
''The Agricultural Fair" before the
Massachusetts farmers convention in
Boston the latter part of January.
Wisconsin has for several years held
first rank in yield of fiaxseed to the
acre, according to the state bureau OF
crop estimates. The five year average
yield is 1O7 bushels to the acre. In
1919 the $500 acres grown in the state
averaged 1917 bushels. In 1918 the
acreage was 1900 and the average
yield IL bushels.
The first boys and girls bee club in
Wisconsin has just been organized al
Plymouth, under the direction of a
teacher in the public schools who is
himself one of the leading beekeepers
of Sheboygan county. Each of the
eleven members has from one to five
colonies of bees. The contest will be
in production of honey and care OF
the bees.
Mich cows brought 500 head at
an auction held on the farm of James
Griffith, town of Mt Pleasant. This
is the highest price ever paid for mich
cows at a public auction held in Ra
cine county. Chickens, springers and
old hens, brought 81 each, double the
amount ever before offered and at a
time when farmers are bringing chick
ems into the market.
Neenah, Menasha and Appleton are
planning to conduct vigorous cam
naign of propaganda against the pro
posed shifting of the Yellowstone
Trail tourists route west of there
which would result in cutting off the
three cities. A district meeting of the
Yellowstone Trail association is to be
held in Oshkosh next month and the
protest will be voiced there.
The Union Cheese company, in
corporated at $4,000. will soon begin
10 manufacture some three miles from
Eau Claire. Fifty Union farmers are
stockholders. Each farmer will haul
in his milk, to be paid on a butter fat
basis. A factory 28144 feet has been
built and equipped with modern ma
chinery. Eight hundred cows will fur
nish the milk It is strictly farm
ers' concern.
Two Anzac soldiers, wearing uni
forms of the Australian military forces
and representing their government, as
well as the agricultural colleges OF
New South Wales, are visiting the
University of Wisconsin to study the
administrative methods used in its
AGRICULTURAL education During their
stay in this country, they will inspect
tie agricultural colleges of several
universities in this country and
Canada
An old fashioned typewriter OF one
of the earliest vintages, was recently
added to the collection of the State
Historical museum at Madison. II
was built by the Hall Typewriter com
pany of Salem, Mass, under patent o.
March i. 1881. and was the property Of
the late Rev, E. G. Updike, Madison
The machine is about two inches high.
fifteen inches long, and six inches
wide The paper is inserted on roll
under the keyboard, and the letters
are imprinted by flexible lever which
moves over type inset on fiat key
board above the paper. The machine
was operated slowly and was prob
ably used only for important letters,
documents and papers which required
permanent record.
L. J. Jones, Spooner, has been ap
pointed judge of the newly created
juvenile court of Washburn county. 1t
is the intention of the new court to
save the boys and girls rather than
to hastily confne them in state insti-
tutions.
While standing near a stove in her
home at Marinette, dressing a little
child. Mrs. Floyd Leslie's dress caught
fire and she was soon enveloped in
flames. Her husband threw some
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