Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-25

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be started this spring.
The Oak Grove Farmers Mutual In
surance Co. made a gain in new bust
ness in 1922 of nearly 100000 The
Flosses paid We're $26,334, which made
an assessment of ~ mills on the
dollar.
Stricken with an attack of heart
trouble while on her way home from
shopping trip to Fond du Lac, Mrs,
Gustave dip of Waupun fell from the
carriage in which she was riding with
her husband and died within short
time.
The 663 cows enrolled in the Ke-
waunee Cow Testing association were
I led during December by Laura, regis
tered Holstein owned by Louis Wais,
Kewaunee, with a production of 59.3
pounds of butterfat and 1862 pounds
of milk
More than 5000 acres of beets will
be contracted within shipping distance
Of the Green Bay Sugar factory be-
fore spring planting time arrives, 1t
lis reported. Four thousand acres
were contracted in 1922, but consider
able crop loss was suffered through
floods.
The railroad commission has set a
price of $233,000 upon the Rice Lake
electric light plant. This action was
in accordance with the wish of the
voters, who at a special election Aug.
10, 1920. decided to acquire the plant
from the Wisconsin Minnesota Light
and Power Co. The vote was three
to one in favor of the city's taking
over the plant
More than 100000 bushels of grain
were shipped from Manitowoc during
1922, according to the annual report
Of Edward Kellner, customs collector.
Coal was the biggest item of incoming
tonnage, 460,263 tons having been I'M
loaded But little anthracite was res
ceived, as compared with the soft fuel,
only 28,436 tons of hard coal having
reached this port.
Aid to settlers amounting to $547,-
420 was made possible by the depart
ment of agriculture, cooperating I'M
der terms of the state land mortgage
association act, it's biennial report
shows. A large amount, according to
the report. was saved settlers through
warnings that kept them from pur-
chasing property on get-rich-quick
basis.
Either Wisconsin hunters are becom,
ing skilled in hunting the willy fox
and wolves of the state or else these
animals are on the increase. In a re-
port to the legislature, Secretary OF
State Fred Zimmerman declared that
the state had paid twice as much in
bounties in 1922 as n the previous
year. The bounties paid on these
scalps in 1921 was about $20,557 while
last year the state paid $40,486.
County motorcycle police may be
required to pass a competitive test be.
fore being employed by Brown coun-
ty for the coming summer, it is report
ed. Three men are to be employed on
a salary basis and the initial require
ment is that the men understand that
they are policing the roads in the in
terests of motorists and not as speed
cops. The men work jointly under
the sheriff and the highway commit
tee.
A 100000 gift to Lawrence college
by a Wisconsin man who wishes his
name withheld. was announced by
President Samuel Plantz This dona-
ton completes a Lawrence endowment
campaign for 100000. just closed
with total of $612,00O. The total in
vested capital and pledges of the col
Iege now amount to nearly $2,000,000
according to DR.. Plantz Never in its
history has the institution been on a
firmer financial basis.
Prohibition enforcement by state
and local authorities in Wisconsin has
nearly tripled the fines and sentences
during 1922, in comparison with the
preceding year w. Stanley Smith
prohibition commissioner, estimated
on the basis of early returns made to
him by % of the smaller counties of
the state He believes total fines will
amount to 100000 Complete figures
from all of the II counties are not
expected before the end of the month.
When all are compiled they will be
laid before the legislature to show the
effect of prohibition enforcement in
the state.
A. R. Hirst, state highway engineer,
has announced that the state highway
commission had authorized him to
purchase 1,385.000 barrels of cement
from eight Middle West manufacture
ing companies for the 1923 highway
work in Wisconsin The state and
county will proceed at once with ar
rangements for an extensive road
building program for 1928, Mr.. Hirst
said Profting by the experience of
Wisconsin and other states with delays
in the busy summer season, the Wis
consin highway commission says that
it is perfecting it's plans, letting con-
tracts and arranging to store cement
and other materials we'll in advance
of actual operation This will enable
the commission to utilize transporta-
ton facilities and labor white they
are available and thus avoid delay.
Mrs. Susan Kistler Gates, Beloit, is
a great-great- grandmother and not yet
80. When she celebrated her seventy