Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-12
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News OF the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Wooddale, four miles east of Birch
wood, died as a result of sleeping sick
ness, after being asleep twenty-fou1
days.
Charles French, Monroe, more than
80 years old, is the champion gardener
of his neighborhood notwithstanding
the fact that most of his neighbors
are retired farmers and some of them
have been to high toned schools OF
agriculture.
N. P. Swenson, Turtle Lake, cashier
of the Security State bank, Turtle
Lake, has been elected president Of the
Farmers and Merchants State bank
Amery, Barron county. f. A. Stem
berg, cashier of the Amery bank, will
succeed Mr.. Swenson at Turtle Lake
Two persons were stunned, four
fires started, the electric lighting of a
number of homes put out OF order
gas pipes split and a telephone pole
broken, all within a radius of three
blocks during Superior's first electrical
storm of the year.
Joseph Berrens of Chiffon is being
held pending investigation into the
death of Lawrence Leinse of Sheboy-
gan. It is alleged that Leinse died
from the effects of drink of moon
shine, according to a coroner's inyes-
tfgation. The stomach was sent to
Madison for an examination.
Col. Glenn w. Garlock of West
Salem, for. 26 years member of the
Wisconsin national guard has resigned
and is replaced by Lieut.. Col. Paul B.
Clemens. Business duties made it
necessary for Col. Garlock to resign.
He will go on the national guard re
serve.
Kenosha has become the mecca for
scores of men seeking the recently
created position of city manager.
Every mail brings many applications,
due to the fact that the American As
ISOLATION of Engineers has notified it's
members of the vacancy The List of
applicants reaches well above the 100
mark now and is growing by leaps and
bounds.
T. G. Larson, president of the Nee
nah assembly of the Equitable Frater-
nal union, was elected president of
the state organization in the 1922 con-
vention of the order held in Neenah.
Joseph Kitz, Oshkosh, was elected
vice-president, and Mrs. Anna D. Mel
son, Waupaca, state secretary. Stev-
ems Point was selected as the city for
the 1923 state convention.
The Green county semi-annual pure
bred Holstein- Friesian sale at Monroe
was record breaker, both in attend
ance>and the prices received for some
Of the choicest offerings. Ninety ami
mails were sold. The top price was
$500 for a bull, from the Holstein farm
Of O. w. Wolfe, Winslow, Ill. The
total was $15,075, an average of $167.5O
per animal, calves included.
Albert Loesch, the veteran cabinet
maker of Reesville, has finished a
library table, the top of which con-
tains nearly 700 pieces of wood, and
for which he recently refused an offer
of $500, Mr.. Loesch has been deputy
sheriff during all but one or two adj.
ministrations since 1882 and prior to
that time gained notoriety as a tight
rope walker. He is familiar figure
in the political and business life of
Dodge county.
Forty-eight head of pedigreed short
horn cattle valued at more than $751;
900 were burned to death in a fire on
the William Voss farm at Bassett's
station, Kenosha county. The total
loss, including the barn and contents,
is estimated at $4,000. Persons on
the farm were awakened by the neigh
ing of horses shortly after midnight
and found the barn in flames. The
horses and six head of cattle were
rescued.
A decision sustaining the city of
Green Bay in it's fight against the jit-
ney operators of Green Bay, who OBJ
tanned temporary injunction restrain
ing the city from enforcing the jitney
ordinance, was given by Judge Henry
GRASS in circuit court, when he or
dered the temporary INDUCTION dis
solved. The court holds that the city's
license fee of 800 annually is legal
and reasonable. The decision means
that the jitneys operating in Green
Bay will be excluded from streets up
on which street cars run.
Six northern counties will be added
to the tubercular free area in 1922.
Work is now in progress in Oneida,
Washburn, Ashland and Douglas coun-
ties and testing will soon commence
in Chippewa and Rusk counties. Bar
ron was the first tubercular free coun-
ty in the United States and now Lin
coin and Bayfield, counties have also
completed the test. Although other
states have adopted the area test plan,
Wisconsin still leads both as to tu-
bercular free areas and the number of
accredited herds.
The Eau Claire board of education
at its last meeting engaged the sery-
ices of local dentist to take care of
the dental needs Of school children
whose parents could not afford to pay
for such work, as an experiment. to
guide their course as to the institution
of a dental clinic for school children
next fall.
Funeral services were held at Marin
cite on Sunday, May Z, in charge of
tho American T,aoion for Lieut. Ste