River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-04
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

4 ldCC, OCCluCu Wy OhO WV was W
tween two neighbor women. Mrs.
Harry Thompson won the race for
justice of the peace, over Mrs. John
finland by vote Of 1873 to 49,.
The Social Science club of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin was censured by
the student senate for bringing Kate
| Richards O'Hare to Madison to speak.
Warning was given not to sponsor any
other speakers whose loyalty during
the war was questionable.
Police are holding David Meyer, 20,
Beloit, as suspect in connection with
the robbery in Madison, Mar. 10, of
the Randall State bank of $1,000.
Meyer was arra.gned in superior court
pleading not guilty to a charge of
robbery. He was held under $4,000
bail. Information given by the keeper
of a rooming house led to the arrest
| of the man as a suspect. Police are
looking for possible accomplices.
The arrest of Burt Bunting, Is, at
his home in Superior on charge of
violation of the city liquor ordinance
by police detectives and federal pro
! hibition agents, may pave the way to
startling disclosures of the sale and
drinking OF the beverage among pupils
| of the Superior high school, it was
| intimated. According to current ru-
mors, boy pupils at the high school
have been in the practice of obtaining
the alleged liquor and storing it in
their school lockers.
| The balance in the state treasury
reached its high point for the year
this month when the monthly state
ment of Henry Johnson, state treas
urer, showed $10,56S,940 in the various
funds. OF this amount s8.220,571 is in
the general fund, compared to $4,433,.
500 in March. General property tax
receipts of nearly 100000, together
with receipts in the school fund and
university and normal school incomes,
brought the total receipts for the
month to $13,7SS,S66, with disburse-
ments of $9,442,S93.
F. A. Preston, age AZ, salesman,
dropped dead in the office of DR.. H. j.
Orchard. Superior, Immediately after
he had been given physical exan,ina-
ton by the physician. The man had
entered the doctors office and request
ed an examination of his lungs stating
that he believed something was wrong.
The examination disclosed that his
/ heart was ailing and he was advised
| to go home and go to bed. He pre-
pared to depart and asked for match
and while the doctor bent over his
desk for the article, Preston slumped
to the fioor dead.
| Wisconsin farmers lead and others
follow in the err dication of tubercu-
losis from among their herds. Officials
of the Bureau of Animal Industry OF
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture report that Wisconsin leads
all other states in total number OF
herds and cattle accredited by the
federal authorities. This state has
just one short of 1900 accredited
herds containing 34,S34 head. Mime
sofa comes nearest with 1871 herds
and 32,550 head. The other leaders
are Pennsylvania with 93S herds;
Ohio with 6S3; Maine with 679, and
Indiana with 63S.
The teaching efficiency of Sheboy-
gan high school is far above the aver
age for the country. This is shown
by comparison of the high school
records with the report made by John
]. Tigert, United States commissioner
of education. The report shows that
throughout the United States the
teaching profession has gone back
ward in the war period so far as
training and preparation are con-
cerned. In the Sheboygan high school
all but one of the members of the
school graduates; there are ~ OF the
former and seven of the latter. Nine
tys per cent of them had additional
summer school work since their grad
uation and 10 per cent have received
high collegiate degrees.
Waukesha schools will not have adj
ditional married women on the regular
teaching force as result of reso-
bers of the board of education. The
action was taken when it was proven
conclusively that married women can
not be depended upon as can those
who have no household duties or other
affiliations so common to those who
have given up their name. The reso-
luton does not mean, however, that
those at present on the teaching force
will be obliged to give up their posi-
tions. This new rule will not be
counted against them when applying
for renewals of their contracts next
year, nor does the resolution apply to
widows. Substitutes who are married
will also be considered, but not on the
regular teaching force. There are at
present eleven married women on the
teaching staff in the Waukesha