Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-30
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

to be erected. The hospital will be
three miles north of GAINESVILLE on the
high river bank bluffs one of the
most scenic places in the county.
Osteopaths in Wisconsin, who have
satisfactorily passed the authorized
state examination in surgery, are en-
titled to practice without restriction,
Atty. Gen. Morgan tells DR.. ]. M. Dodd,
secretary of the state board of med
ical examiners, in an opinion.
While hunting ducks at Circle Lilly
Lake, Oneida county, E. S. Langen-
hahn and Otto Krahn were confronted
Ky 30O-pound mother bear and cub.
Che large bear started after the men,
who fired and killed her instantly.
The cub escaped in the bushes.
The supreme court granted the ap-
plication of the Carnation Milk Co. to
start an original action in the name
OF the state, contesting constitutions
ality of the filled milk law passed by
the last legislature The law would
prohibit manufacture and sale of milk
compounds in Wisconsin, where prac-
tically all of these compounds are
made.
Third-class postmaster examina-
lions for Wisconsin offices will be
held Oct. %, according to the United
States civil service commission, as
follows: Bagley office, salary $1,000;
Barneveld office, $1,000; Belmont, ST.
200; Cazenovia, $1,000; Frederic, ST.
100; Grafton, $1,000; Hammond, ST.
400; Hazel Green, $1,4OO; Hollandale,
$1,000; Juda, $1,000; Sinsinawa, ST.
200; Verona, $1,000.
An increase Of about 400 students
is shown in the early registration at
the University of Wisconsin, accord
ing to figures announced by Registrar
d. W. Hiestand. Early figures include
1910 men students and 2,491 women
students. There are 2,176 freshmen,
1925 sophomores, 1852 juniors, 1,102
seniors, 533 graduate students, and
113 special or unclassifed students.
An Increase of 800 is reported in the
Junior class and 100 in the senior
class.
There are 3,085 persons reported as
teachers and principals in Wisconsin
high schools, report of the state SUI
perintendent of public instruction
shows. Of these 1874 were in schools
under city superintendent and 1,4O1
in schools under county superintend-
ents. College graduates serving as
teachers in the city high schools num-
bered 995, and those under county
superintendent 462 No figures are
available to show how many noncol-
lege graduates are teaching high
school subjects for which they were
specially prepared. the report says.
One of the most remarkable cou-
pies perhaps in the United States is
residing at Abrams. near Oconto, in
the persons of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Bell. He is 104 years old and his
wife is 1902 Each is enjoying good
health. They have resided in Abrams
so years. married in Canada in 1874,
and resided in Detroit before remov-
ing to Manitowoc later coming to
Abrams. Mr.. Bell volunteered for
service in the Civil war, but was re-
jected as he was to old, having been
43 at the time. Twelve children were
born to the couple, seven of whom
survive.
A court test of the compulsory in
spection powers of the new marketing
law will be undertaken by potato ship
pers of Waupaca county, according to
work received by the department of
markets in Madison This will be the
first action testing powers OF the new
department The basis of the claim
will be that the legislature has no con
stitutional power to compel shippers
to pay fee for inspection of their
produce before it is marketed. In the
meantime, fees are being paid under
protest. Nearly 100 inspectors are en-
gagged in grading the Wisconsin potato
crop. the cost Of their services being
borne by the shippers. The test case
will be started in the circuit court OF
Waupaca county.
Wills Lesperance and Chalmers
Yeager, principals in the Wabeno
bank robbery, where $4,000 was taken,
were sentenced to Is years each in
states prison by Judge w. B. Quinlan
in the Crandon circuit court. Law
renee Lesperance, an accessory after
the fact, was sentenced to one year
in prison. Fifteen special deputies
guarded the court room during the
trial The three bank robbers pleaded
guilty through Judge J. N. Walsh, as
sistant district attorney. "Frenchy''
Yaeger, alleged to have been an Access
sorry after the fact, was dismissed.
The men were taken to Waupun by
Sheriff Miller and several deputy sher-
ifs. The Lesperance brothers are
from Oconto and the Yaegers from
Green Bay. The bank robbery took
place on July 16.
Eight Ballas brothers of Savannah,
Ill, have purchased 480 acres in Lin
coin county at Boehm's Spur and ex-
pect to start permanent settlement.
The land will be cleared and improved
and in addition to farming the young
men will engage in mercantile an.l
other businesses.
The largest gathering ever attend
ing a funeral in Mindoro, La Crosse
1rroc that which accor1b1od fo,,