Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1921-08-10

sideration on claims for homestead
rights when 10000 acres of the North
Platte irrigation project are TO be
opened Sept. 9. according TO word re-
ceived by the state headquarters OF
the American Legion here from the
department of the interior. Only vet
Grams of the World war will receive
this consideration, it was announced.
Green Bay-The flock Of brown leg
norm chickens belonging TO l.. c. Meul-
mans, WrightstOwn farmer. continues
In second place in the egg laying con
test being conducted by Prof. ]. b.
Hayes of the University of Wisconsin.
Meulmans' chickens averaged 1896
eggs for each hen during June. accord
ing 10 statistics. They are led by only
one flick, that of George G. Huser of
Wood county, whose hens had an aver
age of 20.7S.
Ashland-Two new farm cO-Opera-
tive creameries and cheese factories
have been built in the Cheduemegan
bay territory at Barksdale and Beloit.
The Beloit factory building is practi-
cally complete and represents an out
lay of over $4,000. The upper portion
OF the two story brick building will be
used as a hall for farmers meetings.
The Barksdale farmers have united as
the Farm and Labor Cooperative as
sociatiOn.
Madison-Infantile paralysis, dread
disease of children, has prevailed IN
Wisconsin TO a considerable extent
during the month of July. Up to July
2S.136 cases had been reported from
% scattered localities. So far there
has been TO marked grouping of cases
except in the vicinity OF MOsinee.
Here a number of cases have been
discovered and action is being taken
TO limit the spread of the malady.
Hurley - Miss Jennie Sharpless,
field secretary of the Worlds Purity
league. spoke 10 between 400 and 500
people in the heart of the saloon dis
trict here. Although annoyed from
the beginning by boys with tin pans
and automobiles passing through the
crowd blowing their horns, Mrs
Sharpless managed to outlast efforts
of the hecklers and spoke for nearly
two hours on vice.
Madison -. The last session of the
LEGISLATURE cost the state 1882. 536.55,
according 10 official figures that have
been announced by Secretary of State
Elmer S. Hall. Printing was the laTg-
est item. amounting TO $65,715.SS. The
salaries of senators aggregated Sl6,5OO.
and the mileage of senators, S1.O51.
The salaries of assemblymen aggre-
gated $5O.5O0 and the mileage S3.160.
Barron-Barron county is the first
county and the largest area in the
world to have all the cattle in the
county freed from bovine tuberculo-
sis. over $1,000 head of cattle were
tested and only six-tenths of one per
cent reacted. The affected cattle
were slaughtered. No cattle may be
admitted 10 Barron county which have
not been tested for tuberculosis.
Madison ~ Gov Blaine has directed
that all pardon hearings be postponed
until Sept Is and II. Because Of the
large number OF applications that have
been filed. the governor has decided
10 devote two days to the hearings.
II is believed there viii be upwards OF
IS applications.
Tomah DIR. A. +. Frefrick. state
humane officer. has been commits
stoned by Gov. Blaine a colonel in the
Wisconsin National guard and has
been assigned 10 the stan as aide de
camp to the governor. He was ordered
by the adjutant general TO report at
Camp Douglas.
Kaukauna - Forty men have been
recalled to work in the Chicago &
Northwestern railway shops here.
comprising IS per cent OF the number
laid of last spring. Il is believed
that The entire crew viii be recalled
soon
Sheboygan-The village Of Kohler,
one OF the most widely known indus
trial villages in the country, voted to
increase its limits from 760 TO 1000
acres at a special election The vii
lage is known as the home of the en-
RmelwaTs industry in Wisconsin