Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-31
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

! Gil passed a resolution submitting the
! question of the purchase of the plants
of the Superior Water, Light anG
Power Co. to the voters at the election
Apr. 4, at a price estimated at So,
125.GOO.
/ Bills aggregating more than $4,000
against Superior from men employed
as snow shovelers since the blizzard
of Feb. %, were passed by the city
council. The payment of the sum viii
exhaust completely the city street
fund.
Several Wisconsin communities are
planning marketing organizations fol
the disposal Of their apples this com
ing season, the College of Agriculture
reports. Already orchardists in Jeffer
son county are laying plans to enlarge
upon the apple grading and selling or
ganization which the inaugurated. last
year.
Albert Sch1atter, village treasurer
sadly announced that while the resi-
dents of New Glarus had their usual
perfect record for payment of taxes
on real estate and personal property
three persons had moved away with
out paying their income tax. The
amount owed by each was small, but
this village takes pride in the fact that
it does not have delinquent taxpayers.
The st. Croix Falls High school
livestock judging team won the state
championship, in competition with
seventeen other high school teams, at
the annual contest at Madison. This
is the second consecutive year that
st. Croix Falls has been declared
champion and, as a result, the school
gets permanent possession of the tro-
ply presented by the Wisconsin Live
stock Breeders association.
Half dead from starvation and with
both feet frozen, Martin Webbing, 80
years old, who told police his home
is in the northern part of the state,
was found by coal company employees
when they went to open a box car in
fuel yard at Neenah. Webbing
crawled into the car seeking shelter.
He was without funds He fell asleep
and when he woke up hours later tried
to move but found both his feet were
frozen.
4 Rent gouging has to stop in Keno
sha, according to the action taken by
the factory superintendent of the city
They appointed a committee to in
vestigate high rental values and to
outline a war against rent hogs" 1t
is maintained that the coming of May
/, annual moving day, has been antici-
pated by a general movement to boost
rent. The factories assert they are
paying men as high wages as possible
under present conditions and that
these will not admit of an increase
in rents. They maintain the greed of
the landlords is standing as a barrier
to the industrial growth of the city
Standards of termination Of vege-
table seeds for 1922 were established
by the state department. of agriculture
Madison, under authority vested in it
by the legislature. Under the law the
seeds in any package that terminate
more than 5 per cent below the stan
dard fixed for that particular seed
must be labeled with the actual germ
ination test Of the seed contained
The department of agriculture said
that the success or failure of gardens
depends upon the quality of the seed, ;"
making the quality Of the seeds a mat
ter Of physical as well as economic
Importance to the purchaser.
After a trial lasting a week the
$4,000 tobacco contract case of John
and Ralph Sou1man against Samuel
Grundy GAINESVILLE, was settled out of
court two days before it was expected
to be given to a jury in the Rock
county circuit court Underline stip-
ulation, Grundy pays the Soulman firm
$4,000 in case the bulk tobacco and
samples are returned to Grundy, and
the expenses of the trial are assumed
jointly by the contestants. No provi-
sion is made for the return to the
plaintiff of $4,000 paid on the tobacco
contract previous to the instigating of
the suit. InEthe settlement the amount
lost by the plaintiffs is approximately
$4,000 The case attracted wide
spread interest among farmers.
About 100000 acres of potatoes will
be planted this spring by Wisconsin
farmers, according to the estimate of
j. G.. Milward, potato specialist at the
College of Agriculture. More than
enough potatoes are raised in Wiscon-
sin each year to satisfy the consum-
ing public of the state, he says, with
100000 bushels, permitting more
than two bushels to each person in the
state. The high production record for
the state is 36,000,000 bushels, or more
than six times enough potatoes for
Wisconsin consumers for year. A
total Of 100000 bushels of tubers
were shipped out Of the state last year,
according to Mr.. MilWard Already
more than 100000 bushels have left
the boundaries of Wisconsin this year
The case of John G. Acker, former
Sturgeon Bay civ clerk, who received
Is months sentence to states prison
for embezzling city funds amounting
to $1,000, has been reopened. Promi-
nent citizens have asked Judge Graas
for his parole. The matter is now I'M
der consideration, and the sentence is
In allegiance. The judge is consulting
with the state board of control.