Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-11-02
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Arranged in Condensed Form

Playing speed cop on a cement
sidewalk with a boy companion re-
| suited in serious injury to Lyle
Meek, 8, Stevens Point, who suffered
a fracture of the skull when he struck
against tricycle. and fell.
4 Elmer Engren, town of White River,
| brought in wolf hide to Ashland and
collected the $40 bounty. He reports
numerous wolves in the vicinity of
Sanborn and Marengo, Ashland coun-
| ty, and that a number of farmers are
trapping them.
Ten coons were killed at the annual
hunters reunion in Galesville in three
/ nights of hunting. There were fifty
one dogs at the reunion, one hunter,
| Clarence Augustine Whitehall, furnish
| ing thirteen. Seventy-five hunters at
tended the reunion
Relatives of Miss Pauline WilkoW-
ski, Manitowoc nurse engaged in re
! lief work in the Near East. received
a letter from the nurse informing
them that she had escaped the mas
Constantinople
Probably the largest criminal calen-
dar in the history of the Eighteenth
district circuit court in Fond du Lac
will be called Nov when the regu-
lar fall term opens with Judge Chester
A. Fowler presiding The state has
scheduled eighty cases for hearing at
this term
The Barron Cooperative Creamery
reports 555,749 pounds of cream re-
ceived in September, making 1885,
pounds of butterfat for which AZ cents
pound was paid The largest check
went to John Etlicher who received
.$292.15. This is the largest co-opera-
tive creamery in the world.
Eighteen carloads of potatoes have
been shipped from the Alderton farm
near Laona this fall. Most of these
| potatoes were sold on contract at
good prices. 1t is said that the first
five carloads were contracted for at
directly from the fields.
State banks are not empowered I'M
der existing Wisconsin laws to accept
drafts drawn upon them for future
payment, Ralph M. Hoyt, deputy attor-
ney general, ruled in an opinion to
Marshall Cousins, commissioner of
banking. Members of the federal re-
serve system, the ruling held, can le-
gally accept drafts. The question of
] liability of banks for accepted drafts
was not passed on in the opinion.
An increase in salary of at least 10
per cent for Oshkosh firemen and
policemen to compare favorably with
payment in other Wisconsin cities is
recommended in a report by special
committee of the Association of Com
merce. The committee stated that an
analysis of salaries paid by other
cities, the size of Oshkosh, and small
er, shows that the schedule in Osh-
kosh is decidedly low in comparison
Fifty dollars a pound for partridge
is too high to pay, says Henry Reden,
jr., of Chippewa Falls, who was fined
fridge out of season. Mr.. Reden's wall
to the game warden that he came
across the partridge wounded, and
killed it only to relieve it of its suf-
fering failed to convince. The double
barreled shotgun Mr.. Reden carried,
loaned by an obliging friend, was con-
| fiscated.
Following a request by the traffic
bureau of the Oshkosh Association of
| Commerce, the state railroad COM
mission has given an Interpretation of
it's recent order relative to the ship
ment of soft coal and as result there
will be a reduction of 10 cents ton
| on the shipment charge of soft coal
from Sheboygan and Milwaukee to
Oshkosh Formerly the rate was $1.20
a ton. Now it is $1.10.
Living and moving about in re-
gion not only infested, but ruled by
bandits is the experience of Miss
| Ovidia Hansing, Barron county girl
who is doing missionary work in
| China. Writing to relatives she tells
/ now she Is Ill d I0SlOu absolutely I'LL
der the control of bandits, but that
so far foreigners have not been mo-
Tested, either as to person or property
Robbers over there never harm per-
son, she writes, merely taking away
the property and belongings of their
victims.
A novel plan for caring for the poor
of RichIand county is provided in a
will just filed in County court at Rich
land Center by former state sena-
tor and well known political leader
In accordance with the wish of the
late D. G. James, his heirs, o. B.
James, Vida Brindley and Aida L.
James have created trust fund of
| $4,000 to be kept intact under the
Jurisdiction of the County court. The
income from this principal shall be
used for lettering the conditions Of
working women and dependent chill
dren in Richland county.
An industrial bureau which will act
as a medium between outside manu-
facturers and Superior is being
formed. 1t will gather data for in
dustries seeking to locate in Superior
and will also advise against the loca-
ton there Of industries which would