Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-07-12
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

feet when bolt of lightning struck
the Severt residence, causing consid-
cradle damage. He is expected to re-
cover.
Beeman in the Maiden Rock section
has met with very serious losses this
season by having their bees poisoned.
Some apiaries are ruined The bees
got the poison by gathering honey
from sprayed orchards.
Mrs Stuart J. Fuller, wife of the
American consul general at Tientsin,
China, and formerly Miss Anne Regan,
Madison, and Mrs. A. G. Schmedeman,
wife Of the former United States
minister to Norway, were recent Madi-
son visitors.
Frank Jackson has resigned his
position as cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Menomonie, which he
has held for II years. He will make
his future home in California. Mr..
Jackson is "a, his wife is 20, and their
only living. relative, Mrs. Allen, Los
Angeles, is rs.
July 4, 1928, set a record in Fond
du Lac when the entire day passed
without call to the fire department
either for fire protection or for pull
motor resuscitation, and without a.
Fourth of July accident of any de-
scription in the city The Fourth, for
the first time in history, was absolute
ly sane.
G. D. Lehman, instructor in pattern
making at the University of Wiscon-
sin the last three years, has been ap-
pointed by the state board Of control
as superintendent of the state public
schooI for neglected and dependent
children at Sparta. Mr.. Lehman will
succeed L. N. Prince who was recent
1 iy removed.
Branding the measure as IAN at
tempt to 1egalize usury," Gov Blaine
vetoed bill to permit loan agencies
to charge an interest rate of 312 per
cent a month on loans under $500.
The governor vetoed a similar bill
two years ago. He declared the meas
ure would legalize interest rates of AZ
per cent a year on the basis of simple
] interest.
More than twelve miles of cement
road has been laid on seven state
trunk highways in Fond du Lac coun-
ty since work was started in June,
according to figures made public by
County Engineer J. S. Mccullough
Work this year is more than five
miles ahead of the same date last
year The county program of forty
two miles of concrete is nearly one
third completed.
Louis Maier pleaded guilty in cir
4 cult court at Wausau to charges of
forging a bank check and was given
a f1ve-year term in state prison at
Waupun Maier finished serving IL
months term at Green Bay reforma-
tory last September and confessed to
officers of forging at least 40 checks
on banks in Wausau, Tripoli. Merrill,
4 Tomahawk and other places since
that time.
Four horses, four calves, forty-f1ve
tons of hay, many chickens and a
large amount of farm machinery were
burned when fire started by spontane-
GUS combustion destroyed large
barn on the John Morgan farm, near
Fond du Lac, with a loss estimated at
/ $1,000 Practically no insurance was
carried on the property. The house
and other buildings were saved by
neighbors who formed a bucket bri-
gade.
i A check-up of receipts of the Fourth
of July celebration at Manitowoc,
sponsored by the American Legion
boys, shows that financially, as well
otherwise, the event was successful.
More than $1,000 was cleared. One of
the largest crowds that ever visited
the county fair grounds was present
afternoon and evening. More than
10000 people paid admission and sew
eral thousand children were admitted
free.
Several weeks will see completion
of the Mill creek drainage work which
has been carried on in Wood county
the last two years, and which figured
in the Marshfield Christmas package
| bomb case The huge dredge is
| headed for it's destination at the sew
erage disposal plant in Marshfield and
is making rapid progress daily. The
project will bisect the county from it's
northern to southern boundaries and
will call for an expenditure of $4,000.
The birthdays of George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln are once
| again to be holidays for Wisconsin
school children. Gov. Blaine assured
school recognition of these two occa-
sions by signing the Czerwinski bill
including Feb IL and Feb. % among
the days set aside as legal holidays
for schools This new law requires
that appropriate exercises be held in
all schools commemorative the birth
days of the two outstanding char
4 acters of American history.
The legislative highway committee
will soon begin its work of laying out
2,1O0 miles of additional state trunk
highways provided for in the automo-
bile weight tax bill passed by the leg
islature This program will bring the
total length of state trunk roads to
10000 miles