Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-03-18
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

for the Ashland county board to the
purposes Of the Ashland Land Clear
ins association, which is engaged in
them fit for farming.
Ash heaps, plumbing, water supplies
and how to keep on friendly terms
with neighbors are some of the things
being taught sixty students of the
Green Bay Junior High school by re-
search work under the guidance of
Miss Mildred E. Clark.
A potato growing contest is to be
started in Marinette county by County
Agricultural Agent Sibole for boys and
girls, according to an announcement.
Each boy and girl entering the contest
must agree to plant two and one-half
bushels Of potatoes.
Thirty-two bay horses, 5 to 6 years
old, and uniform in size, arrived in
GAINESVILLE for Troop G. GAINESVILLE
cavalry, Wisconsin National guard.
They came from Fort Robinson, Neb.,
md five other carloads were sent to
Madison for the cavalry outfit there.
The report of the Menasha police
department for the month of February
shows: Sixteen calls, four arrests,
four convictions, $500 worth of prop
erty stolen, six truancy cases, five con-
tagious diseases reported by city ply
stefan, and sixteen applications for
lodging by transient poor.
Within a fortnight, total of 5000
sheep from Montana will be sheared
at the Piederman feeding station in
Edgerton. There are now about three
thousand four hundred sheep at the
station, and an additional sheep train
is expected before the shearing is
started.
Judge Belden in Kenosha circuit
court denied rehearing in the case
| against Frank Lang, who was convict
ed of murder in the second degree in
connection with the Staying of Charles
Pacini, wealthy theater owner, Keno
sha. Lang was sentenced to twenty
years in states prison at Waupun
How the number of arrests has de-
creased in GAINESVILLE is shown strik-
ingly in February police report, which
lists only eleven arrests, the smallest
in the city's history In the same
month last year there were 200 arrests
and the corresponding month in 1919
there were lightweight. Only fifteen
arrests were made in January, 1921.
Mrs. Rebecca Milne, Phillips, has
been appointed, temporarily, superin-
tendent of schools of Price county.
This Office has been vacant for over
two months and the appointment
comes as a result of a petition of
teachers and others to the state super
intendent requesting the appointment
Mrs. Milne is a graduate of Stevens
Point Normal school and has had
seven years experience as a teacher.
Henry Lueck, town of Rib Falls, was
instantly killed and Frank Koeller
town of Hamburg, Marathon county,
was fatally injured, when frozen gravel
/ fell on them while they were resting
in gravel pit. The men, it is said,
sat down under the gravel bank, which
is believed to have become loosened
up by the warm weather, and were
resting. Lueck was dead when taken
from underneath the mass of rocks
and Koeller died four hours later.
Eighty-one cows registered by the
Rock Prairie Cow Testing association
of Rock county, produced 40 or more
pounds of butter fat during the month
Of February, according to figures made
public by officials of the organization
A pure bred Holstein COW owned by
John Wehinger' & Son led the field
with exactly 80 pounds of butter fat
and 1853 pounds of milk to her credit
Eight of the cows listed are owned by
the Rock county farm.
The increase of freight rates on saw
logs effective Mar IA, will not tend to
cripple the saw mills near Brentwood
during the present season as was
feared. Most of the mills hauling logs
by rail have their log supplies already
transferred to their mills, but the rates
to log men. The new rates will be
S7.7O per thousand as against the pres
ent rate of $3.50 per thousand. Lum-
Der companies still transferring logs
have suffered great losses through the
lack of snow and the increased rates.
Eau Claire will be called upon to
take care of at least 5000 people on
June %, 20 and 80, when the state en-
campment of the American Legion is
held there, according to opinion of
officers of the William G. Johnson
post, American Legion of Eau Claire
who are making the preliminary ar
rangement for the gathering, which,
they say, will be probably the largest
convention in Eau Claire's. history
The 1920 convention of the Legion at
Green Bay attracted 5000 visitors. At
the time of the last convention the
membership of the Legion in the state
was 25, 900. 1t is expected by the local
post officers that by convention time
this year, the state membership will
be past 10000 and close to $4,000.
The Madison Street Railway Co. has
petitioned the railroad commission for
permission to operate one-man cars on
it's entire system Following this ac-
ton, the city council voted to oppose
| the step. Economy is the claim upon
which the street railway officials based
their request The one-man cars were
introduced last year on one line hav-
| ing the least traffic.
The Green Bay federal free employ