River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
STATE CHEESE MEN
TO HOLD MEETING
TWenty-FirSt Annual Convention
for Milwaukee.
WANY ADDRESSES SCHEDULED
Gathering Of Wisconsin Association
viii Open on January 8 and Con-
tinue for Three Days
Prizes Offered.

Prizes Offered.
Madison-The twenty-frst annual
convention and exhibit of the Wiscon-
sin Cheese Makers association will
be held In the Republican house III
Milwaukee. Cheese men from all
parts OF the country will attend the
meeting which opens January 8. The
meeting will continue for three days.
Cheese and dairy experts will be prln-
sipal speakers.
One of the interesting features Will
be the exhibition Of prize cheeses or
ali kinds, made by Wisconsin rae
tories. The association offers hun
lreds of dollars in prizes annually,
n addition to gold watches, for the
best cheeses of each type. The exhi-
0ition will be held on the second floor
If the hotel.
O. A. Damrow, president, will call
he convention to order at ten O'Clock
81 the morning of January and the
visitors will be welcomed by James 2.
Ieenan, secretary of the Citizens,
business league.
At the afternoon session addresses
will be made by Jacob Lenherr, Mon
zoe, on Brick and Limburger Cheese
Making" and Prof. A. ]. Glover, Fort
Atkinson, and Charles Steffen, Mil
yankee, president Of the international
Association of Dairy and Milk lnspec-
.ors on Sanitary Milk Production"
T. A. Ubbelohde, Glenbeulah, will
open the session Thursday morning
With a practical Talk to Cheese
Makers" Fred P. Downing, Madison,
will speak on Value of the Weights
ind Measures Inspection to the
Cheese Maker" while Robert A.
Campbell, secretary of the state
ooard Of public affairs, will give an
address illustrated with stereopticon
news.
Thursday afternoon will come the
election of officers and addresses by
L @. Emery, Madison, dairy and food
commissioner, and S. G. Thompson,
Washington. D. c., who is in charge
If the dairy manufacturing investiga-
ion of the department of agriculture.
Friday addresses will be made by
Joseph Whitman, Monroe, Swiss
Cheese Malking;" A. W. Parkin, Pine
island, Mimi, american Cheese Max
Ing;" and Prof. G. Fl. Benkendorf,
University of Wisconsin, whey Sep
lration at Cheese Factories"
The closing session Friday after
noon will be taken up with the award
ng of prizes.
Commission Asks Changes in Laws.
Simultaneous with the preliminary
announcement of the valuation of the
IS street railway companies of Wis
sonsin, the state tax commission made
public it's legislative recommendations
relating to the collection of these tax
IS in the future. The commission asks
'or the passage of a law which will
permit the street railways to pay tax
es twice yearly, one-half of the tax to
be paid before March 1 and the re-
naming one-half on or before Septen-
Der /. This is the method now used in
collecting steam railroad taxes in this
state.
I'm the case of steam railroads the
tax roll is to be completed by Feb
ruary II says the report, "and one
half of the tax is made payable on or
before the tenth day of August The
street railway companies are not re-
luired to pay any part of the tax UNI
til the following December. A street
railway thus escapes any tax during
the first year of its existence. Where
some other public utility, such as the
lighting plant or hydro electric power
plant, Is taken over by street rail-
way company during the early part of
the year and thus made subject to as
sessment as a part of the entirety by
The tax commission, the question
arises whether such part of the whole
may be locally assessed or whether its
absorption by the street railway COM
pany absolves it from taxation for the
year."
The commission has always held
that in such cases the property shall
be assessed locally, but asks that the
legislature clear up this ambiguity in
The law.
Nearly a Million Autos.