Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-17
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form


in three Manitowoc concerns went on
a strike as a result of a 15 cents an
hour reduction in wages. The new
scale as announced by the employers
is so cents.
The Chippewa Falls council has
adopted a resolution providing for the
purchase of new auxiliary automo-
bile truck for the use of the fire de-
partment. This will do away with the
last team of horses used by the de-
partment.
Fifty years ago the Joe Hooker
post, G. A. R. of Baraboo, was organ
lied with a membership of 300 The
event was celebrated on March 10.
The membership has been reduced by
death to sixty-nine, two of whom are
So years of age. They are John Wes-
tey and ]. Goode.
The citizens of Waupun have by
popular subscription raised $3.50 to be
given to the fire departments of Fond
du Lac and Beaver Dam, as a mark
of appreciation for the work done by
the fire fighters during the condagra-
ton which threatened the city March
2, when the Shaler plant and .adjoin-
ing structures we're burned to the
ground. A check of $3.50 was donated
to the Waupun fire department.
AS a token of appreciation for kind
ness and care received while Mr.. Du-
lany was a patient at the hospital,
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel M. Dulany have
given to the Franciscan sisters. at the
Sacred Heart hospital, Eau Claire, a
pipe organ, said to have cost $4,000.
The organ has been installed in the
new chapel recently built by the sis
tiers and has been so arranged that
it's tones can be heard over the entire
institution.
The State bank of Eagle River, an
institution founded over 80 years ago,
by the late A. Mckenzie and Fred
Morey, and which was recently pur-
chased by A. H. Strange and E. w.
Ellis, has been notified that its appli-
cation for a charter to do business
as a First National bank has been
granted. In the reorganization an in
crease of the capital from $4,000 to
$4,000 was made, with surplus fund
of $4,000.
Despite the fact that the 1920 fed
eral census lessened the population
of Superior by considerable total
from the result of the survey taken
10 years before. the city schools of
Superior today show a decided in
crease over the former totals. A total
of 500 more pupils attend school now
than did in 1919. Miss Grace Geary,
superintendent of schools, announced
that 6,925 students are at present en-
rolled at Superior. This is a gain of
I'll over last year.
The next legislature will not be
asked to increase the salaries of
teachers at the university. Instruc-
lions sent to the deans of the several
colleges for the making out Of the
next budget were accompanied by
memorandum that clearly indicated
that no salary raises would be con-
sidered. Constant addition to the fac
ulty, which now numbers close to l.
900, precludes any possibility of grant
ing increases.
Insurance and telephone companies
within the last week have paid ST.
100000 taxes into the state treasury,
according to Henry Johnson, state
treasurer. Nearly $1,000,000 of this
amount mad been paid by insurance
companies and $228,000 by telephone
companies. County tax payments are.
being received daily by the treasurer.
Added millions will be poured into the
treasury through this source, for nigh
way, university, normal school and
common school purposes.
Du1ing 1921 Wisconsin constructed
a total of 1854 miles of road, more
than double that of previous ordinary
years. This includes concrete, gravel,
macadam and grading. 1t is said that
Wisconsin was surpassed only by New
York and Pennsylvania in the con-
struction of concrete roads this year.
wisconsin built 1915 miles of con-
crete, 1895 miles of gravel roads, IL
O1O miles of earth road grading, 1,204I
miles Of gang maintenance or tenn
porary grading work, "a miles of top
soil work and Y miles of miscella-
neous types of road building.
The power of village boards to pre-
vent or license within the limit of the
village, billiard tables, pigeonhole ta-
bles and bowling saloons does not eX-
tend to private dwellings or clubs, J.
E. Messerschmidt, assistant attorney
general, advised c. B. w. Ruchman,
district attorney at Balsam Lake. The
village board of Balsam Lake was
contemplating licensing the billiard
and pool tables in social clubs, and
inquiry was made to the attorney gen
era1 to determine whether this author
ity existed under the statutes.
An expenditure of $550,000 will be
made by the state of Wisconsin for
highway construction in division No..
8, of the state road system, which
includes Ashland, Barron, Bayfield,,
Burnett, Douglas, Polk, Rusk, Sawyer
and Washburn counties, during the
1922 season, J. R. Mclean, division
engineer, announced at Superior.