Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-07-15
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Policemen and firemen of Marinette
received cut of $40 per month in
wages at meeting of the city coun-
Gil
George Schulz, a farmer living near
Whitelaw, ManitoWoc county, is at his
home suffering from a broken Shout
der bone and internal injuries as a
result of an attack by an Infatuated
bull at his farm.
Three members of the state board
OF vocational education, ]. M. Nc
Quaid, Milwaukee; Lieut.. Gov. George
F. Comings, Eau Claire, and Robert S.
Cooper, penosha, were reappointed
by Gov. Blaine. The term is for six
years with a small per diem salary.
Seven more Wisconsin high schools
have been added to the list of high
schools whose work is accredited by
the University of Wisconsin. They
are: Mission House academy, Plym-
outh, and the high schools of Fish
Creek, Holcombe, Michicot, New Aub-
burn, Orfordville, and Random Lake.
Six men were arrested in Eau Claire
in June for intoxication, as compared
with two a year ago. Since the new
prohibition measure which permits of
arrests by local police instead of fed
eral men, many have been brought
into court. July 5 seven were ar
ralgned for being drunk or having
liquor in their possession.
Settlement of the strike at the
Green Paper and Fiber mill of Green
Bay was made when the strikers at a
mass meeting accepted the company's
proposal The settlement was made
thru committee of the strikers,
the officials of the mill refusing to
deal with union officials. The men ac-
cepted a 9-hour day and wage cut
of 127a per cent.
According to census taken by the
Winnebago county highway commits
sion, 4,051 vehicles of all descriptions
passed a given point on the Oshkosh
Fond du Lac state highway, at the
southern limits of Oshkosh, July 4,
5 a. m. to 8 p. m. Of that number
2,529 were Wisconsin pleasure auto
mobiles, 85 were trucks, 1873 motor
cycles, 290 motor cars from outside
the state carrying touring parties,
and nine were horse-drawn vehicles.
Judge Frank Simmons of the Ke-
nosha probate court was arraigned be-
fore Judge Burgess in municipal
court, Racine, charged with having
passed to the left of a street car with
his automobile. He was adjudged
guilty, but sentence was suspended
He explained to the police, it is said,
that such a practice is common in
Kenosha and is considered no Of
Tense.
Farm tenantry is proportionately
lower in Wisconsin than in any other
middle western state, the census bu-
Teau report of 1920 shows This state
is shown to have 81, 1858 rented farms,
or LA per cent of the total number
being cultivated, an increase from
1910 of 2,604 and of five tenths of 1
per cent in proportion to the total
number The average tenantry rate
for the country is 1871 per cent, an
incsease of Il per cent since 1910, and
almost three times the Wisconsin
rate.
If recommendation to the city
council is adopted, municipal owner
ship at Manitowoc will be extended
to include a filing station where gas
oline and oil may be purchased. At
a recent council meeting it was
brought out that the various depart
ments of the city used much gas and
oil, for which the city is obliged to
pay the market price, and that a large
annual saving would be the result of
buying the gasoline direct. The city
clerk was instructed to secure infor-
nation from other cities.
The entire village of Hershberg in
the town of Herman near Juneau was
wiped out by flames. The fire started
in the residence of Adolph Mengel and
rapidly spread, consuming several
more homes, the Wollmer cheese fac
tory, Blans' store and the Hershberg
hotel. Because of lack Of equipment
it was necessary to form bucket
brigade. The dry spell made the
wooden buildings ready prey for the
flames. The loss is estimated in ex-
cess Of 100000. Hershberg is in the
center of the Dodge county dairy re
gion.
Distinguished rating has been
awarded for the fourth time to the
University of Wisconsin for the work
Of it's military department. according
to telegram received from the war
department The award is based upon
the governmental inspection made by
Col W. D. Chitty. Fort Sheridan, May
81, when the 1900 r. O. T. G. students
were reviewed. Col. Chitty declared
at the time of the review that the CO.
operation between the University of
Wisconsin and the military depart
ment was better than at any institu-
ton he had inspected. The Badger
cadet corps also won the distinguished
rating in 1915, 1916, and 1920.
Lafayette Locke, Of Brentwood, SO
years old, civil and Mexican war vet
eran, for many years a resident of
Barron county and one of the oldest
veterans in this section, died at
Ceres CAL according to messages re-