Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-10-13
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form

Mrs. A. F. Hawley, IS. who was the
first white child born in Madison, died
at Delton, near Baraboo, following a
stroke of paralysis
Explosion of acetylene gas in the
plumbing shop of w. ]. Hyland, Madi-
son, caused damage estimated at ST.
500 and threw sleepers for several
blocks into panic. No one was in
jured by the blast.
Inheritance taxes totaling 1851, 600
for the past three months were paid
into the state treasury by Milwaukee
county, Henry Johnson, state treasur-
er, announced. The estate OF Ferdi-
nand Schlessinger paid $295,Oo0 of
this amount
A party of Phillips hunters, while
in the vicinity of the former ranch
of the Milwaukee Sheep and Wool Co.,
ran across a trio of large black bears.
Edward Harschultz succeeded in land
ing one of them, which weighed over
one hundred and eighty pounds.
Lynn, 8-year-old son Of Fred Berner,
publisher of the Amigo Daily Journal
was killed when he was struck by an
automobile in front of the Journal Of
fee. The car is said to have been
driven by John Hessel, local business
man.
I A $4,000 fire swept the barns and
h AID
farm near GAINESVILLE. A large barn,
a tobacco shed, a tobacco warehouse,
a stripping room, a corn crib, ga
rage and chicken house were de-
stroyed
Estimated expenditures of nine Wis
consin normal schools for the coming
biennium are between $5,000,000 and
$6,000,000, according to conclusions
reached by the state board Of be pre-
scented to the next legislature. Nor
NAL school expenditures for the last
two years amounted to $3,112,161.
Clark county is the first beneficiary
in Wisconsin under the Sheppard
Towner law, which is designed to re-
duce the mortality and preVentable
illness of mothers and infants. That
county by voluntary action Of welfare
bodies has established maternity
and infant health center at Colby,
the first in the state, and received
its first cases Sept. %.
At meeting of all county post
masters and rural carriers at Mari
nette, organization of the Marinette
County Welfare council, a branch Of
the National Welfare council, was
started. The purpose of the organiza-
ton is to promote efficient and har-
monious cooperation between the pub
lie and the postmaster and carriers
and to facilitate the delivery Of mails
Frank Charles, De Pere, and Albert
Phillips of Sturgeon Bay, were
drowned while duck hunting in leaky
skiff in Green bay. The men started
out while brisk wind chopped the
bay. Whitecaps spilled into the boat,
which is said to have been leaking
badly. A hunter, passing them and
noting their predicament, returned five
minutes later and found the boat over
turned. One gun was found in the
boat.
William Goelitz, 81, of Colby, was
instantly killed at Owen by falling I'M
der tractor. The accident happened
at blowing match in which half
dozen tractors participated at the
Clark county insane asylum farm. Mr..
Goelitz attempted to adjust carbure-
tor while the tractor was running. His
clothing caught in the gears and he
was thrown under the wheels, which
passed over his body, killing him in
stantly.
The Green county Brown Swiss cat
tie, owned by N. G. Schmid of Mon
roe and exhibited at the Waterloo,
Iowa, dairy cattle congress, took more
blue ribbons than any other exhibits.
Verocina College Boy, head of the
Schmid herd, won first premium in
the senior Brown Swiss class, making
him eligible in the grand champion
competition. The cattle have taken
sweepstakes at the Green county fair,
Monroe; the Dane county fair, Madi-
SON; the Wisconsin State Fair, Mil
waukee, and the fairs at Fond du Lac,
Chippewa Falls and La Crosse.
Candidates of the Democratic party
at the November election must be
placed on the ballot in an independent
column, according to a memorandum
of the supreme court handed down
Oct. Z. They will be entitled to place
the word Democrat after their names.
The ruling sustains the 10 per cent
clause of the primary election law.
After a long conference the judges
handed down memorandum order
ing the quashing Of the motion for
an alternative writ Of mandamus to
compel the secretary of state to place
the names of Democratic candidates
in a party column on the ballot. The
formal decision will be handed down
later.
SUPERIOR. w. Conner, Superior, a
member Of the Wisconsin Grain and
Warehouse commission, was awarded
6 cents damages from Carl Martell,
farmer in the town of Highland, Doug
las county. Conner claimed Martell
detained three of his pigs which had
wandered into Martell's corn field.
Heart failure caused the death of