Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-17
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! NEWS OF THE :
BADGER STATE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Steps to close roadhouses in Whine
bago county which make a practice d
vending moonshine may soon be takeI
by Dist. Atty d. K. Allen, according
to statements made by that officia
to the Winnebago. county board.
The Madison Street Railways Co
was victorious in its paving argument
with the city when the common coun
Gil voted, IL to 6, to release the com
pany from further obligations, except
25 per cent of the total cost of per
manently improved streets.
Edwin Seger, II, Merrill youth, was
arrested in Marinette and confessed
TO local officials that he murdered
John Schilke, night Waterman at the
Kaul Hub mill in Merrill. He struck
Schilke on the head with heavy club
and took his watch, which was
paWned.
AS a result of a series of confer.
ences held in Sawyer county by Prof
j. G.. Milward Of Madison, who is in
charge of potato certifcation in Wis
consin, some of the farmers in the
vicinity of Ojibwa will market their
potatoes under the Wisconsin State
Potato Certifcation.
A town has no power to declare a
vacancy in the office of town chair
man, and an election to fill vacancy
attempted to be so declared would be
null and void, r. E. Bump, assistant
attorney general, held in an opinion
to Robert E. Kennedy, district attor.
ney Of Douglas county.
Land owned by a city and exclu-
sively occupied by it for municipal
purposes is exempt from taxation, al
though situated without the corporate
limits Of the city, F. E. Bump, assist
ant attorney general, has ruled He
held that the town of Hull, Portage
county, could not tax forty acres of
land owned by the city of Stevens
Point and used for its water plant.
With practically the 100 per cent
support of every business house in the
city already promised, and with ar
rangements made to put more than
one hundred girls on the street selling
the flowers the success of Poppy day,
May rs, seems assured at Green Bay,
according to members of the ladies'
auxiliary to Sullivan Legion post,
which is backing the drive to sell
10000 peoples.
avI Madison fOII1c
joined in the first legislative ball held
in the present capitol. Led by Gov.
and Mrs. Blaine and Mayor and Mrs.
Kittleson the grand march got under
way at 9 o'clock, winding through cor
ridors and rotunda. Programs for the
affair were patterned after the regu-
lation legislative calendar, the various
dances being named after lawmakers
who have been in the limelight.
More than 1000 teachers in the pub
lie schools in Racine, Kenosha, Wau-
kesha, Beloit, Stoughton, Milwaukee
and Madison, are enrolled in extension
classes which are being given this
year by the University of Wisconsin
extension division, as a teachers serv-
ice. Each course carries university
credits, although many teachers are
not taking them for credit, but to
keep abreast Of the times" in their
profession.
Charges that the Racine county
school of agriculture and the farm at
Rochester are mismanaged, and that
no benefits are derived by students or
the county were found to be without
the slightest foundation by special
committee, appointed by the county
board to make an investigation. When
a report was submitted to the county
board, that body gave the superintend-
ents Of the school and farm and the
faculty a clean bill and agreed to give
the institution every possible support.
The Corbett dredge, built after the
first dredge was blown up in the Wood
county drainage ditch war last sum-
mer is now being worked on a two
shift plan, and the work of dredging
Mill creek will be completed this sum-
mer if nothing unforeseen occurs. This
project is the one which caused the
sending of the Christmas package
bomb to J. A. Chapman, county super
visor, resulting in the death of Mrs.
Chapman and the serious injury of her
husband, and for the sending Of which
John Magnuson was convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment at
Waupun.
The auditorium feature of the pro-
posed Green Bay Columbus Club Com
munity bldg. will probably be dedicat-
ed to the memory of Brown county
boys who lost their lives in service
during the World war, it has been
announced. A campaign to raise $780,
600 for the erection of the building
was successfully completed. The
Green Bay Columbus club, holding
organization for local Knights of Co
lumbus, already own a desirable site
within two blocks Of the business dis
trict of the city and the building when
completed will be one of the most
beautiful in the state, it is expected.
The STANCE Lumber Co. and the
Kinzel Lumber Co., Merrill, have an
nounced an increase of so cents a day
in their mills, yards and the formers
sash and door plant In addition to
this increase, a bonus of 10 per cent
will be given providing they remain
in the employ of the company until
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