River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-01-27

THE RIVER FALLS JOl
/ Appleton-Mor pulpwood is. beins
received by paper mills in the For
river valley than ever before. Rail
road men say from rs to 100 carloads
are unloaded in Appleton every day
and about that many more are side
tracked In Kaukauna. Kimberly, Nee
nah and Menasha. The wood has beer
coming in immense quantities for sew
eral weeks. Yards here are nearly
filed, but thousands OF cords are still
expected. Most of the wood is coming
from northern Minnesota and northern
Wisconsin. The wood is about evenly
divided between hemlock and spruce
misunderstanding to George j.
Weigle, dairy and food commissioner
his department now has under super
vision 2,572 cheese factories, 762 but
ter factories, 66 condenseries. 348 re
ceiving stations, 126 canning factories
GAS bakeries, SIS confectioneries, 23s
bottling establishments, AZ cold stor
age warehouses and approximately
$4,000 grocery stores and meat mar
kets and other similar places where
foods are manufactured, prepared OF
offered for sale.
Darlington special session OF
the board of supervisors of Lafayette
county, a petition. numerously signed.
was presented stating that it was
their belief that large number Of
graves of Union soldiers in different
cemeteries throughout the county were
unmarked and praying that the num-
Der and location of such graves be as.
certained and suitable marker there
for be erected at the expense OF the
county. The prayer was unanimously
granted.
MISUNDERSTANDING the year 1926
nearly 100000 tons of coal were re.
ceived at this port, according to the
annual report of E. ]. Kellner, customs
collector. Coal represented the largest
incoming shipments. The total ton
mage received was 929,432. Lumber
shipments totaled $4,000 feet. Ship
ments out of Manitowoc totaled 492,-
593 tons, merchandise leading with
3O6, 1908 tons. Grain shipments totaled
2,314,500 bushels.
Fond du Lac-Individual visiting
days for school teachers here are to
be abolished. Heretofore if an in.
structor wished to visit one of the
other schools substitute was sup
piled. Under the new plan whole
buildings will be dismissed for day
and all of the teachers will visit other
schools. In this manner the cost OF
the substitutes, which amounts to $500
year, will be saved.
Green Bay-The Negro benefit SO
ciety of America has taken hand in
the case of Olin Caver, sentenced to
Is years in prison for improper rela-
lions with Elsie Tanck, IA year old
white girl. Agents of the society have
made investigations here and it is
claimed that they plan to appeal the
long term Imprisonment, claiming that
newly uncovered evidence has lifted
part of Caver's guilt.
Green Bay Benson Dawson, rs
bridge foreman for the Green Bay and
Western railroad, has decided to take
rest after so years of continuous
service. Several times in the past few
years, he has refused to be placed on
the pension list and the railroad Off
Gals were somewhat amazed when he
| appeared at headquarters and asked
| for two-month absence leave.
Lake Mills-The body of George w.
Whiting, Headquarters company, One
Hundred Twenty-seventh infantry,
Thirty-second division, who died in
Mesves, France, Sept. 80, 1918, was re-
turned here for burial. The funeral
was held from the Methodist church
under the auspices of the local chapter
of the American Legion. the Rev.
Gustav Stears, Milwaukee, former
chaplain with the Thirty-second d1vi'
sion, officiating.
| Green Bay-Fifty years in the gov.
| eminent service, twenty-seven OF
which have been spent in Green Bay,
is the record of F. w. Conrad,
meterologist of the local weather
bureau. He is one of the Oldest fore
casters in the country. He entered
the government service in 1871, when
it was under the jurisdiction OF the
signal corps branch of the army.
Tomah--The annual report of the
Farmers Cooperative Butter Associa.
ton of Tomah shows that the cream
cry did the biggest business during the
year 1920, of any year in its history.
Total receipts were $400,37s.01. The
number of pounds of cream received
| were 2307 1919 and the number OF