Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The Douglas county board complet-
ed arrangements for the sale of $780,
600 worth of road bonds. The sale was
voted down by the old board, but after
newly elected members took their
seats only four dissenting votes were
heard.
Arrangements are being made for
graduation exercises of rural schools
in Brown county, the ceremonies to be
held in a Green Bay theater. In the
neighborhood of four hundred will get
diplomas, the largest number on
record.
Ninety head of registered cattle
were disposed of at the second annual
Holstein sale in West Salem, under
the auspices of the Holstein breeders
of La Crosse county. The top price
was $3.50 for a COW consigned by Mrs.
w. H. Ascot of Sparta.
The Green Bay Association of Com
merce has accepted plans of the IN
vestment corporation for construction
of an auditorium to Re used jointly for
civic affairs and as an Office building.
It is expected to cost 100000 and
plans already are being shown.
Former Capt. William earle, for
thirty-seven years member of the
Manitowoc police force and known far
and wide as the chief adversary of
tramps, died after two years of illness.
Cancer was the cause. Capt. earle re-
signed from the department three
years ago on account of failing health.
With several small children serious
/ ~ ill Of diphtheria and the Oldest
daughter, Amanda, IA years old, dead,
the home of Jules DeKeyser, Green
Bay, is under a cloud Of sorrow. The
entire family is in quarantine and
Amanda was buried with the under
taker as the sole attendant.
One of the biggest booster celebra-
lions ever conducted in central Wis
consin was held in Stevens Point,
sponsored by the chamber of com
merce as a means of stimulating bust
ness and bringing the rural and urban
resident in closer relation to each
other.
The Badger Ginseng company OF
Wausau recently. sold its crop of gin.
seng roots for $9,1O2. The crop con-
sisted of twenty-one barrels. The
prices obtained ranged from $1.5O per
pound for fibres to $40 per pound for
the better grades of root. The com
pany has extensive gardens in and
near Wausau and besides ginseng also
grows golden seal.
The board of education of Stevens
Point has added an extra teacher to
/ its staff for the coming school year
whose duties will be to study and rem
edy over age conditions in the first
second and third grades. An investiga
ton by Supt. H. G. Snyder disclosed
a few weeks ago that the percentage
of over age pupils was larger than il
should be.
An historical pageant portraying
! scenes in the development of La
Crosse and Trempealeau counties in
Wisconsin and Houston County, Mimi.
will be staged in the Interstate fair
grounds at La Crosse July 16 and IS
Fifteen hundred, persons will partici
pate. An elaborate musical program
and early day costumes and scenic set
tings IMPLYING the experiences OF
pioneers in settling that community
will be featured.
A hay crop of 5,036,000 tons in Wis
.onsin is forecasted for 1921 by Joseph
A. Becker of the Wisconsin cooper
alive crop bureau This compares with
/ 5.273,000 tons produced in 1920 and q
i five year average (1915-19) of 4,854,O0(
tons. Tame hay production is est
mated at 1855, 900 tons, compared to
i 4,814,0O0 in 1920 and five year aver
age of 4,398,000; wild hay at 471,00(
tons, compared to $4,000 in 1920 anG
a five year average of $4,000 tons.
Twenty-Five per cent Of the sugar
beet acreage contracted for the Greer
Bay Sugar company has already beer
planted according to w. D. Rosevear
The farmers in that vicinity are gOins
ahead with their cultivation and it is
expected that the entire acreage vii
have been seeded within two weeks
The company has imported ESQ ex
perieneed sugar beet workers for worI
among the farmers. The Green Bay
concern expects to refine $4,000 tons
of beets next fall.
Agricultural statistics for Kenoshs
county, issued by the census bureau
show that in 1910 there were 1,42;
farms in that county, that comprised {
i total of 162,462 acres of land. In 1921
there was a small decrease, both in thu
number of farms and the total acreage
The farms in 1920 totaled 1883, anC
i they embraced 1852 acres This de
creases in farm lands is more than off
set by the decrease in the number O
tenantry on Kenosha farms. In 1917
there were 997 farms operated by ten
ants and in 1920 there were only 900
There were 120,513 acres of improved
farm lands in 1910 and 1925 in 1920
The 1910 farms were valued at $13,
627,769, and in 1920 they were valued
at $21,647, 1886.
Project statements have been sub
mitted to the federal government OF
Sc highway developments, according tt
report of A. r. Hirst, Madison, chic
engineer for the highway commission
Expenditures will aggregate .$1,043, 1886
Contracts on federal aid work let sine,
Jan. / amount to $2,400,000 covering
222 O miles The commission has M