Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-17
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

totaled S62,462, according to the
monthly report of Building Inspector
Albert Mack of that city. The report
showed an increase of $8,784 over that
of the same month in 1920.
By vetoing the city councils appro-
priation of $500 for summer band
concerts by the Marine band, Mayor
Martin Georgenson, Manitowoc, killed
all chances for the continuance of the
band as an organization in that city.
The mayor gave as the reason for his
act the huge deficit which the city
faces this fall.
Despite the fact that heavy tractor
he was using to plow with fell over
and pinned him beneath, George Todd,
Sr., will recover from the accident.
Mr.. Todd was blowing on his farm
near Shell Lake, when the machine
tipped over and pinned him beneath
the pillow and the tractor. To extricate
himself, a team of horses was used to
pull the tractor several feet.
The city of Sheboygan is experience
ing big saving by doing its own paw
ing work. Bids received for paving
more than mile of streets are rea-
sonably close to the price at which the
city can do this work with its own
equipment and it is believed by the
city commissioners, that the plan Of
doing its work is having tendency to
bring road building costs closer to
normal
Manitowoc will not establish a day.
light saving plan, the aldermen by a
vote of to A having defeated the
measure. Petitions were presented to
the council containing 1886 signatures
of citizens favoring the daylight plan
and LOTT names of those opposed to
it. Socialists in the council were
active in defeating the resolution,
maintaining that the "big interests
were behind it.
The lives of fifteen people were en-
dangered when a bolt of lightning
cleaved the steeple of the Norwegian
Methodist church, Sheboygan, while
the Golden Rule society, composed of
women members of the congregation,
was holding meeting. The steeple
crumbled under the terrific impact OF
the electrical force. Members of the
society who rushed outdoors barely
escaped falling timbers which were
strewn about the edif1ce.
The horse business is by no means
dead, figures compiled by the state de.
-, ..4,,, so re :, ,r,.;<11lr,1ro chon Most
of the 1858 owners of stations who
took out a license in 1920 have re-
neWed their license for 1921. "The
time will soon be here when a horse
will be worth more money than at
present" G. P. Norgord, commissioner
of agriculture, declared. "A shortage.
of good draft horses is becoming more
noticeable every day.
The state health department has
been stirred to further action toward
having chlorine plant installed in
Sheboygan by a report. of the local
health officer showing nine cases of
typhoid fever existed there in May.
The city was first ordered by the state
board to install the plant on March
Is. 1t is not in place at this time.
The city has advised the state depart
ment that failure to put the plant in
place has been due to the delay of the
manufacturers.
Orders have been issued by the city
of Green Bay to all grocers to only de-
liver goods on a specified list on city
Of "a MIR or
GUS bills coming before the council,
calling for groceries in the luxury
class such as tobacco and other non
essential merchandise. Card contain
ing the list of groceries for which pay
ment win be made by the city on poor
orders has been sent out to the store
keepers with the notification that all
other articles will be deducted from
invoices.
Building contractors of the Fox river
valley, who inaugurated the open shop
following the refusal of union carpen-
tiers to accept a wage cut of 10 cents
an hour on May l, have turned down
a request signed by the mayors and
presidents of commercial organizations
in all the cities of the valley to hold
"a conference with carpenters. The re-
quest stated that building has been
held up and that much suffering be-
cause of the house shortage has re
suited from the strike. Union carpen-
ters expressed willingness to partici-
pate in the conference.
High prelates of the Catholic church
and hundreds of priests attended the
funeral of the Rt Rev. James SchWe-
bach, bishop of the La Crosse diocese
at La Crosse. Archbishop J. ]. Keane,
Dubuque, was the celebrant. The
sermon was preached by Bishop
Patrick T. Hebron, Winona, MINI.
Among the prominent churchmen who
attended the funeral We're: Arch
bishop Austin Bowling, st. Paul;
Msgr. Joseph Rainier, rector of ST.
Francis seminary, Milwaukee; Bishop
Schinner, Spokane, and Bishop Eiss,
Marquette, Mich.
Eighty-four candidates were initiat-
ed at Wausau into the Catholic order
of Foresters at a joint meeting of
lodges of Rib Lake, Marathon, Stevens
Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Wausau.
Tomahawk, Merrill, Athens and Alb
botsford. H. T. Attemeier of Milwau-
kee chief ranger Of state, had charge
of the work
The first bird home in the Green
Bay Pigeon clubs 200mile fight from
noI-o1b I'll avora God 40 miles an