Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-02-18

year at Waupun by Judge AgneW.
The stork ran away from the grim
reaper in Green Bay during January,
according to the bureau of vital sta
tistics. There was "a births and 10
deaths. Dan Cupid had bad month,
only II weddings being solemnized.
Three air mail flyers were killed
when two explosions in midair sent
their machine crashing 700 feet to the
earth in flaming nose dive while they
were circling for landing at Salzer
field three miles from La Crosse.
John Shellenberger, aged recluse,
who for more than 90 years has lived
in a little hut in the hills of northern
Lancaster county, subsisting on herbs,
nuts and fruits, was burned to death
when fire he built to keep warm
burned the shack.
/. Five raids by Sheriff Arthur Buch-
anan of Superior, on New Kentucky
have sent the price of moonshine soar
ing from So to SIS a gallon to $40 to
$50 for liquor of a poorer variety, &C.
cording to the reports alleged DRINKS
give in Superior police court.
Free inspection of teeth of children
of the Stevens Point public schools
under the direction of Miss Ruth Mar
lowe, city nurse, will be made. 1t is
hoped that dental clinic for school
children will be established on the
basic of results.
The salary of the mayor of James.
vile was raised to $1,000 by the city
council, an increase of $780, The city
clerk was raised from $1,000 to $2,1O0.
Several other increases were dropped
following development of public dis.
approval It was originally proposed
to give the mayor $4,000.
More than 500 bankers and bankers
representatives are expected to gather
in Eau Claire on Feb. %, when the
annual convention of Group 1, Wiscon.
sin Bankers association meets. The
last convention was held in Chippewa
Falls in 1920, with an attendance of
more than 400.
The Biggers Bee Supply Manufac-
turing company for the past. year have
been the biggest honey producers in
Wisconsin-which state is a leader in
bee industry and have 1000 colonies
of Italian bees at Brentwood operating
in the four counties of Washburn,
Sawyer, Rusk, and Barron.
The first six Lincoln county cows to
be placed in the official advanced reg
istry division of the Holstein- Friesian
Breeders association are members of
the Lincoln county home herd. The
leader produced 597.02 pounds of milk,
and 1916 pounds of butter fat in a
seven-day test.
A total of S13,569 acres in Wiscon-
sin or 2.3 per cent of the states total
acreage, has been organized into
drainage enterprise, at a cost of $4,
296,755, the census bureau at Wash
ington announced OF the land in the
organized drainage enterprises 274,384
acres is improved farm land, 145,056
acres is timbered and cutover land
and 1894, 129 acres is unimproyed.
Farmers of Rock county and south
ern Wisconsin strongly oppose the
adoption of law for daylight saving
next summer, according to a canvass
just completed. Their complaint is
that it interferes with farm schedules.
Farmers work with the sun, but visit
the city by clock, and early closing,
they say, will cost them valuable work
ing hours.
Wisconsin will receive $2,250,000 for
state roads under the provisions of the
general bill for that purpose just
passed in congress, according to Frank
A. Cannon of the Wisconsin Good
Roads association in 1918 the gov
eminent gave the state S5,100,000 and
the state still has $1,700,000 available
under that act which it may use this
spring." he said.
The industrial commission of Wis
consin has awarded Mrs. Jennie Will
lians, widow of George Williams, La
Crosse fireman who was electrocuted
at the plant of the G. Heileman Brew
ing company, compensation of S4,793.
The commission also penaliZed the
brewing company $629.81 for not pro
viding housing for the electric switch,
which caused Mr.. Williams death.
At the annual meeting of the Rusk
County Real Estate Board, resolutions
were adopted protesting against the
present lavish expenditure of public
money, demanding that halt be
called. A committee of three was ap-
pointed to call massmeeting of the
citizens. Meetings are now being held
in all parts of the county. A petition
with the names of 1000 voters will
be sent to Madison. Bills have al
ready been introduced covering the
changes in the state laws demanded.
instruction in protection and propa-
cation of fish and game will be includ
ed in the curriculums of Wisconsin
public schools if the Wisconsin Game
Protective association can carry out
its plans. Officers of the state asso-
citation, at a meeting in Appleton,
made preliminary arrangements for
presenting their case to the state de-
partment of education. It was also de-
cided to interest Boy Scout organiza-
tions in game protection. The state
association now has between 10000
and 10000 members 1t is proposed
to increase the membership to 10000
before the end nf this year