Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-26
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! NEWS OF THE
BADGER STATE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

MIS-. Anna 1yLE0 Iduuduul, Q0du VI
women at Beloit college since 1919,
will retire at the end of the present
school year. Her resignation was ac-
cepted by the board of trustees.
Six head of valuable cattle were
burned to death in $4,000 fire which
completely destroyed the barn, tool
shed, machinery and an automobile on
the Fred Schwartz farm, near Fond
du Lac.
Eighty-five head of Holstein cattle
have been secured for the consignment
sale of the Green County Holstein
Breeders association to be held in the
Monroe new $4,000 stock pavilion on
May 2.
One Of the finest Y. NJ G. A. build
ings in the northwest will be con-
structed in Green Bay within a short
time as a result of a weeks strenuous
canvassing which pushed the city over
the top to raise sac, 280-or $4,000
more than the original quota.
After serving more than nineteen
years as Manitowoc street commits
sioner, Emil Vo1lendorf was defeated
for reappointment by Edward Fricke.
Only one ballot was taken, the vote of
the aldermen being z to in favor of
the new candidate.
Paul Zacharias, farmer residing near
Puckaway lake, south of Plainf1eld,
lost 10 cows and one horse in an I'M
usual way. His cows and horses were
standing on the ice of the Fox river
drinking, when the ice suddenly gave
way and all were drowned.
Carroll Russell, 6, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Russell, Copper Creek,
met death when he slid from hay
stack and fell onto hay knife. The
knife penetrated his body nearly 10
| inches, and he died before a physician
could be called.
Jack Daley, proprietor Of Cliffwood
inn, a roadhouse outside of La Crosse,
was shot and killed by his wife during
a quarrel. According to her story,
/ Daley came home from the city in
toxicated, abused and threatened her
and she picked up the revolver and
pointed it at him to subdue him, and
the. revolver was discharged accident
ally, she said.
Six Catholic charitable organizations
are to benefit from requests made in
the will of the late John McNulty
/ pioneer. resident of Kenosha, who died
recently and whose will was filed for
probate. They are the House of the
Good Shepherd, st. Aemilian's Orphan
asylum, ST. Joseph's Orphan asylum,
st. Roses orphanage, ST. Vincent's
Orphan asylum, and the Little Sisters
of the Poor, each to receive $500.
B. F. Sheridan of Fond du Lac, q
leader in dairy activities, and F. G.
Swoboda of Plymouth, general man
ager of the Wisconsin Cheese Pro
ducers' federation, have been named
as members of a committee of twelve
/ from the Farm Bureau of Federation
/ of America to organize a central CO.
operative sales agency for the states
of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Hi,
nois, Indiana and Ohio.
Claims totaling S18,500 have been
presented to the Portage county board
of supervisors by four young people
of Waupaca county who were injured
last summer when their car plunged
through the railing on the bridge on
state trunk highway IS, near Amherst
Junction. and rolled end over end to
the 500 line tracks 80 feet below. The
bridge has long been regarded as
danger point in central Wisconsin and
that the occupants of the car were not
killed was considered miracle.
The poultry industry in Wisconsin
for the past year was valued at nearly
$50 100000. This is the statement OF
j. E. Hayes, poultry department at the
wisconsin College of Agriculture
Hayes declares that farm poultry in
dustry in the Badger state is growing
/ ranidIy. The number of fowl kept on
the farms is increasing steadily. With
i the increase in numbers, there is also
a very appreciable gain in production
There are now sixty-eight hens as an
i average for each farm in Wisconsin
Latest census reports show that on
Jan. /, 1928, there were more than 3,
613. 900 hens in the state.
Public institutions of the state held
1892 inmates on March 81, as com
pared with 1884 at the same time
\ year ago, according to the report OF
i the state board of control made public
state institutions hold 5227 while al
county institutions have a total OF
/ 8O95 inmates. There are 2,772 or
parole this year as against 3,l85
wear ago and 248 on probation com
pared with 225 a year ago. Women IN
mates. number to between onehalf anC
third of the number of men in state
institutions and men are also more
numerous in institutions maintained
by counties. The population OF pena
institutions has decreased from LA
to 1925 during the last year. Tuber
cular patients are about the same IL
number.
Joseph v. verchotta, tailor and
president Of the Trades and Labor
council. was inaugurated mayor of LIZ
Crosse succeeding Arthur A. Bentley
who has held the office eight years
Verchotta was elected by a majorit!
Of 287 after the hottest campaign wit
messed in La Crosse in many years.