Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-28


sity of Wisconsin.
Action has been started in the Rock
county circuit court to restrain Frank
D. Kimball, former furniture store
proprietor and undertaken, from con-
Quoting morgue in the residence
district.
Work will be commenced in the
spring on a new twenty-room hospital
to be erected in Burlington as me-
mortal to the soldiers, sailors and
nurses from western Racine county
who served. in the World War.
Huddled close to a stove from which
the warmth had long been gone, the
body of Cornelius B. Wright, rs, civil
war veteran of Shopiere, Rock county,
was found by neighbors. The body
was frozen rigid but physicians assert
heart failure caused the death.
The common council of the city OF
Darlington has enacted resolution
to the effect that hereafter all places
of business in the city must close
after 1890 each night except Satur
day, when they can remain open un
til II.
City, county and state taxes com
bined in sheboygan for 1922 will be
$30.15 per $1,000, according to figures
compiled by City Comptroller John
Hummer. This amount is .731 per
81 900 higher than it was last year,
the combined taxes that were paid in
1921 having been on the average OF
$29.42 per $1,000.
The $4,000 estate of Betsy Jen.
nings, Fenton, Mich, who died recent.
ly with no heirs, has been left to the
Morris Pratt institute of Watertown,
according to word received by H. E.
Record, principal of the institution,
which is the only Spiritualist school
in the world The school is richly
endowed
August Zippel, who owns farm
near Oconto Falls, was awarded $4,000
damages against the Union Manufac-
turing Co. in circuit court at Oeonto.
This action was brought as a con-
demnation proceeding to grant the
company right to flood about &c
acres of the Zippel farm, by the ereo
ton of power dam.
Thomas Berry, living on farm
south of Wilton, went into the barn
to tie bull in its stall when the
animal turned on him, knocked him
down and trampled on him. Berry
rolled out of the barn door and a
neighbor, James Morton, came to his
aid. Mr. Berry's left arm and three
ribs were broken and he was injured
internally.
Chicken thieves raided the coop Of
William Schoenbeck near Columbus,
taking every fowl. On the floor of
the empty chicken house the next day
Mrs. Schoenbeck found pocketbook
which contained more money than the
entire flock was worth. A few days
later. when a stranger came asking
to see the coop he was told there was
no desire to trade back
The city of Superior and Mayor
Fred A. Baxter are named as defend
ants in suit filed in the federal dis
trict court at Superior for the recov-
cry of $3,083.12 by a detective agency.
The bill is for the services of a clean
up sleuth" in campaign against vice
after the city council had adopted an
ordinance prohibiting the employment
of out of town detectives in city po-
lice work.
The Jackson State bank at Jackson,
a village of 700 in Washington county,
was closed by Marshall Cousins, bank.
ing commissioner Examiners of the
state banking department are in
charge of the affairs of the institu-
ton. The frozen condition of loans
is the cause of the action by the de-
partment. Liabilities of $240,746 will
be covered without loss to anyone, ac-
cording to Mr.. Cousins. The bank
was taken over because $198,592 in
loans was not collectible at this time.
A general improvement in state f.
nances is reflected in the biennial re-
port of Henry Johnson, state treas
urer. Balances in the larger state
funds are heavier. The total balance
on hand at the close of the present
fiscal year was S14,598,56O. compared
to $11,086,501 last year. Total re-
ceipts for the year were $685., 421
and disbursements $48,455, 361. This
compares with receipts of $44,238,720
during the previous year and disburse-
ments of $44,746,813.
The Wisconsin legislature, although
not in regular session during 1922,
cost the people of the state $46.421.44
exclusive of expenses of the special
session in March, the report of Henry
Johnson, state treasurer, shows. The
largest cost was for printing and sup
plies, amounting to $3O,26O. The re-
port shows that $3.035 was paid in
the chief clerk department of the sem
ate and $8,365 in the same department
of the assembly, while $1,750 was
spent in the sergeant-at-arms depart
ment of the senate and $1,513 in the
assembly. The special session called
by Gov. Blaine in March of this year
cost $6,818,79, the report says. Travel
ing expenses made UP most of this
amount.
At a meeting of the stockholders
and officers of the Northern Wiscon-
sin State fair at Chippewa Falls, it