Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-11-11
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

silage corn and barley for the 1921
season, according to the report filed
by the state department of agricul-
ture.
Menasha and Neenah will be asked
to give consideration to proposal
made by Mayor Halves Of Appleton
that the three cities erect a huge in
Generator TO be used jointly for gar
bage disposal. None of these three
cities have garbage disposal systems.
Statistics collected by Income AS
SCISSOR J. ]. Colignon show that one
county has an automobile. The popu-
lation of the county is 81 900 and there
are 5,261 motor vehicles In averag-
Ing the number in family the fact
was taken into consideration that
Brown county also has the largest
sized families in the state.
There were 81 accidents on public
railroad crossings in Wisconsin during
the three months from July 1 to Oct.
i, resulting in the death of Is persons
and injury of Is, the report of
the state department of engineering
shows Twenty-six of these accidents
| involved automobiles, in which Is per-
sons were killed and % injured. The
department announces that it has
made Investigations of ten dangerous
crossings in three localities.
A police reward Of $500 was offered
to the person giving a clew which
would lead to conviction of the muir
derer of Anthony Gonzanski, Superior,
warehouse Waterman, who was pre-
sumedly slain by robbers. The shoot
ing of the Waterman is the second
mysterious murder in Superior within
| q six-month period. When Marie Da-
Wis, candy store proprietress, was
found strangled to death in her store,
six months ago, not cleW was found
which would establish the identity of
the slayer.
The balance on hand in the state
treasury Nov 1, including all funds,
was $7,254,137, Henry Johnson, state
treasurer, announced. This is $1,469,-
600 less than Oct /, the figures show
There was S4,752,585 in the general
fund, compared to $5,701, 582 Oct. i,
and approximately 100000 July l.
The service recognition fund has
$1,0O3,844 on hand, and the soldiers
educational bonus 1921 1869. The state
has $1,5OO,00O in United States certi-
fcates of Indebtedness which are not
included in the balance.
Fire which broke out in the Metho-
dist hospital, Madison, imperiled the
lives of 30 patients. The blaze was
checked after causing damage of
$4,000. The patients were transferred
to other hospitals of the city and to
nearby homes, scores of citizens Civ
ing assistance with autos. The entire
fire department fought the flames
The fire broke out on the third and
fourth floors and is believed to have
been caused by crossed wires The
hospital, built at cost of 100000,
was opened three months ago.
AT a rehearing held in Oshkosh be-
fore representative of the state rail-
road commission, the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad made request
to take off one of its two trains on
the Hortonville division and operate
an amended schedule Of one train that
would give residents of Hortonville
and vicinity an opportunity to come
to Oshkosh and return on the same
day Some time ago the railroad ar
bitrarily took off one train, but the
railroad commission ordered the two
train service restored.
Charles Milwaukee Sivyer, IS, the
first white child born in Milwaukee,
died in Los Angeles. The body was
brought to Milwaukee for burial. Mr.
Sivyer was born on May 4, 1886, in a
small house which his father had
foated down the river a year before
and located on the present site of the
First Wisconsin National Bank bldg
A bronze tablet marks the birthplace
The boyhood of Milwaukee's first child
was spent in a backwoOds village of
400 inhabitants in an age of log cab
ms, OK carts and Indians. Solomon
Juneau conducted the only store and
all about the little clearing lowered a
dense forest.
Applications for 1922 automobile
license plates will not be received by
the secretary of state before December
/, his office reports. A number of
applications have been returned fol
lowing their early receipt. 'Automo
bile owners who desire to apply for
the same number held by them in
previous years are requested to have
their applications in early Only those
wanting numbers below 1000 will be
assured of accommodation 1t is ex-
pected that 100000 licenses will be
issued in 1922, compared to 100000
issued in 1921. This will mean reve-
nue. of $3,6O0,OOO derived from license
payments, the greater part of which is
devoted to highway maintenance.
Legionnaires and former service
men of Sheboygan Falls are circula-
ting a petition to citizens to assist
chem in mounting government can
non in the custody of the common
council, charging that the city officials
had failed to live up to their promise
to do so.
The Beloit lodge of Oddfellows are
planning to build temple on the site
doodod r. tho lodge. forty wears ago bv