Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-05

no adequate water supply.
Miss Dagmar Rasmussen of Oconto
has the twig of an apple tree in a
vase at her home that is in full
bloom. Miss Rasmussen broke of
this twig from a tree in her yard on
last Christmas eve and placed it IN
vase filed with water.
Some of the logging camps near
Ladysmith have already closed Tor
the season and others will close
shortly after April 1. The season has
been unusually favorable for logging
and records have been broken at
some of the camps.
Three big logs, sealing 1,450 pounds,
out of a single soft elm tree, is the
experience of Art Heller, town OF
Schley Lincoln county, who delivered
these logs, all measuring twelve feet
in length, to the Strange Lumber COM
pany's plant in Merrill
The big barn at Ed Wander Vloet
farm, two miles northwest of Har-
rison, Lincoln county, together with
seventeen head Of cattle, number
of calves and two head of horses
trapped within the structure were de-
strUyed by fire together with four
sets of harnesses. seven tons Of hay
and large number of tools.
The Oconto county chapter of the
Red Cross has decided to put on
life saving campaign for the coming
summer in several parts of the coun-
ty. An expert swimmer and instruc-
tor will be sent out from the central
division for several weeks, who will
hold classes. and demonstrations in
the rescue of drowning persons and
the methods used in resuscitation.
The annual spring consignment sale
of pure bred Holstein Friesian cattle
will take place at Monroe in the new
stock pavilion May q. Last years
offering included one hundred and
ten choice animals but sale of such
magnitude is hard on buyers and sell
ers alike for one day affair and it
is probable two days will be set this
year.
Henry Boyd, rural mail carrier at
Glen Flora, while passing through a
heavily wooded swamp, was stopped
by two large timber wolves that came
out of the woods and stood directly
in the ros,d in front Of his horses.
The wolves showed fight and Boyd,
who lad no gun with him, had great
difficulty in keeping them from at
lacking himself and the horses. He
cracked his whip and shouted at them
to scare them away.
Engineer Arthur Rolleston, 81, of
I Milwaukee road passenger train No.
SIG, that crashed through a burned
out bridge south of Poynette, died OF
internal injuries in the Poynette hos
pital Edward Daley, fireman of the
srain, was instantly killed in the
wreck The bodies of two trainmen
were brought to Portage for burial.
julius Holstein, the baggageman, and
John Peterson, express messenger,
suffered severe bruises and cuts in
the crash. Their homes are also in
Portage.
The state conservation commission
at Madison announces that thus far
the legislature has made no change
in the law relating to fishing or hunt
ing, which remains the same as dur
ing the past two years. There is no
closed season for hook and line fish
ing for pike and pickerel in the Rock
and Crawfish rivers and Lake Kosh-
konong, in Rock Jefferson and Dodge
counties. In these waters in Jeffer-
I son county neither live nor dead min
nows may be used for bait from
March 1 to May 81, but in Rock and
Dodge counties there is no restriction
as to what kind of bait may be used.
There is today one motor vehicle
| for every six people in Wisconsin.
This is based on the fact that in the
year 1922, there were registered 361,-
062 passenger cars. 26,788 trucks,
5,917 motorcycles and 2,135 dealers
licenses, a total of 4GO,172. Most
/ dealers have more than one auto
mobile under one license number
The population of the state by the
last census was 100000 people
Seventeen years ago, in 1905, 1892
motor vehicles were registered; in
1912, 27,734; in 1915, 84,536. In 1905
there was one car to every 1000 as
compared to one to every six people
today.
Reports directly from employers
show that there was a general in
crease in employment in February as
compared with January, in spite Of
decreases Ill all lines of construction
the industrial commissions says. The
number employed in factories in
creased 2.8 per cent in the last month
and is now 20 per cent greater than
a year ago. Logging and mining both
! showed considerable gain in the num-
| Der employed. Both wholesale and
retail trade, however, showed de-
| creases. Practically all lines of
manufacturing except leather and
meat packing, showed Improvement
both in number Of employees and earn
ings.
AS dairy and stock center of
Dodge and Jefferson counties, Water
/ town is preparing a dairy cattle ex-
! hihit for thp irtor-no1nty fair this fall