Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-10-29
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

On Nov. a new rural mail delivery
| route will be established in the town
Of Minocqua in Oneida county. The
route will accommodate about one
| hundred farmers.
Uniform text books for the schools
Of Manitowoc county were assured
when the convention Of county school
| boards voted, IS to %, to adopt the
plan. The new system will go into
| effect soon.
Enrolment in the Green Bay pub
! lie schools show big increase. The
total registration is 1864 students. A
| feature of the registration is the fact
that 81 per cent of the scholars are
| boys.
Nov. II, Armistice day, is to be Oh
| served in Fond du Lac with a big
parade, followed by a dance in the
! evening. Members of the American
! Legion have sent kilograms to the
state commander and to Gov. Phillip,
asking that Nov. IL be declared holi
| day. Plans for the dance include a
popularity contest to select the most
popular young lady in the county, who
will lead the grand march.
| The assessed valuation Of Fond du
| Lac for 1920 shows an increase of Is
| per cent over last year. The increase
| is S4,852,S45, with valuation at $685.
| 887,55O The present tax rate is .270.
The report will go to the city com
mission, which body will fix the tax
rate for this year. Fond du Lac has
| ], 704 automobiles, an increase of $50
over a year ago. The assessed valua-
ton of the autos is $1,163,5 $50. A year
ago the valuation was $704,165.
The power line extension, being
constructed from Green Bay to Stur-,
geon Bay, will not be completed until
next spring. 1t had been planned to
have it completed Nov. /. Due to de-
lay in shipments of material and sup
| plies the work has been held up. The
entire so miles of poles are now set.
Besides Sturgeon Bay, Altoona, Ke-
waunee, Luxembourg, Casco, Rio Greek,
| New FrankeE, Forestyille, Maple
wood and other smaller cities will re-
ceive power from the extension.
Adjt. Gen Orlando Holway, Mad
| ison, is still making every possible eff
fort to secure the military record of
every resident of Wisconsin during the
recent World war, and for two reasons.
/ First it is hoped to complete the FEC
/ ord of the entire state at once instead
/ Of waiting, as was done after the Civil
| war, for years, and then it was next
| to impossible to get complete record.
| Second, to add to the great record
| made by the state during the World
| war.
| Mrs. John Bodin, aged As, was acct
dentally strangled to death at her
/ home in Superior when the belt of her
| dress became fastened about her neck
when she fell from the porch. Mrs.
| Bodin had left the house to go to the
| back yard. 1t is believed that she
| slipped as she was about to step off
| the porch and that her dress had be-
come caught in the porch railing. The
weight of her body brought the belt
up around her neck and she was
strangled before help arrived.
The division of markets strongly
| favors cooperative associations among
farmers to aid in the solution of the
| many serious problems which now
confront the farmer, and is doing all
/ it can to promote and encourage or
| ganiZation. After careful study Of
| the situation in this state the division
| has reached the conclusion that the
| recent move to unite the Equity so
| ciety with the federal farm bureau in
| this state gives promise of bringing
4 the best results in cooperative work
| of any effort yet made along these
| lines.
| In spite of the fact that there is no
| open season for partridge hunting this
year, and that there is heavy penal
| ty for killing them, it is reported that
| there has been a greater slaughter of
/ the birds in Price and other northern
| Wisconsin COUNTIES the last few weeks
| than ever before. The birds have be-
| come so plentiful and are so tame that
! it would require just as much skill
and furnish fully as much sport to
! go into a barnyard and shoot down
flock of chickens. Some hunters
| brag of bags of SO and so cartridges
| in one day.
The state is gradually clearing itself
| of bovine tuberculosis from which it
! is estimated that 25 per cent of tuber.
culosis among children comes through
milk from infected cows. During the
month of September the state depart
| ment of agriculture tested 179 herds
containing 4,201 cattle Ninety-three
of these lots passed a negative or
clean test. This made a net gain Of
| 80 to the federal-state accredited herd
| list. The federal government is CO.
operating with the state in the at
tempt to stamp out the disease. The
| total number of state herds absolutely
free from tuberculosis, is 361, accord
ing to DIR. j. S. Healy. During the
month 971 herds passed one negative
| test. There are now under supervi
sion of the department 1,611 herds.
Plans for starting community
store at Billings Park, by the Pro
| ducers and Consumers Cooperative
association of Douglas county, were
| perfected at a meeting of stockhold-
ers. Officials of the company declared
| that more than $4,000 had been
raised. Only persons holding stock
will be permitted to buy goods.
Nine mail routes have been estab-
/ 1ichnd -, C+ouonc Doinf oI1ifiop IF