Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-06-30

chief clerk OF the chicago board OF
review, hooked a 40-pound muskel-
Mnge.
Some bridges were washed out and
much damage was done to crops as
the result of the miniature cloudburst
which struck brentwood. Rain fell
for six hours in torrents.
Emil Setter, farmer living at May
vile, near Neenah, lost all of his
front teeth when his automobile
struck two calves and he was hurled
against the steering gear Fhe calves
were killed and the auto wrecked.
After furnishing a surety bond for
100000, Arthur E. Mcleod Of Madi-
son and Alexander Wiley of Chippewa
Falls were approved as executors of
the $1,000,000 estate of Judge R. D.
Marshall when the will was admitted
to probate at Chippewa Falls.
The Sheboygan common council
passed a 100000 bond ordinance to
assist in constructing the SECOND unit
Of the new high school. The total
bonded Indebtedness of the city is
now $1,248,000, of which $3.50, 600 is
for the construction of the new high
school.
A S250,000 addition to ST. Nary's
hospital, Madison, has been announ-
ced. Campaign for the funds will be
started Immediately. 1t is planned
that the addition shall house rs addi-
tional beds as a maternity hospital
and the fund will provide for a nurses
training school.
The house of correction, MilWau-
kee, will be the new home of Racine
prisoners in the future, according to
arrangements made between the dis
trict attorneys of Racine and Milwau-
kee counties. A fee of $3.50 a week
will be paid for each prisoner. The
Racine jails are filed to overfowing.
Sixty-eight years of debt, mill
stone about the necks of the mem
bers of the Sheboygan Gymnastic So
ciety and the turn verefn, as it was
formerly known, were formally cast
aside when a jubilee was held in com
memoration of the burning of the So
ciety's last mortgage on its building
and grounds.
twenty-five of the As inmates Of
the Green Bay reformatory whose
petitions for parole were considered
by the state board OF control won
their freedom. This is the largest
paroled at one time in many
years. Employment must be found
for the inmates before they are al
lowed to leave. The population at the
is 377, compared with 399
in January
Recommendations for an increased
endowment, new quarters for the col
lege boarding Club, and new women's
dormitory to take the place of his
toric Goodrich hall, are included in
the annual report of Acting President
A. E. Whitford of Milton college. The
present endowment of 1851, 900 is far
too low, declares President Whftford
and should be increased to at least
100000 within five years.
In an attempt to wipe out the fric
ton that has existed in the Green Bay
fire department since Chief Sweeney
was forced to retire last fall, the fire
and police commission has appointed
Capt. Henry Falkner of engine house
No. 1 as fire chief. He will replace
Charles Kornowsky, who has been
filling in at the post for the past nine
months. Kornowsky will again take
his place as assistant to the chief.
The already famous damage suit Of
Dennis Fitzgerald, trustee of St.
Roses Catholic church, Racine,
against the Rev. John B. Petite, pas
tor of the parish, will probably be
carried into court again, probably at
the September term of circuit court
Judge E. B. Belden has reduced the
iury's award of $4,000 damages to
$4,000, giving Father Petite the alter
native of a new trial If he. does not
wish to pay the reduced damages.
Wages paid to hired farm hands are
approximately Is per cent lower than
a year ago, the state crop service re +.
ports. Average wages with board are
$34.10 a month, compared with $1,000
a year ago, and without board $3.50,
as compared with $58 last year. The
number of hired hands increased 10
per cent during the month. The re
port shows that the number of work
ers is greater than at any time during
the last three years.
Jacob Marty, Rock county farmer,
in June, 1918, shipped a carload Of
hay to a Chicago commission mer-
chant with instructions to sell at the
best market price Accordingly the
hay was sold for $101.61. The firm
then presented Marty with bill for
S176.38, this being the total of freight
rates, commission charges and haul
ing. The commission merchants kept
the S101.61 and recently secured a
Judgment for the balance, $74 and in
terest. The farmer is out $92 for his
business enterprise, to say nothing of
the load of hay.
Better schools won notable vic
tory in Kenosha when at a special