Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-29

! Franklin Orcott, the year old boy
who was electricuted last September
at Tomahawk.
People of Wisconsin are appealed to
by Gov. Blaine to set aside the week
of May to s as China Famine week,
a period for special appeal in making
the relief fund campaign success.
The governor asks that the people con-
tribute literally in order that Wiscon-
sin may do its share.
The Rev. Bishop Paul P. Rhode,
diocese of Green Bay, sailed from New
York on the steamer La France for
Rome. He will be abroad three
months. Bishop Rhodes journey is in
the nature of pilgrimage to the
vatican to make a report on diocesan
matters.
The cost of running Wisconsin's
laW-making bodies, including the sal
aries of senators and assemblymen, is
1888 a day for every day that the leg
/ islature is in session, if the figures of
1919 are to be taken as fair criterion.
/ Legislative employees in Wisconsin are
hired under the civil service system.
A survey of the clover crop by
Marinette county agent shows that
the crop wintered well under condi-
tons that might have had bad eff
! feet, a very light snowfall. The same
report is made on winter rye and
wheat. Farmers generally are plant
ing oats. Treatment of seed oats is
general. There will be at least 10000
bushels of seed potatoes treated in the
county this spring.
The Wisconsin State reformatOry
population is on an increase, accord
ing to Superintendent B. M. Coles, who
announced that there are now 300 in
mates in the Green Bay reformatOry,
This is the largest number ever con-
fined to the institution at one time.
The corridors of the cell house, ac-
cording to reformatory officials are be
ing used by some inmates as sleeping
quarters.
Members of the executive committee
of the Wisconsin Press association
met in Marshfeld and completed ar
rangements for the, summer outing of
the members and their families.
Marshfield because of its central loca
ton, was selected as the starting
place, with July 81, the date. After
touring the northern and eastern part
of the state, the party will disband
four or five days later at Amigo.
Enlarged so as to include thirteen
counties instead of six, the eighth divi
sion of the internal revenue depart
ment with headquarters in Green Bay
has greatly broadened its scope of
activities. Brown, Door, Kewaunee,
Shawano, Manitowoc, Florence, Marin
cite, Oconto, Langlade, Forest. Oneida,
Price and Villas counties are now in
the Green Bay division. Six inspectors
will work out of this Office.
OF 256 persons examined at the
chest clinic in Merrill, thirty-eight
have been pronounced showing evi.
dences Of tubercular infection OF the
200 persons examined at Tomahawk
an even larger number were found
with evidences of tuberculosis, so OF
decayed teeth, five OF skin troubles, 10
of pleurisy, two of marked spinal trou-
Bile and one of post pneumonia.
Application for the abandonment of
the Wisconsin orthwestern railroad
operating between Taylor Rapids and
Girard Junction in Marinette county,
was made before R. w. Clark, repre-
senting the interstate commerce com
mission. Supt. w. L. Hallenbeck of
the road testified that the road was not
a paying proposition. Settlers in the
vicinity oppose abandonment of the
road.
An attempt to lift a chain from high
tension wires of the Wisconsin Mime
sofa Light and Power Co. caused the
death of Jorn Casey, 40. a farmer near
New Richmond. Casey's children had
thrown the chain in play. The farmer
climbed on a step ladder and tried to
dislodge the chain with wet chunk
of wood, which served as a conductor
and sent 10000 volts Of electricity
through him, killing him instantly
Sale of milk and cream at retail in
JdAGSV Vile Will AS1SdllOI 10 ASSuldtCu
through an ordinance requiring dealers
to take out licenses After wrangle
of four months between the board of
health and councilmen, the ordinance
was passed providing that all milk for
human consumption must either be
pasteurized or from tuberculin tested
herds. Enforcement rests with the
board of health.
Sadie Gerber Hengerveld De Kol,
the worlds greatest butter producing
COW, is dead after brief illness. Nine
Sadie, owned by the Wisconsin Live
stock association, composed of Apple
ton men, did more than all the other
bovines in Outagamie county to put
Appleton and the county on the dairy
map. Sadie's greatest achievement
was the production of 40 pounds of
butter in a registered seven-day test,
about year ago. She was the first
COW in the world to make this
record and it has not been approached
since Last year she was proclaimed
the champion cow of North America
at the National Dairy show in Phila-
delphia, where she competed with the
best bovines in the United States and
Canada.
The state department of agriculture
reports that hog cholera has again ap-
peared in the state, and the heavy