Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-12-02
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

company, h0nOSna, were presented 10
Thomas Bonford, aged 70 years, for
many years the janitor at the office
building, upon the occasion of his
golden wedding anniversary.
Little Lake Butte des Morris, near
here, is frozen over to depth of sew.
eral inches. The lake usually re
mains open in the center throughout
the winter and old settlers can recall
no time when it was completely Gov
cred with ice this early.
Fond du Lac citizens will fight vice
through law and order league, it is
announced. Some fifty prominent
business and professional men have
decided to organize a league. The
league will assist in cleanup of the
city.
Enjoying a daily strawberry short
cake since June because of a con-
stantly bearing strawberry patch has
at last become thing of the past for
Mrs. August J. Larson, Long Lake,
Washburn county A foot of snow
has ended productivity of the plant.
The 1922 Rock county highway
building program will include twenty
two miles Of concrete instead of only
eight as a result of. the county board
voting to build seven miles. of the
GAINESVILLE Evansville highway and
seven miles of the Janesville-Brod-
head road in addition to the eight
miles which comprise the road be-
tween Beloit and Clinton.
The present year has witnessed the
greatest building activity in Eagle
River in 20 years. Many homes and
business buildings have been erected
and three new industrial plants, name
~ the Kref Manufacturing company's
factory, the Wisconsin, Michigan Lum-
Der. company planning mill and box
factory and the machine shops of the
F. j. Thrun company.
Liquor laws have caused a big
increase in the amount of fines col
lected by Portage county during the.
last year. The report of Earl Newly,
county treasurer, to the board of SUI
pervisors, shows the sum of $5,53136
collected during the last year, COM
pared with $824.7O for the year pre-
vious. This increase is attributed
mainly to large sums of money taken
in in fines for violation of state pro-
hibition laws.
Ralph Bayley Yewdale, 20 years
old, assistant professor of history at
the University of Wisconsin, was
killed while in the act of cleaning a
revolver in his home at Milwaukee.
Yewdale, who is the son of M. H.
Yewdale, was preparing to return to
Madison, and was about to pack his
grips when killed The bullet entered
the left eye and penetrated the brain,
according to DR.. Alexander Montgom-
cry, Jr., who was summoned.
At the annual meeting of the Mari
nette county board it was decided to
put the next sheriff back on the fee
system More effective work is done
under the old system, it was said.
More than $4,000 would be expend-
ed on the county roads next season,
it was also decided A new court
house will not be built until the re-
turn of normal times, the board de-
cided Changes will be made in the
of the present building to
meet requirements for women jurors.
Tho no + +I,,<,1, ~, ,+I,e 1,or1 L,,,,,,rI.+
a marked increase in tuberculosis
eradication work among cattle, c. P.
Norgord, commissioner of agriculture,
says in his quarterly report Wis
consin has stepped ahead as the lead.
ing state of the nation in Kidding it's
cattle of tuberculosis, he points out.
There are now 1909 fully accredited
herds, 1888 once tested and 1924
nerds under supervision in the state,
143,280 cattle. The report
declares that serious situation with
regard to hog cholera has developed
due to apathy of hog breeders. A |
heavy corn crop has resulted in a /
movement of feeder hogs,
it says, and has brought the danger
Of an epidemic of cholera
The Red Cross drive in Racine for
$4,000 failed in two day campaign.
One-half the amount desired was sub
scribed. Further efforts will be made
to obtain the total amount. At the
close of the Red Cross campaign
drive was started for $4,000 for the !
central association, an organization
aiding the needy of Racine. There
remains drive for $4,000, the
amount required by popular subscrip-
ton to the 100000 needed for the
city's share of the cost of the pro-
posed 100000 building as memorial
to the Racine veterans of wars in
which the United States has been en-.
gagged The amount, of 100000 has
been pledged on guarantee that the
100000 would be raised by popular
before JAM /.
Fond du Laos county insane asy-
Ium more than paid for itself in the
year ending June, 1921. The total
cost of operating the institution, ex-
elusive of improvements, was $751; +,
1929 The income of the asylum
was more than 100000. The number
Of inmates decreased by one. There /
were 10 deaths.
While working in a gravel pit near
Shawano, William Grosnick was bur.
led beneath several tons of sand and |