River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-09-22
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES!
7 NEWS OF THE :
! BADGER STATE /


Madison The state is meeting
promptly all payments to former serv'
Ice men. under the soldier bonus sta
tute allowing $40 for each month OF
service, Col. John G. Salesman, Madi-
son. states. Provision Of the legisla-
ture Of sufficient funds to meet all
obligations has done away with any
prospect of shortage, he said. A
decision of the state supreme court.
holding that soldiers who. although
ehlisting in states other than Wiscon-
sin, were still considered as residents
of this state, should receive the bonus,
added approximately 100000 to the
obligations.
Wausau-T The plant of the Wausau
Canning company is now in full oper-
alton with force of more than 40
persons engaged at canning beets. The
beet crop in that locality has been
better than average this year and the
company will pack about 10000 cases,
two dozen cans to case. About four
weeks will comprise the season. Most
OF the beets being canned at the plant
come from the drainage area near
Stevens Point, where the soil is black
muck, very suitable to the crop. This
year the company packed $4,000 cases
of peas.
Madison The completion of the
present school census will disclose
825, 900 children of school age in Wis
consin in the opinion of State Supt.
John Callahan. The census showed
growth in the number from S1O,556
in 191S-1919 to 81S,S85 for last year
and it is now believed that this figure
will be brought up over the $4,000
mark for this year. Of the total mum
Der Of school children the last census
showed that 471,867 were classed as
living in the rural communities, while
only 347,O18 were inhabitants of cities
of the state.
Madison-The state supreme court
has directed the circuit court of Ke-
nosha county to return to it before
Sept. 20, the order of the circuit court
indicting George Fischer, jr., on a
charge of violating the prohibition
laws. 1t will be determined by the
supreme court whether the Kenosha
circuit court has jurisdiction in liquor
cases under a law of 1909 creating
municipal court. Petition of Fischer
to the high court alleges that the sole
jurisdiction of liquor cases in that
county is vested solely in the munic-
ipal court.
Green Bay-The 28-mile program OF
concrete highway construction IN
Brown county is nearing completion
and will be finished in another month,
at the present rate of progress. Sew.
eral ornamental concrete bridges
ranging from cost of $4,000 to ST.
900 have been built. One of the
biggest single pieces of work joining
Green Bay and Depere on the west
side of the Fox river is now in use.
This makes the second all concrete
road joining the two cities.
Green Bay-Lawrence Lesperance
and Chalmers Yeager, charged with
robbery of the Wabeno state bank,
were bound over for trial in the mu-
nicipal court at Crandon. They were
held on $4,000 bail each, which they
were unable to furnish. Willis Les
perance, charged with the same Of
tense, will be tried at the same time.
Frenchy Yeager, charged with being
an accessory after the fact, is at lib
erty on $4,000 bond.
Neillsville Stanley Wesolosh, in
the town of Lewis, has just completed
one of the best concrete silos ever
seen in Clark county. 1t is of the
monolithic type with concrete chute.
The silo was built by Mr.. Wesoloskis
brother, who has patented a new ma
chine for silo building. The machine
itself weighs only rs pounds. 1t is
possible to build any size silo from six
to thirty feet in diameter.
La Crosse-First steps toward the
dissolution of the La Crosse housing
corporation, organized two years ago
to supply demand for homes in that
city, were taken at a meeting of stock
holders at the Chamber of Commerce.
The corporation built % residences,
a majority of which were sold, and did
a business aggregating over 100000
in two years. Liquidation was af-
fected by stockholders taking over