Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-22
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Bert e. Patterson, 62 years old, wei
| known Columbia county farmer, wa
| gored to death by a bun on his farm
near Lodi. The animal broke chains
which held it in the barn and attacked
Patterson as he was rounding up othe
cattle.
From reports made by sawmills il
Oshkosh, logging camps that suppl.
the Fox river valley mills will be more
active than usual this winter. Th'
superintendent report that there vii
be employment for large numbers o
men at good wages.
Another epidemic of hog cholera
with especially heavy losses on farms
near Milton, Avalon and Brodhead
Rock county, has made it necessary
for authorities to quarantine a number
of herds to prevent further spread o.
the disease.
Total expense of staging the state
convention of the American Legion al
Beloit was $4,000, according to reports
of the convention executive committee
Music cost $1,000; housing and feed
ing. $685.; decorations, $515; enter
tainment, 1859, and publicity, 1913.
Anton Flegel was severely burned
while repairing fuse supposed TO
have burned out during an electrical
storm at the Peninsula Public Service
company plant, Luxembourg, when the
current jumped across from the ter
minal of a line carrying about 5000
volts to a f1ashlight carried by FIegel'
More than $500 hunting licenses, the
largest number on record for MllWau-
kee county, have been issued by the
county clerk The duck season opened
Saturday, Sept. Is. Crowds of hunters
fill the clerks office daily and keep a
force of four men busy filling out the
applications. More than 400 have been
given tags for deer hunting.
Potato prices paid to Wisconsin
growers are already sliding, B. b.
Jones, Madison, of the state depart
ment of markets says after an inspec-
ton tour of the potato districts OF the
states. Farmers face a serious mar
keting problem as a result of the
bumper $4,000 00-bushel crop in his
opinion.
Marshall Lohst, well known hunter
and trapper, died at st. Vincent's hos
pital, Green Bay, from injuries re-
ceived in a fall from a straw stack
while assisting threshing in the town
of Luxembourg. Lohst was most pc
culiar character. He was unable to
read or write and did not know his
age, although it is believed he was
over 70 years old.
A memorial program outlining the
contribution of DR.. l.. D. Harvey, for
mer president of Stout institute. to
Wisconsin education is included in the
exercises of educational week at Madi
son, Sept. 26 to 20. Tribute is to be
paid to DR.. Harvey who died recently
after having attained a position of
eminence in the Wisconsin education
al system.
A new variety of sweet clover which
has yellow blossom has been import
ed from Canada by Fond du Lac farm
ers and is being experimental with
by several agriculturists of Fond du
Lac county The plant, known as Al
batrae sweet clover, is a biennial
which is said to be finer of stem than
ordinary white clover, easier to cure
and less likely to become woody and
coarse.
Parachute jumping to earn money
for his education has been the sum
mer work of Carroll Radebaugh,
Beloit college grid captain Rade-
baugh, whose home is at Walworth,
Wis, has been showing with Lieut..
John Skoning at Wisconsin fairs dur
ing the last month. The Beloit stu
dent walks the wings of flying plane,
hangs on a ladder swaying beneath
the cockpit, and ends it with para
chute jump.
Farmers who take skinned mill
back to their farms for feeding pur
poses before it is treated according to
established by the live.
stock sanitary board are violating the
state law, r. M. Hoyt, deputy attorney
general, has advised J. @. Emery, dairy
and food commissioner A Wisconsin
statute provides that no by-product of
any creamery or cheese factory may
be returned to farm or feeding sta
ton unless treated to prevent spread
of contagious disease.
Chester M. Jeff, Kenosha, a gradute
of the Kenosha high school, was mott
fed the past week that he had been
chosen as one of the four Pulitzer stu
dents at Columbia university for the
coming year The late Joseph Pulit-
ger, founder of the school of journal
ism at Columbia, left an endowment
to be used to pay tuition and $3.50
yearly to students considered worthy
of such recognition. Each year four
from the entire country are chosen.
Zeff's record as editor of The Spy, his
high school paper, won him the honor.
With the nomination of John J.
Fisher, Bayfield,, to succeed Charles F.
Morris, Washburn, as district attorney.
the question has been raised as to