Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-26
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


ing the employment of women, George
Pappas, Stevens Point, was ordered to
pay forfeitures of 5000 to the state
of Wisconsin by Circuit Judge Byron
B. Park in court.
Stevens Point Normal school will
offer a course for the training of rural
supervising teachers. It will be a two
year course, but special work is to be
offered this summer for supervisors
already in the field. This new course
will raise the standard of excellence
and make the work more efficient, it
was said.
An increase of 1000 working colo
MES of bees over last year is shown
by the May 1 report of Wisconsin bee
keepers, according to Joseph A. Beck
er of the Wisconsin Cooperative crop
reporting service. The total working
colonies are estimated at $4,000 as
compared to 10000 last year and ST.
900 in 1920.
Lars Christianson, La Crosse, sued
his neighbor, William Thompson, for
| $4,000 damages as a result Of the lat
/ ter throwing a cabbage while loading
a wagon which accidently hit the for
mer on the jaw. The plaintiff assert
ed he was crippled by the blow of the
cabbage on his jaw and had been
troubled with s1eepnessness since.
The railroad commission has re
ceived application for approval of
bonds for eight interurban automobile
transportation lines, bringing the total
number of bonded carriers in Wiscon-
sin to &c. The commission reports
that more applications for bond ap-
prevails of automobile carriers have
been received than at any time for
the last year.
Definite steps have been taken a
Stevens Point toward the establish
ment of a vacation Bible school dur
ing the coming year. A committee
composed of pastors of the Baptist
Presbyterian and Methodist churches
and which will also have members
from other congregations, has been
appointed to formulate the arrange
ments The Rev B. A. Barnes of the
M E. church is chairman.
Wages for work on Wood county
roads this season have been set at
a figure 20 per cent higher than that
originally announced. Laborers will
receive 80 cents per hour instead OF
| 25 cents, and men with teams so cents
| instead Of 80 cents The change was
made by the county highway commit
tee, the members taking the stand
that the decrease in the cost of living
was not sufficient to warrant the orig
inal scale fixed early in the year.
Sixty-five head of cattle, purebred
Holsteins, were disposed of at the an
nual consignment sale staged by the
Brown County Holstein Breeders as
ISOLATION at the Northeastern Wiscon-
sin fair grounds. The animals brought
total of $9,075 or an average of $131
each. The highest priced animal, a
bull owned by James McK0ne, Green
Bay, was sold to Max Franc De Pere,
for $40 The average low prices for
6-month-old stock tended to bring the
total figures down.
Parent-Teacher associations of Stew
ems Point are petitioning the joint
building committee Of the board Of
| education and the common council to
reconsider the plan to omit a gymna-
SUM from the first unit of the new
high school building. The women de-
clare the gymnasium is essential and
that its construction should not be de-
layed. The committee felt that 1t
should be omitted after it was found
that bids for the new unit were $780,
900 above the $15O,000 appropriation
available.
The toll of industrial accidents in
Wisconsin during 1921 was almost as
great as during the preceding years,
in spite of the industrial depression,
the industrial commission has report
ed. There were 157 deaths, IL cases
of permanent total disability, 1902
cases involving permanent partial dis
ability and 1888 compensate acct
dents. This compares with III deaths,
II cases of permanent total disability
and 14,440 cases of temporary dis
ability, total of 1925 compensate
accidents for 1920.
Religious teaching in the public
schools as means Of saving this
country from being a pagan people
was advocated by Arthur Breslich of
Milwaukee, at a meeting of the Mon
roe Parent-Teachers association. He
attributed the rapid decline of Chris
tan character in America to the fact
/ that religious instruction in the pub
! lie schools has been forbidden and he
declared that wise arrangements
might be made so that religious in
struction can be given the children
through cooperation between churches
and schools. Mr.. Breslich Is secre-
tary of the Wisconsin Bible associa-
ton.
Ffremen may become traffic police
men at Neenah. Mayor J. H. DEM
hardt has recommended to the police
and fire commission that members of
the fire department take turns in di-
recting traffic at busy corners in the
downtown section. The commission
has as yet taken no definite action.
Tom Glyfton, Chicago Greek, and
member of the gang which held up
the Toy Chinese restaurant, Milwau-