Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-05-23
WISCONSIN NEWS

4 WIOUUNOlN N[WO |
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.
Observation-Disclosures measles, scarlet
fever and whooping cough, which were
unusually prevalent, accounted for
much of the increase in the states
death rate in the first quarter of 1928
over the corresponding period of 1922
Figures compiled by the state board
of health indicate a death rate OF 49,
per thousand population, based on
1924 deaths, which total was 1,496
larger than for the same period year
ago. The rate is considerably higher
than the average for the ten-year
period Nearly all of the communi-
cable diseases were responsible NOR
tally increases. This was especially
apparent with pneumonia and inf1u-
enza. The measles epidemic which
has been sweeping the state caused a
| large increase in deaths For the
quarter of 1922 only nine measles
deaths were recorded, for the 1928
period eighty-seven were due to
measles.
Madison-Timber is being cut in
Wisconsin at a rate that if maintained
will denude the state of its forests
within twenty years, c. L. Harrington,
superintendent of state forests and
parks, told the United States senate
committee. on forest policy meeting
at Madison. The state forester told
the committee that approximately A.
| 600, 100000 feet Of merchantable tim
Der remains in twenty-five northern
| Wisconsin counties. This timber, he
said, is being cut at the rate of nearly
! 1000 600 900 feet each year. He
| showed that the state which formerly
was the first state in lumber produc-
ton, now is and will continue to be
an importer of these products, despite
/ its fairly large annual cut
| Neenah-Calling road houses in
| Winnebago county hell holes" Dist
Atty. D. K Allen has told the board
of supervisors he intends taking imme-
diate steps to close these places. They
are not only dangerous to the morals
of the young people, but expensive as
well to Winnebago county, Mr.. Allen
said. He urged that township officers
should not be allowed to license such
places when the county officers were
trying to do away with them He said
| he hopes that when the bill before
the legislature giving control of these
places to the county boards becomes
law, Winnebago county will lose no
time in making use of it's rights.
Madison-The statute limiting loads
of motor trucks, trailers and wagons
to $4,000 pounds does not prevent a
| trailer from carrying $4,000 pounds
and the hauling truck from carrying
an additional $4,000 pounds providing,
in each case, the weight is distributed
as the law provides, F. E. Bump, as
sistant attorney general, has advised
the highway commission. He held
this statute was designed to protect
! Wisconsin roads.
Superior-A1l records for ore ship
ment down the Great Lakes will be
shattered this year by the Great
Northern ore docks of Superior it was
| determined with the announcement
that 100000 tons have been con-
tracted for shipment At present the
Great Northern is running Is trains
between mines and docks. This num-
Der will be doubled within a few days.
La Crosse-Painter and paperhang-
ers of La Crosse have been granted
an increase in wages from 80 to go
cents an hour, obtaining the same
raise and scale granted the carpenters
on the first of tn emonth. All disputes
| between master builders and union
workers have been settled. Plasterers
were granted an increase from 81 to
$1.12h an hour.
Lancaster-The Mount Hope-Lan-
caster Cow Testing association main
tanned its usual high production
through the month of April with four
hundred and twenty-six dairy cows
under test, one hundred and two of
which qualified as standard dairy
cows, making better than forty pounds
of butterfat for the month. This is a
record of 1871 per cent of the total
production, regarded by most expert
dairymen as very creditable stand.
ing.
Superior-Jacob Vasuil, 90, alleged
hammer slayer of Nicholas Triff, AZ,
Superior Austrian laborer, on Dec. %,