Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-24

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The Globe Metal Products company
plant, and equipment. at Sheboygan
was sold under the sheriff's hammer
to Harry Bolens, head of the ellison
Manufacturing company of Port Wash
ington, for $65,700.
Frank Kennedy, Fish Creek, is en-
joying some thrilling sport on the ice
of Green bay with an aero-motor sleigh
which he recently completed. A gaso
line motor and airplane propeller
drive the sled over the ice at a speed
of so miles an hour.
Flocks of prairie chicken in Wis.
consin about to be deprived of food
as a result of removal of corn shocks
by farmers in many parts of the state
will be fed by the conservation com
mission in order to prevent their
starvation.
Pleading guilty to charge of hav.
ing moonshine in his possession, Nels
Simenson, elderly Vernon county farm
er, selected to take two months in
the county Jail instead of paying a
fine of $3.50. An hour in the Jail in
duced him to pay the fine.
A warrant of seizure was sworn out
in United States district court at
Madison, against the Prairie du Sac
Brewing Co., of Prairie du Sac. Fed
eral authorities charge the company
has been manufacturing intoxicating
liquor on a permit to make non-in-
toxicating beverages.
The ore movement at the end of the
lakes, regarded as a business baron.
eter in that district, will be doubled
over last year il the 1922 shipping
season, F. J. Gavin, superintendent of
the Superior district of the Great
Northern railway announced. The
shipments are expected to reach
100000 tons as compared to the
100000 tons of last year.
The bodies Of Harold Churchill, So.
Green Bay, and his infant daughter
will be buried in the same grave. The
father died after short illness two
hours before the child was born. The
parents were confined in adjoining
rooms at local hospital. The mother
and wife is convalescing, but she has
not been told of her husbands death.
Six other children, the Oldest II, sur.
vive.
The drop in the number of deaths
from tuberculosis in 1921, recently
announced as the lowest mortality on
record in Wisconsin, is notable, the
state board of health said, as mark
ing the first time since accurate rec
ords have been available that this
has been less than 1000 in
a year. The rate for each 100000
population is 1873. In 1920 the rate
was 846. The usual yearly drop is
only one or two points.
The first northern grown tobacco
shipment ever sold to southern United
States tobacco companies was sold
several days ago by Barron county
tobacco growers. The shipment was
consigned to Tampa, Fla. The Barron
county tobacco crops have been rec
Ognized as exceptionally good ones
and the demand for tobacco raised
in the county has been large. The
crop of tobacco this year
has not been in very great demand
and as a result much of the crop re
mains unsold and growers predict that
The acreage in 1922 will be reduced.
The creation Of a service bureau
TOR county and state fairs in Wiscon-
sin to gather and distribute informa-
ton and plans which will assist their
development was recommended by
Oliver e. Remey, secretary of the
State Fair, before the an
aual convention of the Wisconsin
association of fairs meeting at Fond
1u Lac. Mr.. Remey said that there
were SO fairs in Wisconsin during
he past year, attended by 1,087,156
persons. Their total cost was 1884
ia, while receipts were $1.595,838
showing a deficit of nearly 100000.
Premiums at these 88 fairs amounted
% $584,6 while gate receipts were
S583,267, or $1,432 less than paid out
n premiums. The state paid $179,23l
n aid to district and county fairs.
There has been an unprecedented
activity in tuberculosis eradication
work among Wisconsin cattle, during
he last quarter, the department of
agriculture announced. During that
period 75,067 head of cattle were test
I'd, with 1928 reactors. Out of the
otal number of herds tested 1856
showed no reactors and in $50 infec-
ions were found. The period also
showed II, $50 head of dairy and breed
ng cattle shipped out of the state to
points throughout the United States
md to Mexico, Bermuda islands, IN
liza, South America and Canada. This
S said to have been the heaviest call
or cattle which has been recorded
Turing any previous three months,
md is said to be due to the promi-
renee given tuberculosis eradication
work in the state. Wisconsin is said
@ be the leading state in it's export
If cattle.
F. R. Crumpton, Superior, was elect
ID president of the Wisconsin Asso-
,iation of Real Estate brokers at the
welfth annual convention at Eau