Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-06-09
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

state and county aid in the construc-
ton of a bridge to replace the present
shaky and unsafe Madison-st bridge.
has been granted by the Wisconsin
highway commission, according to
notice just received by the mayor and
city council from Madison.
Public school children in Fond du
Lac have saved 81, 1852 by means of
a thrift plan introduced last fall. 1t
is expected that the amount will reach
$4,000 by the end of the year. There
are 3,2O9 depositors. In the high
school, where there are more than
1000 students. but 81 are depositors.
Boys names have been strangely
missing on the honor rolls of the re-
cent classes of the Kenosha high
school. During the last week the hon
or pupils of the 1922 graduating class
were named and again not boy was
chosen for high scholastic attainment.
This the third class in which all of the
honor pupils have been girls.
The number of hired hands on farms
increased 26 percent during the last
month, the state crop service reports.
This brings the total number of farm
workers to within percent of the
maximum in July, 1920. There has
been a steady increase in the farm
workers from January of this year to
the present time.
The closing of the postoffice in
Whitcomb marks another epoch in the
passing of that once progressive town.
Several years ago Whitcomb was one
of the Ashland division of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, but with the
removal of the saw mills to other
localities it rapidly decreased in popu-
lation and industrial movement until
today it is practically deserted.
Leo Williams, a Beioit negro, under
commitment sentence in the Rock
county Jail at GAINESVILLE, with four
months left to serve, decided to do a
little fishing from the bank beneath
his cell window before going back to
his cell for the night. He succeeded
in landing a big bass. Just then a
game warden came along and caught
him. Now the question is: Can Will
liams be arrested?
Farmers of Manitowoc county have
organized purebred Seed Growers
association which will affiliate with
the state organization The initial
membership is So John Even, Fran
els Creek, was named president, and
R. R. Smith, county agent, secretary
ganization is to distribute purebred
field crops, which have proven their
superiority over other corps, to differ
ent parts of the County and state.
With fifty years of continuous serv-
ice to his credit, during which time he
rose from track layer to a competent
engineer, Thomas Grey, Manitowoc
veteran employee of the Northwestern
road, has retired. Mr.. Grey quits his
post with a record that has attracted
attention of the highest officials of the
company. During the forty-three
years that he served as engineer not
one of the millions of passengers
which his locomotive hauled was killed
or injured through his fault. In let
ter to Mr.. Grey President Marvin
Hughitt of the Northwestern line
voices keen regret over his retirement.
Col J. A. Watrous, for many years
one of the most prominent figures in
Wisconsin's military and public life,
died at his home in Milwaukee on
June 4 at the age of 80. He had ap-
parently recovered from a critical i'll
ness with pneumonia when sudden
relapse occurred. At the outbreak
of the civil war Mr.. Watrous enlisted
as a private in company E. of the
Sixth Wisconsin regiment and he serv-
ed with that regiment and the Iron
brigade until week before the sur
render at Appomattox, he having been
made a prisoner on March 81, 1865.
At the time he was adjutant of the
Iron brigade. When the Spanish
American war broke out he entered
the regular army as a major, serving
through that conflict and the Philip
pine insurrection and retiring in 1904
with the rank of Northumberland
Col. Watrous later served in the Wis
consin National guard as a colonel and
as brigadier general. In private life
Col. Watrous was noted for his talents
as a newspaper writer and as an
orator. During his career as a news
paper publisher he was connected with
the Appleton Crescent, Black River
Falls Banner and the Fond du Lac
Commonwealth. He had resided in Mil
waukee since 1880, when he became
one of the editors of the Milwaukee
Telegraph. Col Watrous held sew
eral public offices, including those of
collector Of customs for the port of
Milwaukee and state pension agent.
He was commander of the state vet
Grams home at Waupaca from 1918 to
1920.
The State Historical Society is
collecting for preservation pictures of
pioneer homes, churches, schools and
other public buildings. The plan is to
secure, if possible, representatives of
all distictive types of buildings en-
ployed in the state during the early
period.
There is on exhibition at the
Shawano postoffice an Indian spear