Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-15

building and loan association. 1t will
be known as the Marinette Building
& Loan Association to be capitalized
at $5,OO0,OO0.
Contracts between workers of three
/ La Crosse unions, painters, brewery
/ workers and teamsters, and their EN-.
I ployers have expired, and negotiations
are in progress for a new schedule of
wages. The employers have submit.
ted propositions to reduce wages from
! 10 to Is per cent.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Trego
have organized a potato growers asso.
citation to get better market for their
potato crops. 1t was decided at a
meeting at Trego to raise only the
Rural New Yorker potato for market.
The association will be known as the
Trego Potato Growers association.
Pleading guilty to the theft of over
coats from employees of the Fish Lum
l-ber Co., Amigo, George Grant and
George Schmitz, who came from Hur
! ley, were sentenced to one year in the
states prison. The garments were
stolen from boarding house. Two OF
them had been sold to farmers and one
was hidden in a haystack
The Rev. A. C. Petrie, who for the
past three years has been pastor OF
the Congregational church in Clinton
vile has offered his resignation to
take effect May l. Rev. Petrie has
accepted pulpit in Illinois. He is
one of the veterans among Congre
gationa1 clergymen and is well known
in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin
Half of the children in the rural dis
tricts of Rock county are physically
defective, according to results OBJ
tanned during the last few weeks, by
Miss Anna Luetscher, county nurse.
OF SCI children inspected, 281 were
abnormal, her report shows. Of 524
weighed and measured, 70 were from
10 to 20 per cent underweight.
| About four-fifths of the wool pooled
in Wisconsin has been sold a market
division news letter reports, although
most of the best grades remain in the
hands of the farmers. Prices received
for the pooled wool were between %
and q cents a pound, which is more
| than most farmers received when they
sold their crops to local dealers, the
report says. Plans for handling the
1921 crop are under consideration.
The rapidly increasing number Of
DRINKS in Stevens Point has spurred
Chief of Police John S. Hofsoos to &C
ton. He will appear before the next
meeting of the common council and
make an appeal for extra jail facilities,
urging reopening of the local jail
which was closed shortly after prohibi-
ton became effective. Drunk and dis
orderly cases for March totaled more
than half of the whole number for
1919. according to police department
statistics.
More than 1000 soldiers, voting resi-
dents of Wisconsin, who registered
outside the state, will receive the cash
bonus of $40 for each month in the
service as a result of the decision Of
the Wisconsin supreme court affirming
the lower court decision in the case of
Files H. Lindemuth, Superior, against
the service recognition board Justice
owen declared that actual voting resi-
dence and not military residence was
the basis on which the. claim for bonus
SHOULD be based.
Organization of Wisconsin tobacco
growers for the purpose of pooling the
states tobacco crop is being pushed
under the direction of the farm bu-
reau, according to an announcement
from the Offices in Madison. The re-
cent slump in prices crippling many
growers is behind the move, it was
said The Wisconsin Tobacco Grow
ers' association will open offices in
Madison with the bureau to further
the movement. Similar action is also
expected by the wool growers, who
have expressed their intention OF CO
operating. Twenty-three Wisconsin
counties are now organized under the
Farm Bureau federation.
James Thompson, prominent repub-
lican politician in Wisconsin and twice
a candidate for United States senator
against Senator |. L. Lenroot, died at
a hospital in La Crosse. He was
operated upon for appendicitis, but
doctors found his appendix had burst,
and no hopes were held out for his
recovery. James Thompson was born
in Dane county, Wis, in 1875. He
graduated from Stoughton academy,
the University of Wisconsin and the
University of Michigan, finishing the
law course in the latter institution in
1901. He served two terms as district
attorney of La Crosse county and re-
fused a third term. An ardent sup
porter of Senator LaFollette, Mr..
Thompson became prominent in state
politics in 1916, when he was elected
delegate at large to the national re-
publican convention. Again last year
he was delegate at large. He was
a candidate for United States senator
in 1918, being defeated by /. L. Len
root of Superior. Last fall he again
was candidate against Senator Len
root. losing the nomination after a
hard fight. MI. Thompson was mar
ried to Edna Gunnar Peterson, of Chi
cago, May, 1918. Mr. Thompson was
member of the Masonic and Elks
lodges. He was a director OF three
banks and interested in several bust
ness enterprises in La Crosse.
The average value of farm land In
Rock county is the highest in the
state, according to state statlstlclans