Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-02


as high as 40 cents a dozen.
For the second consecutive year, the
herd of cattle belonging to Adam
Glessing, Barron county farmer. has
been ordered slaughtered on account
of tuberculosis. The state inspector
found that the herd was infected.
The blueberry crop in the southern
part of Wood county this year is al
most an entire failure, according to
latest reports received at Babcock.
Frost and fires are the chief reasons
for the failure.
An $4,000 pipe organ with COM
plete set of chimes has just been in
stalled in the new $4,000 st. Johns
Evangelical edif1ce which will be dedi.
Gated at Monroe soon. The instru.
ment is considered to be the largest
and finest in southern Wisconsin.
Ten active cow testing associations
will be in force in Monroe county by
fall, according to County Agricultural
Agent E. L. Liddle. He has been
spending considerable time re-arrang-
ing the present associations in the de-
sired territory so that two more can
be added to the present list OF eight.
Twelve years at hard labor at the
state prison at Waupun was the SEN
tence imposed in Kenosha by Judge
J. C. Slater in the municipal court on
Edward Besner, alias Henry Rich,
aged 80, the ex-convict who attempted
to kill Detective Charles Rock when
the latter went to arrest him.
The First National Bank of Mena
sha has started suit against the city
Of Menasha to recover $4,607.9S, taxes
paid for the year 1921 under protest
The complaint alleges that the tax
against the bank was larger IN pro-
portion than that assessed against in
dependent financial interests which
might come in competition with it.
The largest and most perfect pearl
ever found in southern Wisconsin or
northern Illinois was reported by Will
liam Cashier, Rockton, Ill, clammer
The gem weighed rs grains It is
pure white and a perfect sphere, and
will sell for more than $1,000, experts
declare. 1t was found in clam taken
from the Pecatonica river, six miles
from Beloit.
Mary Lawando, % years old.
charged with assault with intent to kill
in connection with an attack on her
stepmother, Mrs. Anna Lawando,
Wausau, on the night of July 10, is at
liberty on $1,000 bail. Mary's arrest
followed a search of eight days
through a large swamp six miles south
of Wausau, where she fed, following
the attack on Mrs. Lawando, to which
she confessed.
The Industrial commission has com
pleted a tabulation of reports of rep
resentative employers which shows
that employment, in general, is still
on the increase. The outside indus
tries show the largest gains. Thus.
building construction shows an in
crease of 7.8 per cent; highway con
struction, an increase of SAG per cent,
and railroad construction, 14.2 per
cent increase in the number of EN-
ployes.
A complete water and sewage sys-
TEN will be built at a cost Of $4,000
by the Village Of New Holstein next
spring, as the result of a vote taken
in the village July 10. Construction
work will be started as quickly as bids
can be obtained The proposal for the
establishment Of the municipal serv.
ices was carried by four to one
vote, after the matter had been bal
lotted on, in several previous cleo
items.
An order effecting a considerable
reduction in freight rates on common
brick, sand lime brick and concrete
products has been issued by the state
railroad commission. The order
makes two distinct schedules of rates,
one for common brick, sand lime
brick and concrete products, and the
other, considerably higher, for face,
fire and paving brick and other clay
PRODUCTS. Practically all brick and
concrete products moving locally
within the state will be affected.
Despite a dry period which lasted
several weeks, farmers near Birch
wood report splendid potato and
grain crop. While the tuber crop is
in good condition, it is believed that
the total acreage in this part of the
state will not equal the acreage of a
wear ago. Farmers failed to plant po-
tatoes in such large quantities due to
the slump in prices last fall. The
corn crop here and in this vicinity is
in good condition and the oat crop
also is believed to be normal. The
hay crop is light this year.
Witnesses in Wisconsin liquor cases
will no longer be free to incriminate
themselves on the witness stand in
order to give testimony fer or against
a defendant without liability to prose
cutiOn in a federal court on the basis
of their sworn admissions, was the
basis of decision handed down by
A. J. Sutherland, United States court
commissioners at Eau Claire, in the
case of Leo Bloczynski, charged with
violating the federal dry law, and
whom he bound over for trial in fed
eral court.
The Rev. E. j. Lemieux, assistant
pastor of Holy Cross church, Kau-