Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-06-23
Wisconsin
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Canning of the 1922 crop of peas
began at Baraboo this week. The
crop is unusually large, of fine quality,
and free from the pea louise, which is
destroying many fields in various
parts of the country.
Herman Mauerman, near Albany,
has suffered heavy loss by hog chol-
era. Herds of other Green county
farmers are being attacked. Others
are rushing to get their hogs inocu-
lated with anti-cholera serum, hoping
to forestall the epidemic.
Seven pea canneries of Sheboygan
county are facing a loss of S250,OO0
through destruction Of crops by the
pea louise, and unless something IN
tervenes to stop the progress OF the
pest, the losses may be heavier. The
seven canneries have about 1000
acres planted.
A record for road building in Wis
consin was established in Jefferson
county when one contractor laid 1000
feet of eighteen foot concrete highway
in single day, the highway depart
ment reports. This speed is at the
rate Of one mile in five days, and is
said to represent approximately the
maximum speed attainable in con-
crete construction work.
Ten more Wisconsin High schools
and academies have recently been
added to the list of high schools
whose work is accredited by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and whose gradu-
ates may enter the university without
examination on, the presentation of Q
certificate. The new schools are: ST.
Agnes convent of Fond du Lac, Mil
waukee Country Day school and the
high schools Of Arkansaw, Denmark,
Gays Mills, Hilbert, Ithaca, Merrimac,
North Freedom and Oxford.
Woods along the bank Of the Rock
river in Rock county and about the
county are filed with seven-year
locusts. The trees are being de-
nuded Of leaves and the ends Of
branches are dropping off where they
have been cut by the insects. Thous
ands of the discarded shells of the In
sects are found about the ground on
the edge of the woods and fields adj
jacent. Other places in the county
also report the presence of the
locusts.
T111i0 tIo0
centenary mark, May q, 1922, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. NJ L..
Lowry, Milwaukee. With the excep-
ton of the last few years, Mrs. Peck
has led an active life. and she attrib-
uted her remarkable health to q tenn
perate living schedule. Early to bed
and early to rise" was a favorite rule
in her life, and she spent much of her
time out of doors. 1t had also been
Mrs. Peck's desire to live a century,
just as her mother before her had.
Her mother was born in 1900 and died
in 1900.
The railroad commission has or
dered that all gas and electric COM
panies of Wisconsin with annual
revenues amounting to more than
$4,000, establish a uniform classified
ton of accounts, worked out by &C
countants of the national association
of railroad and public utility commits
sioners. This order goes into effect
Jan. l. 1928. A supplementary order
affecting smaller companies will be
made soon, the commission an
nounced G.. G. Mathews, statistician
for the Wisconsin railway commits
sion, was member of the committee
which has been working on the new
classification for the last four years.
He is of the opinion that the changes
from the classification adopted in
1908 will have marked effect on the
basis for establishing rates by the
commission.
Six persons are known to have
persisted and several others fatally in
jured in a cyclonic wind and rain
storm which swept through four Wis
consin counties causing property
damage estimated at between 100000
and $1,000,OO0. Polk, Barron, Dunn
and ST. Croix were the four counties
affected The storm centered its in
tensity in an area leading from a
point where the boundaries Of these
four counties meet. The storm struck
first in Edin Prairie, and Emerald
townships just west of Glenwood City
which is in the western part of ST.
Croix county. In these two townships
a strip half mile wide and four miles
long was swept by the storm and tore
down barns and three farm houses
were knocked from their foundations,
with some loss of live stock. Reports
state that several residents were in
jured The storm had apparently
stuck to it's north and northeast
course spreading out north OF Glen
wood City into Dunn county and con-
tinuing on into Polk and Barron
counties between Clear Lake and
Prairie Farm.
One thousand poultry breeders at
Oshkosh. That ig the slogan which
has been adopted by the Wisconsin
State Poultry association in its plans
for the annual summer convention of
the Wisconsin Poultry Breeders as