Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-13
WISCON SIN
PENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

their boat, seine and haul of fish.
January 10 and 20 have been set as
the dates for the Power Farming anu
Corn and Potato show to be held at
Oconto, the first of a series of winter
expositions in Oconto county during
the winter. The show will consist Of
addresses, music and free movies.
Big strings of pike and pickerel,
with now and then mammoth stur-
geon, are being taken from Lake Win
nebago, by ice fishermen. The indus
try of ice fishing is fourishing and
is keeping hundreds of men who 9TH
erwise would be jobless busy and fur
nishing many families with food and
revenue.
Mrs. Joseph Kopenhammer, Chip
pewa Falls, mother of five children,
was sentenced to two years at Wau-
pun by Judge T. j. O'Connor of Chip
peWa, for shoplifting. Her husband
and oldest son, Joseph, Jr., were SEN
fenced to one year each, the former at
Waupun and the latter at Green Bay,
for receiving and concealing stolen
goods.
Nine Sheboygan county cheeseman's
ers were arrested on warrants issued
by L. r. Stewart, state food and dairy
inspector, on charges of manufacture
Ing cheese containing more than SO
per cent of moisture in violation of
the state food and dairy laws. The
arrests were made following tour
of inspection of cheese factories in
the county.
With prize money earned at calf
and chicken exhibits and on the sale
of cockerels, Bernard Allan, Toma-
hawk, member of the poultry and~calf
clubs, paid for oats and hay for his
purebred Holstein calf throughout last
winter and until pasturing time, May
l, and with money since earned he
Is going to try to pay part of his calf
hote, as well as feed for his poultry.
The greatest home building boom
In the history of Appleton is predict
ed for this year. Contractors, manu-
facturers Of interior finishings and
lumbermen believe between 800 and
400 homes will be erected here this
year, three or four times as many as
the average for the last ten years.
About $50 homes were built in 1921,
1t is estimated, but this has not made
any appreciate difference in the de-
mand for houses nor in the rentals.
In fact, rents are higher now than
ever before in history
Have some more muskrat? Expert
mental wild meat epicures at Neenah
under fire of sneers by the old time
trappers, have tried the meat of the
furry water dweller, and pronounced
it good. cit tastes like wild duck"
they say. In preparing the muskrat
for eating, however, it is necessary
to remove the hide in such a manner
that the hair does not touch the meat.
The musk bags, too, must be carefully
removed to prevent the meat from be-
ing permeated with the musk odor.
When the Sheboygan high school
is completed it will be one of the
best in the country, embodying all
Of the latest features in construction
and arrangement, according to the
architects The west unit of the
school is being complete and will be
ready for occupancy at the opening
of school next September. The entire
design is gothic architecture. The
building is freproof with huge con-
crete columns, hollow tile and ashes.
tos walls, no wood being used in con.
struction.
Employers in Wisconsin have paid
100000 since 1917 in increased com
pensation to minors injured while en-
ployed in violation of the child labor
law, the industrial commission said
in a recent statement. These pay
ments have been made under the
workmen's compensation act, which
provides that when a minor is injured
while Illegally employed, the compen-
sation shall be trebled and the entire
increase, amounting to two-thirds of
the whole, be paid by the employer
and not by the insurance carrier.
On the contention that drunkenness
was six times as great in 1921 as in
1897, when the city was wide open,
and twice as fragrant as 1920, and
that the number of violently insane
fro,,, ,oooncI,ino ic GROWING ranidIv in
Sheboygan, the common council I'M
animously passed a petition to Presi.
dent Harding, Senators Lenroot and
La Toilette, Congressman Voigt, the
United States senate and house OF
representatives asking that beer and
light wines be restored. The resolu
ton was introduced by State Senator
Theodore Bentley. president of ire
council.
st never knew people to pay their
taxes as promptly as they are doing
this year." declares Fred w. Wetten-
gele, city treasurer of Monroe. Il
have not heard of a case where extern
sion of time is wanted because of
lack of money. 1t shows that people
in this town are thrifty or that this
community has not been affected by
the hard times"
William Pool, II, veteran postmas-
ter, died at his home in Campbells-
port, as the result of an attack of
heart disease. Mr.. Pool served as