Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-06


entered a caboose to get several
Christmas packages and on leaving
the car was struck by the freight car.
The Wausau Y. w. C. A. has re-
ceived $4,000 as a gift from Mrs.
Alexander Stewart and Mrs. Mary E.
Stewart, Washington, formerly of
Wausau. The directors have decided
to make this gift the nucleus for a
building fund. as the present building
is much too small.
Willis Nourse, who on Oct L, 1921,
celebrated his one hundredth birth
day, died at the home of daughter
in Waupaca He was born in Yer
mont. He was the father of 10 chill
dren, Il of whom are living, also 81
grandchildren and IA great grandchil-
dren.
A. J. Danielson is completing one
of the best equipped barns in Chip
pewa county on the site of a barn
destroyed by fire last winter at his
farm, three miles southeast of Chip
/ pewa Falls. 1t will be 36x100 feet and
have all modern equipment The cleo
trio lights with which the farm build
ings are provided will be lighted by
small private plant
The tubercular test for cattle in
Bayfield, county has been completed,
and out of a total of 1O.160 head test
ed only rs were returned as reaetors,
or less than u of l per cent. When
the law was enacted giving the coun-
ties the privilege of free tests upon
petition, Bayfield, was the second
county to file application, Barron
county being first and Lincoln third.
Two carloads of Holsteins, consist
ing of about sixty animals, were ship
tiss territory, Clark county. The ami
mails will go into Gooding county,
Idaho, as foundation animals for the
dairy business. Buyers liked the class
of cattle around Owen and Curtiss,
and will be back after more in a few
months.
The Rev William ]. Peil of ST.
Boniface church, Manitowoc, and the
Rev. Walter ]. F'itzmaurice of ST.
Mary's church, Appleton, have had
the monsignorship conferred on them
by Pope Benedict, it has been an
nounced by Bishop Paul P. Rhode.
Father .Peil is 70 years of age Gus
tave Keller, postmaster of Appleton,
was made Knight of the Order of
St. Gregory.
DR.. ]. F. Norris, staff physician at
the Resthaven hospital for World war
veterans at Waukesha and president
of the Disabled War Veterans Oil
Co., and Roy Jackson, patient at the
hospital and director of the oil com
pany, were arrested on the charge of
having violated the state blue-sky
laws by selling subscriptions for
stock in the company to disabled sol
diers at the hospital.
Under ruling just received by
Adjt. Gen. Holway from the war de
partment, all state guardsmen who
qualify on a 60O-yard range will re
If expert riflemen, SO a month If
sharpshooters, and So a month ii
marksmen. In addition silver medals
will be given to all who qualify on
the 600-yard range, and bronze medals
to those who qualify on the shorter
ranges of 100 to 200 yards.
Married women in Wisconsin now
bear the same financial responsibility
as their husbands, without claim to
legal disability on the grounds of sex,
w. w. Gilman, assistant attorney gen
eral, advised Marshall Cousins, bark
ing commissioner, in an opinion. En-
actment of the equal rights law by
the 1921 legislature, extending full
legal and political equality to women,
is given as the reason for the changed
situation.
A total Of lat foreign students from
"a other countries or American terri
tories are enrolled in the University
Of Wisconsin. according to the new
directory. This number includes 131
men and Is women. Sixty-one Chi
nese students, including four women,
constitute the largest representation
from any one country. Others from
the Far East include five men from
Japan, two from Australia, four from
India, one from New Zealand and one
from Siam.
Cities of Wisconsin should care
fully investigate their financial con
dition before granting extension of
time for payment of taxes, as per
mitted under a statute passed by the
last legislature, Thomas E. Lyons,
chairman of the state tax commits
sion, declares in a statement Other
wise, he points out, there may be a
shortage of funds to meet obligations
and operating expenses. 1t is his sug-
gestion that before giving the six
months extension the common coun-
Gil of every city determine the out
standing claims which will become
due within the extension period, the
regular monthly payroll and the pre-
ferred funds which the law requires
to be set aside for schools, libraries,
judgments and other purposes.
M B. Olbrich, former counsel to
Gov. Blaine, has been named special
assistant to the attorney general to