Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-23
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


by the department of agriculture,
Madison, that the product is useful
only as a filler or lightener for heavy
feeds, and not as a regular food.
The attorney general has started &C
ton against the Mansion Electric
Service company for alleged failure
to comply with the state law govern
ing hours of work for women. 1t is
charged that girls were compelled to
work IL and 16 hours daily to hold
their jobs.
Green Bay and vicinity face a dras-
tic shortage of fuel wood, according
to j. T. Phillips, pioneer lumber man
of that city Due to the lack of de-
mand for high class lumber, the camps
in the north have been Idle during
most of the summer and none of the
timber which is used for stove and
CRATE consumption has been cut. The
yards in Green Bay are practically
bare Of fuel wood and the lumber men
hold out little hope of shipments until
late in the winter.
iona Gale, Portage, noted Wiscon-
sin authoress, was elected to the
Craftsmanship of the state library
board. Miss Gale was appointed to
the board with Senator Herman Sew
erson, lola, by Gov. Blaine. Miss Gale
will succeed Emil Baensch, Mantle
voc, as chairman A committee con-
sisting of Miss Gale, DR.. Joseph Scha-
fer and Secretary c. B. Lester was
elected to consider the matter of fill.
ing the vacancy caused by the death
of Dr. Charles Mccarthy, head of the
legislative reference library.
Fish rescued from pockets along
the upper Mississippi river thus far
this season total 12O,OO0,0O0, accord
ing to figures announced by G. F. Gull
er, superintendent of fish rescue work.
This years record will exceed last
years total of 117,000.000 by several
million, he maintains. Owing to the
extremely low stage of water, which
came early in the season, a large num-
Der of new pockets in Which fish were
marooned have been discovered, and
the work of saving the land locked
fish has been expedited.
Sister Margaret Clare, one of the
oldest members Of the Sisters of St.
Mary of the Protestant Episcopal
church and for II years mother supe-
rior of the western province at the
community, died at Kemper hall, Ke-
nosha. She was SO years old and had
been an invalid for the last three
years. Her work for the sisters Of
st. Mary in Peekskill, N. Y, Chicago,
Davenport, Memphis and Kenosha has
made her one OF the most notable
women connected with educational in
situations of the church.
Students of the upper classes at the
University of Wisconsin will deter
mine the future of hazing at a spe-
cial election Sept. 26, it was decided
by the student senate elections COM
uittee. Vote will be taken on the
question of the return of green caps
from freshmen, abolished by the SEN
ate last spring, as result of severe
hazing which resulted in injury of
number OF first year men. At the
same time, the students will deter
mine whether or not the annual class
rush, held swo weeks after school
opens, and the annual cap night, held
in the spring, shall be kept as uni
versity customs,
Peter Stromme, a journalist, lectur-
ar and traveller of national reputation,
died in Madison while celebrating his
sjxty-fifth birthday. Mr.. Stromme had
crossed the Atlantic 20 times. For
80 years he was engaged in the news
paper business. Born at Winchester,
Wis, on Sept. Is, 1866, Mr.. Stromme
was educated at Luther college, De
corah, Ia He was editor of the Nor
den at Chicago and later of the Amer
lean at Madison. From 1898 to 1900
be was associate editor of the Min
neapolis Times. Translation of Eng
fish books into Norwegian and famous
books of Norway into English was his
favorite work.
An attempted delivery of the three
Wabeno State bank robber suspects
held in the county jail at Crandon
was foiled by the jail janitor. The
three men, Willis and Lawrence Les
perance, Oconto, and Chalmers Yae-
ger. Green Bay, had worked loose
bricks in the prison chimney and were
about to effect their release when dis
covered Acid was poured about the
cell bars, after which they were sawed
loose with a piece of wire, giving
access to ventilator pipe connected
with a chimney Bricks were loosen
ed with piece of iron from the
bathtub. Sheriff H. B. Miller, who
found the three prisoners ready to
make their getaway under cover of
darkness, put them in separate cells
and guards were placed around the
jail. The men IRE awaiting trial at
the fall term of circuit court.
The herd of So head of Holstein
cows owned by Atty. Adolph P. Leh-
ner, of Oconto Falls, are all in the
registry class as each has qualified
in the registry test. There are now
four cows in the herd with records
of between 80 and SO pounds of but
ter in seven days The seven-day
average for the entire herd is 26
pounds of butter.