Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-29
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


were found to to afflicted out OF the
first four hundred eighty-1ve tested.
This is about ] per cent.
1t pays to spray fruit. This was the
lessen taught by one of the biggest
displays of apples ever shown at a
county fair in Wisconsin, put on at the
WatertoWn fair by the Jefferson Cou1.
ty Spraying association.
The Rev. A. L. ]. Soholm, pastor for
the last nineteen years of Holy Ghost
Danish Evangelical Lutheran church,
Waupaca, recently celebrated his
fftieth anniversary in the ministry
Members of the congregation gave
banquet and celebration in his honor.
Two carloads of choice Barron coun
ty cattle were shipped to Sioux Falls,
S. d., consigned to w w. Shafer, who
is purchasing the cattle for a group OF
South Dakota bankers, with the idea
Of placing high grade cattle on the
farms of that state
S. D. Shambeau of Waupaca, has
shipped more than 100 carloads Of
pure bred and high grade dairy cows
from Waupaca county since Jan. l.,
1922. This is more than twelve car
loads a month Many of these ship
ments have been made to New York
state.
While statistics recently available
for the attendance at eight of Wiscon-
sims nine normal schools show an in
crease of some % per cent. Eau
Claire has increased 40 per cent.
Though youngest of all the normal
schools, Eau Claire has a larger at
tendance than Platteyille, the Oldest
normal, 449 to 430.
Miss Gena Thompson, Madison, sec
rotary of the Wisconsin Women,s Fro.
gressive association, has resigned to
enter the law school of the University
Of Wisconsin. Mrs. R. L. Siebecker,
Madison, will assume temporary
charge Of the office until the time Of
the annual convention of the assocla-
ton in January.
L. M. Brewster, IS years old, OF
Pine Grove, the oldest hunter in
Waushara county, has just secured
his 1922 license. Mr.. Brewster's eye
sight is as keen as ever, as he proved
when he brought down sparrow
twenty-five rods away with a rife. He
has killed sixty deer during his
life.
Carloads of cement for road build,
ing, stored near Monroe, were ruined
in a rain storm. A great stack OF
cement for road building in that
vicinity was piled fifteen feet Nigh
eighty feet long and sixty feet wide
was stored under a tent which did not
afford ample protection from the rain
and the entire pile was ruined.
Locking two employees in vault,
two armed bandits looted the State
Bank of townsville, a village in Dunn
county, of 1925 and escaped. The rob.
bers, described as youths, entered the
bank with drawn guns and covering
Mckinley Disson, assistant cashier,
and Arthur Sunderland, a clerk, forced
them into the vault, swinging the door
shut upon them and locking 1t. They
hurriedly pocketed the cash and fed.
Town boards are responsible for de-
fective culverts and towns liable for
damages caused through their poor
construction, j. e. Messerschmidt, as
sistant attorney general advised Prof.
E. r. Jones of the University of Wis
consin. He held that the construction
of culvert on a public highway IN
such manner as to cause it to back
water on the field of farmer, gave
the farmer grounds for court action
against the town in which he resides.
The Marinette high school has been
selected as one of the institutions for
the training of disabled veterans in
yocations. The first group of IL men
is expected Oct. /, and will work in
the machine shop in the manual train.
ing building. Two other groups are
expected before the year is over,
which means that between 20 and 40
veterans will reside in Marinette the
greater part of the year. The other
groups will work in the commercial
and carpentry department of the high
school
A butter fat and moisture test,
which promises to be superior to any
O. me oUher tests now in use, includ-
ing the famous Babcock test, was
made public in Madison for the first
time by it's inventor, Prof. e. H. Far.
rington, head of the dairy department,
agricultural school, University of Wis
consin. The advantage of the new
test, according to those who witnessed
it's first demonstration, is that large
quantities of butter may be used in
the test, avoiding the inaccuracy
caused by the necessity of using snail
quantities in the other tests.
Austin Christler, pioneer, G. A. r.
veteran and early sheriff of Eau Claire
county, died OF heart disease at his
home in Eau Claire just after tele-
phoning to make an appointment with
his physician. He was a member CT
the g. A. R. Eagle post, a Mason,
knight Templar and Oddfellow.
Fond du Lac county is to have a
woman deputy sheriff. This was de.
cided when Sheriff Worthing agreed
to the appointment of Miss katherine
K0erpin county health nurse &c a