Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
| Around the Badger State.

The biggest sale at the four day
Holstein show held in Plymouth was
that of a year old bull, which brought
$500, going to Alfred Titel of
Plymouth.
The county board of supervisors, at
recent session voted down the pro-
pOsal of Supervisor Louis Skoglund OF
the town of Amherst to engage coun-
ty health nurse.
Four thousand Kenosha residents
have signed petitions asking the city
council to pass a resolution providing
for daylight saving. The petition had
the almost unanimous approval of fac
tory workers.
Otto F. Berner has accepted from
Adjt. Gen. Orlando Holway a commits
sion as captain of the Amigo battery
of artillery, succeeding Robert G.
Dewey, who resigned. Capt. Berner
was a captain in the One Hundred
Seventh trench mortar battery during
the war.
Farmers Of Winnebago county have
been seeding earlier this spring than
in many years Many have completed
planting the small grains, such as bar
ley, oats and wheat, thereby setting an
unusual record for an early start.
Garden truck is also being planted
much earlier than usual.
A scratch on his arm, received a
short time ago, caused the death of
John Meyer, 49,, Manitowoc, after he
had apparently recovered from the
bruise. Infection from the injury
caused inflammation of the membrane
of the brain, according TO physicians,
which was directly responsible for
death.
operate for nine months and a half
next year instead of nine months, ac-
cording to announcement by the Board
of Education. While the school year
was theoretically $50 days, holidays
and examinations cut down the actual
number to about 10, said Supt. w. e.
Darling.
Robert Robertson, progressive
farmer living south of Tomah, sent six
head of pure-bred Guernseys to the re-
cent sale at West Salem, at which so
head were sold for $13,855, or an aye1-
age of 1921 each. Mr. Robertson's six
cattle averaged 1854 each, three sell
ing for more than $500 each. Only
nine head reached that figure and Mr..
Robertson is to be congratulated on
his breeding methods which helped
him top the market in this fashion.
Bonds valued at from $1,000 to
$4,000 and seven pouches of registered
mail bound for Milwaukee and lake
shore cities were taken by bandits who
broke into the Northwestern railroad
station at Kaqkauna Fourteen bags
of mail were also ripped open by the
robbers, who entered the station
through a window The mail bags had
been taken off northbound train a
few hours before the robbery for trans
fer to points along the lake shore.
Dissolution of the temporary injunc
ton granted to the Northern Paper
mills was denied in circuit court in
Green Bay by Judge Henry GRASS. In
his opinion the court discussed the
rights of strikers The temporary in
junction granted to the paper mill re-
strained it's former employees to peace
full picketing around the mill. The
writ was granted to the mills after
several employees had been beaten by
striking Workmen The strikers are
out in protest against 20 per cent
wage reduction
A writ of error was issued by the
state supreme court in the case of the
state of Wisconsin against Frank
Lang, recently convicted of the murder.
of Charles Pacini, Kenosha theater
owner. The writ is returnable in the
January term. Argument on the writ
will be heard by the court as soon as
a date acceptable to the attorney gen
eral can be arranged. Attorneys for
Lang will prepare their argument on
which a hearing before the supreme
court may be made.
After receiving insurance payment
of $1,4O0 on his automobile stolen at
Chippewa Falls, last November,
Charles Wethern, Eau Claire, discov-
cred that the car was concealed in the
Wilkie Brothers garage, right behind
his own sales rooms. All Identified
ton marks had been removed. James
Wilkie, 25, and his brother Thomas,
35, admitted theft of the car when ar
raigned in municipal court and they
were bound over to circuit court.
Bonds of 1900 were furnished.
Forty-two farmers have become
members of the Washburn County
Land Clearing association. The total
membership now exceeds 800 farmers.
Farmers and settlers have agreed to
clear ten acres per farm. The largest
local membership in Washburn county
is at Shell Lake, where 286 farmers
have become members. OF the Al land
clearing meetings held in the county
since the Inauguration of the land
clearing program, every farmer in the
vicinity of the meetings has become
a member of the association.
The GAINESVILLE high school has a
wireless outfit, after being without one
for four years. Students expect to
radiate a communication of 1000
miles scope. The old apparatus was
blown down by wind. During the war
the government put a restriction on
all amateurs aDDaratuSeS