Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-02-25

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repair of macadam and brick pave
ments
Daniel P. Steinberg, Appleton, was
elected president of the Wisconsin AS
sociation of Real Estate Brokers at the
closing business session OF the
eleventh annual convention held at
Appleton. He succeeded w. E. Web
ster of Hudson.
Word has been received in Manito-
voc that four cows owned by Mrs
Philip Smith of ManitoWoc county
have been placed in the 50-pound put
ter fat list in the semi-of1cial 365-day
test which is being conducted for Jer-
sey breeders over the country.
State prohibition officers searched
premises of four residents in Hasley
and confscated stills and moonshine.
The confiscated property was brought
to Wausau with the men who were re-
leased under $500Nbonds. Hearing was
set for March /.
That almost one-half the graduates
of Wisconsin high schools now go to
college, university, or normal school,,
was pointed out by President b. A.
Birge, University of Wisconsin, while
discussing the progress of higher edu-
cation.
Arrangements for procuring two
| cars of dynamite for farmers OF Brown
and adjacent counties. in an effort TO
stimulate interest in land clearing,
thus increasing crop production, are
being made, J. N. Kavanaugh, Brown
county agricultural agent. The dyna-
mite will be sold at cost, according to
the agricultural agent.
| For the first time in Wisconsin,
women will be privileged to vote to
decide whether community shall IN
corporate as village, when a special
election is held at Fairwater, Fond du
Lac county, March s. Should the vote
be favorable, Fairwater, through an
order given out by court, will auto
matically become a village.
This is the first winter since 1881
that Green Bay has not been frozen
over. Open water is visible from the
shores, and veteran naVigators don't
| think it likely that cold snap Will
blow in the coat over the outer chan
nels. Ice harvesters have had to cut
twice as much space as in past years
Usually the crop will average from IL
| to Is inches. but this year to inches
is the usual cut
Arrangements for demonstration
small fruit plantation to be located in
Portage county have been made with
| the Wisconsin Horticultural society
through the efforts of w. w. Clark,
county agent. The plot will be on the
Fred G.. Halliday farm near Plover and
will consist of one acre, half OF which
will be used for raising red raspber-
ries, fourth for strawberries, and the
remainder for blackberries, gooseber-
ries and currants.
The Wisconsin National guard will
be recruited to strength of 1O,4OO I'M
mediately, according to Adjt. Gen. Or
lando Holway. Camp Douglas will be
enlarged to accommodate the in
creased number more military equip
ment will be purchased, and several
new armories constructed, if appro-
priations are forthcoming, the adjutant
general said. The national guard
seeks an appropriation of $50 man
and $214,761 of the national guard
money, to be paid by the federal gov
! eminent.
| The cafeteria has pushed the college
boarding house into the background at
/ the University of Wisconsin, according
to survey of where students eat and
what they pay for food" recently made
by a@faculty committee. Thirty-nine
/ per Cent of the students eat at cafe
terias, and the average weekly cost
/ of meals is between 81 and So. About
/ 1000 students stand in line at least
thirty minutes each day as part of the
new cafeteria system, the report esti-
mates. The survey was based upon
reports of about eight hundred stu
dents.
Two strangers, working the money
press game, swindled retired farm
er, Amigo, out of $1,000 in IS and $40
bills. The strangers told the farmer
they had machine that would dupli
cate currency so perfectly that it could
| not be detected He was persuaded to
draw $1,000 out of the bank, and they
! took the machine to his house where
bills were inserted between sheets OF
/ paper These were put in press A
liquid was then applied. In twenty
four hours the $1,000 was to be con-
verted into $4,000. But when the press
was opened the money was gone. Inc
sget-rich-quick" artists fed
Employees of Wisconsin's charitable
and penal institutions are the poorest
paid state employees, while the best
salaries go to the state normal school
employees, according to Henry John.
son, state treasurer. The poor show
ing of institutional workers is OFFSET
however, by the fact that the majority
are lodged and fed by the state. The
average monthly wage of the 5,575
state employees is $118. Capitol EN-.
ployes get an average of $14O.61, as
compared to $164.05 for normal school
employees University employees are
third on the list with an average
monthly income of $113.3O, and the
charitable and penal employees fourth
with $74.39.
During 1920, 100000 pounds OF
milk were received at the Angus co,
| Ghnnco ntOTv AT Angus,