Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-07-02
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

The Barron Cooperative Creamery,
the largest creamery in the world,
broke it's own record for butter pro-
Eighty hundred and forty tubs of but
ter were manufactured during the
week, the heaviest day being when
100 tubs Of butter were made.
Neenah yachtsmen are making prep
arations to participate in the annual
regatta of the Inland Lake Yachting
association to be sailed commencing
Aug. 16 on Lake Winnebago The his
toric Felker cup race will be sailed
on Aug. IA. The regatta is expected
to attract more yachtsmen than ever
this year.
Supt. Ernest Her of the Amigo
schools has resigned. He has been SUI
perin1endent there for three years. He
expects to leave with his family about
July / for Grinnell, Ia, to take up
other work, as it is his intention to
leave the teaching profession. The va
cancy has not been filed.
p. J. Zimmers, superintendent of
Manitowoc schools, who has excepted
a similar position at Boise City, Idaho,
is taking some of Manitowoc's best
educators with him. The latest to
announce his resignation is w. F..
Wiesand, director of vocational train
ing, who becomes assistant superin-
tendent at Boise City.
The Manitowoc school board will
recommend submitting a $75O,000 to
$1,000,0O0 bond issue to vote next
fall for the purpose of financing the
proposed new high school building
Even though the bond issue should
carry the building will not be started
until the board is assured that prices
are satisfactory.
Conviction on a charge of violating
the espionage act does not cost Wis
consin resident his vote, according to
the opinion of Attorney General J. J.
Blaine in a letter to District Attorney
G. w. Lippert, Wausau Mr.. Blaine
states that no authority has come to
his attention that holds the convicted
person loses his right of ballot.
A victory temple, to be built in honor
of Kenosha soldiers and sailors who
fought in the World war, and which is
to be the home of the Kenosha post
of the American Legion, the Chamber
of Commerce and the Trades and La
Dor council and similar organizations,
was the project launched by the Ke-
nosha legionnaires. The plan will be
laid before the various organizations
in the near future.
That higher education for boys is
being recognized as imperative if they
are to have fair chance in COMPETE
ton with others in the business world
was shown in the percentage of boys
and girls in the graduating class of
the Manitowoc High school. There
were fifty-eight girls and thirty-seven
boys. Heretofore the proportion has
been 2 to /.
Rainbow division veterans of Wis
consin went on record at Appleton at
the first annual reunion indorsing the
four-fold adjusted compensation plan,
including bonus provision, as advocat-
ed by the American legion and now
before congress. The resolution was
adopted without a dissenting vote
Maj. Lothar G. Graef, Appleton, was
elected president of the Wisconsin
Chapter of the Rainbow Division asso-
citation.
Fourteen carloads of dynamite have
been shipped to Rusk county this year
to be used in the great land clearing
contest that is now in progress. 1t is
claimed that this is larger amount
of explosives than has ever been used
in a single year by any county in the
state, for land clearing purposes. 1t
is five times as much as was used in
this county in 1917, and nearly half as
much as was used in the whole state
OF Minnesota last year, it is claimed.
The Curran Farmers Telephone Co,
which owns ard operates a rural tele-
phone system in the vicinity of Taylor
and HiXton, Jackson county, applied
on May 20 for authority to increase its
rates. By an order issued the railroad
commission authorized the company to
| charge SIS a year per subscriber
where the company owns and main
tains the telephone instrument and $12
a year where the equipment is owned
and maintained by the subscriber.
The Fox River Paper Co. has an
nounced its purchase of the Telulah
mill of the Kimberly-Cla Co. and its
plan to convert the mill into a writing
paper plant. The new owner will not
gain possession of the mill until Jan.
l, 1921, but changes will be made dur
ing the summer months so that manu-
facture of the new grade of paper can
be started without delay after the first
Of next year. Purchase of the mill
makes the Fox River company one
Of the largest writing paper manufac
turers in the United States. More than
100000 has been expended by the
Kimberly.Clark Co. in repairs and i'm
prOvements in the mill in the last two
years.
Herbert and Joseph Jicha, who con-
duct a large dairy farm north of Ocon-
to, have purchased two pure bred Hol-
stein coNs from the Woodlawn Farm
Co., Sterling, ILL.,, which makes four
registered animals in their herd, all de-
scendants of the world famous sire,
King Sergis, which was sold for $175,-
600.