Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-08-12
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

ROBBERY at MlnOcQua, OF SeVeraI JnOu-
sand dollars worth of merchandise a
few weeks ago. Large quantities of
stolen property was discovered in pos
session of the two men by Sheriff Bodd
of Rhinelander, it is said.
w. W. Wismer, Hayward, was ap-
pointed deputy prohibition commits
sioner by w. Stanley Smith, commits
sioner. Wismer is a veteran of the
Spanish-American war and served dur
ing the World war as captain of the
One Hundred and Seventh ammunition
train, Thirty-second division. He has
been a conservation warden ten years.
w. ). McCaskey, Marinette county,
has been appointed business agent in
charge of affairs of the Manitowoe
county branch of the American Soci-
ETY. of Equity, by E. G. Pommerening,
president of the state organization.
The Equity proposes to have bust
ness agent in each county where it OPP
crates and this is the first appoint
ment made. The chief work of the
agents, according TO President Pom
y
receive fair prices for their products.
Ordinances licensing motor bus lines
operating at Neenah, compelling them
TO pay a fee of 500 for each convey
ance, specifying that they shall not OPP
crate on a schedule which conflicts
with the electric interurban lines and
designating on what streets in the
downtown district they shall park to
load and discharge passengers, have
been adopted by the common council
here. This city is now connected with
Appleton, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac
by three auto bus lines.
Private owners have no lawful right
to obstruct the lakes of Wisconsin
from use by the public thru cOnstruc-
ton of fences across pathways or by
any other means that would keep the
waters out of public use, Attorney
General William j. Morgan announced
in an opinion to the conservation COM
mission. The stand of the attorney
general will open all of the lakes c
the state to any persons who care to
make use of them, without permitting
private owners of abutting land from
excluding them. It points out that the
shores of Lake Michigan and Superior
are included within this Interpretation.
Cherry shipments from the Door
county district over the Green Bay &
Western road this year aggregate $50
carloads compared with rs cars han
died last year. According to J. B. Call,
general freight agent, Green Bay, the
total crop will amount to about 100000
cases this year. On some days 10 solid
cars of cherries were shipped. A fair
percentage of the cherries were canned
in Door county and many also were
shipped out by boat and express. The
crop this year was not only the largest
in the history of this section, but the
quality was also exceptionally high
grade.
HI. r. Keller, agent at GAINESVILLE for
P. Lorillard & Co., New York tobacco
merchants, announced that the COM
pany will close its 35 warehouses in
the state and no longer buy and pack
tobacco in Wisconsin. The new state
minimum wage law is given as the
reason for this action The company
operates warehouses here and in Ed
gerton, the latter being one of the
largest in the state. Other warehouses
are in Madison, La Crosse and villages
in the tobacco section. The move in
wolves in the casing season some 5000
employees. 'The Lorillard company
can not pay % cents an hour to wom-
en- as required by the state" explained
Mr.. Keller
Vocational schools cost the state and
cities Of Wisconsin $1,142,452 to oper-
ate during the last year, figures com
piled by the board of vocational educa-
ton show. This sum does not include
capital expenditures for new construc-
ton which total over $1,000,000. Salar~
les, day and evening school instructor
who taught $4,000 pupils, amounted to
s677,785 with administration amount
ing to ST., ia. The state board of vo-
cational education is authorized to
grant state aid up to one-half of the
cost of maintenance and instruction,
but in a sum not to exceed 10000 in
all cities with the exception of Mil
waukee which is allowed $4,000. APP
preparation of $225,000 is made for this
aid
The state of Wisconsin will retain
A. r. Hirst, chief engineer, at the head
of it's highway work for the coming
year, together with practically all of
the principal engineers, announce
ment Of the highway commission says.
This announcement by w. O. Hotch-
kiss, secretary, declares further that
failure of the last legislature to pass
the highway privilege tax bill means
disruption of road work in 1928. Estate
and county funds are now provided for
by law to meet federal aid work to be
done in 1921 and 1922, but before the
legislature of 1923 can provide fur
Their funds the construction season of
1923 will have passed by" according to
the statement.
A number of Wisconsin doctors are
giving up their federal permits to
grant liquor prescriptions and are adj.
vising the state commissioner that
they no longer intend to engage in the
prescription business, W. Stanley
Smith, commissioner, says. He de-
clares that there is disposition on
the part of some doctors to disregard
their privilege entirely.
At the closing session of the Wis
consin State Association of Dyers and