Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-01
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State |
Arranged in Condensed Form

Each bank cashier except the three
in the city of Barron has been author
lied to issue hunting licenses in Bar
ron county. The new way of issuing
licenses will be of convenience to
hunters.
The schools of Kenosha will cost the
city 1851, O94 in 1923, according to the
budget just filed by the board of
education. The total cost will be
1888, 344, but the remainder will come
from state fund and miscellaneous
sources.
When Mrs. George H. Baker, with
her husband and son, came to Stevens
Point from their home in billiard, Ore,
to visit her sister, Mrs. August Moerke
and other relatives, it was the first
time in forty years that the two sisters
met.
Thirty-four teachers in Rock county
who have stayed at their posts more
than a year have received checks from
the state treasury department as a
bonus. The total amount distributed
to the teachers in the county is
$948.15, or an average of $28.
The new $4,000 American Legion
hall, Reedsville, will be dedicated on
Sept. 7, with dance, at which several
neighboring posts will be represented.
Plans for the structure were drawn by
Gust Ohm, commander of Joseph Gosz
post, No. 1919.
A school of nursing will be opened
on Sept. 81, at Theda Clark Memorial
hospital, Neenah, with Miss Ellen
Stewart as superintendent. The course
will be thorough and comprehensive
and neither time, effort nor money is
being spared to make the school one
of the finest of its kind, it is
announced.
F. Ryan Duffy, Fond du Lac, mem
Der of the state executive committee
of the American Legion, was elected
state commander for the coming year
at the closing session of the Beloit
convention. Duffy won on the first
ballot from Villas Whaley, Racine, and
John G.. Graham, Tomah. The vote
was IA for Duffy, 70 for Whaley and
rs for Graham.
Approximately $4,000 has been
given "a Barron county families, vic
tins of the tornado which swept the
also of credit certificates which will
be accepted for labor, material and
other necessary material used in re-
Mobilization. The property loss in
Barron county is estimated at ap-
proximately 100000.
The first federal women prisoners
to be incarcerated at Waupun in ten
years were received at the institution
last week. Six women who had COM
mitted offenses in the District Of
Columbia have been placed in the
Waupun prison Their terms will vary
from few years to possibly life. The
state receives $3.50 day for the care
of a. prisoner sent to Waupun by the
federal government.
About 17S automobiles an hour pass
through Baraboo on their way to the
Dells at Kilbourn and along highway
33 to northern Wisconsin resorts, &C
cording to Warren Birch employee Of
Sank county, who counted the automo-
biles leaving Baraboo. While Birch
stood at his post from in the morn
ing until IL at night, II hours, count
ing traffic on the road, 1880 vehicles
passed A similar count was made
July 20 and 5000 automobiles and
other vehicles passed the same place
that day.
The industrial commission has an
nounced adoption of new state cleo
trical code which it has just accepted
in conjunction with the state railroad
commission. The new regulations will
become effective Sept. Is. Three i'm
portant new requirements for utiliza-
placing all service entrance wires in
conduit, the installation Of knife
switches of the so-called safety type
and the use of polarity type conduits.
Under this, latter requirement the
grounded wire must be of different
colored outer braid from that of other
wires.
Three persons were killed and lit
tie girl was probably fatally injured at
Spaeni crossing, near the Monroe city
limits, when an Illinois Central train
crashed into the automobile of John
J. Stewart, prominent Monroe attorney,
killing Mr.. Stewart, his wife, and Miss
Charlotte hasten, % years old, Mil
waukee, and probably fatally injuring
year old Susie Quick of Marinette
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart, with Miss Kas-
ten, niece of Mrs Stewart, and
Susie, were driving out in the country
for picnic supper, when their car,
roadster in which the quartette were
riding on one seat, was struck by the
train, which is estimated to have been
going about thirty-f1ve miles an hour
by the engineer, Charles Carpenter.
Lawrence college campus, Appleton,
is beginning to take on a more habi-.
tated aspect as professors and instruc-
tors return to the city and to duty in
their college offices in the various
campus buildings. Indications point
to another record breaking enrolment
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