Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-07-15

month. P0nalCy Tor robbery Will
dangerous weapon or where assault &C
companies was placed at maximum
Of 80 years by bill which is now in
effect. The minimum term remains one
year.
"Moonshine" Plentiful in State.
"Just moonshine-virtually nothing
else" is what Prohibition Commits
sioner Stanley Smith says of the illicit
liquor that his deputies are confiscat-
ing. Except for an occasional half
filed bottle of the bottled-in-bond,"
said Mr.. Smith, 1--WE rarely find any
thing but the moonshiners' product.
Canadian whisky? WE'LL once in a
while we find little in the lake ports.
We have a case now pending in She
boygan where we confiscated some Of
the Canadian whisky that was being
struggled in by way of lake boat
Outside of the little we have cap
tured in the lake ports, however, all
we find is just the white moonshine.
Occasionally we get some pretty heavy
extract or some wine of pepsin. This
is not very general, though. Now
here is a bottle of 'Mince Meat Flavor
ing-Not to be used for beverage
purposes that we picked up" ugh!
1t smells like hair OIL said the in
quisitive reporter II can't say as to
that, but it's alcoholic content is 80
per cent, and guess we were justified
in taking it," And so the old-time bot
tled-in-bond seems to have disappeared
from the market as well as from the
homes, with very little coming across
the Canadian line into this state.
From now on the campaign is on the
moonshine, and with an augmented
force it is going to be dangerous work
for the enterprising "shiners."
May Lose Highway Aid.
Shall Wisconsin abandon her pro
gram Of highway construction? This
is the issue raised by the defeat of
bill 465-S, in the assembly, the high
way financing bill. The defeat of this
measure means that for the first time
since the organization of the Wiscon-
sin highway commission, when the
state entered as a factor in highway
work. the Wisconsin legislature has re-
fused to pass an appropriation bill pro
viding for the continuing Of highway
construction in the next two years. It
means that unless the legislature re-
verses itself that federal aid cOnstruc-
ton will cease on the $500 mile state
trunk highway system in 1923, which
would obviously throw the whole high
way program into chaos. The situa-
ton is critical one. Senator George
Staudenmayer, who has been for
years a member of the joint highway
and finance committee of the legisla-
ture, who in addition is a member of
the county board of Columbia county
and who has been a farmer all his life
in speaking of the matter said THE
highway movement is in critical con-
dition as a result of the defeat of bill
465-S, the highway financing measure.
The average man, | fear, does not ap-
preciate the fact that unless the legis
lature reverses itself on this matter
ard provides funds for continuing
highway work the result will be disas
trous AS matters now stand work
under the old state aid law will con-
tinue under continuing appropriations
on the part of the state in the sum of
$7S5, 900 to be spent on county roads.
State trunk highway construction.
which is done with federal aid, will
continue next year under appropria
tons made available by the last leg
islature. All the federal aid made
available under the law Of 1919 will
then have been spent. Under the new
federal aid law there will be made
available to Wisconsin the SUM- of
$2,5OO,O0O which she must meet. This
Joint fund would be spent in 1923.
The legislature, however, refused to
make an appropriation to meet this
federal aid, and failing to meet it, 1t
will revert to the federal government
and all construction on the state
trunk highway system will cease the
year after next. This is the situation
that confronts us. am convinced
that the people Of Wisconsin do not
want to do this. No state in the Union
has failed to meet the federal aid ap-
preparation and no state in the Union
has decided to drop highway improve
ment. I am convinced that when the
situation is fully understood the legis
lature will pass highway appropria-
ton bill that will enable Wisconsin t.
retain her reputation as one of the
leading good roads states in the coun-
try"
Wisconsin Gets New Buildings.