River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-11-11
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

The city of Marinette will reject a
junior high school, the cost of which
will be $250,000 The voters approved
the bonding referendum by majority
of $50.
Reorganization of the Neenah Civic
association into an active commercial
body with a paid secretary to devote
his entire time to local business and
industrial matters is proposed.
At the annual Villas county potato
show at Eagle River, there was an ex-
ira large. display of potatoes in all
varieties and some excellent stock was
shown. The exhibit attracted growers
from all parts of Villas county.
Ten Wisconsin's fourth class post
offices were advanced to presidential
class and the salaries fixed as follows:
Arpin, $1,400; Coon Valley, $1,000; En-
deavor, $1,400; Exeland. $1,400; Lo-
mira, $1,000; Lyndon station, $1,000;
Minongsa, $1,400; Orfordville, $1,400;
Roberts, $1,000; Sullivan, $1,000.
About thirty-six residents of Mus
coda, Grant county, were unable to
vote on Tuesday, Nov. 2, because of a
lack of sufficient ballots to supply all
voters, according to J. M. Kaiser, vii
lage clerk. The last vote was cast at
Muscoda at p. m. and voters who
came after that time were informed
that there were no more ballots. w.
t. Webb, county clerk of Grant ccun-
ty, said the shortage of ballots was a
result of mistake in calculation.
Women's wages in Wisconsin,. al
portionately, still are below those of
men workers, the industrial commits
sion reports after tabulating the aver
age pay of 229 women who were in
jured and drew compensation in the
first half of 1920. Wages of the
women averaged $14.69 a week COM
pared to $9.42 two years ago, while
men receive an average of S22.99 week
ly now.
Officials of the Anchor ship Build
ing company, of Washburn, announce
that contracts have been signed by
Eastern agents of the company with
New York parties for the building of
large two-end ferry boat for use in
the New York harbor, and work will
be started at once. A large crew OF
men are now dismantling the old saw.
mill building of the Stearns Lumber
company, which is on the site of the
shipbuilding company.
The Dodge county tuberculosis sapa
| forum is to be shared with Fond du
/ Lac and Washington counties. This
/ decision, which has been SO long de
1 layed, was announced by supervisors
/ of Dodge county, the selection of the
/ 74-acre tract for the purpose neal
Fond du Lac having been made by DR.
/ Coon of the Pine River sanatorium
! For nearly year the supervisors OF
/ the three counties have been endeavor-
| ing to agree upon location for the
erection of the sanatorium which will
cost about 100000.
An odd accident occurred at the
farm home of Oliver p. Kelly near the
western border of Monroe county
| whereby Beatrice, the youngest daugh-
ter, was instantly killed, The fatality
happened in the following most unu,
sual manner: Two daughters, Venice
and Beatrice were husking corn in the
barn when the father, after unloading
his wagon, backed it out of the barn
door, A projecting plank was caught
in one of the wagon wheels and one
end struck Miss Beatrice on the head
as she sat at work in her chair. The
force Of the blow was so great that
she was instantly killed.
Settlers buying land in upper Wis
consin with less than $4,000 to start
with, are facing serious risk, Prof.
Richard e. T. Ely, head of the eco
nomics department of the University
of Wisconsin, and B. H. Hibbard of
the agriculture economic department,
point out in a bulletin to be issued
shortly by the agricultural experiment
station. They declare that the aver
age settler in that section buys with
not far from $500 capital. After get
ting on the land, the development
stage requires an available capital of
at least $4,000, the bulletin says. In
this period comes the erection of per-
manent buildings, the breeding of a
good dairy herd and the accumulation
of farm machinery.
"The demand for state inspected
potato seed will be far greater than
the supply" says j. G. Milward of the
Wisconsin Experiment station. Ger
tain southern states, such as Texas,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas,
have difficulty in raising their own
seed potatoes and are dependent on
outside sources for their supply. Since
Wisconsin leads the United States in
certified seed work, Southern potato
growers naturally turn to Wisconsin.
Wisconsin farmers who have certified
seed for sale had their fields inspected
during the growing season. The Sec
ond state inspection, or bin inspection.
is going on at the present time. If