Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-12-24
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Florence county board in annual
session granted Oscar Soderberg, coun-
ty highway commissioner, a salary in
crease from $3.50 to $3.50 per month.
Mrs. Grace w. Kinnear, county school
superintendent, was allowed a raise of
$25 per month.
Gov. Philip purchased large farm
in Sank county, near his old home
stead The farm comprises 112 acres.
The consideration was $33,750. It is
said to be one of the finest farms in
Sank county. The farm is located in
the town of Sumption, in which town
Gov. Philip spent his boyhoOd days
1t is probable that the governor may
sell his old farm at Hartford and keep
the new farm.
For the purpose of merging their
buying power in the purchasing OF
various farm necessities, plan is now
being worked out to form federation
of the various shipping associations OF
Barron county The general plan is to
form a confederation manged by a
board of directors representative of
the various shipping associations in
the county and through a purchasing
agent bargain collectively for their
feed and other farm necessities.
Milk at cost will be provided to peo-
pie of Superior, according to an an
nouncement made by Mayor Fred A.
Baxter. Mr. Baxter announced that
farmers will be asked to bring their
milk to the city market, and that it
would be resold to the consumers with
out profit. He said that the price set
The price now being charged by local
distributors is Is cents a quart.
An effort is now being made through
out northern Wisconsin to encourage
the growing of better grains and seed
This work has been undertaken to
safeguard the farmers from defective
seed. County Agent Joseph Duffy OF
Barron county has spent much time
locating good specimens for an exhibit
to be made at Superior in the near
future. This grain show will exhibit
seeds and grains grown in about a
dozen counties of northwestern Wis
consiI.
A state examination for the position
of public health nurse under the coun-
ty nurse law will be held in Madison
Jan. Is. Examinations for registered
nurses are set for Jan. II and II. An
appeal to all accredited training
schools for nurses has been sent by
the bureau of child welfare and public
health nursing. Not only county
nurses, but school and community
nurses, are needed to fill present de-
mands.
Brownie of Linwood, 60747, a senior
4-year-old Guernsey COW in herd at
the Corium farm near Fond du Lac,
has just completed a IL months Off
cial test in which she is accredited
with LOT pounds of butter fat from
16,286.8 pounds of milk, the average
test for butter fat for the year being
SOC per cent. This means that she
has produced 1,04O pounds of butter in
a year and is therefore put In Class
B, having started her record when AZ
years old.
The monthly creamery report for
October, just issued, of the Barron
County Cooperative creamery, Barron,
the largest creamery in the world,
shows that 373,213 pounds of cream
were received. From this cream 112,-
1904 pounds of butter fat were re-
ceived for which IS cents, per pound
was paid There were 941 patrons
during the month. The largest check
issued went to William Bartlett, Bar
ron, the amount being $351.20. There
were 10 checks issued for more than
5000 to farmers.
About 1900 girls between the ages
of 10 and Is in rural communities, who
belong to the Wisconsin boys and
girls clubs, are carrying on successful
demonstrations in home economics.
They are doing their best in cooking,
baking, sewing, and the serving of hot
lunches, says Miss M. 1. Hagerty of the
University of Wisconsin, assistant
leader of boys and girls club work
in Wisconsin. Each club has mem
bership of at least six and a local club
leader in charge, who is generally the
teacher or young woman of the COM
munity.
Watson Denieski, 81 years old, is
lying at the point of death, with his
head battered, and his two sons, Adam
and Walter, are in jail, as the result
of a quarrel alleged to have arisen
over division of proceeds of the sale
of some moonshine whisky. Adam is
said to have beaten his fathers head
with hammer during the alteration,
and the other son is also alleged to
have participated in the fracas. The
two sons, who were captured by neigh
bors, are in the Marathon county jail
in Wausau The fracas took place at
the Danieski farm near Knowlton,
thirty-five miles from Wausau.
Judge F. C. Eschweiler of the Su-
preme court has purchased the pros
pect place home of the late DR.. Charles
H. Villas. The consideration was
about $4,000 The building is a bun
galow erected several years ago.
Judge Eschweiler, whose home was in
Milwaukee, has been living in Madison
since his election to the Supreme court
in April, 1916.
What promises to be the largest
poultry show held in Wisconsin will
be held at Fort Atkinson on Jan. 2,
with more than three thousand entries.
The Jefferson county grain show will
~ Hold oh tho como firoo