Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-03
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

approved for the annual convention
of the League of Wisconsin Munci
palities, which is to be held II
Stevens Point.
After an illness of six weeks, death
came to A. w. Brown, "A, Rhineland
er. Mr. Brown was one of the found
ers of Rhinelander, and was very
active in commercial affairs Of the
town
Girl babies can be sent to the in
dustrial school for girls, but boys
must have reached the age of be
fore they are eligible to become in
mates of the industrial school fol
boys.
About 125 arterial stop and nc
parking signs will be placed in Madi-
son on University ave. and on the
first two blocks of the four avenues
leading to Capitol Square as soon as
the money is appropriated by the po
lice and fire commission.
A little thing like getting held UP
isn't bad If the robber goes fifty-fifty,
declares Charles Livens, who recently
came to Oconto from Poland. Charles
bought a horse and set of harness.
On his way home bandit took the
harness away from him. why should
I kick" Livens said. 'In Poland the
robber would have taken the horse,
too. These American robbers are all
right" he added.
A physical examination conducted
in the city schools recently revealed
five hundred and twenty of the stud
ents out of total enrolment of
seven hundred and seventy-eight were
defective physically. Bad teeth
claimed three hundred and forty.
three; twenty-five had defective eyes
and sixty-one bad tonsils, County
Nurse Barton, who conducted the
examination, reported
Charles L. Kirsham, one Of the best
known guides in the Minocqua lake
region, was found dead in his shack
near Squirrel lake 1t is believed
death was due to heart disease. Kir-
sham came to this locality from Eng
land twenty-five years ago. He
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in England, but for some I'M
known reason he left public life and
sought the solitude of hermit.
Graduation exercises for rural
school pupils of Brown county will BE
held in the auditorium of West De-
pere's new $4,000 high school June
5, it was announced by County Super
intendent E. A. Seymour. The gradu-
alton of more than three hundred
pupils from rural schools each year
is a gala day in the history of the
county. and business men have made
it practice to assist in making the
day an epoch in the lives of rural
schoN pupils and their parents.
The seed corn situation In Wiscon-
sin this spring is very gratifying, &C
cording to George B. Mortimer Of the
field crops staff of the state college
of agriculture. There is enough seed
Of good quality for everyone, he said.
mo one need do without good seed,
and there is no need to use seed
which is doubtful in termination.
Within month corn planting will
be well under way. Now is the time
to give the seed corn the necessary
attention. With the excellent drying
conditions prevailing last fall, there
should be little need for making an
ear termination test this spring
Labor will be scarce and wages
high in Brown county during the con-
struction season this year, according
to all present indications. The report
of the government free employment
office for the past week shows an in
creased demand for farm labor over
the previous week and the calls for
labor for Milwaukee and other cities
is growing in volume every day, it
was stated. Brown county will en-
ploy more than 1000 men on road
work alone and it is expected that
many hundreds of men will be needed
for general construction projects now
under way or which will be started
within short time
Additional picric acid is being pur-
chased by farmers and settlers near
Brentwood to carry on the land clear
Ing plans of most rural residents.
The shipments of picric acid is the
second to be received this year from
government supply bases. The explo
sive is salvaged wal time material
and is now being supplied to farmers
and settlers to aid in clearing land
Washburn county has received two
carloads of the explosive this year
and Brentwood obtained large sup
ply from the recent shipments. 1t
is believed that as much land will
be cleared this year in Washburn
county as was cleared during the as
ISOLATION campaigns Of clearing.
An increase in salary for members
of the Oshkosh police and fire depart
ments has been authorized by the city
council. The pay of the chiefs of the
two departments was raised $40 a
month to a total of 5000 while patrol
men and firemen were given increases
of from SIS to SIS month.
Sullivan Post American Legion
band, Green Bay. of thirty pieces will
make its first public appearance I'M
der the direction of Prof. Alex Emma
in Memorial day parade, it was an
nounced. The band has been recent
ly organized.