Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-15
WTSCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Der OF the CITY council Tor thirty years,
died of paralysis. He resided at Mari
nette more than sixty years.
Oshkosh has increased the number
of motor cops to three. Since the
death by accident of Officer O'Connor,
there has been only one motor cop.
The new men appointed are equipped
with new motorcycles that can go
ninety-one miles an hour.
Outside of lack of hard coal Wiscon-
sin will not suffer from coal famine
this winter in the opinion OF P. H.
Pressentin, secretary of the state fuel
committee. Mr.. Pressentin stated that
the people must be content, however,
to go on a rational system.
Petition for improved service on the
North Western road operating be-
tween Manitowoc and Green Bay was
made to the Wisconsin railroad COM
mission by the Rotary club of Mani
towoc. The present train service was
said to be inadequate and irregular.
Havock raised by the sleet storms
last spring was the cause for request
from the New Lisbon Telephone com,
pany for an increase in telephone
rates of 10 per cent. A petition to
raise gas rates at Marshfield was also
filed. The proposal calls for mini
mum rate of $1.00, instead of rs cents,
per 1000 feet.
An epidemic of hog cholera has
broken out in the eastern part of
Grant county and many herds of
choice purebred animals are threat
ened with extinction. In the vicinity
of Big Patch, a small hamlet six miles
south of Platteville, several herds have
become infected and, according TO
veterinarians, many valuable hogs are
dying of the disease.
The old National brewery building
at Stevens Point has been renovated
into a home for new industries. Two
local business men purchased the
building and repaired it in an effort to
help solve this city's industrial prob
lem. According to the Stevens Point
chamber of commerce statistics, many
new industries have been kept away
because there has been no place to
house them.
Clarence McLaughlin and James
Dean, Chicago flyers, were injured at
the Fond du Lac fair when the motor
in their plane stopped and they fell
$50 feet Mclaughlin was the most
seriously injured. It is expected both
will recover. The plane was righted
about Is feet above the ground and
the fall was broken. 1t was damaged
to the extent of $1,000.
Plans are being completed for cree
ton of new $4,000 creamery by the
farmers near Shell Lake. At the
present time the creamery at Shell
Lake is owned and operated by the
farmers, but is to small to handle
properly the cream being brought in
by the farmers. The new creamery
as planned will be one of the largest
and best equipped in northern Wiscon-
sin.
The school census for the city of
Washburn for the year ending July
shows that there is in the city a total
number of 1929 children of school age,
of which 612 are boys and GIT girls.
The census for last year showed a
total of 1850, slightly more than this
year. The enrolment in the public
schools is about 1000. The parochial
school, which was discontinued about
three years ago, will not reopen this
year, the children being taken care of
in the public schools.
A license to sell lots in cemetery
is required of Wisconsin real estate
brokers, the attorney generals depart
ment ruled. 'It is nay opinion that the
ownership OF a cemetery lot clearly
carries with it an interest in real es-
tate," R. M. Hoyt, deputy attorney
general, said in his opinion. The state
law requires svery dealer in real
estate to have a license before doing
business. Mr.. Hoyt gave it as his
opinion that the sale of a cemetery
lot was the sale of real estate and that
a dealer therefore cannot conduct a
sale without a license from the state
board.
An effort is being made to induce
farmers to engage in cooperative
marketing of produce rather than to
continue sales through commission
merchants. Meetings have been held
in many different counties in northern
Wisconsin to get the farmers in
terested in the new plan. AS ex-
planned by the persons advocating the
change, the cooperative marketing
system would be handled by many
farmers. by selling all produce at the
same time in carload lots. The object
of the change is to eliminate the profit
made by the commission merchants
and thus give the farmer. a greater
margin for his work and investment.
Arthur, 4 year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harlow Sherman of Marshfield.
nearly choked to death when
marble became lodged in his throat.
He was taken to the Marshfield clinic
and while being carried down the cor
ridor to one of the doctors rooms
coughed up the marble.
Ridgeland Creamery Co., Ridgeland,
near Brentwood, received more than
$4,000 pounds of butter fat for the
month of July from 232 patrons. The