Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-08-25
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Construction of a new school build
ing at Neenah for the Third and Fifth
wards will commence as soon as
specifications are completed and ap
proved, according to official announce
ment.
Sister Mary Jerem, sister superior
of the Sisters of Notre Dame convent
Stevens Point, for forty-two years, has
received word to report to the mother
house of the order in Milwaukee, to be
transferred to some other field Of
endeavor.
A memorial tree, the first in the
state to be dedicated in memory OF
Elks who gave their lives in the Worlc
war, was dedicated at Beloit by w. +
Schad, president of the Wisconsin
Elks' association, in the opening event
Of the three-day state convention hello
in that city.
Roadhouses and dance halls in Win
nebago county will be under the v1gt
liant scrutiny of the w. G. T. .. from
now on. A resolution adopted at the
county convention at the Plymouth
Congregational church, Oshkosh, pro
vided for the appointment OF mem
Der in each community to look after
that work.
David James Cushing, the second
Oldest settler in the township of Cady
st. Croix county, died on the farm
which he homesteaded Sc years ago
He was 78 and at a recent gathering
of the old settlers of that township il
was brought out that only one man
had preceded him in establishing a
residence there in the early days.
Heroism of Joan Hum, II years
old, and her brother, William, Is, OF
Racine, saved G. A. Bartlett, IS, a
retired manufacturer, from death in
Lake Michigan, when Bartlett ex-
hausted by long swim, called for
help. The girl swan to his assistance
and held him above water until her
brother arrived.
Of vegetables, cereals, fruit and milk
and don't worry about vitamines. DR..
E. J. Huenekens, professor of pedi-
atrics at the University of Minnesota,
advised in speaking before the con.
ference of health officers at Madison.
Too much attention Is being paid to
vitamines when the ordinary mixed
diet is all that is necessary, he said.
The Wisconsin "blue" law, which
has rested on the statute books most
of the time since 1849, took it's first
toll of the season at Dodgeville when
five players and six officers of the
DodgevilIe baseball club were arrest
ed, charged with conspiring to violate
the Sunday observance statute by
playing baseball Members of the
Dodgeville Law and Order league
caused the arrests.
Invasion of the Wisconsin state fair
by 100 automobiles containing Rock
county farmers and business men is
planned on Tuesday, Aug. 20, James
vile day The run will also be made
to boost the harvest festival at James
vile on Sept. 1928. Rock county is
sending a large exhibit of livestock
and agricultural products to the fair
to capture the sweepstakes for the
third consecutive time.
Fifty horses, a carload of oats, a
loft full of hay, Is sets of harnesses
several old carriages and large barn
the property of the Paine Lumber Co.
Oshkosh, were consumed in a fire
Twelve horses were rescued, and
three were shot to end their suffer
ings, while the majority of the animals
were smothered or burned to death in
their stalls. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Two carloads of grade Guernsey
and Holstein cattle, including several
grade Guernsey bulls. were shipped
from Wood county recently to Mani
toba, where they will be placed upon
large dairy farm supplying milk tc
the city of Winnipeg. This is the
second shipment of Wood county cat
tie to the Winnipeg farm. Fighter
carloads Of Wood county cattle have
been shipped from Vesper this season
netting about $4,000.
About 25 per cent Of the country
school teachers of Wisconsin have
taught in the same rural school fol
more than one year. State Superin
tendent John Callahan has announced
the distribution Of S43,271.49 among
these teachers as a bonus. Teachers
receive on an average $26.13 addition
al to their salary as a bonus. There
were 1856 teachers who participated
in the distribution. The law under
which these payments are made was
passed to encourage teachers to re
main longer than one year in the same
country school, Teachers who have
taught in the same rural school
second year are entitled to So {
month; for third year, 81 per month
and for fourth or succeeding year
So month.
A coroner's jury at Madison exon
Grated Frank Hoover, hotel owner o.
Middleton, from blame for the deatI
of Prof A. E. Berggren of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin as result of al
automobile accident last week. The
jurors decided the accident was I'm