Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-27
BADGER STATE
I HAPPENINGS

Petitions are being freely signed by
citizens of Darlington to the postofice
department for the establishment of a
star mail route between Apple River
ILL.,, and that city.
John B. Fountain, GAINESVILLE, city
sealer of weights and measures, was
forced to resign by the city administra-
ton when contracting firm of which
Fountain is a member was given a
contract with the city.
Petitions for daylight saving" in
Beloit during the summer months were
refused by the common council. Fac
tory employees were largely behind the
petitions. Farmers living near Beloit
vigorously opposed the measure, set
ting forth that among other hardships
rural children attending city schools
would be especially burdened. The
petitions carried 1900 signatures.
A copper cross with the year 1913
and the initials F. w. engraved on it
was found by members of the Beloit
r. o. T. C. while leveling off the field
which is to be their parade grounds
1t is an old German cross given for
bravery, according to Lieut. Williams
commandment of the camp. He thinks
that the cross was given to some sol
der who fought in the Napoleonic
wars.
Fond du Lac county has not aban-
doned its tuberculosis sanatorium plan
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proposals for combination with
Dodge, Washington, or Green Lake
counties. Washington county has ex-
pressed desire to proceed with the
building of a sanatoridm with Fond
du Lac county and according to state
ments of members of the Fond du Lac
county board, Green Lake would like
to join with this county.
Obie E. Gibson of Eau Claire has
been engaged as agricultural agent in
Villas county to succeed Oscar Gunder-
son, who recently resigned. Mr.. Glib
son graduated from the long course in
| the Wisconsin College of Agriculture
in 1914 and has had considerable ex-
perience in the work in Minnesota,
where he organized more than twenty
COW testing associations. He has since
specialized in dairying and breeding
of pure bred Holsteins at the Gibson
Brothers stock farm near Eau Claire.
A farmers call board was formed
at Plymouth at a meeting of 200 farm
ers of Sheboygan county, articles Of
I oovv,.,,.o +;O,, vxyovso drouUn I'M and Cff-
GERS elected. twenty-five cheese fac
tories of that county signifed their
intentions of selling their products on
this board. The board is organized on
the cooperative plan and only farmers
may be officers under the articles of
agreement. Cheese buyers may hold
only buying memberships.
The North Central Brown Swiss
Breeders Association will hold it's first
picnic Friday, June II, at Oscar
Schulz farm in the town of Pine River,
Lincoln county. George G. Humphrey
Of the wisconsin College of Agricul-
ture and who judged the Brown Swiss
cattle at the international stock show
at Chicago last fall, and Ira Inman,
secretary of the American Swiss
Breeders Association, will give adj
dresses. The association has member
ship in five counties.
A northbound Northwestern road
passenger train plowed through herd
of cattle near Mendoza and killed =
of the herd. The cattle were owned
by William Schillinglaw, farmer liv-
hing near Mendoza. Mr.. Schillinglaw
fhad the cattle shipped to his farm and
they were unloaded at Mendoza sta
ton. The cattle were driven along
the road toward the farm. The road
crosses the railroad tracks and the
herd was being driven across the
tracks when a fast train bore down
on the crossing, and it was impossible
to remove the cows.
The result of the recent cold spell
and hard freeze over Wanshara county
was more disastrous than. was, first
supposed. Blueberries, of which a
large crop is raised and much ship
ping is usually done from Plainfield,
are ruined, also strawberries, raspber-
ries. currants and other fruit trees.
Farmers who had sowed hundreds of
dollars worth Of clover seed claim the
clover was up about an inch and being
SO tender was killed Thisxwill be
great loss for next year of hay and
pasture.
Rock county under the guidance of
Charles e. Moore, county highway
commissioner, has taken the lead in
Wisconsin in building concrete high
ways by day-labor. Under sthe pro-
gram for permanent roads laid down
by the county board that county will
have more than 100 miles of eight inch
concrete roads connecting every part
of the county with GAINESVILLE, the
county seat. Trunk lines will go from
GAINESVILLE to each of the border coun-
ties and to Illinois. The construction
force has been organized and equipped
with machinery until now Commission
er Moore is building nearly 600 feet
day of concrete with force of 80 men
Joseph Van Handel, Little Chute
farmer, was seriously injured and
barely escaped being trampled to death
by bull that he was leading to water
The animal had always been of gen
tie disposition and Van Handel was
wholly unconscious of any danger
when It suddenly turned on him and
threw him to the ground, breaking his
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