The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-11-03
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Neenah-After forced vacation of
I more than three months, navigation
on the Fox river, prevented by wash
outs of the locks and dam at Little
! Rapids, has been resumed. Repairs
at Little Rapids were completed last
week. Scores Of boats, barges and
4 tugs have passed down the river from
Green Bay. Most Of the boats were
i loaded with coal for cities of the river
valley. So heavy was the traffic that
i government locktenders along the
/ river were given additional help to
/ facilitate movement through the var
| ious locks. 1t is expected navigation
on the river win be continued until
the river freezes.
! Tomah-Almost $50 tobacco ware
houses for the storage of the Northern
! Wisconsin Tobacco Cooperative Pool
have now been rented or purchased
for this seasons crop, according to
! G. N. Pulley, of the state department
of markets. Mr. Pulley said that 1t
would be necessary to build ware
| houses in only few locations. The
/ directors of the pool are now cOnsid-
ering the building of warehouses at
Madison, Westby, independence, De-
Soto and Chaseburg.
Madison-That state aid for the
eighty-four authorized county fairs
, this year has cost the state $3.50, 320.14
was the statement issued by Secretary
of State Elmer S. Hall Besides this
expense it now appears that the state
fair at Milwaukee has deficit of over
! 100000 which will mean that the
state spent $2500O0 for fairs this year
and over $1,0O0,000 during the past
three years. Only seven of the eighty
four fairs received the maximum state
aid of $4,000.
Madison-Six years of protection
have brought prairie chicken and part
ridge back to Wisconsin in large num-
bers. conservation wardens reported
to w. e. Barber, state conservation
commissioner Replies to question:
aire sent out by Mr.. Barber show that
these game birds are again plentiful
in the state, and that the short open
season this year did not result in In
roads being made into their number.
Manitowoc-Death Turn, the scene
of many automobile accidents, on high
way sc. two miles west of Manitowoc,
will soon be eliminated. The state
highway commission has approved the
re-routing Highways Sc and II will
be connected with a straight road to
eliminate three curves. The turn is
known to motorists from all parts of
the country.
Brentwood William w. Gray Birch
wood, pioneer northern Wisconsin resi-
dent. is dead following an illness Of
three years. He served with Co. /,
Fifty-fifth Illinois infantry. during the
Civil war, and was wounded at the
battle of Shiloh. He was widely
known throughout northern Wiscon-
sin.
Madison-The Duluth Street Rail-
way company operating at Superior
applied to the railroad commission for
an increase in passenger rates. Pres
ent charges of cents and six tickets
for 35 cents are said to be inadequate,
unreasonable and insufficient to Oper-
ate the system at cost, without profit.
Marinette - After remaining out
more than 80 hours, jury in Judge
Quinlan's circuit court, Marinette, de-
cided that widow cannot collect
damages for the death of her husband,
If he was killed in an unavoidable
automobile accident while riding with
a friend.
Chippewa Falls-Hearing on the
S5OO,O00 claim of the Wisconsin Metho-
dist association against the estate of
the late Justice r. D. Marshall OF
Chippewa Falls and Madison will be
held Nov. in circuit court before
Judge James Wickham, Eau Claire.
Sturgeon Bay-Fisherme operat.
ing along the Door peninsula are now
busily engaged in obtaining trout
spawn under strict state supervision.
The spawn are being shipped to Stur.
geon Bay and placed in the state
hatchery.
Rice Lake-Western feed manufac
turers, in Chicago, capitalized at $500,
0G0 have selected Rice Lake as their
distributing center for Minnesota
Wisconsin and the Dakotas. They
plan extensive operations at Rice
Lake.
Amherst-The first fatal hunting &C
cident of the season in Portage county
occurred when Louis Oberst, II years