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

An epidemic, known as hemorrhaglc
septicemia, according to DR.. ]. E.
McDermid, Ladysmith veterinary, has
broken out among dairy herds near
Tony, one farmer having lost three
head of cattle with the disease.
Daisy Aaggie Ormsby III, owned by
the famous Holstein breeder, John
Erickson, Waupaca, has just complet-
ed yearly record, which gives her
the worlds championship in the year
ling class.
Mrs. A. A. Young. 81, for more than
half a century a Monroe residents died
of paralysis. Her sons, William w.
Young, founder of The Daily Cardinal,
university student newspaper at Madi-
son, and now a prominent New York
journalist, and Art Young, famous car
toonist, attended the funeral.
Several hundred Wisconsin doctors
are technically violating the state pro-
hibition law because of their failure
to obtain permits to handle intoxi-
eating liquors. w. Stanley Smith,
prohibition commissioner, said that
the process of furnishing permits to
physicians was being held up in a
great number of cases pending rec
ommendation Of district attorneys,
and of the grant of permits by the
federal prohibition department.
A pageant giving the history of
Lawrence college written by Laura
Loomis Schultz will be one of the
events of the big celebration of the
18th anniversary of the college on
June 6. The entire commencement
program is being arranged for the dia.
mond jubilee of the college. Com
mencement exercises will take place
on June Z and the college examina-
lions will not take place this year IN
til after commencement week.
Income tax payers may deduct from
their gross income all necessary
travelling expenses including the en-.
tire amount expended for meals and
lodging while away from home in the
pursuit Of the trade, business or vo-
cation which produces the income re-
ported, the state tax commission held
in rules promulgated. This exemption
does not include street car fare and
other transportation expenses incur
red in going between the taxpayers
home and place of business or en-
ployment.
E. E. Witte, secretary of the indus
trial commission, has been offered the
dictatorship of the legislative refer
ence library, which has remained I'm"
filled since the death of DR.. Charles
Mccarthy, in March, 1921. The II
brary commission met for the first
time in several months, to take up
the question of a successor to DR..
Mccarthy. A number of applications
of candidates for the $4,000 position
were taken up. The board is said to
have decided that Mr.. Witte was best
qualified to carry on the work com
menced 20 years ago by DR.. Mccarthy.
The Klinkert Brewing Co., Racine,
and the Prairie du Chen Brewing Co.,
Prairie du Chen, were ordered by the
s.
federal government to cease opera
lions at once. Several other brew
cries, it is reported, may be placed
under the federal ban. The orders
were issued by Col. L. G. Mutt, Wash
ington, D. c., acting chief of prohi-
bition enforcement agents. The clos
ing edict was issued simultaneously
with another order denying the 1922
permits applications of the two COM
panies.
Six Eau Claire county Guernsey
clubs have been united in one organi-
cation comprising about SO breeders. 4
A. C. Russell of Augusta was chosen
president of the federation with Louis
Jessell of Elk Mound, vice president
and G.. r. Ingalls, of Eau Claire, sec
The board OF direc-
tors, made up of officers OF the va
rious locals clubs, in outlining a pro
gram for the year approved calf club
work and decided to have each one
Of the directors list cattle for sale
in his community.
DR.. Blanche w. AOrner, bureau ol
child welfare, state board of health,
will hold a series of child health con-
in the state during March, the
board has announced. Her schedule
is as follows: Mar. Z, Monroe; 13,
Milton: Ii, GAINESVILLE; Is, Sharon;
16, Elkhorn; 21, Jefferson; %, Kohler;
%, West Bend; "a, Hartford; %,
Alma; 29, Chippewa Falls; 80, Eau
Claire. These conferences are devoted
to the examination Of infants and
other children of pre-school age for
and physical defects.
Out of 800 COWS tested during Janu-
ary by the Rudolph Cow Testing asso-
citation, 29 COWS produced more than
40 pounds of butterfat. lola Johanna
owned by Charles Imig,
was high cow with a production of
2,263 pounds of milk or 72.4 pounds
of butter fat. Two herds averaged
over 40 pounds of butter fat. The
herd of Charles Imig, with IL cows,
averaged 1885 pounds Of milk or 437
pounds butterfat The herd of Viii
liam Piltz, with II cows, averaged
1 ,181 pounds of milk or 42.1 pounds
butterfat.
The Ladysmith pea canning plant,
owned by the Fame Canning Co., will
Ylrox1orn oTtc and