Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-08-26

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the saloon men are making prepare
tons for stiff fight over the consti-
tutionality of the law.
Licensing of outside contractors
who come into Sheboygal to do work,
compulsory employment of local labor
by all contracting firms, and the pro-
lection of labor in skilled lines, have
been asked by the common council by
the. Building Trades council of She
boygan.
Samuel j. Bergeron, 10 year old son
of John Bergeron, Eagle Point farmer,
near Eau Claire, was fatally wounded
by bull when he tried to lead the an
imal to the barn. The bull broke
away and then lunged at the boy. One
of his horns penetrated the lads chest.
The boy died an hour later.
Judge Martin L. Lueck of the Thir-
teenth judicial circuit has personally
filed his resignation with Gov Blaine
The resignation is effective Sept. 15
Judge Lueck's term expires in April
1928, and Gov. Blaine is expected to
name successor at once. A number
of prominent attorneys, among them
Charles A. Kading of Waterfowl and
C. M. Davidson of Beaver Dam.
An Equity Dairy mass meeting of
farmers will be held at Merrill Sept. 8,
at which speaker from the National
Milk Producers federation will urge
farmers to unite in obtaining a fair
price for milk and milk products. The
average price this year in Wisconsin,
received by farmers, is said to be IA
cents pound. as compared to 3.5
cents a pound received during the pre-
ceding four years.
Saloon keepers of Manitowoc city
and county were pronounced the most
laW-abiding Of any visited by prohibit
ton enforcement officers, who have
inspected every thirst parlor i'll this
section Not one arrest was made.
officers Hewitt and Love, in charge of
the prohibition squad, stated that the
provisions of the new Severson law
were being observed satisfactorily.
E. T. Hill, Hayward, farmer, charged
with the murder of his mother five
years ago, was exonerated when mr.
raigned in municipal court. The
charges were dropped at the request of
District Attorney J. P. Davis, who adj
mitted insufficient evidence. Mrs. Hill
mysteriously disappeared following an
alleged visit to her sons home.
Searchers found her hat, a grip, and
few other garments. She left a will
representing an estate of $4,000.
Green Bay Brown county has the
lowest per capita taxation Of any coun-
ty in Wisconsin with a population of
$4,000, and spends less money on
schools than any other county, with
one exception, according to figures
given out by Income Assessor J. Colig-
non, Green Bay. The individual tax
is $50. Dane county shows the highest
school expenditure with $1,270,000 for
the year. Brown county's total for the
year is $556,000.
Louis Hartnig, Stevens Point, home
from a two months visit in Germany,
says conditions in that country are ex-
cellent. Factories are running full
blast" Mr.. Hartnig said, "and crops
are good. In Rottenburg, where
spent practically all of the two months
/ was in Germany, there was but one
difficulty. Because of lack of rain
there is a shortage of water there
Hydrants are dry and all water must
come from small wells" Mr. Hartnig
came to the United States thirty-one
years ago.
Before learning that his small
daughter was in the burning barn on
his farm, IL miles south of Marshf1eld
Rheinold J. Hendricks ran into the
barn and rescued three registered
calves. The child persisted Mr.. Hen
bricks children were playing in the
automobile in the barn, when the
structure was discovered to be in
flames. An older brother tried in vain
to rescue his sister. When the parents
learned of the child's fate it was with
difficulty that neighbors prevented
them from dashing to certain death in
the barn.
What is probably the last chapter in
the 5O-year old feud over the location
of the public school in District No s
town of Freedom. near Appleton, was
written when residents of the north
end of the district succeeded in their
fight to have the school moved to the
center of the district. 1t now is 10
Gated about half mile from the south
boundary and more than three miles
from the north line. The decision to
move the school was made at a special
school election. 1t was also decided to
add $500 to the school tax levy next
year to defray the cost of moving.
RI. Casino, Superior, who was held
in jail for a month in connection with
the Marie Davis murder in Superior
on March 26, has been ordered deport-
ed by the department of labor and has
applied for a writ of habeas corpus
from Federal Judge Page Morris of
Duluth, according to his attorney. Ca
sine owned the candy store in which
Marie Davis was strangled to death.
He is 33 years old and has been in
the United States since he was IA
years of age. His father did not take
out naturalization papers until after
he became 81 years of age, however, SO
he is a citizen of Italy.
The Park Falls plant of the Park
Falls Lumber Co will soon close for
an Indefinite neriod. The cOmpany'S