River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-02-26

| Oh the Wisconsin river is a thing or
the past. The beach is at a point
where construction work on the big
| new dam has been commenced.
John B. Winslow, chief justice of
| the Wisconsin Supreme court will IN
| dergo an operation at the Mayo hospi-
tai in Rochester. During his absence
Justice r. B. Siebecker will preside.
After an investigation. representa-
tives of the state board of health,
| which had been appealed to by Henry
Napuk, ordered the scarlet fever quar-
| antine removed from his home at
Neenah.
Several farmers in the vicinity of
Randolph were caught with watered
milk and paid fines and costs of ap'
proximately $40 each. One Randolph
| factory was short about 1,400 cheeses
during the past month, which led to
an investigation.
Ex-Gov. James o. Davidson, who is
spending few weeks at his winter
home in Florida, has sold his Madison
residence on Wisconsin avenue to o.
N. Luraas. The sale will exceed $751;
600. The Davidsons have not decided
whether they will continue to make
their home in Madison.
A new condensery has opened at
Mayville. The process is to powderize
whole milk and it is said by authorities
on milk that if this proves a success,
it will be the biggest thing in milk of
the present day. So far there has not
been a process of powderiZing whole
milk, as the other powdered forms are
skinned milk.
During the present year $121,7O0
will be expended on new roads and
road improvements in Forest county.
About $4,000 is available for the fed
eral trunk system and $4,000 will be
spent on the road from Crandon to La
ona. With this sum available, Forest
county will have one of the finest high
way systems in upper Wisconsin.
What is said to be the largest prices
ever paid for cutover lands in Oneida
county was recorded at Rhinelander
when Brown Brothers of Waupaca
purchased from F. e. Parker, G. Eby
and B. N. Moran, nine forties on the
Cassian state road, near Rhinelander.
The consideration was $4,000 or at
the rate of thirty-five dollars per acre.
A check for $1,401, received by Aug
ust Heinemann, Waterloo, for the to-
bacco raised an five acres of land last
summer is proof that Wisconsin to-
bacco growing pays. Taking advan
tage of the recent warm spell, Mr.
Heinemann marketed his crop with the
Liggett e Myers Co. at Watertown, re-
ceiving IL cents a pound for the leaf
The price received last year was Is
cents pound.
Several decoy letters, each con.
tanning 81 bills, marked for identified
ton, proved the undoing of William II.
Hook, Oshkosh, mail carrier for part
of the business district of that city.
postoffice inspectors assert. When
confronted with the evidence he is
said to have confessed that he had
been rifling the mails for more than
two years, but claimed his depreda-
lions did not exceed $500.
With his spinal chord completely
severed and a piece of his vertebra re-
moved by an operation. John Sobotta,
45, a farmer living near Arcadia, eats
two or three hearty meals each day at
La Crosse hospital, although attend
ing physicians say he has small
chance to recover. Sobotta was struck
by falling tree, the force of the i'm
pact breaking his neck. He has wife
and six children.
county has installed unique lighting
system, in that all the power for street
lighting as we'll as for business houses
and residences is furnished by good
sized farm electric lighting system.
The owner and operator, Vincent Ma
shak, owns a farm outside the village
limits, on which the plant is located.
The experiment of furnishing the
power for all necessary lighting to the
village, including street lights, is, to
date, successful.
The Wisconsin Live Stock Insurance
company, capitalized at $4,000, is in
corporated under the Wisconsin laws
to insure against the loss of live stock
by death, disease, accident, theft,
lightning and cyclone. 1t is another
important movment in the live stock
development in the state. L. P. Mar
tiny, noted Poland China, Guernsey
and Percheron breeder of Chippewa
Falls, is president and E. N. MCGEE,
Madison, formerly underwater and di-
rector of the Michigan Live Stock In
surance Co., is general manager.
On March / the Wisconsin State
Conference of Social Work will inaug
urate new departure in public and
social welfare work. Under a budget
estimated at $4,000 for the year, an
expert executive secretary will begin
at once to organize the state, down to
the smallest rural community, for dis
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