Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-04-04
WISDOM SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Madison-Reports directly from
employers show that there was a
general increase in employment in
February as compared with January,
in spite of decreases in all lines OF
| construction the industrial commits
sion says. The number employed in
factories increased 2.8 per cent in the
| last month and is now 29 per cent
greater than year ago. Logging
and mining both showed considerable
gain in the number employed. Both
wholesale and retail trade, however,
showed decreases. Practically all
| lines of manufacturing except leather
and meat packing, showed improve
ment both in number of employees
and earnings.
Watertown-Th state conservation
commission at Madison announces
that thus far the legislature has made
no change in the law relating to fish
ing or hunting, which remains the
same as during the past two years.
There is no closed season for hook
and line fishing for pike and pickerel
in the Rock and Crawfish rivers and
Lake Koshkonong, in Rock, Jefferson
and Dodge counties. In these waters
in Jefferson county neither live nor
dead minnows may be used for bait
from March 1 to May 81, but in Rock
and Dodge counties there is no re-
striction as to what kind of bait may
be used.
Madison-There is today one motor
vehicle for every six people in Wis
consin. 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, total of AGO.
172. Most dealers have more than
one automobile under one license
number. The population of the state
by the last census was 100000
people. Seventeen years ago, in 1905,
1,492 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.
Portage Engineer Arthur ROLES
ton, 81, of Milwaukee road passenger
train No. SIG, that crashed through
burned out bridge south of Poyn-
cite, died of internal injuries in the
Poynette hospital. Edward Daley,
fireman of the train, was instantly
killed in the wreck. The bodies of
the two trainmen were brought to
Portage for burial. julius Holstein,
the baggageman, and John Peterson,
express messenger, suffered bruises
and cuts in the crash. Their homes
are also in Portage
adysmith-Henry Boyd, a rural
mail carrier at Glen Flora, while
passing through heavily wooded
swamp, was stopped by two large tim
Der wolves that came out of the
woods and stood directly in the road
in front of his horses. The wolves
showed fight and Boyd, who had no
gun with him, had great difficulty in
keeping them from attacking himself
and the horses. He cracked his whip
and shouted at them to scare them
away.
Oconto-The Oconto county chap
ter of the Red Cross has decided to
put on a life saving campaign for the
coming summer, in several parts of
the county. An expert swimmer and
instructor will be sent out from the
central division for several weeks
who will hold classes and demonstra-
lions in the rescue of drowning per,
sons and the methods used in re-
suscitation.
Monroe-The annual spring con-
signment sale of pure bred Holstein
Friesian cattle will take place at Mon
roe in the new stock pavilion May 2.
Last years offering included one hun
dred and ten choice animals but a
sale of such magnitude is hard on
buyers and sellers for a one day af-
fair and it is probable two days will
be set in this year.
Tomah-Fifty-fve cows, out of 3S8
tested, produced more than forty
pounds of butter fat during February,
says Leo Richter, official tester for
the Tomah Cow Testing association
The average production of the 1888
cows tested in this association was
72l7 pounds of milk, 272 pounds of
fat.
Watertown-As dairy and stock
center of Dodge and Jefferson coun-
ties Watprt0un ic ,ro,,or;,,ox .