Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-11-18

b Stevens Point homes where other
members recently recovered. and a
halt dozen new cases in less than a
week has made the condition less ia
vorable than at any time this fall.
i There are also several cases of scarlet
fever in the city.
With the assessed valuation of the
city increased 100000, the city coun-
ell hopes for small reduction in tax
rate. The schools ask for an increase
of $4,000. Last year $4,000 was put
in the budget for building comfort
station. Erecting it on city-owneu
property saved $4,000. Four men and
a woman welfare worker were added
tc the police force.
Wisconsin grain is to be represent
ed at the third annual grain and hay
show to be held in Chicago Nov rs to
Dec. 8, at the International Live Stock
Exposition, E. D. Holden, of the
agronomy department of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin announces. Exhib-
it's from this state will include corn,
soybeans, field peas, clover seed, bar
ley and oats.
Prisoners at the state prison are
busy on 100000 license plates needed
to fill applications of automobile own
ers in the state, the state board of
control says. Cost of manufacture of
manufacture of the plates is less than
! 10 cents each. Inmates of the Wau-
pun prison have been engaged in
manufacture of automobile license
plates for years. They are delivered
to the secretary for distribution.
State blue books of men and activ-
are available for schools and citizens
through their representatives in the
legislature, David Atwood, state edi-
tor of printing announces. Each mem
Der of the legislature receives 200
copies, which he is at liberty to dis
tribute to his constituents and schools
in his district. Schools may also OBJ
tain copies directly from the superin-
tendent of public property.
According to old sportsmen, the deer
SO rapidly in the last several years
that the present deer season will see
the last of the deer herds. Very few
deer have been seen in the forests in
that vicinity during the last year. and
sportsmen predict that this years
hunting season will wipe out all the
deer. A closed season for five years
would be the means of saving the
deer from complete extinction, they
say.
While the deer hunting season in
Wisconsin this year will be a short
and earlier one than before, Bayfield,
county enthusiasts seem to be as eager
as ever, judging from the number of
hunting licenses issued County Clerk
Jake Yderstad reports he issued more
than 100. The usual number issued
in the county is between 1900 and
$500. The county clerk also reports
that he has issued 100 trapping IL
censes and in October paid bounty on
AZ wolves.
In order that he may make beer for
medicinal purposes in his brewery at
GAINESVILLE, Frank P. Croak, rendered
his resignation as member of the
city fire and police commission to
Mayor Thomas e. Welsh. A state
law prohibits any man holding Ii
cense for the sale of intoxicating Ii
quor from service on the commission
This is the fourth change in the per-
sonnet of the commission in the last
year. J. p. Cullen, another member
resigned because he got the contract
to build the $1.OO0,O0O high school.
Children between IL and Is, who vi
olate the new compulsory part time
education laws, are subject to pun
ishment for delinquency in the juven-
lie courts of the state, Atty.-Gen w
J. Morgan held in an opinion to
George P. Hambrecht, director Of vo-
cational education Notwithstanding
the mandatory language of the law, it
provides no direct penalty for viola
the opinion said. violations, it seems,
come within the statute governing de-
linquency in children. The law pro-
yides that any delinquent child may
be placed on probation or sent to an
Industrial school following conviction
by a juvenile court"
Miss Grace Lusk, Waukesha school
teacher, serving nineteen years in
prison for the murder of Mrs. David
Roberts in 1917, as the climax of
love triangle, was granted temper
airy release from the state peniten-
tiary by Gov. Blaine. She will leave
the prison as soon as arrangements
can be made to receive surgical treat
ment which the governor says is ne
cessary to save her life. Action on
her application for pardon will be
deferred until the result of the treat
ment is known, Gov. Blaine declared
The temporary release is granted, he
says, following reports on the condi-
ton of the prisoner made by two
prison doctors, two physicians chosen
by Miss Lusk and a fifth physician
selected by the governor who exam
ined the reports of each of the others
before arriving at his conclusion.
Cheerfully saying goodbye to her
nine children, the oldest about 16 and
the youngest a baby of a year, Mrs.
Herman Gustman, "a, left her home in
Shawano for a Green Bay hospital,
whore she hOnnd tO regain her health