Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-17

order cut the charges from $1.85 for
the top step to $175 and other steps
by the same amount.
Over $50 skilled mechanics, black
smiths and tin workers returned to
work in the Great Northern shops at
Superior after being idle since Jan. 81.
The shops will be kept at the present
workmanship strength throughout
the summer months.
Wild rabbits have invaded smaller
places in northern wisconsin because
of deep snow which prevents them
from getting food They have attack
ed fruit trees and fruit-bearing bushes
and have stripped the bark from the
trunks. Many trees will be killed be-
cause of the rabbits work.
w. w. Lake, Amigo, Civil war veter-
an observed his 96th birthday March
8. Although physically feeble he re-
tains his faculties. Friends and neigh
bors called to congratulate him and
he was serenaded by the choir of the
congregational church. Mr.. Lakes
wife died 13 years ago.
Demands for the same wage scale,
70 cents an hour, for 1922 that was
in force in 1921 has been made by the
carpenters union of Eau Claire on
pewa Falls the carpenters have an
nounced a voluntary cut in wages of
10 cents an hour from Is cents to So
cents.
DR.. Gerhard A. Bading, former may
or. and former health commissioner
of Milwaukee, who was named as
minister to Ecuador by President Har-
ding was confirmed by the senate.
DR.. Bading is. the first Wisconsin man
to be awarded a diplomatic position
under the Harding administration.
He expects to leave within a short
time to take up his duties at the CAPT
tai of the South American country.
The board of directors of the Amer
lean Forestry association has announc-
ed the appointment of Ovid M. Butler,
assistant director of the forest pro
ducts laboratory, Madison, as technf-
cal forester Mr.. Butler was grad
uated from Butler college, Indian
apolis, in 1902 In 1905 he entered the
Yale Forest school and was graduated
in 1907 with the degree of master of
forestry.
The Consumers Store Co., with
stores at Rice Lake, Haugen and Bar
ron which executed a trust deed to
the Northwestern Jobbers' Credit
bureau in December when in financial
straights, has gone into bankruptcy
following inability to pay taxes of $20,-
900 on its properties. There were
more than 600 stockholders in the
company, mostly farmers, and they
had invested about $350,000 cash in
the business.
The state conservation commission
is preparing to make its greatest catch
of fish eggs for, Matching this spring,
Brayton O. Webster, commissioners in
charge of fisheries said. He expects
that between 2O0,0OO000 and 3O0,000,-
900 pike eggs will be gathered before
the season is completed. Out Of this
number, millions of pike will be grown
and distributed in the streams of the
state Effort is also to be made to
obtain as large quantity of muskel
lunge eggs as possible.
The biggest batch of mail ever. re-
ceived at the Washburn post office a,
one time arrived there a week after
the recent big storm when the rail
roads were opened up to Washburn
There were 1T sacks weighing in all
about 10,700 pounds, and it was three
days before Postmaster John O'Sulli
van and crew got out from under the
load In the lot there were SO sacks
of first class mail weighing about 1000
pounds; 108 sacks Of second, third
and fourth class mail, weighing about
1900 pounds, and 10 sacks of cata-
logues weighing about LAO pounds.
If anyone in wisconsin would like
an island for a summer home the
state conservation commission an
it has 500 of theDa to let in
the northern lakes of the state. Al
ready 100 of the 900 wooded islands
granted to the state in 1912 have been
leased by the commission to individ-
uals for five year periods. The cost
to the lessee is nominal and conditions
of the lease merely prohibits the cut
ting of green timber, sale of intox
icating liquor and agreement that
every precaution will be taken to
avoid fire.
Chronic insane cost the state and
$1,O06,004 to maintain during
the last Year the state board of con-
troll reported. This is the first time
in the history of the institution that
expenditures have gone over the ST.
600 900 mark. The large increase in
is given as the cause for
the rise in cost from S995,544 expend-
ed in 1920. While the expenditure for
individual inmates has been kept at
low figure, the number has risen until
at the present time 1888 insane are
in state and county institutions. Of
this number 1,424 are in state con
Quoted asylums, $50 in the Milwaukee
Hospital for the Insane and $685. in
aSyIumS.