Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-10-07
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


fifty-ninth annual reunion of the Wis
consin cons1story.
Employees of five job printing plant.
at Racine, went on strike on Oct.
when the employers refused to gran
a forty-four hour week. Newspaper
plants are not involved.
Fire which destroyed the wholesale
grocery warehouse of C. N. Craner a
Ashland, caused loss of 100000
Carloads of sugar, tobacco, canned
goods and flour were consumed.
The University of Wisconsin defeated
Lawrence college in the opening game
Of the season on Saturday, % to 0
in a game featured by spectacular
runs with midseason interference.
The Foresters' Commercial club OF
Stevens point has been incorporated
at $4,000 and plans to construct q
modern clubhouse next spring. Al
stockholders are members of the For
esters order, but the company will
function independently.
Saving three bars of a cell win
dow. Clifford Evans, Harry England
and Hilory Sauve, prisoners in the
county jail, made their escape. Eng
land and Evans were under sentence
for automobile theft while Sauve was
being held on burglary charge.
Wisconsin deer hunters will find the
most unsuccessful deer hunting season
in years this autumn, according to
old hunters and sportsmen. The deer
are exceptionally scarce this year and
it is believed that not one hunter in
SO will be successful in killing a deer.
D. G. James, former state senator
and the leader of woman suffrage in
the legislature at that time is dead at
his old home in Richland Center. For
years he conducted a farm implement
store in this city. He was a civil war
veteran escaping from Andersonville
prison.
After having Eeen closed for 10
months the plant of the Union Bag
and Paper corporation in Kaukauna,
has resumed operations with practi-
cally full crew in the pulp and paper
departments. All workmen laid off
at the plant last winter have been
re-employed.
The highest salaried official Of the
state of Wisconsin is now receiving
a salary twice that paid to any con-
stitutional officer including Gov
Blaine. At recent meeting of the
state highway commission Highway
Engineer A. r. Hirst had his salary
increased from $625 month to S833.33
a month. This is equivalent to sal
airy of $4,000 a year.
A proclamation urging Wisconsin
people to attend the National Dairy
show at the Minneapolis State Fair
grounds, Oct 8, to Is, has been is
sued by Gov. Blaine. Wisconsin cattle
will be leading attractions of the
show The governor points out that
in view of Wisconsin's supremacy as
a dairy state, the show should prove
especially interesting to Wisconsin
citizens.
AS contribution to the cause Of re-
lieving the unemployment situation,
the board of trustees of the Wisconsin
home at Dousman have de-
cided to undertake Immediately new
construction work involving $350.000'
to 100000, which originally was pro-
jected nearly five years ago, bute
halted because of the war. The pro-
ject calls for the construction of
new Masonic home at Dous-
man. The present buildings will, at
the completion of the new home, be.
converted for employees use.
With the approach of winter high
way construction work in Wisconsin
is slowing up. BY Nov. /, it is pre-
dicted, the 1921 road building pro-
gram will have been carried out.
This season has led all others for the
amount of construction, and in the
of money expended. Nearly
$50 miles of concrete highways, all
but eighty miles from county bond
issues, have been constructed. Wau-
kesha county, with forty-seyen miles
Of road, leads all Wisconsin counties
in the amount of new concrete high
ways, and is expected to lead all other
counties of the nation.
Twenty thousand income tax delin-
quents are expected to be uncovered
in Wisconsin in the governments ma
ton wide drive launched Oct. 3, ac-
cording to A. II. Wilkinson, collector
Of internal revenue for Wisconsin. The
drive is the first staged against tax
payers listing their incomes as less
than $4,000. Combined tax dodgers
and delinquents are expected to- net
more than half million dollars for
the federal Golfers. Criminal action
will be taken against persons who are
patiently guilty of deliberate evasion of
laws, but in cases of error the collec-|
tors will be satisfied with mere collec-
ton of the taxes.
The state woman's industrial home
at Taycheedah, Fond du Lac county,
will be ready for occupancy on Nov.
l. Installing of furniture is all that
remains, buildings having been COM
pleted.
Peter Hemb, foster father of Mil
dred Hemb, Is, Sheboygan's chain
girl captive" was sentenced to seven
years at Waupun prison. In passing
sentence the Judge said he would have,