Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-27
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

The largest moonshine still found
thus far in Langlade county was 10
Gated in the town of Polar. About
one thousand gallons of mash were
destroyed. Only five gallons of liquor
were found. The owner of the still
has not been apprehended.
A demand for the establishment at
public expense of a special school for
the teaching of the making of swiss
brick and limburger cheese, was
voiced by Fred Marty, president OF
the Southern Wisconsin Cheesemakers
and Dairymens' association, at the an
nual convention at Monroe.
Two new cow testing associations
have been formed in Barron county
recently, one at Prairie Farm and one
at Barron. Another will soon be or
ganized at Rice Lake, which will
bring the number in the county up tc
eight Twenty-six herds of cattle will
be tested for production in each asso
citation.
The erection of two public schools
manual training and high school
of education. The manual training
school will be known as the Webster
Notwithstanding w. J. Webster
Superior manufacturer, bequeathed
$4,000 to the board for erection of a
training school.
It is reported that in the spring a
state highway will be constructed
through the village of Blackwell in a
northeasterly direction to Armstrong
Creek. The road will shorten to a
considerable extent the distance from
Green Bay to the Michigan line and
will make accessible to the tourist, a
splendid fishing and hunting region.
At the final session of it's conven-
tion at Oshkosh, the Licensed Tug
mems association of America adopted
a resolution endorsing the proposed
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep water
way project. Representatives of eight
of the principal river and lake states
of the union took the action and legis-
lators in New York, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michi-
gan and Minnesota will be asked to
support the plan.
Hog cholera in Wisconsin was held
to a minimum during the last year
when outbreaks occurred in 20 coun-
ties affecting 156 farms, DR.. J. T. Pur-
cell of the state department of agri-
culture, says in his annual report.
Outbreaks in Al counties during 1920,
affecting $50 farms, were reported.
Rock county headed the list with 26
different outbreaks, Grant county was
second with 20, and Dane county third
with H..
The annual report of the Tomah
Equity and Livestock association for
the year 1921 shows prosperous con-
dition for its members The total re-
ceipts amounted to $71,840.85, chief
of which was sales of livestock of
S68,733. Shipping expenses were
$4,479.61, including $2,969.28 freight.
Stock checks paid members were $62,-
705.43. A cash balance of s1,0O7.03
was on hand Jan. 1, 1922. This branch
has $50 members in good standing.
Slight improvement in Wisconsin
industrial conditions is indicated by
the monthly survey made by the in
dust1ial commission. The number of
employees in factories and mines in
December was seyen-tenths of / per
cent greater than in November, the
commission report shows. During that
same time total wages paid increased
Is per cent and average weekly earn
ings, nine-tenths of l per cent. The
report is based on returns of I'll es-
adjustments employing 58,219 workers
and with a pay roll of $1,247000, the
commission says.
Judge George Grimm of the Beloit
Circuit court gr;lnted a temporary in
junction restraining the city of Beloit
from collecting taxes amounting to
$903 on certain real estate owned in
the city by Beloit college. The college
contends that these parcels of proper
ty are exempt from taxes under the
Wisconsin statutes. The city will fight
the injunction Mayor J. A. Janvrin
states that the board Of review care
fully considered the question involv-
ing the property in the controversy
and decided that the property is just
ly assessed.
Green. county has paid out $1,000 in
litigation expenses to resist the claim
of ]. NJ Becker, former county judge,
who demanded $4,000 and interest, as
pay for the time of his term as judge
after he was ousted by former Gov.
Philip. Becker was deprived of
office upon conviction of violation of
the espionage act. He later obtained
a reversal of the conviction on an ap-
peal. His claim for salary was turned
down by the county board, and was
held invalid by Judge George Grimm
in a suit in Circuit court, and this de-
cision was upheld by the Supreme
court.
Louis Nehls, farmer and stock buy
err. shipped more than 1000 head of
dairy cows from Juneau in 1921. He
looks for a greater number this year
The cattle for the most part, were
consigned to dairymen of the middle
and southwest. but some of the ship
ments went into old Mexico and others
as far south as Florida.