Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-12
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

LIldI VI HdICIa, 10HA, cbhO 81 OcIOA eAAcsAl
that of any other March in the his
tory of the office.
At the city election April 8, Lulu P
Shaw, daughter of the late Samuel
Shaw, founder of Crandon, was elect.
ed mayor over Otto Book. Miss Shaw
is the first woman elected to city
office in Crandon.
Marshall Cousins, state commissions
er of banking, announced that the
State Bank of Three Lakes, Oneida
county, had been closed and that ex-
an1iners of the state department have
taken charge Of the institution.
Paul H. Pressentin, state fuel ad-
ministrator, has issued an appeal to
the public to have its coal bins filed
this summer in order to avert coal
shortage next winter. At the same
time he appeals to retail coal dealers
to conduct campaign urging summer
deliveries of coal.
Leon w. Jewett, Dallas farmer, has
been appointed president Of the Dallas
Holstein club and William Owen has
been named ecretary-treasurer Ar
rangements were made by the club
to hold dairy show in June. Dallas
Holsteins will be exhibited at the Bar
ron county fair this autumn.
The 1000 patrons of the Barron Co
operative Creamery received approxi-
mately $4,000 for cream delivered to
the creamery during February. The
creamery received 480,224 pounds of
cream and from this amount 135,884.2
pounds of butter fat were obtained.
The price paid for butter fat was So
cents.
Believing that tuberculosis in cattle
is a menace to public heath, the vii
iage board has passed an ordinance
requiring that any person or persons
selling milk in Plainfeld must pro
duce a certificate showing that their
cows have been tested and are free
from tuberculosis. The ordinance will
take effect May /.
The Rev. Edwin w. Todd, who was
divorced recently from Mrs. Jeanne M.
Todd on the charge Of cruel and in
human treatment, presented his resig-
nation as rector Of Trinity Episcopal
church at a special meeting Of the
vestry BY unanimous vote, Mr.. Todd
was induced to withdraw his resigna-
ton and consent to remain in charge
for at least one more year.
The right Of prohibition officers to
search homes attached to places Ii
censed to sell Notwithstanding bever-
ages, without a warrant, was upheld
by a decision of the Wisconsin SUI
preme court At the same time the
court in another decision held that it
was an invasion of constitutional
rights for officers to search an auto
mobile for liquor, without having a
warrant
The Wisconsin State Mining school
at Plattsville desires to get into COM
munication with young men Of the
state who for any reason were obliged
to leave school prior to their compile
ton of the high school course and
who later on felt the need of acct
dental education. The requirements
for admission to the mining school
are sufficiently elastic to admit stu
dents who have had no more than one
year in high school and in cases of
mature young men they have some
times been admitted even though they
had no more than grade school train
ing.
Before the end Of the month, high
way construction on sac, 1868 900
building and maintenance program for
city and rurn1 road improvement will
be under WY in Wisconsin, the state
Highway department advises. A. r.
Hirst, state highway engineer, reports
the present should be an important
road building year. There is available
for rural highway construction and
maintenance, including state and coun-
ty trunk highways, approximately 1884,
$4,000, Mr.. Hirst points out, in a
table summarizing the prospective ex-
penditures for the year. Cities, in
addition, will spend approximately
$1O,15O,000, this table shows.
There has been an increase of ST.
243,52965 in all funds of the state
over a year ago, according to an Off
cial statement issued by State Treas
urer Solomon Levitan. In all funds
there. were $12,812, 470.01, as compared
with SIC, 568,940.46 one year ago. This
is a remarkable showing of increase
in the state treasury department. In
the general fund of the state there
were on April of this year 1854
1928 as compared with 1920, 571.47
one year ago. Mr.. LeVitan announces
that there is $1,378, 949.93 in the work
ing banks of the state; $11,432,655,36
in the special repositories. Mr.. Levi
tan has followed the general policy of
placing a good deal of the states
funds in the farmers banks in the
state to relieve the tax situation. The
state treasury is in one Of the most
prosperous conditions of its history.
Town, village and city treasurers
of Price county have made their re
turns to the county treasurer and the
amount of delinquent taxes for 1922
is several thousand dollars in excess
of previous years. The total for 1922
amounts to 100000 as compared with
$4,000 in 1921, 100000 in 1920 and
$4,000 in 1919.
M. J.. Beaulleau, II, Of the town of