Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-03-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! NEWS OF THE !
BADGER STATE
Observation-Disclosures

nominated for the office Of mayor at
the primary election held Mar. 20.
Bloss received 100 votes, Hodge, III,
and T. G. Smith, 10.
Charles Maltby, Beloit, was elected
president of the Rock County Poland
China Breeders association and w. O.
Douglas was chosen vice president.
o. A. Furseth, Evansville, was named
secretary and treasurer.
Demented by illness, which was I'M
dermining his strength and affecting
his mind, Grant Weber, talented
pianist and eminent musician, took
his life in his studio at Monroe by
hanging himself with small wrap
ping cord.
A recount of the La Crosse common
council Of ballots cast for mayor in
the primaries Mar. 20 restored Mayor
A. A. Bentley to a place on the ticket.
Bentley was counted out election
night by eighteen votes and Aid. J. B.
Murray and Aid. J. J. Verchota were
declared the nominees. The recount
gives Bentley a lead Of three votes
over Murray.
Requests for several carloads of
Fond du Lac county cattle have been
received within the last week from
dairy raisers in California and Kan
sas Two carloads are sought for
breeders in one section of the latter
state. while the far Western raisers
expect to purchase at least five car
loads during the spring, according to
information received in Fond du Lac.
Earl Campbell, 81, former resident
/ of Hartford, employed as a machinist
in Racine factory, has received word
that he is one of six heirs to the
estate of his grand uncle, John Camp
bell, for years engaged in business in
Montreal, Canada, and who died in
Scotland a few years ago. The estate
is valued at $3,000,0O0 and is being
held by courts of England and Canada
until heirs are located and proofs Of
their claims are established.
County superintendent of Schools
Miss Jessie N. Smith of Washburn
has sent out to all teachers of rural
schools and schools of two depart
ments, in Bayfield, county, spelling
! lists for the state fair spelling con-
test to be held at the Wisconsin State
fair at Milwaukee next September.
In order to make the contest a sue
cess. so per cent of the schools of a
town must enter the town contest,
and SO per cent of the schools in the
county must enter the county contest.
Judge Fred Beglinger, Oshkosh, has
signed an order at Chiffon committing
/ Annie Lenz. confessed poison candy
murderer, to state institution for
the feeble minded Thus ends one of
| the most sensational murder cases in
/ the history Of Calumet county The
girl sent a package of poisoned candy
to Mrs. Frank Schneider, Jericho,
mother of eight children, and still on
her sick-bed after giving birth to an
infant. The mother partook Of a
small portion of the candy and died
almost Immediately of commissions.
John A. (Dogsdn) Johnson, Madi-
/ son. pardoned in February, 1922, after
serving ten years of life sentence
for murder which the governor said
he was convinced he did not commit,
was denied compensation for false i'm
prisonment by Judge E. Ray Stevens,
in Dane county circuit court. The
Judge held that since the man con-
tributed to his own conviction by a
plea of guilty to the murder charge,
he was not entitled to relief from the
state.
The $4,000 damage suit of Roger
Ryan, Park Ridge, H., youth, against
Rock county, as the result of an acct
dent on county highway machinery,
Aug. 1, 1922, which resulted in his
right foot being amputated, was dis
missed by Judge George Grimm, of
the Rock county circuit court, James
Vile. The court ruling on the de
murrer of the county held that in con-
struction of highway the county was
performing a governmental function
and that a traveller upon it cannot
recover for damages.
Wisconsin ranks as the nfSI state
in the Union in the production of
dressed monumental granite. In 1921
her total output was valued at 1884,
600 Minnesota her nearest rival, fol
lowed with an $4,000 production OF
this stone, while Vermont stood third
with a total of $350,000. Dressed
monumental granite in 1921 was val
ued at an average of $11.35 per cubic
foot in Wisconsin, which was the high
est average price paid in any state.
Maine granite Of the same general
class brought only $4.98 per cubic
foot. The average price throughout
the country per cubic foot was S8.92
in 1921. The five principal granite
centers in the state are: Monticello, in
Marquette county; Lohrville and Red
Granite. Waushara county; Amberg
Wausau, Marathon county, and Berlin
Green Lake county.
Racine will be run on a daylight
saving schedule again this summer
Voters voiced their approval of the
plan on Mar. 20 when they voted ID
favor Of it, 6,474 to 4,706. William
Armstrong. former mayor, was defeat
ed for the mayoralty by Aid. Jorgen
son. the vote being 5,914 to 5,2l4.
Delivery of more than 10000
4oLoooo hoe hnan made bV