Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-19
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Manitowoc. The two girls were
awarded gold medals in their respec-
tive divisions.
Igniting matches that caught fire to
her dress while her mother was visit
/ ing with neighbor, Anna May Cooper,
3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
Ray Cooper, Madison, was fatally
burned.
The Oshkosh high school is prepar-
Ing to hold it's eightieth commence
ment exercises. The class will num-
Der between one hundred thirty and
one hundred forty young people, prob
Ebly the largest group ever graduated
trom the local school.
Teachers contracts returned to
6upt Newlun recently show that near
ly one-third of the teachers in Marsh
! field schools this year do not desire
to return next year. In many instances
they will go elsewhere where more
attractive salaries are offered.
Of 416 cows in the Ripon Cow Test
ing association during March, seventy
eight produced over forty pounds of
butter fat. August Frederick owned
the highest individual producer, with
68.3 pounds Louis Hammers herd,
which averaged forty-two pounds, was
highest.
A locomotive and five cars, compos-
ing train No. 131 on the Milwaukee-rd,
running from Chicago to Madison,
were derailed at the east switch at
Bardwell, Two hundred passengers
were brought to GAINESVILLE and Madi-
son on a special train from Beloit.
No one was injured.
The report for the last three years
On prohibition enforcement in Dodge
county, as taken from the figures by
Dist Atty. George A. Hartman, show
that in 1920, the first year Of prohibi-
ton, there were three convictions and
a total of $500 in fines collected. In
1921 these figures jumped to six con
victions and $500 in fines. In 1922
there was total of 83 convictions
with fines aggregating $3.50 III the
last year jail sentences were imposed,
totaling 43 months.
Bovine tuberculosis caused a loss
of $40,000,000 in hogs last year
throughout the country, DR.. Arthur J.
Knilans stated in an address at Mani
towoc The saving of $1,500,000 in
hogs in Wisconsin would result if the
disease could be eradicated, he said
DR.. Knilans advocated the area test
plan of eradication, under which the
state and federal governments per-
form cattle tests providing so per cent
of the owners sign petitions asking
for the service
Three car loads of picric acid, az
j gregating about $4,000 pounds, to be
used in land clearing, have been
ordered from the government by
County Agent v. e. Brubaker, for dis.
tribution among the farmers Of Wash
burn and the surrounding region. Two
car loads have already arrived and
have been distributed among the farm
ers of Drummond, Cable, Mason
Grandview, Eileen, Barksdale, Beloit
! Bayfield,. Cornucopia and Washburn
The third car will arrive soon and be
distributed among the farmers Of Iron
River, Oulu, Port Wing and Herbster
Flax is becoming a popular crop
with Wisconsin farmers. During the
last six years there has been good
market for both the seed and the
1 straw, and flax growing has been com.
paratively profitable. A. H. Wright
of the field crops staff of the Wiscon
sin college of agriculture reports that
the price has averaged better than So
a bushel except in 1921 when it aver.
aged $3.50. The price paid for flax
straw during 1922 ranged from 81 te
So ton, Baled and delivered to rail
way stations Growers report the
acre yield of flax in Wisconsin as gen
orally good, usually averaging better
than that of any other fax-producing
j state On suitable soil they expect a
yield Of Is bushels of seed and three
quarters ton of straw an acre.
The earnings Of Wisconsin corpora
lions during 1922 were practically nor
NAL, indicating that the state income
LdA WOulu yIClu 1uuCn dIuOuDl
this year than on 1921 incomes, &C
cording to Carroll Atwood, tax com
missioner. Early returns, he said
showed that improved business condi
lions prevailed in this state during the
last year. A report of the tax com
mission shows that on 1921 earnings
the total income tax collected amount
ed to approximately $3,000,000 This
is less than half of the total collected
on 1920 incomes, after the personal
property offset had been allowed judg
ing by the commission report Mr.
4 Atwood declared that the corporation
earnings already returned to the com
mission show that the total tax col
Iected on 1922 incomes will probably
be around S5,000,000. This will in
clude individual as well as corporation
income taxes.
i A 5-months-old Guernsey bull cali
from the Corium farm, sired BY
Cherub Prince, a $4,000 bull. grand
champion at the National Dairy show
and the National Dairy congress, was
bought at Fond du Lac by M. S. Kel
Iogg and Frank Kersten, GAINESVILLE
breeders. The Calls dam is Corium
Beulah
When the Green county board con