Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-11-19
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

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from New York Military funerals
were held for both.
Il Door county's annual potato export
is on in full swing. Several vessel
loads have been shipped from Stur
geon Bay and the Green Bay and West
ern railroad daily brings out half a
| trainload.
Roman Hermann, senior in the
| ManitoWoc high school, has been nomi.
mated by Congressman Lampert, to
take the exams for admission to An
Inapolis naval academy April 20, before
a board at Green Bay.
The Rev. Claude Reader of Owen
has been installed as pastor OF the ST.
2auls Episcopal church in Marinette
| tde succeeds the Rev. George M. Bah
sock, who recently accepted charge
at Sheboygan.
Mrs. John P. Hume, wife of the
Estate chairman of the democratic par
| ty. and vice-president general of the
National Society of the Daughters OF
/ the American Revolution, died at her
| home in Milwaukee. The immediate
cause of her death was, heart trouble
| Besides her husband, she is survived
| by a daughter and a son, and by he1
mother, Mrs. Mary Cracraft.
DR.. j. P. West, in charge of the area
test for the state department of agri-
culture, reports that during the month
of October in Barron county, six in
Spectors tested 1851 head Of cattle
on 692 farms. There were only Al
reactors, being 035 of per cent or
less than 4-10 of l per cent. This is
considered a remarkable showing OF
| freedom from tuberculosis among the
cattle in Barron county.
After fifteen years of effort on the
part of the state, negotiations have
been completed to take the American
Refractories Co., operating the quarry
in the state park at Devils lake, out
of the park limits. The company is
to remove it's equipment on or before
Jan. 1, 1922 The state paid the COM
pany $4,000 for it's IS acres of proper
ty at Devils Lake. All buildings and
improvements go to the state. In addi-
| ton to the cash payment, 81 acres out
side the park limits is conveyed to the
company.
| Fifty-two farmers north and west of
Plymouth on the farmer lines of the
Eastern Wisconsin Telephone COM
pany are protesting against the ad-
vance in rates recently inaugurated
and have sent petition to the Wiscon-
sin Rate commission at Madison by
special messenger for relief. About
400 telephones are affected and if the
petition is not granted there is talk
| of tearing out the telephones and start
ing a new company. Rates were re
Gently increased from $i.25 to $1.75.
The revision committee of the board
of Normal school regents has recon-
mended expenditure of more than
$500 900 for the state Normal school
at Stevens Point for 1921-1923. Con
struction of training school building
at a cost of $284,O00 is the largest
single project proposed, the next
largest being the building of a model
rural demonstration school, at cost
/ of $4,000. An appropriation for an
athletic field is listed at $4,000 and
50 900 has been designated for remod-
cling the library.
A sheep claim amounting to 1888
was filed by 0. Londo OF TomahaWk
with the county board. The amount
/ is for 55 killed sheep, 5 injured sheep
and 6 worried sheep. Londo claims
an unknown dog attacked. his sheep
A committee appointed under the pro-
| visions of the statutes appraised the
sheep at $40 and recommended that
| 1882. or 80 per cent of the appraisal
value, be awarded Londo. The county
board is Withholding action on the
claim.
The Omaha road has just opened
up Oiibwa station and placed an agent
| in charge. This station is located near
| the Chippewa river in the southern
part of Sawyer county. The town is
new and is backed up by the Wiscon-
sin Colonization company. This con-
Germ has placed over 400 settlers in
the southern part of that county dur
| ing the last three years. The town OF
Oiibwa is an ideal place for the loca-
ton of a town, being in a section where
the land is very good and on the river
| where water power can be utilized fo1
all manufacturing purposes.
County school superintendent re-
ceived such poor pay that they are
quitting their jobs and going into other
work. This was the statement made
by State Supt of Schools Cary to the
Brown county board of supervisors in
| his plea that the superintendent OF the
county schools be paid salary OF at
least $4,000 year. Not only are the
superintendents poorly paid, but the
same applies to the rural teachers and
the clerks employed by the county
he said. He declared that city school
| teachers and supervisors in many IN
stances received better pay.
Chief of Police Henry c. DEFINE anS
! Sheriff William .Brockmann, Sheboy
gan. who recently returned from sgd
new. Australia, with Edward Pooler
wanted on robbery charges, have filed
an itemized statement of all expenses
incident to the trip. The bill totals
$3,O57.16.
While shoveling the last load Of
clam shells for the season out OF his
boat, r. Morrison, Maiden Rock clam
mer. found one of the most beautiful
| naar1s ever taken out of Lake Pepin