Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-20

Yisors signed a contract with officials
of the Milwaukee county house of cor
rection for the housing of prisoners
from Kenosha. Kenosha officials We're
assured by house of correction Off
Gals there was no congestion at the
Institution
Working night and day for nearly
two months. the county road crew has
just completed a record feat of lay,
ing nine and three-tenths miles OF
gravel road on highway No. 81 out of
Eau Claire Work was doubled up in
order to keep the project going de
spite the cold Road work heretofore
has been generally halted with the
first freeze.
Dynamite caps, which accidentally
got mixed in the fuel supply at the
home of Mrs Louis Vetter of Gard
ner, near Sturgeon Bay, almost caused
Mrs. Vetter's death. The caps explod
ed when Mrs. Vetter put coal on the
fire in the kitchen stove, causing more
than 90 severe flesh wounds. The
fact that she wore glasses saved her
eyesight.
At a meeting of the senior class
of the state normal school at Eau
Claire, all members of the F. E. x,
a secret fraternity, which exists in
the school, were barred from all priyi-
leges as members in any class meet
ings or class doings. It was charged
that heretofore F. e. x. members had
controlled elections and obtained and
held control of all elective offices in
the various classes.
decreased during the past year as in
Dictated by the falling off in number
of permits issued by the industrial
commission. A total of 17,409 chill
dren were granted permission to enter
industry during the year, representing
reduction of 5000 over 1920, the
commission report shows. Slightly
over half of the permits were issued
in Milwaukee.
Charles E. Reed, Thorpe, who is
recognized as one of the states most
noted dairymen, was reelected presi-
dent at the annual meeting of the
Wisconsin Cheese Makers association
at Milwaukee. All other officers
whose terms expired were unanimous
ly held over for 1922 They are Fl. A.
Rindt, Clintonville. vice president; ].
L. Sanmis, Madison, secretary, A. w.
Zehn, Plymouth, and A. T. Bruhn,
Madison, directors.
Fifty years of dairy progress in Wis
consin will be celebrated in Madison
during Home-makers' and Farmers
week at the college of agriculture
from Jan. 20 to Feb. 4. the department
of agriculture, extension division, an
"All stock breeders asso
Citations, state departments of mar
kets, agriculture, dairy and food and
the college of agriculture will join in
the celebration with the Dairyman's
association in planning another fifty
years of dairy success" said K. l..
Hatch, chairman of the department
The highways of Wisconsin were
classified into A and B for truck reg 4
ulation purposes by. the highway com
No trucks over Il tons
weight with load will be permitted
hereafter on Glass A roads and none
over seven tons on Glass B roads as
a result of legislative enactment of
the last session. The highways which
permit traffic of heavy trucks lie in
the eastern section of the state and
along the lake shore for the most part,
excluding in each instance roads with
in the city limits which are not affect
ed by the law.
The trial of Peter Fisher. Jr., for
mer district attorney of Kenosha
on charge of embezzlement
in connection with building loan de.
posits alleged to have been received
from Mrs Mary Welch, came to
sudden close at Kenosha when, after
the jury had been chosen but before
any witnesses had been called, Fisher
asked the privilege to change his plea
of not guilty to guilty. The plea was
accepted, but sentence was deferred
was also made by the
for the defense that com
plete restitution of the funds would
be made by the defendant.
Manufacturing has surpassed agri-
culture'in the number of persons en-
ployed in Wisconsin. the industrial
reports from federal cen
sus bureau figures. In 1920 the report
shows 339,573 persons in the state
were employed in manufacturing and
308,038 in agriculture. While agricul-
ture showed only a slight increase
from 1910 to 1920, the commission re-
ports an increase of 21.5 per cent from
1910 to 1920 in the total number en-
gagged in manufacturing. The number
of persons employed in clerical occu-
pations rose 84.7 per cent and in pro-
LESSONS 23.5 per cent. A falling off
in mining, quarrying and domestic
service was noted. The percentage of |
women working is practically the
same in 1920 as in 1910. OF the total
number employed 1873 per cent were
and girls.
That Brentwood is gradually becom-
ing a potato center is shown by the
fact that so carloads of potatoes were
shipped from that city during the past
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