Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-01
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

river, to visit relatives at Mosinee,
Zee. 10, was found in log jam at
KnoIton by lumbermen.
The village of Argyle, near Darling
to.i, will commence the erection of
their $4,000 high and graded school
building this spring. A bond issue has
been fioated to raise the necessary
funds. Much of the material is already
on the ground with which to start the
work
Efforts are under way at Brentwood
to secure union high school to be
financed by the towns of Edgewater,
Wilson and Brentwood. The approx
mate COST would reach $4,000. A spe-
cial election will be held later to de-
eide the question. The school will be
erected in Brentwood if the voters
favor the plan.
At meeting of the Sheboygan
County Holstein Breeders association
the plans for the new live stock barn
ind sales pavilion to be placed on the
Sheboygan county fair grounds were
approved The building, to cost about
$4,000, will house 220 head of cattle,
will be heated throughout, and will be
used for sales and exhibition purposes.
The Rev. J. H. Becker, pastor of the
Emmanuel Lutheran church, Fond du
Lac, is having siege of had luck. Re-
Gently he underwent serious oper-
alton at the local hospital and only a
few days ago was able to return to his
home. Now four members of the fam
lily, three sons and a daughter, all
young, are i'll with diphtheria.
A movement is on foot in Ladysmith
to organize an Employed Girls club
among Office girls and clerks in local
stores, the homes of many of whom
are outside of Ladysmith. For some
time there has been widespread recog
milton of the need of such a club, and
the movement is sponsored by leading
women of the town.
Mrs. Gertrude SchWittey, county SUI
perintendent of schools of Marinette
county. is arranging for the second an
be held by all the rural schools in
common at Marinette in June. The
Marinette Chamber of Commerce is
cooperating in arranging for enter
tainment for the pupils and their fam
lilies. It is expected that 500 rural
families will visit Marinette on com
mencement day.
Joseph yyskocil, 7-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Vyskocil, was acct
denta1ly shot and killed by his older
brother, Is, at the family home in the
town of Emery, Price county The
revolver which the boys recently found
in the roadway near their home.
While playing with the weapon the
older brother discharged it, the bullet
going through an open door and hit
ting little Joseph, who was sitting on
chair putting on his stockings.
That Wisconsin communities de-
pendent on the wood using industries
are disappearing, owing to the cutting
away of the forests of the state was
the declaration made by DR.. Hugh P
Baker, secretary of the American Pa
per and Pulp asso citation, in address
ing the state forestry and development
conference at Madison. He urged that
the state university make survey to
determine the social relation of the
Wisconsin community to the forests,
and urged that better growth be in
sured to keep the wood using indus
tries in the state, and keep the COM
af oil a
said that the water power OF the state
was dependent on the maintenance of
forests at the headyaterS of the great
power producing streams of the state.
DR.. Charles Mccarthy, for twenty
years head of the legislative reference
library which he founded in Madison
in 1901, died suddenly at Phoenix,
Ariz., following a stomach operation.
The announcement was received in
Madison and among friends of Milwau-
kee with surprise, since Mr.. Mccarthy
was in good health when he left his
home several weeks ago for the south
ern city. AS head of the reference de-
partment in the state library, he
gained statewide prominence. He was
born in 1873 at Brocton, Mass. In 1895
he graduated from Brown university
with the degree of doctor of philosophy
and in 1900 became a scholar of his
tory at the University of Wisconsin.
The reference library organized by
him at Madison was the first in the
United States and was adopted later
in other states. DR.. Mccarthy was a
democratic candidate for United
States senator il 1918, opposing 10
seph e. Davies. He was actively en-
gagged in the service of the government
during the war as an aid to Herbert
Hoover, food administrator. DR. Nc
Carthy has written the statutes of Wis
consin for years. He was probably the
most spectacular character in the Off
cial life of the capitol, and one of the
notable figures in modern American
history.
Jay Michaels of Beloit, 4 years old,
whose life was prolonged month by
an infusion of blood furnished by a
woman whose name is withheld, is
dead. The child cut himself slightly
on the finger and the flow of blood
could not be stopped. After operation
he rallied and hopes were entertained
for his recovery. In medical parlance
the boy was known as "a bleeder."
At meeting of the Hawkins Booster
club it was voted to hold a big cele-
bratSen in Hawkins July A. The event