Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-30
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

figure covering the deposits of the
three banks in that city.
Disbursements for the last quarter
from the states general fund totaled
| $5,928, 1906, according to Secretary of
State Merlin HulPs report to Gov. E..
L. Philip. There remains in the fund
$1,665,427.
Wisconsin fruit growers are inter
ested in the new apple grading law,
recent discoveries about pruning and
| fruit pests All these subjects ale on
| the program of the farmers course at
Madison, Feb. 3-12.
The name of Geo. J. Evans has been
sent to the senate by the president for
Ieappointment to the postOffice in
Marinette. His term of four years ex-
pired last March and the new appoint
ment is for four years more.
The railroad commission announced
| a decision revising the rates of the
Lincoln Farmers Telephone company
of Whitehall and vicinity. The annual
rate is SIS per year and the charge for
moving a telephone will be 81.
Lutx Brothers Ice company of APP
pIeton have completed cutting, hauling
and storing enough ice to supply next
summers needs and are now filling
storage houses of local concerns who
| need large quantities of the product.
George Vanderloop, who lives four
miles southeast of Ladysmith, has a
| purebred Chester White sow that
raised 80 pigs in three litters; he sold
| 18 of these pigs when less than three
months of age for $231. Seven of the
80 he is keeping for his own use as
breeders and values them at $3.50.
Unofficial estimates of the loss re-
sulting from the destruction of the
Badger State Tanning company plant
at Sheboygan, place the figure at ST.
/ 100000 J. Ogden Armour, in a tele-
gram to local newspaper, announced
| that the plant would be rebuilt at She
boygan 'as soon as conditions war
rant"
The Ripon college gymnasium, al
ready perhaps the best college gymna-
SUM in the state, will be entirely re-
modelled and enlarged. A gift of $4,000
| to begin the work has just been an
nounced by President Culbertson of
Ripon The donor is former faculty
member who has requested that the
name be withheld.
Luverne Hack is at st. Mary's hos
pital at Rhinelander in critical con-
dition as result of a queer accident.
| Hack was struck in the chest by a
stray buckshot, one of a charge fired
at rabbit by a hunting companion.
| The shot glanced off a tree and Strik-
ing Hack, penetrated deeply into his
chest. Physicians say he will recover.
| At the annual stockholders meeting
of the Farm Loan association of Onei-
| da county, at Rhinelander, G. B. Howe
was elected president, Charles AS
mundsen, vice-president, and G. p.
| West, secretary and treasurer. The
annual report showed the association
in a fourishing condition with loans
amounting to SCI, 400. There has been
large increase in membership.
The fishing industry at Two Rivers
ranks with the largest on Lake Mich
igan During the open season as many
as 20 boats ply out of this port and
many tons of trout, whitefsh, blue
fms, clubs and other fish are shipped.
The winter season does not stop the
industry, however, for the large steam
:. tugs buck the ice by the hour. AT
times 1T has been necessary to saw a
channel for q passageway.
The Wisconsin Valley Electric Co.
is placing orders FOR materials for the
extension of two of its street railroad
lines in Wausau Much difficulty was
experienced in securing promises Of
deliveries so that the work could com
mence earlier in the spring. The com
| pany has also ordered four new light
weight street cars and will substitute
| ten-minute service for the present
service every fifteen minutes.
| A special short course in beekeeping
has been established by the College OF
| Agriculture Beginning Feb. IL and
closing March Is. an opportunity will
| be offered to Wisconsin beemen and
others interested in beekeeping to
learn the most improved methods of
modern apiary. H. F. Wilson, secre-
| tary of the state beekeepers assOcia-
! ton and entomologist at the College
Of Agriculture will be in charge of the
course.
A large number of brush wolves
have been captured in Merrill this win
| ter and. in fact, during the last year
The farmers not only hunt, but trap
them. The pelts, when shown to the
county clerk are good for SO bounty
from the county and $40 from the
state. These animals are a nuisance,
killing sheep, poultry and even young
calves, and despite the efforts to elm
mate them they continue to be quite
plentiful.
According to the report of the as
SCISSOR of incomes, just issued, Forest
county has 1856 head of horses and
mules, 3,279 head of cattle, LOAF hogs
and 755 sheep. There are 218 auto
mobiles owned in the county of which
the city of Crandon has 81 and Wa
beno &c.
Plans were discussed for the cree
ton of a big cheese warehouse in APP
pleton at meeting of Equity mem
bers and cheese producers. A COM
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