Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-10-01
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

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Cliptonville - The statement has
often been made that the reservation
life is fatal to the racial vitality OF tire
Indians and that if they are kept on
reservations they win gradually die
off. The facts as revealed by the last
census 90 not bear out this contention.
The Nenominee reservation contained
in 1910 about 100 residents. The
last census shows that the population
Of the portion in Shawano county is
credited with 1000 people. The total
population of the reservation being
probably in the neighbo-hood Of 2,200
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 SS1,040,021, against
S7S. 738,5S4 last year Real estate is
valued at s4.792.759 more this year
than last and personal property in
creased $2,6O8,67S in value. Last
years valuation on real estate was
s5S,S4S,941 against $6S,636,700 this
year. The new personal property val
uation is $17.403,321.
Green Bay Cuunterfeiters are
working in the Fox River valley, ac.
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. 1t is stated that five dollar
bills are being raised to $40 denomina.
tons by clipping the figures of the for
mer from the corners and pasting the
higher figures over. One bank in
Oshkosh founS seven of them in a cur,
rency bundle received from a mer-
chant.
Madison utilities received au.
thority to increase rates for their serv,
ice by the railroad commission Oh
Saturday. The Wisconsin Light. Heat
and Power company will increase its
heat rates in Berlin, the Portage
American Gas company gas rates for
Portage, the Eastern Electric company
It's street car rates for Oshkosh, and
he Wayside Telephone company
phone rates for the village of Way.
side, Brown county.
TomahMiss Margaret Warren, for
mer University of Wisconsin student
has accepted a position with the CEN
trail division of the American Red
Cross as executive secretary of St
Croix county, and has gone to Hudson,
her headquarters. The work consists
in carrying out the peacetime pro
grom of the Red Cross in every com
munity 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, 100; winter wheat, 81;
rye, 274; corn. 500; potatoes, 1880;
tioyer and timothy, 3,640.
Merrill-Two new schools will be in
operation in Lincoln county this year
O0e in the new district No. 8, in the
Town of Wilson, has applied for
teacher, and another promises to be
provided in the Italian district of the
Town of Rock Falls, where the new
settlers have made an urgent demand
lot educational opportunities for their
children.
Iomah-An effort is being made in
Monroe county by County Supt Haney
ana his supervising teachers, the
MISSES Swanson and Keane, to enlist
1he interest of parents in increasing
she attendance in the rural schools of
'he county. Last year notable de-
VIease in attendance was revealed
Piled
Merrill-A Chamber of Commerce
raS organized in Merrill with F. E.
1ayior as temporary president. and
os@ald Hesterman as temporary sec
.e1ary' Sixty have signified their in
.sl'ion OF joining the organization
auu plans are to increase this number
y several hundred, including not only
BUSINESS men but laborers.
.Marinette-D. S. Bullock, former dj-
.,,,. ,1e.of OF the Marinette County Agri-
.-i'ufal school and later with the
r. ra'lilai husbandry extension depart
bo- ut OF the University of Wisconsin,
NJ ss oeen named United States COM
..ss'oner r..ne to South America for the
ss,a s,olnouon of American cattle inter-
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