Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-17
John Pecore. living in Dallas neal

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1920. He came to Wisconsin in 1871
A movement has been started
throughout Oconto county for coun
| ty wide tuberculin test of the cattle
County Agent John Sheldon is report
ing favorable from nearly every part
of the county.
The Northern Wisconsin Co-opera
ton Tobacco Pool started organiza
ton work in Barron county with meet.
ings at Barron Prairie farm and Sand
Greek. The pool claims to have 5000
people at work in the sixteen districts.
William Bunger, 70, resident south
of TomahaWk, was instantly killed at
his farm when a stick of explosive
which he was using to blow out
stumps exploded while he was return
ing to light a supposedly sluggish
fuse.
Miss Margaret Riley has been ap.
pointed city clerk of Ladysmith in
place Of C. @. Kile, resigned. Miss
Riley will be the first woman to serve
as clerk of this city. Ladysmith now
has two women holding important
offices. Mrs. Royal Rick. city treas
urer, is the other.
All funds of the state aggregate ST..
738,578 more than there was in the
state treasury year ago, Solomon
Levitan, state treasurer, has an.
nounced. On May 1, 1922, there was
$11, 019, 360.17 in all funds of the state
as compared with $12,757,938.84 on
May /, 1923. There is nearly a half
million dollars more in the general
fund.
Washburn county has one of the
largest poultry farms in northern Wis
consin owned by G. J. Sauer of Shell
Lake and nationally known as the
Shell Lake Poultry farm. It takes
from 1,5OO to 1900 eggs month to
keep the hatchery busy. The hatchery
ships from 1900 to 1900 Matching eggs
per week during the Matching season.
Mr.. Sauer has shipped baby chicks as
far as Calgary, Canada, Houston, Tex,
and into New York state.
Fifty-two years in the harness and
still going strong, is the record set by
Frank B. Seymour, Green Bay, gen.
eral manager of the Green Bay and
Western road. Mr.. Seymour, who is
probably the oldest railroad executive
in point of service in the middle west.
began his career as a water boy, work
ing his way up, until now he is the
virtual head of the Green Bay and
Western railroad. He entered the
employ of the local road May Z, 1871.
and witnessed the completion of the
first stretch Of track.
The 18-month-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Gade, living south of
Reedsburg, lis dead as the result of
burns suffered in some mysterious
way. The mother had left the child
sitting in her high chair, playing with
her doll, while she went to perform
some of the morning chores about the
farm. Returning shortly afterward,
she found the little girl with her arms
thrown over her head, burned almost
to crisp. The doll was almost total
ly consumed The grief-stricken par
ents are at a loss to account for the
origin Of the fire.
Standard grades for Wisconsin eggs
were adopted by the state department
of markets, effective June Is. wis
consin eggs grade extras,1a and wis
consin eggs current receipts" are the
two classifcations provided Every
case or dozen cartons of extras" and
every case of current receipts" are
required to be labeled as SUCH Mar.
keting and labelling according to
grade, however, are not made compul
sorry. Sellers may sell and ship I'M
graded and unlabeled eggs, but, If the
eggs are graded and labeled. they
must conform to the requirements OF
the statute or criminal penalty ensues,
the department says
About 900 cities have acknowledged
that they are Teceiving the daily mar
ket reports which are being broad.
casted by radio at Waupaca jointly
by the federal and state station. The
station has been in operation four
months and is in charge of M. M. Lit
Teton who represents the state gov
eminent. The federal authorities have
a leased telegraph wire over which
are received all the market reports in
which the farmer may be interested,
including poultry, livestock, butter and
eggs. grains and others. c. A. Rye is
in charge of the wire. Some 1,20O
market bulletins are also distributed
daily by mail. The station is keyed
WPAH in the radio register.
Considerable data on the history Of
% wisconsin towns, with special ref
erences to the agricultural progress,
is contained in a new volume in the
wisconsin Domesday Book series. pub
lished by the Wisconsin Historical so
ciety. which is about to go to press.
The towns are in the following coun-
ties: Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesfla,
Welworth. Rock, Green, Dane, Iowa,
Grant. Crawford, Columbia, Richland,
Monroe, La Crosse, Fond du Lac,
Manitowoc and Door. The new vol
ume. which will be called Town
Studies. will also contain chapters on
manufactures, villages, post offices,
schools, churches and population
changes.
Charles Swan, aged IA, Wausau, is
dead as the result Of being struck in
the face by a pitched ball in a game
in a city park. He was acting as