Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-07
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Convicted of criminal assault upon
| Elsie Tanck, 16 year old Green Bay
girl, lin B. Caver, a negro, rs years
old, was sentenced to fifteen years in
the Waupun state prison.
Fond du Lac county has increased
in population by 584 persons during
the last year Courthouse statistics
show that there were 763 deaths and
1,347 births during the year.
Lancelot A. Gordon, county superin-
tendent of schools of Portage county,
/ a service man, has been appointed as
sistant secretary of state by Secretary
of State Elmer S. Hall, of Green Bay.
The Green Bay army recruiting Of
fee leads all substations in the state
in the number of enlistments, 33, for
December, according to a report re-
ceived by Corp. w. J. Brewer.
Completion of a $40, 900 consolidated
school is announced in Caledonia, the
smallest township in Trempealeau
county. The school board has ar
ranged to provide transportation be-
| tween home and school for the twenty
five pupils attending the institution.
Mai. Walter A. Marden, long mem
| Der of the national guard and in active
service in France during the war, has
agreed to make the race against
Mayor A.. C. McHenry in the recall
election to be held in Oshkosh Feb. l.
| 1t is expected he will be the only Oppo-
sition candidate, hence no primary
election will be necessary.
Green Bay will be mayorless for
| three months. The council decided
not to appoint a successor to Mayor
| Elmer S. Hall, whose resignation went
| id effect Dec. 80, due to the fact that
there were no applicants. All ad-
ministrative business will be handled
by the two commissioners. A new
mayor will be elected at the election
i April 5.
The executive committee of the
Washburn County Holstein Breeders
association has decided to purchase a
large shipment of pure bred Holsteins
/ to be placed upon the farms of Wash
burn county The first car load OF
pure bred cattle will arrive in January
or February. The idea of placing pure
bred cattle on county farms was in
stituted along with the land clearing
program for Washburn county
Merchants of Monroe county have
checked up on their holiday business,
and after comparing it with that OF
/ 1919, the biggest trade ever known,
announce that their books show an
equal business in 1920. This fact is
a great surprise because two big con
| Germs which employ many women are
closed for an indefinite period of time
Two infant children of Mr.. and Mrs,
Benjamin Charette, Odanah, were
| burned to death when fire destroyed
their home The babies, together with
three other children, who were saved,
had been locked up i'll the house by
| their mother while she was attending
| a moving picture theater. Clara
Roundwinde, a 13-year-old neighbor
girl, rescued three of the children.
The value of Wisconsin crops in
1920 amounting to 1928, 427C00 was IS
per cent less than the 1919 value and
/ Is per cent lower than in 1913, al
| though lat per cent above the 1908
value, according to the annual review
| Of crop production made by Joseph A.
/ Becker of the Wisconsin cooperating
/ crop reporting service. Twenty-seven
/ representative crops in 1919 were val
ued at 1898, 100000, in 1918 at 1880.
/ $50 900, and in 1909 at $3.50, 1891 900.
At the annual meeting of the Wis
consin Certified Seed Potato Growers
i association held at Pembine, Carl
Hazelbery of Mikana, seven miles from
Brentwood, was reelected state secre-
| tary. 1t was also decided at the con
vention to encourage the growing OF
better potatoes and meetings of this
nature will be held at Rice Lake, Lady.
smith, Phillips, Rhinelander, Pembine
and Oconto, commencing this month.
The city Of Fond du Lac will take
no chances on holdups during the col.
lection Of taxes that begins Jan. 10
An armed guard will be on duty every
day the tax collection is in progress
/ The affair which almost cost the
life of Detective William Fischer, who
was fred at by a crook, has served
to induce authorities to be precautions
to prevent any trouble at the office OF
the treasurer.
Thirty Wisconsin cities exceeded the
legal tax limit of IS mills in their as
sessments the last year, a report OF
] the tax commission, dealing with
j financial statistics of cities, shows
Rising costs of carrying on city gov.
eminent without proportionate in
/ crease in the assessed valuation OF
property is given as the cause for the
existing condition. The bonded debt
Of Wisconsin cities is shown to be
| $39, 600, 900, or $29.58 per capita. The
legal limit of indebtedness for all OF
the cities. is established at $93,000,000
Madison showed the highest per capita
debt with $62.65, while seven cities I'M
der 8, 900 showed no debt at all.
Exactly ia foreign students, includ
ing 16 women and representing 81
countries, are among the 1904 stu
dents enrolled at the Univercity OF
Wisconsin this year, according to fig
ures just prepared. Last year the to
tai number of foreign students was Sc
| ord orIxr TX countries were raDraSonf