Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-14
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

increasing business.
The Arson, Gilkey & Hard company
Merrill, notified all its employees thai
their accounts have been credited with
the amounts due them under the com
pany's new profit sharing plan. The
plan, inaugurated Jan. /, 1920, gives
each employee share of 80 per CEN
of the net profit.
County Clerk A. E. Schulze, Mani
towoc, who retired from office on Jan
8, received appointment of deputy in
ternal revenue collector for Manitowot
and Calumet counties, succeeding A
j. Anton, resigned The appointment
was, made by Burt Williams, interna
revenue collector for Wisconsin. The
position pays $1,000 a year with ex
penses.
Pure bred sires are replacing the
scrubs in Wisconsin herds, according
to state leaders of the cowtesting as
sociations. Scrubs have been eliminat
ed from 155 associations in the state
A survey of &c of the cowtesting or
CARNATIONS shows that II per cent Of
the 2,051 members use pure bred bulls
leaving only LAT sires to be replaced
by pure breds. A. j. Cramer OF the
College of Agriculture said.
Among the most important work tc
come before the present Wisconsin
Legislature will be the changing of dis
tricts for congressman, state senators
and assemblymen. The increase il
population shown by the 1920 census
will undoubtedly give the state twelve
congressman instead of eleven. 1t is
believed that the extra congressiona
district will go to the northern part o.
the state.
During November the Barron Co
operative creamery, the largest in the
world, received 334,218 pounds Of
cream from which 97,167.7 pounds o.
butter-fat were obtained. The price
paid for butter-fat was 81 cents 9
pound. Nearly 1000 farmers were pa
irons of the plant. Three farmers re
ceived checks totaling more thar
$1,000 for the month. Sixty-four re
ceived more than $3.50 each.
Those having business at the state
capital during the session of the legis
lature will find considerable improve
ment in hotel accommodations anc
housing conditions in Madison. One
large hotel has been opened since the
last legislature adjourned. The ma
jority of state senators and assembly
men live in Madison hotels while the
legislature is in session and return te
their homes for each week end.
The Central Wisconsin Fair associa
ton at its annual meeting at Marsh
field, reelected all the old officers as
follows: J.. c. Kieffer, president; A
P. Bean, vice-president; F. A. Noll
treasurer; R. R. Williams, secretary
The last season was reported the best
in the history of the association. The
new $4,000 concrete grand stand il
the latest addition to the fair ground
equipment.
Representative of the Wisconsin
branch of the American Society OF
Equity, in session at Oshkosh, decided
to form a federation of cooperation OF
shipping agencies of livestock. About
rs were present from various parts Of
the state. A committee was named tc
prepare a plan for federation, the idea
being to have representatives at the
stock market terminals, thus el1mlnat
ing the paying of brokerage to live
stock corporations.
The state board of control let con
tract to Fond du Lac CONSTRUCTION
company for three new buildings al
the state home for feebleminded al
Union Grove, Racine county. TWO
buildings for inmates will be built, ano
also refectory, the total cost to be
1888, 23G. Work is to be started as
soon as the contractors bond is ap
proved. This is the second state home
for feebleminded, and will supplement
the work of the institution at Chlppe
wa Falls.
A move is under way to develop
Green Bay into cattle feeding center
T.. w. Martin, Arizona stockman, Is
negotiating for the feeding OF cattle er
route to Chicago. It is the plan o.
Martin to ship cattle to Green Bay tol
a three months period before the INA
trip to the. Chicago stockyards. Nego
tiations for grazing pastures have beer
completed and about 5000 head of cat
tie will fatten up in Brown county dur
ing the coming year
An order that will compel the Green
Bay Fish Co. to dispose of a grea1
quantity of fish that has been storec
in the company's warehouses was IS
sued by George +. Weigle, state dairy
and food commissioner. Several thou
sand pounds of fish were ordered de
stroyed, the commissioner ruling thai
it had been stored SO long that 1t Is
unfit for use. Several thousand more
pounds were ordered sold Immediately
and a large quantity was ordered
shipped to Chicago.
Judge James Wickham ruled thai
stock dividend is not income and there
fore not assessable under the Wlscon
sin income tax law in the test case
of D. M. Dulany against County CLERK
John H. Nygaard, Eau Claire. The
amount involved was $425, the assess
ment made against stock dividend o.
$4,000 declared by a corporation o.
Kansas City in which Mr.. Dulany Il
stakeholder.
The merchants of De Pere repor
that their holiday business this yeal
hos booy, fbo hioOact in the history Of