Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-05-07
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Wilbur Krause, years old, son of
Mr.. and Mrs William Krause, town
tof Waupun, was killed when he ran
beneath the wheels of a wagon driven
by his father.
The price of rides on Lake Mendoza
at Madison will cost more this sum-
mer. announcement having been made
that the hiring price for canoes will
be so cents an hour, an increase of rs
cents
A large consignment Of rainbow
trout fry was planted by Eagle River
sportsmen in Deerskin river, near that
city. Deerskin river is one of the
finest rainbow trout streams in north
ern Wisconsin.
DR.. Melvin A. Brannon has with
drawn his resignation as president of
Beloit college. There was such pro-
test from the college folks and the
community against his leaving that he
has decided to remain there.
William Dobry, Manitowoc's .slost"
soldier, is still among the living. A
letter, written by him from Mon
tevideo, South America, has been re-
ceived by local people with whom ha
resided before entering the service.
Clifford Logan, %, negro, confessed.
that he killed Wesley A. (Capt.)
Vance, %, another negro, in a fight at
Beloit. The killing was the result Of
dice game argument, Logan stated.
He said that he stabbed Vance in self
defense, when the latter started to
draw a knife from his pocket, after
threatening him.
Anthony Fonte, Kenosha business
man. is recovering from a case Of
sleeping sickness. For five weeks he
was in a stupor At the outset of his
illness, physicians were baff1ed by the
case Milwaukee specialists were con-
suited. Mr.. Fonte has been advised
to take a long vacation and he plans
to spend the summer in Italy.
Three or four hundred natives Of
Smaalen, county in the southeast of
Norway, are expected to gather in Eau
Claire on June % and % at the an
nual meeting Of the Smaalenslaget
Stevne, which will be held in Wiscon-
sin for the first time. Twice the con-
ventions have been in Minneapolis,
but usually they are held in the Da-
kotas.
A campaign is on in Oneida county
for the betterment of dairy herds A
meeting held at Pelican lake, the first
of a series to be held throughout the
county, resulted in the formation of a
Pure Bred Bull club. Those who
Joined the club agreed not to use
scrub sires and to keep the constant
betterment of their herds always in
view.
In an effort to defeat the contractors
in their declaration hereafter to run
open shops, the La Crosse Trades and
Labor council has engaged in the con-
tracing business. r. G. Knutson, or
ganizer, asserted that before the end
of the week, practically all of the 700.
building trades union men on strike
will be at work, on jobs taken through
the council.
Can man step from a pulpit, take
grip of samples in one hand and
suitcase in the other and go out on
the road and make good? The Rev.
Pastor Willie, pastor of the Lutheran
church at Louis Corner, near Mani
towuc, thinks he can. He has an
nounced that his salary will not keep
up with the high cost of living, 50 he
will go on the road
Wisconsin husked more corn from
an acre last year than any state in
the central corn belt of the United
States. pure bred, high seed corn,
developed at the Wisconsin expert
ment station and scattered over the
state by the members of the Wiscon-
sin Experiment association is the rea-
son for the supremacy of Wisconsin
as a corn producing state" declares
r. A. Moore of the College. of Agri-
culture.
Three saloon owners were arrested
and large amount OF beer and
whisky confiscated when Carl Hen
ming and George Ihrig, special agents
Of the internal revenue department at
Madison, raided the easements Of
three WATERFOWL saloons. Henry
LANCE, Arthur Gehrke and Fred
Meyers were charged with having in
their possession liquor on which the
tax had not been paid. Search war
rants had been obtained in Water
town.
The state of Wisconsin may, in the
opinion of Atty. Gen. ]. J. Blaine, in
vest any surplus funds in short term
government certificates of indebted
ness. The question was raised by
Henry johnson, state treasurer, who
has on deposit in state treasury de-
positories several millions of dollars OF
state road funds, which will not be
needed for several months. He sug-
gested that the money could be in
vested in short term government GER
tificates at 51a per cent, the state max
ing a considerable sum OF money in
this manner.
Married thirty years, during which
they reared a family of six children,
some of whom are married, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Techmeyer's troubles have
ended in the divorce court at La
Crosse. The woman charges that her