Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-02
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plete ever assembled, officials have
announced.
Mrs. Louis Brecker, Greenville, is
in a hospital at Appleton, suffering
from serious burns which she received
when she used gasoline to kindle a
fire. She thought she was pouring
kerosene on the Goals.
Plans for erecting a $125,000 high
school in connection with the Sacred
Heart academy at Madison are being
made by the Dominican Sisters of
that institute, it has been announced.
The building would care for several
hundred Catholic students who gradu-
ate each year from parochial schools.
Charles Gross and Linus Gould, who
at the recent election tied for chair
man of the town of Crescent, Oneida
county, settled the, question by cast
ing lots with the result that Gould
was the winner. This was in compli-
ance with an order issued by Circuit
Judge A. III. Reid Gross has been
chairman of the Oneida county board
several years.
The Langlade County Gun and Game
club supervised the planting of
tWenty-four cans of lake trout finger
lings in Sawyer and White lakes. This
is the first time that a planting of lake
trout has been made in Langlade
county Earlier paintings of fish in
Guided one hundred and fifty-seven
cans of speckled trout, twenty-four
cans Of rainbow trout and fifteen cans
of brown trout.
The Rock county district Of the Wis
consin tobacco pool has been more
completely organized during the last
two weeks and new members signed
under the five year contract for the
statewide marketing system. The
pool is seeking to increase its mem
bership to hold the rs per cent or
more control of the 1924 crop, which
will probably be larger than that Of
a year ago.
Victor H. Arnold, former Madison
banker, and at other times a preacher
in New York City, will be tried in
the Superior United States court at
Madison before Judge Claude q Luse
during the term opening Aug. Z, ac-
cording to Stanley Ryan, assistant
United States attorney. Arnold is
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud and is alleged to have put on
the market through a Madison bond
company, $1,00O,OOO Of worthless
paper.
An experiment in reforestation, de-
signed to show what trees suitable for
plup-wood can be most satisfactorily
grown in conditions in central and
upper Wisconsin is being conducted
by the Consolidated Water and Power
Paper Co., on small tract of land
near Barron. Two thousand little
trees, consisting of approximately an
equal number of spruce, jack pine and
popple have been planted and their
growth will be observed to the time
they are large enough for use as pulp
wood, which will be in about Is years
for the popple and 20 years for the
othfers.
The city Of Racine must issue per-
NIT to the Wisconsin Gas and Elec-
trio Co. to dig trenches through
streets of the city in order to lay
booster mains to provide for proper
gas service to homes in the southern
and southwestern parts of the city.
Judge Belden in the circuit court
handed down a decision in favor of
the company in its action to compel
the city to grant the permit. Not only
did the city lose. in its fight against
the company to prevent it from dig
ging up paved streets and laying
mains. but the court held that the
city had no right to arrest employees
of the company and contractor for
violation of a city ordinance in dig
ging up streets without a permit. The
cases against the men were dismissed.
Removal Of the secrecy clause by
the 1923 legislature has failed to cause
ripple in the course of administer
ing the wisconsin income tax law,
members of the tax commission have
announced after revenue returns had
been opened to the public for four
months. The commissioner said
scarcely a dozen requests for informa-
ton from income tax reports of cor
porationB and individuals have been
made since the law went into effect.
They declared that so far as they have
been able to determine, administers
ton of the income tax law has not
yet been improved by the new statute.
The secrecy clause was repealed by
the legislature In fulllment OF a plat
form pledge made by the Progressive
Republicans during the 1922 political
campaign. Assertions were made ~
candidates of this faction that millions
of dollars of taxes were going uncol-
lected and unreported because of Sc
crecy attending income returns.
The cornerstone of the 100000 Ma
sonic temple at Appleton will be laid
Aug. IL, with w. w. Perry, Milwau-
lee, grand secretary of the state
lodge, in charge. The original date
was July 81, but postponement was
necessary because the building was
not ready.
Frank H. Newly, Brentwood resi-
dent, has reported that he discovered
forty-six potatoes under one hill grow