Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-21
.WISCONSTN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

The annual saengerfest of the Luth
eran churches of eastern Wisconsin
will be held in Manitowoc on July
10. 1t was held in. Sheboygan last
| year and thousands attended from
many cities.
The Marathon county fair will be
1 held at Wausau this year Aug. % to 26
| inclusive. A new grand stand will be
built and automobile show room will
be provided under it.
WATERFOWL poultry fanciers car
ried off the bulk of the prizes offered
! at the recent exhibition given by the
| poultrymen of Fort Atkinson, winning
| Ia different class competitions.
Eighteen new interpretations were
organized in Lincoln county during
1920, five more than in 1919. The total
| increase in capital stock of incorpora-
lstions at the close of 1920 was $6,013,-
300 over a year before. The increase
in capital stock during 1919 was $685.
600 as compared with last years rec
ord.
The herd of Folstefn cattle belong
ing to G. L. Jacques, attorney and loan
agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life
insurance company, Neillsville, who
disappeared month ago, was sold by
the sheriff, on an execution issued in
favor of the First National bank
Nothing is known of theawhereabouts
of Mr.. Jacques. His affairs were found
to be in a mixed condition.
District Attorney A. Murphy, Marin
cite, is making a record in prOsecu.
ton of saloon men. So far every de-
fendant has been found guilty or plead
ed guilty. The saloon men and vets
generally who believed public senti.
ment was not UP to the prohibition law
are disappointed. The trials so far in
circuit court have been great salts
faction to the forces Of law and order
in Marinette city and county.
Under the direction of Miss Anna
M. thompson, county nurse, the
schools of Bayfield, county have enlist
ed siQ the modern health crusade.
which is conducted in the state by the
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis associa-
ton Nearly 1000 pupils will scrub
their ears and the back of their necks
daily and carry out ten other health
chores, laid down by the health cru
SADIE. Titles of page, squire, knight
and knight banneret are awarded for
perfect records during various periods
of the. tournament
Mayor J. N. Welshy, of Stevens
Point. has been called upon by the
chamber of commerce to compel
transient merchants to comply with a
city ordinance requiring license of
from SIS to $25 day and in case of
any doubt as to the permanence of the
applicant, bond of $500 Action was
requested by Stevens Point merchants
who became aroused after several
firms shipped goods there for unload
ing" and then left in few weeks.
During the year 1920 Cupid shat
tered all previous records in Hurley,
according to records in the city clerk
Office. During the year there were IS
licenses to wed issued to Hurley cou-
pies compared with 80 issued in 1919.
The city birth rate for the last year
shows a decrease compared with the
previous year. In 1919 there were 81
birth certificates filed with the city
clerk, compared with 60 in 1920. In
1920 there were 43 deaths and 40 in
1919.
Thirty-seven Duroc Jersey hogs sold
at the first public sale Of purebred
hogs in Outagamie county brought an
average price of $112.30, much better
than the average price in sales in this
state in the last few weeks. More
than two hundred farmers attended.
Prices ranged from SOS to $500. An
effort is being made to make Appleton
the livestock sales center of the Fox
river valley and a huge sales pavilion
may be erected. Holstein and Guern.
sey sales are scheduled for spring and
another hog sale is planned.
Fifty-two graduates of Beloit college
are named in who's Who in Amer
ica'' of 1920. Twenty of the number
are educators, 13 clergymen, four, ply
sicians; three, lawyers; three, journal
lists, and two technical experts. Horace
Reynolds, 80, Chicago, is oldest grad
uate named He is journalist on the
staff of Chicago newspapers and The
Railway Age. Prof. Lew r. Sarett, IL,
is the youngest, writer and professor
of oratory at Northwestern university.
Ding Darling. '98. the cartoonist, is
among those listed.
THE Dodge county board of super
yisors killed the prospects of tuber-
culosis sanatorium in conjunction with
Fond du Lac and Washington counties
when it voted to withdraw from the
tri-county plan. Fond du Lac and
WASHINGTON counties decided upon the
site at Hamilton, Fond du Lac county.
This selection was unsatisfactory to
Dodge county supervisors. who
claimed the location was inaccessible
to this county. The Dodge county
board of supervisors plans to erect a
tuberculosis sanatorium to be main
tanned entirely by this county.
Miss Adde Schwittay, Marinette,
sister of the late Assemblyman Albert
Schwittay, has been appointed county
nurse of Marinette county. Her du-
ties include visits to the children of
the rural schools and response to call
from private homes throughout the
county.
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