Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-02-04
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger Stare
Arranged in Condensed Form

Beloit college celebrated the seven
ty-ffth anniversary of the issuance o.
it's charter by the territory of Wiscon
sin, Feb. 2, 1916 There were specia
chapel exercises in honor of the occa
sion.
Religious and civic societies of Ra
cine plan to take an important part il
the municipal elections to be held there
in March and April, when mayor
city clerk, assessor, aldermen and su
pervisors are to be elected.
Harold Halvorsen, IL, Eau Claire
has brought suit for $4,000 damages fol
injuries received when Herman Fem
pie, local well driller, ran over hin
with his automobile on Nov. IL. The
plaintiff charges that temple was driv
ing 40 miles an hour when the acci
dent happened.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Mrs. Cora L. Rich, st
Petersburg, Fla, formerly of Wauwa
tosa, to DR.. Wilson S. NaylOr, dean O.
Lawrence college, Appleton. The mar
riage will take place in ST. Petersburg
in March.
What is considered very unusual il
the line of butterfat tests of milk has
occurred in the Guernsey herd owned
by Paul Kickbush, town Of Stettin
Marathon county. For more than five
months his herd produced milk with ar
average test of 5 per cent
Almost $4,000 worth of business
was transacted during the year 1920 or
a capital of $3.50 by the Fond du Lat
County Equity association. Twenty
two carloads of cattle were shipped
during a period of eight months. The
association has also erected its ware
house and coal sheds and has made 3
comfortable profit on its livestock bust
ness for the members.
Despite the slump in building oper
atoms last year, due to high prices Of
material and labor and the unsettled
conditions following the war, the an
nual report of the Manitowoe Building
and Loan association shows net gaiT
of $65,000 in assets, which total $40,
1890 for the year. A business OF
more than $21O,00O was transacted dur
ing 1920.
Combination OF the Green Bay AS
ISOLATION Of Commerce and the De Pere
Businessmens organization is being
contemplated. An invitation to af
filiate with Green Bay has been ex
tended to the De Pere men. Backers
of the plan state that through co-ordi
nation Of the two organizations better
results could be obtained for the com
munity.
Miss Ferne Waugh Of Two Rivers
has the distinction of having a left
handed appendix. Physicians whC
diagnosed her illness as appendicitis
operated on the right side as is Gus
tomary for all well-mannered; if mis-
behaving, appendices. There was ne
sign of an appendix. So the doctors
operated again on the left side anC
found it. The left-handed appendix is
most unusual, the physicians say.
Sturgeon Bay will be the scene of 9
mammoth Cherry festival, during the
height of the cherry season it presen1
plans of the Chamber of Commerce
materialize. A special committee is
working out details for the carnival
which will be made yearly event. L
is planned to hold a Venetian night II
conjunction with the festivities, as
there are hundreds of motor and pleas
ure craft around this city during the
summer season.
Brown county farmers are almost tt
a unit in opposing any change in the
prohibition laws which would permi1
a return to the old style saloon, &C
cording to answers received to a ques
tionnaire sent out by ]. T. Phillips, {
prominent dry worker in that part o.
the state Replies were received from
1O1 farmers and 100 of them were il
favor of keeping the saloons closed
Fifty-tWo of them claimed that the
prohibition law was not well enforced
and SO of them agreed that the drJ
wave has decreased drunkenness
Justice James C. Kerwin OF the Wis
consin supreme court died at his home
in Madison. Justice KerWin had beer
on the supreme bench since 1904 anC
was the oldest member in point O.
years. He was born in the town o.
Menasha, May 4, 1850. Despite rapidly
failing health, Justice Kerwln insisted
on working almost to the end. Justice
Kerwin was graduated from the law
school of the University of Wisconsin
in 1875. He at once began the practice
of law at Menasha. In his long career
on the bench, the most notable de
cision delivered by Justice Kerwin wa:
in the soldiers cash bonus case. This
law was carried into courts. The mai1
opinion on the subject was written b!
Justice Kerwin. His co-workers de
clared it one Of the most importan
decisions ever pronounced by the
court.
A series of five meetings by thu
home economics department Of the uni
versity extension division are being
planned for Fond du Lac county Feb
IA to 10. The meetings are for farm
women and girls and will be conducted
by Miss Gladys Meloche of the exten
sion service.
Farm help is already in demand, &C
cording to officials at the federal EN-
ployment bureau, Green Bay. Agricul
turists in Brown county are planning
an early start due to the mild wintel
and they want to get their corps O
workers lined up ready for the sprins
work.