Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-11-19

4uOIS tudAt 9OVV.
The Gideons, in one day campaign
at La Crosse, raised enough money to
place bible in every hotel room in
La Crosse. Four hundred and twenty
five bibles have been ordered.
NJ c. Ewing, president of the Wau-
sau Boy Scout council, has donated
for the use of the Wausau Boy Scouts
an eighty-ive acre tract three and
one-half miles north of the city.
Two formal and definite movements
are launched in Oshkosh looking to-
wards a reorganization of the munich
pal government One movement,
which had it's inception largely among
workingmen on the South Side, is for
wiping out the present commission
form of government and returning to
the old aldermanic form.
The county of Lincoln spent $225,000
more during the last year than during
any former twelve months. The total
expenditure was $602,391.18 of which
$325,264.95 was spent for highways.
highway machinery and buildings for
the latter. Orders for the county s
poor run up to $40,212.73 despite in
creased wages.
Forty-two foreign born residents of
La Crosse and vicinity were admitted
to citizenship in circuit court, the
class being the largest naturalized for
years. Three applicants were denied
citizenship when it was shown that
during the war they claimed exemp-
ton because they were natives Of
Germany.
Lesther Nelson, Merrill, who es-
capped from a fire on Oct 4, in which
five of his brothers and sisters per-
ished, left the hospital. Even the
wound on his hand healed without
grating. Work has been started on
the new home for the family, toward
which nearly $1,000 has been donated
by sympathizers throughout the coun-
ty and state.
r. d. Scoon, for the last seven years
superintendent of the state employ
ment bureau at Superior, has been ap-
pointed factory inspector for the north
ern district under the industrial COM
mission of Wisconsin. He has sue
ceeded Clarence Otto, Beaver Dam.
while r. j. Harmon has been made
superintendent of the employment
bureau.
The area cleanup Of bovine tubercu-
losis which Lincoln county has begun
under the states jurisdiction has COW
cred the towns of Some. Wilson, Toma-
hawk, Skanawan, Harrison and King,
and in several days the towns of Birch
and Rock Falls will have been fin
ished. Out of a total of 1891 cattle
there have been but ten positive re-
actors.
During the last year thirty-seven
mothers in Lincoln county drew pen
sion under the state law from the
county. The total pension amounted
to over $4,000. Thirty of the mothers
receiving the pension were in the city
of Merrill. One mother had eight
children under the age of IA in her
care, another seven, another six, and
another five.
The first year of the county man
agement of the Manitowoc county fair,
which was last year taken over by the
county, netted $4,000, according to a
report filed with the county board.
There is a cash balance of $500 on
hand after all expenses were paid and
it is probable that no appropriation
will have to be made for the 1921 fair
by the board. Over $4,000 was ex-
pended last year for permanent i'm
provements of the grounds.
One of the most unusual freaks of
nature that has come to light in Dunn
county is the birth of a set of triplets
to a Holstein COW on the Nels Tilleson
farm near Menomonie in the town of
Red Cedar. The first calf weighed "a
pounds the second AZ pounds and the
third 81 pounds. Their total weight
was 1877 pounds. The mother is "a 2
year old heifer. The occurrence is
bound to attract wide attention among
animal husbandrymen, being great
rarity.
Lawrence college will receive gift
of 100000 from the General Educa-
tional board if it can raise an add.
tional 100000 among its friends, it
was announced following joint meet
ing of the boards of trustees and
visitors at which it was decided to ac-
cept the offer. The 100000 is to be
raised by quiet solicitation so far as
possible, but if this method fails to
raise the entire sum, a general public
campaign to obtain the remainder may
be attempted, it was said.
Only in few communities of the
state will muskrat trapping be allowed
this fall, according to the conservation
department. The rapid disappearance
of fur-bearing animals as the result of
the high prices is the cause for the
closed season. Muskrat and mink are
protected in every county of the state
until Nov. 81, 1921, except in Waupaca
and Winnebago counties, and in the
townships of Bloomerf1eld and Poy-
sippi in Waushara county where the
season is open from Nov. Is to March
81. The same order of the commission
protects does and faWns, allowing only
the killing of bucks with horns not
less than three inches long, from Nov
81 to Nov. 80.
A number of Laona sportsmen have
contributed to a fund which will be
used for planting wild rice along. the
IaI-0o CT in that mart Of