Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-24

NEWS OF THE
BADGER STATE
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The March report of the Sparta Cow
Testing association has been made
public, and shows Al cows have made
better than 40 pounds of butterfat DUR
ing that time The best herds were
those of l.. w. Graf, with an average
of 1913 pounds, and Howard & SteahI.
average 1874
Grover Elam,. cashier of the First
National bank of Highland, was Sc
verely burned when the gasoline he
was pouring into the tank of his car
exploded. With his clothes covered
with the flaming fluid he leaped into
a nearby stream, but not before he
suffered painful burns.
The annual West Wisconsin con-
ference Of the Methodist church will
be held in La Crosse Aug. 20 to Sept.
/, inclusive, according to announce
ment from Bishop Mitchell, who will
preside The conference will be at
tended by 175 pastors and 100 lay
delegates. At this conference dele
gates will be elected to the national
conference.
Wisconsin's acreage of rye dropped
twenty per cent below the mark of
1922, the crop reporting service has
announced This figure is about the
same as the 1920 and 1921 acreages.
. The condition of rye on May ! was
81 per cent normal. This is three per
cent lower than a year ago, and lower
than the fve-year average of go per
cent. The national rye acreage this
year is 5,234,O00 acres, 16 per cent be-
low last year.
The creamery boards of the various
cooperative creameries of Jackson
county met at the courthouse in Black
River Falls and organized an associa-
ton. L. B. Grinde, Melrose, was
elected president and a. J. Jones,
Black River Falls, was elected secre-
tary. John S. Klinka, Balsam Lake,
one of the men responsible for Wis
consin butter district No. 1, gave a
talk. The eight cooperative cream
cries of Jackson made 100000 pounds
Of butter in 1922.
The fact that young couples are
more inclined to buy automobiles than
homes is blamed by Superior Court
Judge William E. Haily for the fact
that there have been 38 divorces in
Douglas county since jan and only
80 marriages. Judge Haily declared
the divorce laws are not too lenient,
but that it is too easy to be married.
He advocates the creation of commits
sions in each county to pass on the
qualifications of couples desiring to
obtain marriage licenses. "Selfishness
and the desire for pleasure lead to
innumerable divorces" he says. "Pov-
erty and unemployment are also inn
portant causes"
The post office in Wisconsin Rapids,
which passed from third class to sec
ond-class rating when the cities of
Grand Rapids and Centralia were con-
solidated, under the postmastership of
Albert L. Fontaine, will enter the first
class July with Mr.. Fontaine again
at the head of the Office. The amount
of business done through the local
post office since Mr.. Fontaine took
office March /, 1922, has been far
greater than during any previous
period of the same duration. It is
still increasing with considerable
margin over the $4,000 annually re-
quired to put it in the first class.
The big hay crop of last year has
resulted in Wisconsin farmers having
a supply of hay on hand at the prev
ent time that is larger than usual,
the state crop reporting service an
nounced. Even with cold weather in
March and April requiring heavy feed
ing, the amount on farms this year
is more than twice as large as it was
last year and twenty-five per cent
above the supplies on hand two years
ago." the announcement said. Pas
ture and hay crops for this year how
ever. are backward throughout the
state, due to unreasonable cold and
dry weather. Heavy losses of pigs
in the southern part of the state are
reported as a consequence of the Sc
we're weather of March and April.
Edwin Seger, II year old boy, slayer
of John Schlike, night Waterman of
a mill at Merrill, was sentenced to
twenty years in the state penitentiary
at Waupun after he had been found
sane by DR.. Adm Sherman of the
Northern hospital for the insane of
Oshkosh, and DR.. E. X. Morris OF
Merrill. Seger entered a plea of
guilty to murder in the second degree,
quietly aquiescing to the charge as
read by Max Van Hecke, district at
torney. Judge Reid admonished him
to conduct himself as a model pri-
soner, promising. if he did SO, every
effort would be made to shorten his
sentence and. give him an opportunity
to start life anew. Before Staying
Schlike. which he did with a, club to
rob the Waterman of a watch, Seger
had deserted the United States army.
Watertown, long known as sell
ing center for blooded Holsteins, will
attempt a new venture May 81, when
a big sale will be held, at which only
animals of the Homestead Holstein
strain will be offered, according to
Secretary Darcy of the sales organ
iZatiOn.