Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged In Condensed Form

Large numbers of inquiries are be-
ing received from western states for
dairy cattle, particularly Holsteins
and Guernseys, according to E. L.
Liddle, Monroe county agricultural
agent.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
caused by fire of undetermined origin
which destroyed 10 buildings in the
business district Of Packwaukee, a
town of 500 population in Marquette
county, II miles north of Portage.
Fruit trees should not be sprayed
while in bloom, J. G. Moore, horticul-
turist of the College of Agriculture
warned Wisconsin fruit growers. He
said that injury not only to the fruit
yield but as well to the bees visiting
the trees might result.
Orley Wilbur, Monroe, committed to
the Green county jail for six months
by Judge George Grimm in circuit
court, on charge of bootlegging, has
been made a trusty and assigned to
duty as speed officer. In his first
days service he brought in four speed
ers.
The continuation schools of Wiscon-
sin will have an exhibit of their own
at the state fair during the latter part
of August, George P. Humbrecht, state
director of vocational education in
formed local directors He has asked
that each school prepare an exhibit
of its work for display at that time.
Building contracts awarded in Wis
consin during April amounted to 49,
10000, or "a per cent more than the
amount for April, 1921, according to
a construction report. Total building
contracts let in Wisconsin during the
first four months Of 1922 have amount
ed to 23,900,400, an increase of So per
cent over the first four months of 1921.
New Wisconsin road maps, designed
by the state highway commission,
were received in Madison for distri-
button. They will be placed on sale
all over the state. Several changes
in roads, and the present status of the
surfaces of the state and county trunk
highways are shown in detail by the
new maps. Hard surfaced roads are
shown on the map i'll red, and the dirt
roads in purple. The maps sell at
twenty cents each. The map also
shows all camping sites in the state
for motorists.
An insect survey of the wisconsin
cranberry boys is to be made by the
state department of agriculture in an
effort to curb pests nov affecting con-
dition of crop. Control of the fire
worm and the tipwolm is the aim of
the state It's action in ordering an
insect survey followed q meeting Of
the Cranberry Growers association
just held to consider means OF reduc-
ing heavy losses. They asked the de-
partment of agriculture to aid in the
work.
According to a careful check Of cat
tie Throughout the state, it has been
found that the average value Of dairy
COWS is higher in Barron county than
in any other of the 20 counties in
northern Wisconsin. The estimated
average value Of dairy COWS in Barron
county, Jan /, 1922, was $57. Rich
land, La Crosse and Waukesha county
cattle are valued from $50 to $72. The
cattle in Barron county totals value
of approximately $5,000,00O. Crops
are practically up to normal through
out the county, despite the backward
spring.
Ten automobiles ranging from a
$22,50O special model to the most in
expensive of cars, all the property of
Victor H. Arnold, president of the
Madison Bond Co., are being scrubbed
up preparatory for selling to increase
the assets of the bond company, ad-
judged bankrupt by the United States
district court Deeds to the Arnold
home at Madison have been turned
over to John S. Allen, receiver for the
company, and all property being pre-
pared for sale. Arnold gained name
as "Madisons Santa Claus last De-
cember when he gave $4,000 Christ
mas party for the city's poor.
Mrs Frieda Zimmerman, charged
with the murder Of her two stepchil-
dren, who were drowned in a cistern
on the Zimmerman farm near Ocono-
mowoc, was acquitted by jury in Cir
cult court after deliberation of seven
hours. Mrs. Zimmerman had been on
trial on a first degree murder charge
growing out Of the deaths of her STEP
children, Ruth, years old, and Elmer,
years old, who were drowned on
Dec. 16, 9121 Despite her protesta-
lions of innocence and her reiteration
of the story that the children had
fallen into the cistern in attempting to
release a duck, officials held Mrs.
Zimmerman for murder, basing their
charge upon alleged discrepancies in
her story of the events connected with
the tragedy and upon the fact that a
quarrel with her husband growing out
of charges that the children were not
being properly cared for, had preceded
their deaths by only four days.
For the first time since the rural
mail delivery was inaugurated from
the Green Bay postoffice twenty years
ago, not a horse is being used by car
riers covering their routes. Last year
automobiles had crowded out all but
one horse and this year motor vehicles
are in complete control.