River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-07-21

i Madison The corn crop in Wiscon
sin this year will approach the bumper
/ yield OF 1919, according to Joseph a.
Becker Of the cooperative crop report
/ ing service. Based upon a July con
dition, production is estimated at 49,.
/ 044,OOO in 1920 and 86,715,000 in 1918.
High temperatures of the last few
weeks, with continued dry weather,
| have resulted in an enormous growth
Of corn, placing the crop two weeks
in advance of normal, the report
brings out. Conditions of the corn
crop July / was second highest on
record at 95 per cent, compared to 80
per cent in 1920 and SO per cent in
/ 1919, and 10-year average of "a per
cent. The acreage is reported as j.
| $4,000, or ] per cent larger than in
/ 1920 The large increase in silos dur
ing the year has had much to do with
the increase.
Green Bay-One notable change in
/ the farm life of Brown county is the
passing of the windmill, according to
observations throughout this part OF
| the country. Farmers no more think
of building windmills atop their barns,
because in time they rot at their
Imoorings and fall down. Wind as
means Of pumping water is too uncer-
/ tain, farIners claim, although it costs
nothing as a source of power Case
i line engines are taking the place OF
i the picturesque revolving fan wheel
1 which could be seen above the build
| ings of almost all farms.
Neenah Winnebago county is &C
quiring the reputation of a speed
trap according to A. L. King, head OF
! the county farm bureaus, who has is
sued statement fiaying rigid enforce
ment of the automobile speed laws.
The county is becoming unpopular, he
points out, as the result of the activi-
/ ties of the county motorcycle officer.
Hundreds of tourists have been ar
rested for fracturing the law.
Manitowoc-The Rev John Scheid-
| hauer, chaplain at the Holy Family
/ hospital and assistant to the Rev. Mr..
Luby of Sacred Heart church. cele-
| brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his ordination. Twenty-Five priests
/ from various parts of the county took
part in the celebration, which con-
sisted of high mass followed by din
ner. Father Scheidhauer has been
at the hospital about twenty years.
1 Previous to coming to Manitowoc he
! had a parish at Fond du Lac.
Manitowoc--A decisive victory was
i won by the j. f. Rappel Wholesale
Grocery Co. in its damage suit against
the city, when jury in circuit court
awarded S11,800 to the plaintiff. The
case was result of flood during the
spring of 1920 when the basement OF
i the Rappel warehouse filed with wa
ter because a city sewer nearby was
unable to carry OK the flow. Thou
sands of dollars of stock were spoiled
and the company's building was dam
aged.
Madison-Three hundred and three
thousand automobiles are registered
in the state of Wisconsin, to date.
This is over $4,000 more than were
registered during the entire year of
1920. Last year there were 1926
j trucks licensed. This year 19,439 al
ready have taken out licenses. There
were 1,946 automobile dealers in the
state last year. This year there have
j been 2,049 dealers licenses taken out.
Neenah = The First Presbyterian,
the First Methodist and the st. PauPs
English Lutheran churches of this
4 city have received $500, bequeathed
them by the will of Samuel A. Cook.
nationally known congressman and
philanthropist, whose home was in
Neenah. The Congregational church
of Menasha and the Nuenah troop of
Boy Scouts were also left $500 by the
will.
i Antigo-Mrs. Joe Bierzynski has re.
=
Poland, that her son, Laddie, who had
not 4been heard from for more than
a year. died at Warsaw, Jan. 3, 1920.
His death was attributed to Bright's
disease following number of opera
tions in military hospital. He went
to France with Polish contingent
and later was transferred to the Polish
front.
i Green Bay-The Rev. John T.
OLeary, pastor of st. Patrick's
church, will have to pay Mary Hen
derson $2,700 as result of jury's
verdict in personal injury case.
The defendants motion for new
trial was denied. The complainant
charged that she suffered a broken
hin hv cumming ont of the Dath of