Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-10-02
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

OAtE0 DetH mdUe tudl AHe reservation
life is fatal 10 the racial vitality of the
Indians and thar if they are kept on
reservations they win gradually die
off. The facts as revealed by the last
census do not bear out this contention
The Menominee reservation contained
in 1910 about 1900 residents. The
last census shows that the population
of the portion in Shawano county is
credited with 2,0G0 people The total
population of the reservation being
probably in the neighbo-hood of 1900
persons.
Madison - Madison's property in
creased s7.301.437 in value over last
year. according to Richard Taylor,
city assessor, who has just completed
the city's assessment roll. The city's
new valuation Is S81,040021, against
S73. 1873, 584 last year. Real estate is
valued at SATELLITES more this year
than last and personal property in
creased $2,60S,67S in value Last
years valuation on real estate was
$58.8i3.94 against S63,636700 this
year. The new personal property val
uation is ST ,4O3321
Green Bay Counterfeiters are
working in the Fox River valley, &C
Cording TO word received here by the
United States revenue officials A
warning has been issued in financial
circles TO beware OF bogus twenty dol
lar bills. It is stated that five dollar
bills are being raised to $50 denomina-
tions by clipping the figures OF the for
mer from the corners and FASTING the
higher figures over. One bank in
OskkoAn found seven Of them in cur
ncr bundle received from mer-
chant.
Madison-Four utilities received au-
thority 10 increase rates for their serv-
ice by the railroad commission on
Saturday The Wisconsin Light, Heat
and Power company viii increase its
heat rates in Berlin, the Portage
American Gas company gas rates for
Portage, the Eastern Electric company
lis street car rates for Oshkosh, and
the Wayside Telephone company
phone rates for the village of Way
side Brown county
Tomah-Miss Margaret Warren, for
mer University Of Wisconsin student,
has accepted position with the cen
trail division Of the American Red
Cross as executive secretary of St
CroiX county, and has gone to Hudson,
her headquarte S. The work consists
in carrying out the peacetime pro
grom of the Red Cross in every com
muntty OF the county. according to
their needs.
Eagle River Joseph A. Becker.
joint crop statistician, has just pre-
pared for the state department Of agri-
culture preliminary county estimates
of acreage for 1920 for the principal
eleven crops The total acreage given
Villas county is S.549, distributed as
follows: Oats. 2.46S. barley, 200
spring wheat. 60; winter wheat 81
rye, 274; corn, 500 potatoes 1850;
cover and timothy S.G40.
Merrill Two new schools viii be in
operation in Lincoln county this year
One in the new district No. g. in the
town of Wilson has applied for
teacher, and another promises to be
provided in the Italian district OF :he
snE 7al
,ettlers have made an urgent demand
to~ educational opportunities for their
Children.
Jonathan effort Is Delng made in
Gonroe county by County supt HGney
and his supervising teachers, the
Misses Swanson and Keane. to enlist /
the interest Of parents in increasing
he attendance in the rural schools Of
the county Last year a notable de-
>rease in attendance was revealed
after the yearly records were com
piled.
Merrill--A Chamber Of Commerce
was organized IN Merrill with +. e.
TAYLOR as temporary president and
Oswald Hesterman as temporary sec
3etary sixty have signified their in
tention of joining the organization
and plans are 10 Increase this number
20 several hundred. including not only
business men but laborers.
Marinette- ID. 5. Bullock. former Ill
rector OF the Marinette County Aeri
cultural school and later with the
animal husbandry extension depart
ment OF the Unis ersity OF Wisconsin.
hes been named United States com
missioner TO South America for The
promotion of American cattle inter
eSts there,
Lomira The Ripon college fellow
ship al the University Of Wisconsin
was awarded this year to Leonard
Whaler. who was graduated this year
from Ripon college. whore he majored
in history and economics. His post
graduate work at Wisconsin viii be in