Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-03-09
NetUs Notes of Wisconsin,

iobbers of cheese and barley and rye,
a large delegation of farmers of Win
aebago county met here and organized
the Winnebago County Farmers and
Cheesemakers' Publicity club. It is
the intention to send workers into
every county of the state. William
Grimes, member, says that in the
sale of barley to the jobbers the latter
take fifty pounds to the bushel and
sixty pounds of rye, whereas the legal
weight is forty-eight for barley and
tlfty-Slx for rye. At the next meeting
of the legislature bills will be intro
duced. In the matter of cheese, the
farmers claim that iobbers will not
pay for more than nineteen pounds
ON every twenty pound American
cheese, but that when the ultimate
consumer pays the retailer he pays
for twenty pounds to the grocer.
Wausau.-If the plans for a tur-
pentine factory here are carried out
the factory will also afford a market
for all the Norway pine stumps the
settlers in this vicinity can pull while
clearing their land at from IS to 81
cord. The factory will be built as
soon as the blueprints and plans are
finished and the retorts can be Sc
cured. The factory will be in opera
ton fifty weeks during the year and
will consume stumps from 1000
acres yearly.
MadiSOn.-FarmerS of ChiDDewa
county were the first to give evidence
of the opposition to the Industrial in
surance law, which had been expected
in some of the rural districts. A pc
tition signed by Ill farmers, living
at Edison, Delmar and in the village
of Boyd has been filed with the legis-
lature. The signers oppose the law
on the ground that it throws the bur
den of the assumption of risk and
negligence of the fellow servant on
the small employer.
Racine.-Racine will have a labor
temple this year and have half the
money before a stone is placed. The
Union Hall association, at it's quar-
terly meeting, voted to have every
union man in the city contribute one
days wages toward the project, which
will provide one-half the total cost.
Madison.-Nearly 250 young wom-
en- have applied for admission to the
Wisconsin Library school during the
last four years, although only twenty
six students can be accommodated
each year in the present quarters.
The demand for trained librarians
led many students to take up library
work.
Neenah.-ThroWn from an iceboat
in which he was riding at a mile a
minute clip, G. E. FoIlett of Oshkosh
game warden. was seriously hurt
near here. The boat struck a crack
and skidded into open water.
Mayville.-Two men were injured
in the Northwestern Iron company's
plant in one of the most peculiar ac-
cidents on record, being hurt by air.
In the huge stoves Of the plant the su-
perheated air is under heavy blast
pressure, and one of the confning
ports gave way. The subsequent blast
tore the doors off the engine house.
20 feet away, passed through the
building, taking out a section of brick
wall on the other side, and toppled
over the men beyond, bruisine them
badly. They thought they had been
hit by cyclone, and are not to be
blamed for their impression.
Janesyille.-With the completion
of the new concrete car barns south
of this city, the Rockford Interurban
company, it is believed, viii enter the
city on the east side of the river
This is preliminary to the rumored
move to extend the line through Fort
Atkinson and Jefferson to WATERFOWL
Rock Falls-At a meeting of
hundred or more Rock Falls farmers
preliminary steps toward the organi-
cation of a telephone company were
taken. An exchange at Rock Falls
to be connected with the Eau Claire
exchange, was planned
Janesyille.-After three years of
delay the Cincinnati Construction
company. which has secured a right
of way from Madison to GAINESVILLE
and franchises in GAINESVILLE, Edgerton
and Stoughton, now proposes to sell
the preferred stock TO the property
owners along the proposed route.
Janesyille's share is to be $4,000.
Oconto.-One of the historic land.
marks of this section will pass with
he dismantling of the old Spies mill
uiit over fifty years ago and one OF
le mainstays Of the community fof
ears.