Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-18
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Observation-Disclosures


City Comptroller Runners annual
tax distribution statement shows the
aggregate 1923 assessment for state,
city and county purposes for Sheboy-
gan is $685. 06.37. The assessed
valuation of the city is $35, 410,279, and
the rate is $30,15 per $1,000.
Anna Kubisiak, 16, paper mill work
er employed in a mill a mile south of
Stevens Point, while sewing. on a dress
accidentally swallowed a needle she
had placed in her mouth. The needle
was located below her stomach after
several X-ray examinations.
County courts may have access to
income tax records in determining the
amount of inheritance taxes to assess
against estates, the state supreme
court decided in reversing a lower
court decision in an action of the state
against the executor of the estate of
Mrs. Kate M. Porter, Eau Claire.
Building operations in Fond du Lac
in 1922 involved more than $1,000 900,
according to records compiled by city
officials More than one hundred
sixty new business and residential
structures were erected during the
year, while sixty-six buildings were
remodeled. The 1922 record for build
ing activities exceeded any in the
city's history.
The search for Clyde Stephens,
missing Montford bank cashier, al
legged to have absconded with more
than 100000 took a new direction
when Marshall Cousins, state banking
commissioner, directed the mailing out
Of circulars TO banks throughout Wis
consin and the United States. The
circulars contain information which it
is hoped will lead to Stephens arrest.
Ira Smith, district conservation war
den, has announced that plans for the
formation of sportsmen's game pro-
lection association for the Green Bay
district is taking definite shape and
declared that the movement is re-
ceiving enthusiastic support from a
large majority of local hunters and
fishermen as well as persons merely
interested in the conservation of game
in abstract principle.
Because Louis Peterson, whose term
as Outagamie county treasurer ex-
PRED Dec. 81, will not surrender the
county books and funds until his &C
counts are audited, Miss Marie Ziegen-
hagen, new treasurer, has not seen
the inside of the county safe in her
office. Mr. Peterson has the combina-
ton of the safe and he has refused
to divulge it to his successor His
books probably will be audited this
month.
Fire loss in Eau Claire during 1922
was the greatest in ten years. De
struction of the Northwestern Steel
and Iron Works raised the total by
| $150,000 to it's estimated amount of
$173,000. The amount of uninsured
property loss was $4,000. The pre-
ceding year the fire loss scarcely
reached $4,000. There were one hun
dred eighty-six calls that year, while
in 1922 there were two hundred thirty
nine.
Driving scores of young girl stu
dents from their rooms into the snow,
fire of unknown origin swept the main
dormitory of Kemper hall, Kenosha
The fashionable school for girls, To-
Gated along the lake shore, was dam
aged to the extent of about $4,000.
George Mortified, a fireman, was bad
ly burned when caught beneath a
! falling wall and several others suf-
fered burns. About eighty-five girls,
ranging in age from IL to 20 years,
live at the school and practically all
of them were in the dormitory when
the fire broke out.
| Thirty-seven head of pure bred cat
| tie, valued at $9,065, were shipped
from Green Bay to be slaughtered at
Chicago after tuberculin test showed
the animals to be afflicted with the
dread disease. On percentage basis
this represents a trifing proportion as
it is estimated that there are total
of 100000 head of pure bred stock in
Brown county bringing it in actual
figures to .036 tubercular by test. The
animals are slaughtered at state ex-
pense and the owner receives one
half Of the appraisal value of the ami
NAL plus salvage for hide and useful
fats
A renewal of vandalism in rural
district schools, that earlier in the
school year resulted in the destruction
Of one building and the ransacking of
others, was seen by Fond du Lac
county officials in the burning under
mysterious circumstances, of the rural
school in the Town Of Byron, Dist. No.
IL. This is the second school in this
township to be destroyed by fire since
September the building in Dist. No. 3
having been burned in October Dur
ing the early part of the rural school
year, there was strong evidence that
an organized gang of vandals was
committing depredations in the rural
schools in several sections of the
county
A clearing house for charitable or
CARNATIONS of Sheboygan county has
been formed in Sheboygan with Miss
Vera Kansler of Reedsburg secretary.
The exchange is Icing sustained by
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