Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-03-04
WISCO N SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Guernsey heifers, pure bred, will be
imported from the Isle of Guernsey for
foundation stock in Wood county, if
the plans of Calf clubs recently or
ganized are put through.
Lloyd Bonner, aged 10 years, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bonner Oconto,
has received an appointment from Con.
gresham David G. Classon of that city
as his principal nominee to the United
States Naval academy at Annapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. McMullen, La
Crosse, were stricken with paralysis
within few hours of each other. Mrs.
McMullen is improving, but Mr.. Nc
Mullen is in. serious condition. The
latter was formerly superintendent of
the La Crosse state employment office.
Mrs. Matte Hull Marvin, 80, inter-
nationally known as a spiritualist and
who was one of the founders of the
Morris Pratt School of Spiritualism at
Whitewater, died suddenly in James
vile. The funeral was held from the
spiritualist temple, Whitewater.
District Organizer Frank G. Tilly of
the American Society of Equity says
he is meeting great success in his
membership campaign in Eau Claire
He says over 500 new members are
recorded and that majority of old
members renewed membership.
After more than thirty-fve years
residence on farm near Mindoro, La
Crosse county, William Paisley has
discovered that he never had a clear
title to the property. He has filed a
homestead entry on the land believed
to be the last piece of farming land
subject to entry in that county.
The nineteenth annual report OF the
Barron Cooperative creamery, largest
creamery on earth, disclosed the fact
that the plants receipts for 1920
amounted to $1,058, 2O1.27. The cream
cry butter sold amounted to $1,044,-
617.14 and buttermilk was sold for
$7,1S2.48. During 1920 the creamery
manufactured nearly two million
pounds of butterfat The average paid
per pound for butterfat was ga cents.
Oscar Thorsted and his brother,
Clarence, who recently bought a 800
acre tract of wild land north of Lady
smith, plan to develop the tract into
fine dairy farm and stock it with
Guernsey COWS. At present the broth
ers own a dairy farm in the central
part of the state, near Wautoma, and
when the Rusk county farm has been
developed they will stock it with cat
tie from their place at the old home.
Jock Smith figures he has pressed
or dry cleaned approximately $4,000
suits of mems clothing since he started
in business in Green Bay in 1907. He
estimates an average of IL suits
pressed day. He says men are just
as particular about their clothes as
women "They want every crease just
right" he said. ''Some give us specific
Instructions about every little
wrinkle"
Sparta decided at a special election
by vote Of 399 to 285 to buy from the
Wisconsin Minnesota Light and Power
Co., the electrical plant operated at
Sparta and the village of Angelo. The
big steam unit recently installed by
the company has been put into opera
ton at the Angelo plant and restric-
tions of the last six months on the
use of light and power have been re-
moved
It is reported that large sheep
ranch is to be established by Western
capitalists on tract of cutover land
near Lac du Flambeau. An initial ex-
penditure of $4,000 will be invested in
the project, it is said. For several
years past sheep raising has been con-
Quoted with success in Oneida, Villas
and adjoining counties. Several fair
sized ranches are in operation in that
territory, mostly owned by western
men,
Washburn county, one of the first
Wisconsin counties in the northern
section of the state to adopt land
clearing program, has opened fire on
the stumps of that county, indicating
that more land will be cleared this
year than was cleared in ten-year
period before. Plans are now under
way to clear 10000 acres of land in
Washburn county and it is considered
that the program will be more than
accomplished at the end of 1921. Each
farmer of Washburn county has been
asked to clear at least ten acres to
bring about the success Of the pro-
gram.
Eyes of the state dairy men have
been turned to George D. Sassman's
farm, Black Creek, Outagamie county,
where some record tests were. made
among cows of his Holstein herd by
Howard j. Martin of the Wisconsin
experiment station. Mr.. Sassman now
holds the second place in the county
for milk and butterfat production.
Pauline Hengervold Julip, a 5 year old,
produced 6901 pounds of milk in a
seven-day test, and an average of 1899
pounds of butterfat. Her best days
milk record was 1923. Her record is
exceeded only by cow owned by Fred
Hartman of Appleton.
Holstein cattle breeders of Dodge
county have organized the Dodge Coun-
ty Holstein Breeders association with
the following officers: President, E. c.
Nitschke, Burnett; vice president, S..
DeSmith, Burnett, and secretary and
treasurer, Francis Darcy, WATERFOWL
A picnic will be held at Horizon in