Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-28
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

1889. On June 4, 1861, he enlisted il
K company, Nineteenth Illinois infan
try, and served throughout the entire
Civil war.
The Beloit Savings bank, one of the
purely cooperative banks in the west
shows in its annual statement tota
deposits of $3,332,000, and increased
deposits during 1920 of $751;, 900. The
total number of depositors is 9,416
Semi-annual dividends of per cen
are declared.
The Oneida county board voted tt
increase the salary of the county su
perintendent of schools from $1,000 t.
$2,1O0 per year, beginning July 1, 1921
F. A. Lowell, present superintendent
has held the position several terms
and is one of the most prominent
school men in Wisconsin. He will be
a candidate for reelection next April
The application of Archie Laison
aged 40, De Pere, for a new trial, vii
be opposed by District Attorney Car
F. Young of Green Bay. Laison was
found guilty of a statutory offense
against two De Pere girls under II
years of age. Recently Laison ap
pealed for pardon, but it was rejected
by Gov. Phillip, who was then in office
Ole Hanson, former mayor of Seattle
disrupted a Socialist meeting at Ra
cine, when, under the auspices of the
Racine Constitutional Defense league
he invaded the meeting at which irwin
st. John Tucker, who was indicted I'm
der the espionage act during the war
was the principal speaker. He chal
lenged, Mr.. Tucker refused. The audi
ence threatened to riot.
The Marshfie1d clinic has placed ar
order for $1,000 worth of radium which
will be added to their $4,000 stock OF
the product and will be used in cur
ing cancer. Since receiving their first
installment of the radium they have
reported some remarkable cures anc
with the additional allotment expect tc
be able to handle about one-third more
cases than they have been handling
While a church is not ordinarily con
sidered a business enterprise, the St
Augustine congregation, Chiffon, found
in its annual financial report that il
had been operated at profit during
the last year. The receipts were $12,
1854 and the disbursements were
S7.437.57. The cash balance was
$5,538.77. A great fair was held in
October, which netted $4,443.65. The
pastor is the Rev. James e. Meagher
Union bricklayers in Kenosha &C
cepted the proposed wage cut from
$1121a an hour to 81 an hour. This
action is believed to assure that other
unions in the building crafts will &C
cept proposed reductions offered by
the master builders. The carpenters
have been getting $1.25 an hour, an6
the employers offer 81 an hour. When
the employers made the proposal they
declared that failure of the workers
to accept it would mean abandonment
of the closed shop policy.
There were 958 births recorded in
Eau Claire county during 1920, an in
crease of more than 200 over last
years total of 749, according to the
vital statistics for the county an
nounced by Register of Deeds A. M
Anderson. Deaths last year totale6
SIG while in 1918 there were, Al
deaths. During the year 339 weddings
were solemnized in which at least one
of the contracting parties were from
Eau Claire county. During 1919 there
were only 264 marriages:
C. p. West, county agricultural rep
resentative; E. O. Barstow, secretary
of the Rhinelander Advancement AS
ISOLATION, and NJ A. Ebert, chairman
of the town of Tomahawk Lake, have
compiled booklet advertising the re
sources and advantages of Oneida
county. This booklet was ordered by
the Oneida county board and several
thousand copies will be printed anG
widely distributed. 1t will be profuse
ly illustrated and will comprise much
interesting information and data. Dur
ing the. present year considerable
effort will be exerted in bringing in
new settlers and developing the wilC
lands of the county.
Villas county must pay the 10 pei
cent penalty for failure to raise its
soldiers bonus tax when due unless
the state legislature is willing to remit
the fine. Henry Johnson, state treas
urer, and Elmer S. Hall, secretary Of
state, have refused a plea from County
Treasurer Adams that the penalty
amounting to $1,332.78, be dropped
Villas county failed to assess tax tc
raise the $16,835.53 which constituted
Its share of the soldiers bonus. In
stead county officials proposed to sell
bonds for that sum, but when the
bonds were offered they found no buy
ers. AS a result the county was I'm
able to meet the tax until about nine
months after it fell due, and Merlin
Hull, then secretary of state, ordered
the 10 per cent penalty applied.
The first steps in an attempt to re
vert to the aldermanic form of city gov
eminent from the present commission
form were taken in Eau Claire wher
petitions requesting the city council
to put the question to vote of the PEG
pie were placed in circulation. M
trouble in getting the legal number O.
signers to force the matter to a vote
is anticipated by the men backing the
movement.
A loss estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000 on automobiles and abou
$4,000 on the building was sustained