Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-13
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The bottom has fallen out Of the
building trades strike in Green Bay.
The masons resumed work, accepting
wage cut and the union plumbers
and steam filters have accepted the
lower pay scale.
Free mail delivery will be inaugu-
rated in Hurley May 16, with two car
riers covering two routes. There will
be three deliveries day in the bust
ness section of the city and two in the
residence district.
At the May meeting of the Beaver
Dam common council it was voted on
to lower the wages of the city work
ers to 35 cents an hour and the park
caretaker's salary was reduced to $65
a month A resolution was also adopt
ed to buy steam roller.
| In order to keep within its economy
platform the Stevens Point board of
vocational education voted to discon-
tinue the night school next year, when
it was found that the services of an
additional teacher were needed for
day school work.
Farm lands and buildings in Rock
county increased in value 66.9 per cent
from 1910 to 1920, according to re
port compiled by the department of
commerce of the federal census bu-
reau. This agricultural census shows
that Dane county leads the state in
the total value of farm property, with
| pOol o011rtu cnGnnd
Joseph Dockendorff, La Crosse high
school student, was held under $4,000
bail on the charge of shooting Harry
Puent, another boy, on Easter Sunday.
Puent was riding bicycle and passed
Dockendorff and several other boys.
Dockendorff is alleged to have shot
him with 80 caliber rifle. The de-
tense claims that the bullet was de-
fected from the sidewalk and struck
Puent in the leg.
Portage county farmers are appeal
ing to the Stevens Point Chamber of
Commerce for farm labor, but the call
is going unheeded because of what
seems to be a general EMULSION against
farm work. Many applications for
men have been received offering wages
of $40 to $45 a month with room and
board Unless the help is found the
chamber will go outside the city to get
men.
The annual picnic Of the Catholic
societies of the counties of Grant, Iowa
and Lafayette will be held in High
land on June 8th The picnic will be
held in the city park Rev. A. B. G.
Dunno of Eau Claire will deliver the
address Of the day The amusement
attractions consist of baseball game
between the Platteville and Highland
teams of the Wisconsin-Illinois league,
boxing match between two light
weights and numerous speciality acts.
The towns of Winter and Ojibwa in
Sawyer county are making a great
Roadway in securing new settlers for
this year Winter has received TWEEN
/ ty-four new settlers since Jan. / and
| Ojibway eighteen. Last year Winter
had the honor of having seventy7nine
new settlers locate in their territory
and Oiibway sixty-three. Winter led
any other town in northern Wisconsin
for the year in the arrival of new set
tiers.
Several counties in the state where
county home demonstration agent
work is being carried on are planning
to hold County Seat Short Courses fol-
Girls" About 40 girls gather at their
county seat and have a week of class
instruction in sewing, cooking, and
other home economic subjects. Mara
thon county has already held one
Florence county and La Crosse will
each have one soon, and several other
counties are planning to hold similar
courses.
Forty-eight farmers of Racine 2oun
ty won a victory in the supreme court
when the higher court reversed the de
! cision of the lower court in the case
Of the Industrial Cooperative Unior
against E. e. Lewis and 40 farmer de
PENDANTS. The action was brought to
collect on promissory notes for stock
purchased in the company It was
charged that the company failed t.
keep faith. The defendants alleged
false representation and refused pay
ment on the notes. The appeal was
made from the circuit court of Racine
county.
Wisconsin's death rate for the frs
three months Of 1921, is considerably
lower than the average for this period
and represents the lowest for thai
quarter ever recorded in the state
since the adoption of the uniform
1 registration law in 1907. AS compared
with the same months in 1920, there is
a material decline in total deaths, ant
in deaths from pneumonia and inf1u
enza. which was epidemic in the same
period of 1920. Total deaths in the
period were 1913, while in the CORE
spending quarter last year, when infiu
enza was epidemic, it was 1876. The
northern counties had the most favor
able rate-9.O-while the central anC
southern groups each had 11.3. OF al
i deaths. 1,272. were of babies under
year, or 17.6 per cent of the total.
Lewis Knuth, chairman of the Brown
county board of supervisors, ant
Robert Vickery, county clerk, signed
S7OO. 900 worth of good road improve
ment bonds, the proceeds of the sale
made to the Second Ward Saving
hank. Milwaukee, to be used in thu
countys 1921 highway building pre-