Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-08-04
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Madison = Wisconsin had 1898 in |
sane in state and county institutions |
| July / Of this year, monthly report |
of the state board of control made pub I
| lie shows. OF these 1 ,331 were in the I
State hospital, 100 in tie hospital for |
| the Criminal Insane, 568 in the Mil |
waukee hospital and $685. in county |
asylums. This is an increase of $50 |
over last year at this time, the report |
| indicates. The number of feeble |
minded likewise increased from LILO |
| in July, 1920, to 1,164 in July of this
year. Among the insane ZAP were |
men and 1851 women, and among the |
| feeble minded 502 were men and 558 |
women The total number of all |
classes in state institutions and county |
institutions on July 1 was 12,515, an |
| increase of sos over a year ago.
| Madison-Immigran continue to |
flock to upper Wisconsin in numbers
far exceeding those going to surround |
! ing states, figures reported to the |
state bureau of immigration by the |
500 Railroad Co., show. A total of |
As immigrant cars were scheduled for |
Wisconsin during June, with two go
| ing to Minnesota and one to Michi-
| gan The largest number of immi |
grants are Scandinavians and Ger
mans, with a somewhat smaller num-
| Der of Slavonians and Danes. Rus
slams, Italians, Irish and other nation
alities are scattered among those who |
| take land in the northern part of the |
state.
Madison = Large increase in the
number of heifers is said by the crop
reporting service to be the outstand- |
| Ing feature of the livestock situation
| in Wisconsin. An extensive inquiry
of individual farms indicated that
there are II per cent more helfers
now than in 1920. No change is indi-
| Gated in the number of milk cows,
with a falling off Of per cent in the
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per cent, the report shows, with steers
falling off 16 per cent. All other live
stock than cattle decreased in number
! during the year, swine dropping per
cent, sheep and horses s.
Eau Claire-Elmer Sundby, 48, chief
of police, died here as result OF bull
let wounds received during gun fight
| with a robber who escaped with S1,036
after holding up a messenger of the
Minnesota Wisconsin Light and Power
Co. Chief Sundby was leading posse
at the time he was shot. He was ap-
pointed to the police force in 1908 and
| in 1916 was made chief. The robbery
occurred at the car barns here when
the highwayman forced Evan Evans,
messenger, and two guards into the
barns as they were leaving for the
bank, and took the satchel containing
the money.
Kenosha- Judge Frank S. Sym
Imonds, recently appointed district
attorney at Kenosha county by Gov.
Blaine, issued a statement in which he
declared that the law was going to be
enforced in Kenosha county if it
were necessary to call troops to en-
force the prohibition statutes In his
formal statement, Mr.. Symmonds de-
clared that the governor had promised
to him the full cooperation of the
state to aid in this cleanup of the
county
Green Bay N. Kavanaugh, coun-
ty agent of Brown county, has organ
lied a cow-testing association at
Greenleaf and formed Duroc-Jersey
Hog Breeders association in the same
community. The farmers subscribed
for 81 500 In stock in the latter asso-
citation, with the understanding that
the money raised by this subscription
would be used exclusively for the cree
| ton of live stock judging sales pa
vilion
Green Bay-Two public markets will
be opened here in a few days, much to
the delight of housewives, who find it
| cheaper to buy direct from the farm
ers and carry their purchases home
| than to trade at the corner, grocery
store Both the markets will be under
city supervision. Farmers and truck
gardeners must file application to
leave their wagons in the market
space. Two hundred applications
have already been received for selling
rights.
| Madison-Cases brought under the
new prohibition enforcement law can
not be tried by justice of peace courts,
opinion of the attorney general given
to District Attorney H. B. Schmidt,
| West Bend, holds Penalties involved
| are in excess of those which justice
| courts can deal with under Wisconsin
| statutes.
| Laona-Roy Doran, who says he is
resident of Oconto, is being held here |
| on a charge of passing worthless
checks. Doran is alleged to have
| passed a check for S615 on an auto |
mobile company as part payment fol-
car.