Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-07-10

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sturgeon Bay-Weather conditions
last fall and during the blossom time
this spring have caused the failure of
the great cherry crop in Door County.
Only so per cent of the famous prod.
uct will be available for the market
this season. The exceedingly light
cherry crop of this county will mean
a loss of thousands of dollars to the
growers here and to fruit merchants
throughout the country. Fruit growers
predict a big apple crop this fall.
Madison-High prices of farm i'm
plements will be cut, the secretary of
agriculture warns the state food adj
1t will be necessary to
survey the industry with view to dis
cover whether the commissions, profits
or prices are unjust, unreasonable,
discriminatory and unfair, and if so, to
cause their discontinuance The law
does not provide for direct price-fixing.
but the food control act grants power
to prevent unfair profits.
Madison = Boys livestock judging
contests will be held this fall at at
least "a of Wisconsin's county
fairs. Officials of the Wisconsin Live
stock Breeders association were mott
fed by the fair secretaries that this
judging event has been added to the
list of special features and have ap-
piled for a gold medal which the state
association is offering to encourage
greater interest in livestock breeding.
Appleton-Appleton is not as hard
hit as during the civil war in 1862, one
year after the war was declared, this
county had furnished 5S7 men or about
per cent of the population. Today
only 8 per cent of the population, or
1850 men, are in the service. Nearly
so per cent of the men are drafted,
while in the first year of the civil war
only SO per cent of the men were
drafted.
Salaries of members of the
fire and police departments, excepting
the head of the two departments,
ing of the common council. No in.
crease was granted heads of the two
departments because they are now re-
ceiving higher salaries than paid sim.
liar department heads by other cities
of the state.
Wausau-A rural motor express
service may be instituted in Marathon
county as a result of request of the
State Council of Defense asking the
Marathon County Council of Defense
to take the matter up with farmers in
this community. The plan is to have
one or more lines established in each
county,. possibly owned comparatively
by farmers. n
Washington-Much ordnance mate
rial will be made in Wisconsin The
war department announced that con-
tracts had been awarded to the fol-
lowing Wisconsin firms: Paine Lum-
Der Co., Oshkosh; Nash Motors Co.,
Kenosha; McIntyre-Burrall Co., Green
Bay; ]. G, Nichols Co., Sheboygan;
Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., Clinton
vile.
Madison-Stephen w. Gilman, pro-
fessor of business administration at
the University of Wisconsin, has been
appointed special assistant to w. N.
Fitzgerald, United States fuel admin.
istratOr, to aid in enforcing the re-
quirements in Wisconsin, as to coal
handling and distribution during July
and August.
Madison. B. Borden, for several
years first assistant to state superin-
tendent of schools, G. P. Cary, became
assistant dean of the college of agri-
culture at the university Mr.. Dor
den mas Deen prominently connected
with the educational system of the
state since 1897 when he graduated
from the university.
Ashland Ashland's fifty saloons
have gone out of business. The entie
Chequamegon Bay district, including
Ashland, bayfield, and Washburn, and
all nearby towns, including those adj
jacent to the Indian reservation at
Odanah, are now dry by vote of the
people.
Waupun - A 10 per cent increase
in wages has been given employees of
the state prison. The increases were
necessitated by the large number of
amplOves who left the institution seek