Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-08-08
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Arranged in Condensed Form
pleasure cars in Wisconsin has passed
the 100000 mark for the first time,
the secretary of states office reports.
With four months of registration re-
naming 100000 passenger automo.
biles have already obtained licenses.
1922, or an increase of nearly Is per
cent The secretary of state esti-
mates that at least 10000 more pleas
ure cars will be registered before Nov.
1. In addition there are 10000 trucks
licensed in the state This will bring
the total of machines to over 100000.
Before the end of another year there
is likely to be one car for every five
persons, according to estimates of the
secretary of state. Now there is an
automobile for one person in six.
Sparta-The berry season around
Sparta is about over and has been a
disappointment to the farmers. Every
kind of berry fruit fell far below the
normal. 1--WE had a poor strawberry
season." said Frank Kern of the
Sparta Produce exchange which mar
kets most of the Monroe county berry
crops for the growers. "The straw
berry crop, of course, is over. / think
we only shipped 20 cars and 1000
crates by express this year. Blueber-
ries were complete failure and we
didn't ship a hundred crates. Rasp-
berries also were poor and blackber-
ries are hardly to be mentioned. We
are sending out five or six crates of
blackberries a day, while usually we
ship Is or more"
Madison-Wisconsin nine Normal
schools open for the fall term Sept.
10. They will offer teacher training
courses alone, with college courses,
formerly part of the curriculum, abol-
ished William Kittle, secretary of
the board of Normal regents, an
nounces that the determination of the
Normal board to do away with col
lege courses at Normal schools, went
into effect July l, and will be carried
over to the next school year. An at
tempt made in the legislature to re-
quire the Normal schools to offer
college training, failed in the senate.
From now on the nine teacher train
ing institutions will devote their full
time to the development of teachers
for Wisconsin schools.
Madison-The Wisconsin full train
crew law, enacted by the 1928 legisla-
ture, is constitutional in the opinion
Of the attorney general, who held in
an opinion that the state can regulate
crews on interstate trains The law
requires that trains operating outside
of yard limits must have one engineer,
one fireman, one conductor, one brake
man, and on trains of more than three
cars, two brakemen.
Madison-Automob are touring
the United States into neighborhood
community, in the opinion of Frank
Cannon, executive secretary of the
Good Roads Association of Wisconsin
He bases his opinion on q count of
cars about the capitol square in Madi-
son, one day last week. Thirty-four
of the nations forty-eight states were
represented in addition to the District
of Columbia, one Canadian province
and Toxic, Japan.
Superior - Lady Astor," a cat
owned by Joe Polin, Superior dray-
man, has given birth to a litter of
kittens, all of which were Joined to-
gether at birth. There were seven
kittens in the litter. Two of them
had broken the growth which bound
them to their fellows. Both appeared
healthy, as did the FIVE still joined
one to another.
Rhinelander-Offic state inspec-
ton of Oneida county potato fields
has been completed. Fifty-six grow
ers applied for inspection and certif-
ication of their crops. The total
acreage Of the seasons inspection
was 1925. 1t is expected that this
acreage will produce at least 10000
bushels.
Oshkosh-The Wisconsin Bakers
association will hold it's annual con-
vention at Oshkosh on the dates of
Sept. to and it is expected between
160 and 200 bakers and their wives
will be in attendance.
Menasha = Fred Sternhagen of
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