Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-03-25
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

out cost to the relIef commissions.
In memory of six Winnebago Indian
youths of the Wisconsin Rapids dis
trict who gave their lives in the World
war, Ahdawagam chapter of the D. A.
R. will erect a tablet. The memorial
will be in the form Of a huge granite
boulder and will contain the names of
the six dusky heroes.
Pleading guilty to burglarizing the
Neva bank, robbing the Deerbrook
garage and larceny of articles valued
at $109, Earl Pillsbury was sentenced
to 20 years and Wickman Pillsbury to
Is years in state prison by Judge A.
B. Goodrich of Amigo. John Kubeny,
also, pleading guilty, was given five
years.
IN the last six months. of 1920 the
average wage of all injured employees
whose cases were settled under the
Wisconsin compensation act was
$28.51 per week, as shown by an
analysis made public by the industrial
commission. This figure is to be COM
pared with $2299 in the same six
months in 1919 and $3.50 in the first
six months of 1920.
Three horses belonging to Kreger
brothers, Kenosha county, were killed,
and one man, Emil Kreger, was seri-
ously injured when a bolt of lightning
struck in the barnyard of the Kreger
farm. The men were working when
the storm broke and hurried toward
the barn. They were hit by the thun-
| derbolt just before reaching safety.
Kreger is in a hospital.
Despite the fact that woodsheds,
barns and Easements in Lincoln coun-
| ty are crammed with wood, buying
continues The explanation appears to
be that with wildwood selling at slight
ly more than pre-war prices, promises
to advance to nearly the cost of COAL
which under the present high freight
rates, is no competitor for wildwood
fuel, sawmills are stocked ahead with
orders for considerable time.
Within few years there will be a
beautiful automobile drive out of
Marinette. one of the finest in that sec
| ton 1t is the loop from Marinette
| down the bay shore to Peshtigo har-
Dor and then from the harbor to the
city of marinette, about % miles in all
| This drive will include about eight
miles of shore drive up the Peshtigo
At present the roads are passable but
not very good.
A resolution has been adopted by
| the Tomahawk city council for a ref
| erendum vote to be submitted to the
electors at the spring election for the
| issuance of $4,000 bonds with which
to build two bridges across the Wis
consin river at Tomahawk. This is
suance of bonds is the limit to which
the city can go for bonding purposes
together with those which are now out
standing
Another "meanest'' thief has come
TO light. He is Mic Stevens, an Indian
who was sentenced to one year in the
guilty to the charge of having stolen
| $50, a valuable purse and a revolver
from Patrick Burns, an aged blind
nan Of Maple Grove, Manitowoc coun-
". Stes ems was guest at the Burns
home when he committed the theft.
He was arrested at Wittenburg.
The Fairmont Creamery Co., the
main office of which is located in
Omaha, was found guilty in municipal
court at Green Bay on seven counts
! charging violation of the state dairy
and food laws and was fined SITS and
costs. The company was charged with
holding butter and eggs in cold stor-
age in violation of state laws, with no
marks to show on what date the dairy
products we're placed in storage Or
when released.
Dog prisoners are quite common,
and their work is heard of quite fire.
quently, but new kind Of a low life"
was discovered the other day near
Footville, Rock county, where 80 fine
Leghorn chickens belonging to Gust
| Guse were discovered dead. An ex-
animation disclosed the fact that they
had been poisoned by a combination
| Of salt, oats and strychnine. The
owner recently moved into the neigh
| borhood, and is unaware of having any
1 enemies. he 1OSO 10 CollLAdtCu dI
about SIS.
Oneida county claims the distinction
of being the largest producer of certi-
| fed seed potatoes in Wisconsin. Dur
ing the year 1920 there was grown in
| the state 10000 bushels of certified
seed stock and of this amount Oneida
county furnished $4,000 bushels.
Since the first of January this year -
carloads of certified seed stock have
been shipped from that county to
growers in various parts of the coun-
| try, chiefly in the South Indications
are that larger acreage will be de-
voted to seed stock this year in Oneida
| county as growers are beginning to
| realize more and more the increased
profits to be had from this branch of
the industry.
Nick Kowaliszyn, Portage county
farmer, paid fine of 500 and costs
of $1,000 in county court at Stevens
Point on a charge of violating the Null
berger prohibition enforcement law
He was arrested late in February when
| state agents made search of farms
and soft drink establishments in Ste
| vens Point.
| After five years of waiting, compile
ton of the road between La Crosse
| and Sparta, part of the state trunk line
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