River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-02-16
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
| Superior-Mayor Fred Baxter of
| Superior will control the much mooted
question of whether street carnivals
may be shown in that city during the
coming season. He was vested with
| the authority by the city council.
Two factions, pro and con. made
| themselves Known in the council
meeting. The Willard w. C. 7. union
ask that the shows be barred from
| entering the city. The Veterans of
| Foreign Wars ask permission to bring
such a show here, claiming that a
committee of women may censure
the attractions and if any feature is
Objectionable it will be eliminated
and no "girl shows" will be included.
Madison - Wisconsin's SO county
agents have set a new record for
hustling during the last year, it was
said at the Agricultural college, Madi-
son. The SO men spent ga per cent
of their time in the field, made 479
farm visits, had rs farm meetings,
with an average of 80 farmers at each
meeting, registered LILO telephone
calls, wrote ITO articles for publica-
ton, have six projects under way and
have organized eight farmers organi-
cations county. That the average
work done by each one of the So, ac-
cording to ]. F. Volta, county agent
| leader.
Eagle River-John Donahue, &C
cused as the slayer of John Powers,
widely known resort keeper OF Big
Lake, Villas County. paid his own
price for the grewsome murder when,
after facing for 4S hours the inces-
SAINT firing OF sheriff's posse that
| besieged him in his lonely cabin, he
placed the muzzle of his rifle under
his chin and with his last cartridge
fired the shot that ended his life. Pin,
ned to the heavy wooden shirt of the
dead man was found note which
read: Il killed John Powers and l
am not sorry l did it. Donahue."
| Birchwood-A new apparatus which,
| 1t is believed, will solve the land
| clearing problem for many prospec-
tive settlers and farmers OF northern
Wisconsin has been invented by Law
renee A. Wise of Brentwood. Mr..
| Wise's device is furnace jacket with
blower, which is operated by a
| gasoline engine. The Jacket is placed
directly over stump and with the aid
| of a blower, the fire in the jacket is
famed by the blower until the stump
| is consumed.
Stevens Point-Discovery of what
promises to be an iron mine has been
made on the farm of A. F. Schlenvogt
in the town of Linwood, Portage
county. While digging silo pit on
his farm Mr.. Schlenvogt found pieces
of metal which upon analysis by Prof.
G.. E. Culver Of the Stevens Point Nor.
NAL school proved to be iron ore. The
vein was located four feet down in
the ground. A survey Of land in that
| territory may be made.
Green Bay-All records for the mum
| Der of inmates at the state reforma-
tory at Green Bay were broken when
| Warden Oscar Lee announced the
number at the institution totaled 402.
The highest previous mark was 1856,
Nov. /, 1921. Every available inch OF
| space in the big institution is filled,
and no more prisoners will be accept.
| ed at present All the cells are oc.
cupied and many of the TRUSTEES are
sleeping on cots in the corridors.
| Fond du Lac-Petitions demanding
the recall of Mayor r. D. Haentze
| are being circulated in Fond du Lac.
| They charge inefficiency and failure
to appreciate the dignity and duties
F.! of the city's chief executive. The
recall petitions follow the challenge
to resign and enter mayoralty con-
test, directed at the mayor by Chief
| of Police F. A. Nolan.
Fond du Lac-Charles o. Cleveland,
| Civil war veteran and chief OF the
Fond du Lac fire department for thir-
teen years. died at the age of "a years
after an illness of eleven months. Mr..
Cleveland was in the department dur
ing a period in which the greatest
fires in the city's history occurred.
Green Bay-Fire, starting from an
undetermined cause, Quilted the two
story brick Chappell school, two and
one-half miles from Green Bay. The