Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-11-26
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

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Manitowoc will be IL cents per quart,
a reduction of 1 cent from the price
prevailing the last ten months.
Appropriation of $4,000 as Iron
county's portion of maintenance of
the Pueair sanitarium, built jointly by
Ashland, Bayfield, and Iron counties,
| was voted by the board of supervisors.
Enrolment in night classes conduct
ed by Appleton vocational school has
grown more than SO per cent as a re-
suit of holding the classes in the grade
school buildings instead of concen-
trating them in the vocational school.
The enrolment now exceeds 800, a
gain of $50 over a year ago.
Fifteen thousaiX dollars damages is
asked of the city of Eau Claire by
Jacob HI. Kleiner as special admins
traitor of the estate of Ruth Kleiner,
his daughter, wslo died of injuries re-
ceived in falling through the Grand
avenue bridge at Eau Claire on the
evening of Aug q, when concrete
slab of the sidewalk gave way
The Brown county insane hospital
is no burden on the county. 1t more
than paid for itself the last year, ac-
cording to reports submitted to the
county supervisors. Care of patients
paid for by the state and surrounding
counties, together with the profits of
big crops on the land surrounding the
institution brought the earnings up
to $40,13614 while the expenses of
operation were only $S2,988.45. The
balance goes to the county Golfers.
| Teams representing 70 different Wis
consin high schools are fighting hard
for places in the district high school
livestock Judging contests which will
be run off within the next few weeks.
The competing schools have been as
signed to districts-19 in all-and
teams of three boys each will repre-
contests. The winners will represent
their respective districts in the state
tournament in Madison next February
After having been closed for four
months an account of strike of union
employees, the plant of the Hamilton
concern One hundred and fifty men
were put to work and 700 more who
have applied for work, will be taken
back Union pickets around the plant
attempted to dissuade the men from
returning to work, but the police had
men on the job early and no trouble
resulted.
A jury il Circuit court at Merrill re-
turned verdict of 1900 for the plain
tiff in the case of Reinhold Weiss VS..
the Evangelical Lutheran Colonization
company. The case involved a pur-
chase of land by the plaintiff from the
defendant The land had been previ-
ously advertised in handful as con-
tanning forty-four acres of plowed
ground Weiss sued after he discov-
cred that the land contained but thir-
ty-eight and one-half acres of land I'M
der plow.
| B. F. Brainerd, IS years of age, Civil
pioneers of the northern part of the
state, died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. E. L. Burpee, of Island Lake. Mr..
Brainerd settled on farm near the
Chippewa river in what is now Rusk
county, in 1865. That was in the early
days of the numbering industry in this
part of the state and for many years
the Brainerd home was stopping
place for lumbermen and woodsmen
going to and from the woods.
A memorial building honoring Outa-
gamie county's veterans of the World
war will be erected in Appleton as a
development of the plan to construct
community rest room to be used by
out-of-town shoppers and visitors
Plans for memorial building to cost
from $15O,0O0 to 100000 are now be-
ing prepared. The building will be
financed by donations by individuals
and appropriations by the city of APP
pleton and the county.
The Racine county board of super
visors has refused to accept the resig-
nation of Henry Lewis, superintend-
ent of the Racine county insane asy-
lum and has informed the members of
the board of trustees that if they can
not work amicably with Mr.. Lewis
their designations would be acceptable
For many months there has been fric-
ton between Mr.. Lewis and the trus-
tes and the alterations resulted in
the superintendent offering his resig-
nation to the county board.
The supply of teachers in Lincoln
county is exhausted, according to
County Superintendent w. S. Freeman
The county has one union high school
employing two teachers, three first
class graded schools employing twelve
teachers, three second class graded
schools employing six teachers. and
IS rural schools employing IS teach
ers, making total of IS teachers. OF
the present teaching force IL are mar
ried women. Nineteen have never
taught before this year. Several other
had taught less than a year at the
opening of school last September,
The Langlade county board has
placed tax of one-tenth of one mill
per dollar on the taxable property of
the county to provide sinking fund
for the erection of County Normal
school building. Only about $1,000
remains due on the courthouse bonds,
which means that the county is prac-
tically out of debt.
| Pleading guilty to the robbery of