Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-07-28
WISCONSIN NEWS
| Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


G. G. Kelleher, former mayor of
Phillips, has sold the hardware store
he conducted for thirty-five years.
Ernest Beer was held for trial in
Green county circuit court for making
six gallons of 13O-proof whiskey.
Mrs Al Ringing traded the Nor
ris hotel property at Baraboo for $50
acres of land near Crystal Lake, I'll.
A modern, camping grounds for
tourists visiting Fennimore has been
provided by the chamber of com
merce.
The Northwest Cooperative Dairy
mems Warehouse company has ar
ranged to open large warehouses at
Cumberland and New Richmond.
A defnate system for house numb
ering in Appleton is proposed by the
city council. Names Of several
streets are also expected to be
changed
Ambrose B. Hare, 76, former mayor
of Delavan, is dead. He was presi-
dent of the Walworth Agricultural
society and a resident Of Walworth
county 81 years.
One of the most proficient cherry
pickers in the Sturgeon Bay district
this season has been young Oneida
Indian girl, who is totally blind. She
averaged picking fifty quarts day
Over 5000 knights in uniform and
many besides are expected in Eau
Claire for the sixty-fourth annual con-
clave of the Grand Commandery,
knight Templars, Of the state of Wis
consin, Sept. and Z.
Preparations are being made to move
the office of the United State Indian
forest service office from Superior to
Cass Lake, Mimi, due to consolida-
ton of five of the six Minnesota
Indian reservations.
Survivors of the Thirteenth Wiscon-
sin volunteer infantry, which fought
through the Civil war as part Of the
army Of the Cumberland, will gather
in Delavan on Aug. 16 for the fifty
third annual regimental reunion.
At least one-half of the women in
Outagamie county to whom jury SER
vice questionnairs were sent have
sent stated their willingness to accept
jury service. About half of the
women asked to be excused because
of household duties.
Three Berlin men will spend ninety
days in the Green Lake county Jail
for being in possession Of moonshine.
They are Theodore Druggist, Albert
Miller and Kasmir Bombinski The
latter received an extra fifteen days
sentence for resisting prohibition
officer.
The Rock county board Of super
visors has refused to ratify the find
ings of the Wisconsin highway com
mission relocating trunk line 20 from
Evansville to Broadhead through
FootYille and Orfordville. The pro-
posed change caused much feeling in
the county.
Edward Quinlan of Madison, serving
a sentence of two years for criminal
assault, escaped from the Waupun
state prison, not knowing that appli-
cation for his pardon had been filed
prisoner and had been sleeping in a
tent on the prison farm.
Thousands of acres of jack and Nor
way pine near Web lake in Burnett
county are being injured by a relative
of the tussock moth, according to re-
ports received by the stale depart
ment Of agriculture, The caterpillars
are present in millions and large
areas of pine woods are turning brown
from the depredations.
The Green Bay state reformatory
has been selected as an institution for
the commitment of federal prisoners
by officials who inspected the insti-
tuition several weeks ago. The influx
of federal prisoners may crowd the
but before winter the institution will
be able to handle more without any
trouble. Construction work on the
new wing with 800 cells, is being
rushed and the prison hall is expected
to be ready by Nov. 1.
Judge A. H. Reid of Wausau has
again been criticised by Governor
Blaine for his action in placing on
probation Glenway Maxon, Jr., young
Milwaukee clubman, after the state
supreme court had affirmed Judge
Reds sentence of five years in prison
against Maxon, who was charged with
driving his automobile while intoxi-
Gated and causing the death of
motorcycle rider in a collision Gov
ernor Blaine has requested District
Attorney label of Milwaukee county
to take action toward having the pro-
baton order set aside.
Work has been commenced on the
new st. Patrick's Catholic church
which will be one of Ripon's finest
religious edifces.
The Wisconsin highway commissions
accident report shows that there was
total of SO accidents on the state
trunk highways during June. In this
number of accidents there were 1870
persons involved. Number of persons
killed six Number seriously injured,