Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-05

A10AVu Ii ANOF0uAUS1s 4SA1s AdS SuSpChu-
ed publication. George w. Lippert,
who recently repudiated the socialist
party, was president of the company.
At a special meeting of the Wash
burn Credit and Commercial associa-
ton it was decided to inaugurate a
series of community sales days, the
first one to be held the latter part of
May.
Birchwood's large and modern $751;
600 Union free high school building
is practically completed and efforts
will be made to conduct the annual
high school commencement exercises
in the building.
A Chicago company has announced
that it will open a $4,000 soy bean
oil extracting plant at Stevens Point
if Portage county farmers will guar
antee to raise $4,000 bushels of the
beans annually.
Public employment offices are hav-
ing difficulty in filing the demand for
skilled workers in number of trades
and for common labor in some sec
tions of the state, the industrial COM
mission reports. Molders, machinists
and quarrymen are said to be gener-
ally in demand.
The organization of Wisconsin auto
mobile dealers into associations for
the purpose of fixing prices paid for
used cars through dissemination of
trade information was held to be in
restraint of trade and illegal under
the state antitrust law by Atty. Gen.
Morgan in an opinion to G. F. Cliff
ford, special investigator of his de-
partment.
TWenty-one accidents at public rail
road crossings during the last three
months were reported by the railroad
commission. Six deaths and "A in
juries resulted from the accidents. In
20 of the cases, automobiles were in
volved, with four persons killed and
10 injured. Steam railroads reported
a total of "a accidents other than at
crossings, which resulted in 10 deaths
and SO injuries. Seven killed were
trespassers.
In the 70 counties in which the
open season for beaver and otter pre-
vailed this year, 5,629 beaver and SO
otter were trapped, according to re
ports received by the conservation
commission The average value of
!, 1-,,o,. e,1~i,,r woe e1o 40 apd IF ottoy
$2413, so that beaver trappers are
believed to have made $94,97815 and
otter trappers $2.O65 during the sea-
son.
Prohibition enforcement ordinances
are being enacted by number of
cities of the state as the result of an
opinion of Atty. Gen. Morgan, given
some months ago, that municipalities
might lawfully enact penal dry laws
enforced by local officers, w. Stanley
Smith, prohibition commissioner, re
ports. BY passing local enforcement
laws, cities are able to receive the
fines imposed for their own use, while
all collections made under the state
law go to the state school fund.
The gross income of Wisconsin
farms fell to $259,0oO,oO0 this last
year, from the peak of S415,000,000 in
1919, the crop service reports. This
a decrease of ,s160,O00,0O0
in value in 1920, and is said TO be
lower than the pre-war value of 1914
although official figures are not avail
able for that time. The portion OF
the farm income attributable to live
stock has increased constantly since
1917 and in 1921 was the highest
ever, or 81.7 per cent of the total
Livestock values are reported to have
held up much better than crop values 4
The number of inmates of state an6
county charitable and penal institu
tions has risen to 1884, an Increase
of 639 during the last year, the state
board of control reported. Those OF
parole number 3,185, a reduction OF
AL from the number at this time lasi
year. A total Of 5,310 are in state
and penal institutions, with
2,171 on parole, where there are 1874
inmates Of county institutions, with
/ ,014 on parole. The number of in
sane has increased 149 during the last
year, to 8,476, while feeble minded
1889. There are now 1,247
in the penal institutions, an increase
from 1,020 a year ago.
The cement to be used in construct
ing the 400 miles of concrete high !
way planned in the state during the
present year will cost 100000 less
than the 1921 cost for an equal
amount, the highway commission
points out in its quarterly report. The
report says that estimated conserva-
lively the saving which resulted from
the buyers strike against cement com
panies to bring a reduction in prices
amounted to 100000. Approximately
| 100000 barrels of cement were con-
tracted for at $1.40 a. barrel. The
1 800 patrolmen who maintain Wiscon-
sins trunk highway system are prac-
tically all hired for the season at a
wage about 20 per. cent under 1921,
or about $40 a month, the commits
sion announces.
Great improvement in building &C
tivity throughout Wisconsin is noted
by the industrial commission, in the