Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-10-13

wilson, manager.
Lester Atkinson, 20, son Of G. F. At
kinson, Burnett county, accidentally
discharged his shotgun while hunting
near his fathers farm. The boy was
shot through the hand and head and
he died before he could be given aid
by a physician.
Jack Hastings, 2-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs J. G.. Hastings, died at the
farm home near Rice Lake as a result
of drinking poison. A daughter was
born to Mrs. Hastings only a few
hours before the child drank the
poison.
The GAINESVILLE city council adopted
Ia budget for 1928 calling for a tax
levy of $633,811 for city purposes
alone, compared to $606, 542 raised this
year, or a net increase of $27, 1858. This
IS AZ per cent. The new rate will
be $22.05 per thousand Taxes in
GAINESVILLE have increased Is per cent
since 1905, records show.
Garages using automobiles for other
than garage purposes must have them
licensed with the regular state auto
mobile license, Mortimer Levitan, as
sistant attorney general, has ruled.
He held that truck used by a garage,
on garage license, for hauling I'm
plements would have to have regular
truck license and could not be oper-
ated on the garage license.
j. W. Smith, Kent, the Langlade
county potato breeder who developed
the strain of Triumph potatoes which
bears his name, has sold his entire
crop available for sale, 1000 bushels,
for $3.75 a bushel. They will be used
for seed. Just after he had closed the
sale he received letter from Bermu-
da asking for his entire crop.
Five women, all from GAINESVILLE and
Beloit, will serve on the october term
of the Rock county circuit court. The
jury commissioners selected the list of
$50 for service during the coming year
and only 10 per cent are women. Re
luctance to serve is the reason for
such small representation of women
on the jury panels.
The first dairy feeding day ever
staged in America will be held in
Madison Oct &c, when the dairymen
Of Wisconsin meet to plan their winter
feeding operations. Back of the oc-
casion is the determined effort of the
dairymen of the state to make their
winter employment profitable They
have adopted as the slogan for the
coming season, Feed Your Cows for
Profit"
A record for the state was estab
lished in Iron county when cattle were
tested for tuberculosis, according to
figures compiled by o. H. Eliason,
state veterinarian. Less than / per
cent of the cows tested showed a re
action to tuberculosis. There were
4,741 head of cattle given the test in
a total of 895 herds and only 81 re
actors were discovered.
Charging that the jury in the famous
Sailstad case misconducted itself and
that there was no evidence to substan
tiate the verdict awarding Mrs. Leona
Sailstad- Richardson the sum of $40,
900 Of insurance carried by her first
husband, Edward J. Sailstad counsel
for the defendant New York Life In
surance Co. entered motion to set
aside the verdict.
The state printing board saved tax
payers of Wisconsin more than $4,000
through two purchases of paper before
prices were raised Sept. 20, David At
wood, state printer, said Paper on
which income tax blanks will be print
ed was purchased for $2,419, just
few minutes before the increase went
into effect, resulting in saving OF
1874, according to Mr.. Atwood. The
printing board at the same time
bought 5000 pounds of book paper for
The Blue Book, saving $1,000.
The entire town of Kilbourn was
threatened by fire which started in
the freight depot of the Milwaukee
railroad The fire entirely destroyed
the station building, spread rapidly to
two grain elevators close by, dfsman-
thing those two structures and famed
by q. strong rising wind swept down
toward the business section. The
high wind carried sparks to dwelling
houses, sheds and barns, the roofs Of
many catching fire. Volunteer fire
men, aided by bucket brigade were
able to keep the flames checked in the
majority of cases.
The state had $12,421, 210 on hand in
it's various funds Oct. /, Henry John
son, state treasurer, reports. Of this
amount, $9,380,543 was in the general
fund for payment Of highway expenses
and general administrative costs. Dur
ing the last month $3,923,827 was
added to the general fund from rail
way taxes and automobile license fee
payments, while disbursements totaled
S2,978,871, most of which were to meet
expenditures for highway construction
and maintenance. There is 1926, 225 in
the service recognition fund, out of
which costs involved in building the
Wisconsin general hospital at the uni
versity are to be met The education
al bonus fund now amounts to 1885,
$40.
A majority of the individual stock
holders of the Chippewa Falls Hotel
company, present owners of the Hosel
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