Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-10-06
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


eating his dinner, Hermann F. Mauer
mann, 81, Monroe, retired farmer, well
known through Green county. died a
few hours later.
Lower rates on brick shipped by
freight to points within Wisconsin
were ordered by the railroad commits
sion to take effect Immediately The
new schedule of interstate freight
charges applies also to clay and con
crete products taking brick rates.
Gay Girl Golden Secret of Woodbine
of the Corium herd Of Fond du Lac
won the senior and grand champion
ship prizes at the dairy congress al
Waterloo, Ia, according to word re
ceiyed by t. ]. Reuping, proprietor OF
the stock farm.
The Rev. Henry Schenk, 80, retired
pastor, Newton, was seriously injured
when run down by an automobile, the
driver Of which failed to stop. He
was found unconscious by the road
side by churchgoers. His recovery is
doubtful.
Increased electric rates were or
dered by the Wisconsin railroad com
mission for the Mt. Horeb Heat, Light
and Power Co. The new schedule
calls for 15-cent charge a kilowatt
hour for the first 20 hours, IL cents
for the next 40 hours and cents for
all over so kilowatt hours.
According to officials of the Gran
berry aLake Development association
this seasons crop of cranberries at
the company's marsh near Phillips will
probably reach 10000 barrels. This
is a record breaking production. The
crop of 1920 amounted to $500 barrels
and that of 1921 was 1900 barrels.
Another set of theories in regard to
the brutal murder of Mary, William
and Julius Balzer, near Sank City, on
Aug. 8, has collapsed when G. H. Bun
ting, University of Wisconsin patholo-
gist, announced that stains on ham
mer found on the premises of a neigh
Der, who has since been committed to
an institution, were not blood stains
The average price received by Wis
consin farmers for milk during August
was $1.54 a hundredWeight, as COM
pared with $1.52 in July, $162 in Au-
gust, 1921, and $2.56 in August, 1920,
the crop reporting service announces
It's report shows that Sept. / there
were IL per cent fewer farm hands
employed in the state than on Aug. /.
A new total of 1902 students was
reached by registration at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin. AS late registrants
are still coming in, it is expected that
the final total will exceed by several
hundred the registration of 1914 last
fall. The new total includes $50 men
and 1872 women-a slight decrease in
men and increase in women. It in
cludes 1876 former students, and 1926
new students.
Bank robbers entered the Wausau-
kee State Bank, Wausaukee, and es-
capped with more than $4,000, after
breaking thirty-nine safety deposit
boxes. The main vault, containing ap-
proximately another $4,000, was I'M
touched by the burglars. A rear win
dow, through which the men are be-
lieved to have gained entrance, was
found open. The lock was forced from
the outside.
Death has parted what was said to
be the oldest married couple in Wis
consin, James Bell having died at his
home in Abrams, Oconto county, at
the age OF 105. He is survived by his
widow, who is 103 years old. Mr.. Bell
had been in feeble health the last few
weeks, but before that had taken a
walk every day and was quite active.
Less than year ago the Bells were
burned out of the home they had oc-
cupied for half century. The cou-
pie had been married about eighty-six
years.
A jury in federal court at Superior
returned a verdict that Edward r.
Sailstad, Eau Claire manufacturer,
missing since fire destroyed his cot
tage at Lake Nebagamon, Aug. 81,
1920, is dead and held that Mrs. Leona
Sailstad- Richardson is entitled to col
lect $4,000 from the New York Life
Insurance Co. The jury was out Is
hours This case was selected as a
test, 1000 in similar insurance poll
cies in other companies having been
held up pending its solution. The now
famous Sailstad case attracted the at
tention of the entire country after the
cottage fire at Lake Nebagamon, So
miles southeast Of Superior, had given
rise to the question whether Edward J.
Sailstad, young Eau Claire manufac-
turer had persisted in the flames or
planted skeleton in the cabin in
order to elope with Dorothy Anderson,
his Sunshine girl" stenographer. Sail
stad carried some $4,000 Insurance.
and when insurance companies re-
fused to make payment on the poll
cies, contending Sailstad was still
alive, Mrs. Sailstad finally brought suit
to force payment.
Injuries which he received on the
day before he was to have quit the
farm and remove to the city in retire
ment, caused the death Of Wenzel
Frank, Tisch Mills farmer. Mr.. Frank
fell from the hayloft in his barn on
the farm which had been his home for
30 years.
While digging potatoes in a patch
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