Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-03
WISCONSI
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Jacob Heinrich, aged SO, Civil war
veteran and pioneer resident of Maple
Grove, died at his home in that city.
A stroke of paralysis and infirmities
incident to age, are given as the cause
of the demise.
AS an experiment sock-eyed salmon,
a fish native to the Western coast
country, is being planted in lakes near
Iron River. If the fish thrive, more
of the variety will be planted in upper
Wisconsin waters.
Werner Koskinen, rs years old, Doug
las county farmer, was instantly killed
when lightning bolt hit him. Koski-
men was driving team Of horses on
a farm mile south of Maple when
the bolt struck. A young boy, who
was with him at the time, was not
hurt
Several hundred Price county farm
ers will make two day trip through
Barron county, June and 8, for the
purpose of inspecting the dairy herds
of that county County Agent Rahm-
low of Price county will be in charge
of the party and the Holstein, Guern-
sey and Jersey associations of Brown
county will entertain the visitors.
The Dodge County Holstein picnic
will be staged at Horizon June 10.
Some of the very best talent obtain
able will speak. The program will
commence at 10 a. NJ, which will be
featured by calf judging contests, dis
courses on the value of milk for hui
man consumption, and various forms
of amusement Free milk and butter
milk will be served.
James A. Higgins. Racine, was elect
ed state deputy of the Knights of Co
lumbus at the annual convention held
in Wisconsin Rapids. Other state Off
GERS elected follow: Secretary,
Thomas A. Delaney, Green Bay; treas
urer, J. j. Jameson, Shullsburg; advo-
cate, Robert H. Rolls, West Bend;
warden, Edward S. Quistorff, Ashland;
chaplin, the Rev. F. J. Petit, South
Milwaukee.
Notice has been posted in the shops
of the Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha railroad in Hudson, laying
off 80 per cent of the crew, effective
May 81. The order affects about 300
men, mostly all residents Of that city
1t will leave on the job but the general
foreman, small Office force and a
skeleton crew of between 80 and 40
men for emergencies. The coach and
paint shop will be closed down en-
tirely.
Two youths who broke their necks
diving in shallow water near La Crosse
last summer are still alive Clifford
Shepherd, 16, who came up from
dive, paralyzed, is now able to walk
after months of treatment for displace-
ment of vertebrae at the base of the
neck. Jerome Boil, II, who sustained
a fracture OF a bone in the neck in the
same manner, is still in bed but is i'm
proving. Both were injured in June.
1920.
Cheaper roads for the eastern part
of Wisconsin may result if tests now
being conducted in connection with
calcite by the highway commission
prove favorable. Calcite can be OBJ
tanned from quarry in Michigan and
delivered to lake ports at low cost, A..
R. Hirst, highway engineer, reports.
If the material is found to be suit
able aggregate for concrete mixtures
it will be used on Wisconsin roads and
pavements, he announces.
Judge Scion l.. Perrin of Superior
gave decision that search warrants
used by police for the last two years
in liquor cases, have been Illegal. The
judge freed Joe Krupcho, charged with
possession of moonshine, and fined his
wife, an Amazon, who is alleged by
a detective to have struck him in the
mouth, only $40. Her conduct was in
measure justified, the judge said.
Many other pending cases may be dis
missed under the judges ruling.
The last great battle of the Sioux
and Chippewas, the coming Of the
French yoyageur, the capture of Old
Abe and his departure as mascot of
the Eagle regiment, the sawdust war,
life of the lumberjack, the old semi
nary, the swift transition from tall
timber to factories and dairy farms
and all that made the last sixty years
picturesque, joyous, tragic or memoir
able will be embodied in pageant to
be given in Eau Claire in August by
some 1,5O0 residents of the Chippewa
valley and surrounding towns.
A total of 100000 will be expended
in the improvement of 5000 acres of
farm land in the towns of Mt. Pleas
ant, Caledonia and Yorkville, Racine
county. by the building of a drainage
canal system. The main ditch, 45I
miles in length, will begin southwest
of Corliss and run northeast to the out
let, east Of Franksville. There are to
be IA lateraIs with total length of 16
miles, in which $4,000 feet of the tile
will be placed Work on the main
ditch is to begin within two weeks and
be completed this season, while the
laterals will be completed in 1922.
The first public Guernsey sale to be
conducted in Portage county took
place at Amherst and proved a big
success. More than SO head of purebred
females and bulls were sold and
brought nearly $4,000 The females
average $21O, the top price being sos,
maid NV r. n Gordon Tr of Np1c0n.