Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-10

the city.
George Ostrom, senior deputy sheriff
of Douglas county, was appointed
sheriff by Gov. Blaine to succeed
! Arthur E. Buchanan. former sheriff,
who resigned to become chief of police
at Superior.
Miss Jessie Woelfing, q years old,
Monroe teacher, on her way home
from her school, slipped on the icy
bank of Jordan creek, fell into the
water, struggled for a quarter mile
in the current and drowned. Search
ers found her body frozen in mud
beneath bridge.
| Alfred Fleischfresser, after pleading
not guilty to the charge of selling
moonshine to Merrill high school boys
at IS cents drink, changed his mind
and pleaded guilty. He was fined $500.
He is the first defendent to plead
guilty and be fined under the newly
! enacted city dry law.
Consolidation of the largest paper
mills in the Fox River valley. the John
Hoberg company and the Green Bay
! Paper and Fiber company, was an
nounced at Green Bay when the bust
ness of the two companies was taken
over by a corporation to be known
as the Hoberg Paper and Fiber COM
pany. The consideration involved in
the transaction was about $3,000,000.
Persons found guilty of violating
the state prohibition law and sen.
fenced to Jail in addition to paying
fine may have an execution issued
against their property to collect the
fine on refusal to pay, j. E. Messer-
schmidt, assistant attorney general,
held in an opinion. He also interpret.
ed the law to permit sheriffs to farm
out prisoners sentenced to Jail for
violation of the prohibition statute.
A. j. Reiss, town Of Mitchell, She
boygan county, cheesemaker, was fined
S25 and costs in Justice Adam Tres
ter's court at Sheboygan, when he
pleaded guilty to charge of manufac-
turing cheese containing an excessive
amount of moisture Complaint was
made by L. R. Stewart, state dairy
and food Inspector. Reiss is the tenth
Sheboygan county cheesemaker that
has come into court for making adul-
terated cheese.
The Equity society has not aban-
doned its dairy marketing plan
through which it intends to organize
the entire industry into an Equity
Dairymen's league to handle co-opera-
lively all products of the industry.
E. G. Pommerening, president Of the
society, declared Announcement that
the proposed organization had been
modified and change made to an
other form of marketing federation.
was declared by Mr.. Pen merening to
be without foundation.
Town treasurers in Wisconsin are
commanded by the statutes to sell
personal property of persons to meet
their real estate taxes if ulpaid. e. E.
Brossard, assistant attorney general
in an opinion to C. ]. Strang, district
attorney of Burnett county, advised
him that failure to carry out this com
mand of the statutes would be
breach of official duty on the part of
the treasurers. Mr.. Brossard pointed
out that the Supreme court had up
held the statute, and that its com
mands must be carried out.
Drainage projects in the state, com
pleted and under construction during
the last year totaled $1.318,832, ac-
cording to report of E. r. Jones. /
Madison, state drainage engineer.
Acres to be drained with completion
of the work total Isl. 900. Eight ap-
plications for new drainage projects
were received during the last quarser
ending Dec. 81, with 81 for the pre-
ceding quarters. These eight
projects were estimated to cost $140.-
978, draining 1920 acres.
Grade crossing deaths during the
three months from October to Decem- 4
Der numbered Is in Wisconsin, the
state engineer reports. The period
developed So accidents in which Is
persons were killed and 20 injured
According to the report, 81 accidents
involved automobiles in which IA per-
sons were killed and Is injured. &C
cidents other than at grade crossings,
caused by railroads totaled 81, result
ing in IL fatalities and Is injuries
OF these casualties, the report said,
trespassers were killed in nine cases
and injured in four.
A total of 1880 accidents in Wis
consin were reported to the Industrial
commission during 1921, r. "A. Keown,
engineer for the commission, reported
in the quarterly report of the state
engineer. During October, November
and December there were 1852 acct
dents compared with 4,488 for the
same period in 1920. There was
reduction of is per cent in the mum
Der of accidents in 1921 under 1920
Deputies of the commission investi
gated 1906 of the accidents during
the year and reported violations of
safety orders as the cause of 26 per
cent
A Law Enforcement association, the
first of it's kind to be organized in
Oconto county, was formed at Oconto
Falls. with a large charter member
chin Tho nurnoSe of the association !