Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-06-14
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

WI. 0dllOu, Cu1Sl OIL ponce, RdT1n0LL6,
the Merrill police and sheriff's forces
and the district attorney will share
in the purse.
The Milwaukee road, North Western
railway, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railway and the La Crosse
Southeastern railway, operating
through the city of La Crosse, filed a
petition in circuit court asking Judge
E. Ray Stevens to vacate the order
Of the railroad commission requiring
them to erect union depot in La
Crosse.
Ten of Appleton's principal high
ways were named arterial ways at a
meeting of the common council, on
recommendation of the committee on
streets and bridges. An ordinance
backing up the arterial plan for APP
pleton will be drawn up and passed
at the next meeting of the council
The committees recommendation in
cludes all streets on which street car
tracks are laid
When xeJcK county sends it's great
herd of pure bred cattle around the
fair circuits of the Middle West this
summer they will be in charge of
Jack Nesbitt, Richland Center. Mr..
Nesbitt, one Of the best show men in
this section, was picked by the Rock
County Farm bureau. The herd will
be picked from winners at the Rock
county fair at Evansville and the
GAINESVILLE fair at GAINESVILLE They
will make tour of ten fairs in a spe-
cial train Of ten cars.
Hubert Falge, SO, Manitowoc justice
of the peace, made his annual hiking
trip across country, this year choos-
ing the village of Maribel as his des-
tination. Each year after the first
rain in June the aged justice, accom-
panied by friends, walks from Is to
2S miles just to show that he is still
young. The distance to Maribel from
Manitowoc is Is miles Mr.. Falge was
accompanied by Judge John Chloupek
and Attorney A. j. Wyseman. They
returned by auto
Twelve students of the East Side
high school were expelled by order of
the board of education as the result
of wild moonshine parties. The action
came on the recommendation of spe-
cia1 committee appointed by the East
Side Parent-Teacher association Four
girls included in the group will be
given psychopathic examinations, it
was announced Prof. E. B. Skinner,
member of the school board, said that
he believed automobiles were the
cause of thu moral laxity of school
children.
The junction of the branch and
road in Marinette county no longer
has twin names In railroad circles
it always has been known as Ellis
Junction. The community proper al
ways has been CriVitz The difference
in the names always has been a
source of confusion. Recently the
Crivitz Community club petitioned the
railroad authorities to make the
change and it has been done. An
order has been issued to all station
agents designating the place as Crivitz
and the railroad maps hereafter is
sued will bear that name.
The finding of a portion of human
skull lying a few feet from a concrete
road at the foot of the hill just south
Of Wausau on highway 10 was report
ed to county officers and the find was
in possession Of Sheriff Arthur Sic
vert The find, made by Mrs Myrtle
Telyea, comprises the front half of a
skull, with the bones of the upper part
Of the face attached 1t is apparently
that of young person. From its con-
dition, physicians are Of the opinion
that it had been buried for many
years. 1t was found within IL feet of
the concrete roadway. 1t is believed
that the bones came from forgotten
and neglected grave.
The death knell of Wisconsin Dairy
ing, Inc, the organization of Wiscon-
sin dairymen formed for the purpose
of advertising the states dairy prod
ucts, was sounded at a meeting of the
Fond du Lac County Farm bureau,
when it was agreed to return $4,000
worth of pledge cards to their signers,
on the ground that the original plans
of the association had not been car
ried out. The Fond du Lac county
bureau was the originator of the dairy
publicity plan and the only one to
raise it's share of the funds necessary
to carry out the project. In taking it's
action the Farm bureau urged that the
work be carried on by the Wisconsin
Cheese Producers association. B. F.
Sheridan, president of the bureau for
the last two years, was reelected
unanimously. L. G. Schwertfeger
was reelected vice-president, S. M
Schmitz, secretary, and G. w. Keys
treasurer
The Union Grove fire department
was called out to put out a peat bed
fire on the farm of Henry Pfeiffer,
near Racine, which has been burning
for the past three weeks. The fire
is said to be endangering large field
of grain. The fire started when Mr.
Pfe1ffer burned up a lot of hemp left
over from last season.
According to plans which are now
under way, WATERFOWL is to be used
as a center from which to operate