Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-12-23
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

ty is the banner district with eight
two-day meetings. Vernon county
comes second with six, Walworth and
Clark counties have five each.
While playing around the floor in
the home of his parents, the 2-year-old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Lund-
stem, living miles west of Mason,
Bayfield, county, picked up a % cali
bel. cartridge and swallowed it. The
cartridge lodged in its lungs. The
child was taken to Duluth, where the
cartridge was extracted. The chils
will recover.
There is waiting list at the Wis
consin state reformatory at Green
Bay. According to officials, the re-
cent influx of prisoners, sometimes as
many as IL a day, has crowded the
prison to capacity and it will be i'm
possible to handle any more inmates
until after Jan. 1. Sheriffs have been
ordered to hold prisoners at the jails
until notified by the reformatory of
ficials to- forward them.
The serving of warm lunches to
pupils at noon in the country schools
throughout Racine county is becom-
ing quite popular and the work of
parent-teachers associations and COM
munity clubs has worked to such
good advantage that more than half
of the 70 schools in the county have
hot lunch equipment and the pupils
are now enjoying warm food at noon
instead of cold sandwich or two.
No distinction can be made between
aliens and citizenS In determining the
liabilities Of counties and the state
for maintenance Of such persons
when they become insane, the attor-
ney general holds in an opinion to
the state board of control. Counties
are liable to the same degree for sup
port of an alien resident as a citi-
zen, under the Wisconsin law, the
opinion declares.
Every county in Wisconsin is rep
resented by students at the University
Of wisconsin this year, according to
the new student directory. The coun-
ties which have sent the largest num-
bers are: Dane, 1,459; Milwaukee,
67S; Rock, 1879; Winnebago, ia; RAJ
cine, 108; Jefferson, 107, and Sank,
1O2. Counties represented only by
men students are: Adams, man;
Burnett, 8 Florence, 8; Forest, IL;
Marquette, IS; Polk. 10; Taylor. q;
Villas, 4.
Prices of bootleg whisky are on the
decline, if quotations furnished by
agents who are said to have visited
Chippewa Falls looking for holiday
trade are any Indication. Orders were
solicited at SIS a case for Canadian
club, and 500 a case for Scotch in
large quantities. The bootleggers, it
is alleged, claimed they were in posi-
ton to ship a carload of whisky into
Chippewa Falls if sufficient orders for
the liquor could be obtained.
Indications are that farmers of
Price county will clear far more land
in 1922 than any preceding year.
Plans are now being made to fill dy-
Mantle orders for farmers by carlot
shipments early in the spring. The
land clearing department of Wiscon-
sin university will furnish experts on
land clearing to assist in the work.
Throughout the winter series OF
meetings will be held at convenient
places in the county at which clear
ing problems will be discussed and
orders taken for explosives.
Eau Claire's population, according
to state census figures, is as well
balanced as any in the state. OF the
20,906 population, 1882 are females
and 10,284 are males, majority OF
1893 for the women. Green Bay, La
Crosse, Madison, Oshkosh, Appleton
Fond du Lac, Marinette, Stevens
Point and Wausau with Eau Claire
stand out with more women than
men, while Kenosha, Milwaukee, She
boygan, Racine, Superior, Ashland
Beloit, GAINESVILLE, Manitowoc, Wau-
kesha and West Allis show the males
in the preponderance numerically.
Rigid discipline, strictly and con-
gtantly enforced, has prevented out
breaks in the Wisconsin state prison
at Waupun such as have occurred in
number of states recently, Henry
Town, member of the state. board OF
control and for Is years warden OF
The Waupun penitentiary, declares. It
has been six years since a prisoner
escaped from the institution. Mr.
Town believes that there is some
times too much sentiment connected
with prison management. His policy
has been to outline a code of con-
duct for the worst of the inmates
and then make all conform, plan
which, although rigid, works little
real hardship, he says.
The Lincoln county road and bridge
committee will invest in no big ma
chinery this year outside of purchas-
ing from the federal equipment de-
partment Of the state the two lotion
Holt caterpillar tractors which have
been used on a rental basis during
the past summer. The tractors when
new last spring were valued at $4,000
but they will only cost the county
$1,000 each.
The sawmill of the Langlade Lum-
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