Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-09
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The Farm Bureau federation is or
ganizing in Rusk county and plans to
have permanent bureau in operation
by the middle of September, accord
ing to G.. ]. Schroeder, secretary
w. P Wagner, who for SO years
has been connected with the Citizens
National bank of Green Bay, as cash
Ter, vice president and later as presi-
dent, has resigned and will devote his
attention to paper mills in which he
is interested and in other businesses.
He will be succeeded by George D..
Nau, Green Bay business man.
Plans for an electric transmission
line that will connect Sheboygan,
Fond du Lac and Oshkosh were made
public in Sheboygan by Harry Ellis.
vice president of the Eastern Wiscon-
sin Electric Co. 1t was announced
that the line will cost approximately
100000. The construction of the
transmission line from Sheboygan to
Fond du Lac, distance of A miles,
viii be the first step, and work will
be begun at once.
Beware of the partly filed silo
which has stood closed for several
hours says E. B. Hart, of the agri-
cultural chemistry department, Uni
versity of Wisconsin. "Fermentations
take place very rapidly and in few
hours carbon dioxide, deadly gas,
is given off," says Mr.. Hart. This
gas is heavier than air and so in deep
silos and in silos that are closed this
gas settles in the bottom and will
kill anyone entering without proper
precautions. The safe way to test the
presence Of this gas is to lower a
lighted lantern into the silo. If the
fame is snuffed out the gas is present
in dangerous quantities. The silo
doors must be opened and the gas
driven off by circulation of air."
Forfeiture to the state of the
Northern hotel, the new 100000 hos
teIry at Chippewa Falls, which was
given away during the recent mardi
gras celebration held at that city on
the grounds that it was made the
subject of lottery in violation of the
at Chippewa Falls by Attorney Gen.
eral Morgan. Papers were served on
the officers of the hotel company of
the Elks lodge, which had charge Of
the mardi gras and the giving away
of the hotel and also upon Peter Lay
man, Junction City, Wis, the winner
of the hotel Sept. Is was fixed as
the date upon which dispositions in
favor of the state will be taken before
United States Commissioners w. M.
Bowe, Chippewa Falls.
The nine normal schools Of Wiscon-
sin have become important teacher
training institutions in the summer
months as well as during the regular
school year, figures made public by
William Kittle, secretary of the nor
NAL regents, shows. During the SEES
sion recently closed a total of 5,218
students were in attendance, instruct
ed by 229 teachers. and at cost of
$153, 748 This is number almost
1000 more than were in attendance
at the university summer session and
an increase of 1000 over 1920. The
first summer school was held in 1907,
when the normal school board of re-
gents provided for three schools, at
Oshkosh, Superior and Whitewater,
operated at a total cost of 1854 and
with 1853 students in attendance.
Upwards of 100000 trout of finger
ling size have been planted in Wis
70 hi n.
cording to Brayton G.. Webster of the
conservation commission. This state
has the federal government beat in
the Matching of trout fry" said Mr..
Webster. Our best hatchery is at
ST. Croix FalEj, where we have taken
100000 fry of lingering size for
planting this year alone. The plant
ing Of trout and other game fish will
be continued throughout the fall. The
shipments are made in cans either
direct to the places interested or by
means of shipment made on modern
fish car that with crew of two men
is capable of transporting as high as
100 cans
The 1921 Wisconsin State fair,
which excelled in merit any previous
fair in the history of the state, but
= which was poorly attended because of
business conditions, came to an end
Saturday night, Sept. 8. The total at
tendance for the week was 236,585,
the lowest attendance since 1913. In
1919 the turnstiles registered 242,095
and in 1920 they registered 327, 1894.
Not only did the fair as a whole do
poor business, but the concessions did
likewise. Many were reported to have
lost money. Visitors did not have as
much money TO spend as during the
war and postwar periods, and there
were fewer of them. G. N. Norgord,
commissioners of agriculture, stated
that the industrial depression was the
sole cause of the small attendance.
This is the view of other fair officials
also.
Two applications for reassessments
ror this year were denied by the tax
commission, Madison. The applica-
lions denied were for the village of
Lone Rock and the city of Hudson.
No sufficient discrepancies were noted
10 warrant reassessments, according
10 T. E. Lyons, chairman of the com
mission.