Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-10
WTSCO N SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form

project, and Tor developing the city
docks and harbors was strong at the
first meeting of the Greater Sheboy.
gan committee.
A warm contest for the office of
mayor is expected to develop at Me-
nasha. Announcement has been made
of the candidacy of Charles j. Ober-
weiser and rumor has it that former
Mayor N. G. Kennel will enter the
race.
During the convention at Merrill OF
the Central Wisconsin Fair circuit il
was decided to have the following
schedule of fairs: Stevens Point, Aug.
Is to 10; Wausau, Aug. % to %; Mer.
rill, Aug. 20 to Sept. /; Marshfeld,
Sept. s to 8; Chippewa Falls, Sept.
IL to Is; La Crosse, Sept, 10 to %;
Durand, Sept. 26 to 20. G. A. Mills,
Wausau was reelected president.
The Amigo First National Farm
Loan association has been organized
at Amigo with all OF Langlade county
as it's territory Walter G. Heyl is
president and w. w. Smith, Jr., cash
Ter of the First National bank, is
secretary and treasurer. The asso-
citation is under the direct supervision
of the federal farm loan board at
Washington.
An unusual incident of the late biz
gard is reported by Barney Huff, who
lives on a farm near Nash, Ashland
county. During the fury of the storm,
a horse belonging to Huff became be-
wildered and rolled down a ravine.
Before the animal could be rescued
it had smothered in a huge drift.
Several other horses had to be shot
because they broke their legs in deep
snow.
State employment offices report a
surplus of farm labor over the demand
for workers, rather than a shortage,
the industrial commission said, caused
by publication Of a statement that
farm labor was in demand Wages
range from $25 to $35 a month, the
commission reported. There are in
dications that fewer men will be en-
ployed on farms this year than last
year due to the low price paid for
products.
Wisconsin farmers have received
more than $4,000,000 of loans through
the war finance corporation at Wash.
ington and estimates are made that
the total loans, which will be made
before the time expires July /, may
exceed $7,O00,000. This is the state
ment given by F. X. Mcpherson of the
First Wisconsin National bank, Mil
waukee, chairman of the Wisconsin
loan committee for the war finance
corporation.
With the death of Mrs. William F.
Villas, Madison, widow of the former
postmaster general, Col. w. F. Villas
the large estate of her husband
amounting to nearly 100000, may
be rendered by the trustees to the
University of Wisconsin as a trust
fund The will of her husband, for
mer United States senator, provided
that the bulk of his estate should be
placed in trust fund for the univer-
sity after the death of his wife, should
the trustees so decide and the unlver.
sity accept.
The methods employed to trap bea-
vers in some of the open counties in
the north have aroused so much com
plant that the conservation commits
sion may exercise it's authority to
close the season and order the trap
pers away from the stream and ponds.
These complaints have been especially
numerous in Ashland and Superior.
In their hurry to catch beaver, some
trappers are reported to have de-
stroyed beaver houses. entirely, 1eaY-
ing the untrapped animals without
shelter and exposed to the rigors of
winter. 1t is reported that some
beaver houses have been blown up
with dynamite.
The citizenship status of the foreign
born white population of Wisconsin,
by country of birth, compiled from
the returns of the fourteenth decen-
NAL census taken as of Jan. l, 1870, IS
shown in statistics lust issued by the
census bureau. The total population
of wisconsin, 2,632,067, included 460,
1873 foreign born white persons, OF
whom 434,591 were q and over. Of
this number 148,083 were born Ill
IA
Norway and 22,231 in Sweden. OF
the natives CT Germany, 65.9 per cent
are naturalized; of Poland, Alb per
cent; of Norway, 63.6 per cent, and
of Sweden, 313 per cent For the
natives of other foreign countries the
corresponding percentage ranged from
17.3 for persons born in Greece TO
I'll for those born in Denmark. OF
the total white population of Wlscon-
sin 81 and over, 28.6 per cent are i'm
migrants and 1914 per cent are natur-
allied immigrants.
Fred Clausen, Superior, SO, North
ern Pacific railway section foreman,
slid down a snow bank in front of a
train and was killed. Clausen had
climbed the snowbank to avoid the
train. The vibration caused by tho
train Jared the snow loose and he
slid under the engine.
Hans Johnson, missing cashier of
the Farmers State bank of Ogdens-
burg, Waupaca county, has been ap.
pretended in Los Angeles, and will