Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-08-11
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

summer session of the u. of w. came
to close on Aug. 4. The law school
at the university will be in session
until Aug. Is and the regular univer-
sity will be opened again on Sept. 10.
A commodious exhibit building and
stable for race horses are under con-
struction at the Oneida county fair
grounds. With the completion of
these structures Oneida county can
boast of the finest set of fair buildings
in northern Wisconsin.
A loss of $4,000 was suffered when
an 85-foot barn, one of the largest in
Green county, on the Germ Wood
farm, burned to the ground. 1t is be-
lieved the fire was set by lightning.
The loss is partially covered by in
surance.
Miss Mary Dunwiddie, Monroe, re-
Gently in county nursing work at
Iowa City, Iowa, has been appointed
field advisory nurse for the southern
district of Wisconsin, by the state
board of health. She succeeds Miss
Nelly Van Kooy, Milwaukee, resigned.
Mrs. Albert Zeamer, town of Glen
more, five miles from De Pere, was
nearly killed by an Infatuated bull. She
had driven the bull and five COWS from
her premises after they had broken
into her yard, when the bull turned
on her just as she was closing the
gate.
James Heihila, a farmer living at
Oulu, near Superior, was fatally scald-
ed when his tractor tipped over while
he was working on his farm. Hot
water from the radiator was poured on
him when the machine turned over
He died several hours later in a SUI
perior hospital.
For the first time in Wisconsin, there
will be public exhibition of the do
mesticated fox industry this year. The
Calumet Silver Black fox ranch of
Sherwood has completed arrangements
to enter a number of pairs of highly
bred silvers, headed by Calumet Chief,
their national champion, at the state
fair on Aug. %.
A court commissioner has no
authority to commit persons to
asylums for insane or homes for the
feeble minded, the attorney generals
office held in an opinion to M. T. Tap
pins, secretary of the state board Of
control. Application for inquiry into
the mental conditions of persons shall
be to the judge of county courts or
district courts.
Prof. A. C. Baer, head of the depart
ment of dairy husbandry of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, has purchased
two Sheboygan county Holstein COWS
to be used as the nucleus of demon
stration' herd at the university. Prof
Baer said that he had visited twelve
Wisconsin dairy counties searching
for the proper quality of stock and
that he finally found it at the farm of
John Zoberlin near Plymouth.
Because of increased enrolment in
the North Fond du Lac schools next
year, kindergarten classes probably
will have to be abandoned, members
OF the school board declare. Enroll
ment for the next school year will ex-
coed last years classes by more than
140 pupils. More than 400 students
have been listed by the school census.
Plans for increasing the school facili-
ties have not met with popular sup
port.
George Curtis, 70, former state tax
commissioner and prominent attorney
Of Merrill, died at his home in that
city of apoplexy. Mr.. Curtis retired
from the tax commission in 1911 after
12 years of service He was a member
of the temporary tax commission
authorized by the legislature in 1897
with Burr w. Jones, now member of
the state supreme court, and K. *
KEENAN, of Milwaukee. In 1899 Senator
Whitehead put through the permanent
tax commission legislation and Mr..
Curtis, with Gen. Giffen, Eau Claire,
and Judge ellison formed the first per-
manent tax commission. Mr.. Curtis
was first to champion the abolition of
tax credits move, which resulted in
the present income tax law.
Three children, Jeanette Rogers, 15
years old; Celeneze ROGUE, 16 years
old, and Jeanette Nelson, IL years
old, and William Fall, AZ years old,
were drowned at Browns lake, Racine
county, when a scow, containing four
teen persons. ranging from 2 to IS
years in age, which was being towed
about the lake by Fall in motor
driven rowboat, capsized. The party
was attending the K. OF T. annual
picnic. The scow, with its freight,
capsized into the lake, and Fall, leap
ing from the rowboat, plunged after
the children in an effort to rescue
them. He was Immediately seized
upon by the scrambling youngsters,
few of whom could swim, and sank
under the water.
State Superintendent John Callahan
has called a conference of the super
yising teachers of the state to assem-
bly, in the state capitol in Madison on
Aug. %, "a and rs to be followed by
the regular annual meeting of the
supervising teachers association on
Saturday, Aug. &c.
Mrs. Daniel Brown, Chippewa Falls,
brought a clock to a jeweler that had
run continuously for 81 years and