Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-07-26

M. Gleiss, of Sparta.
Mrs. George T. Sweetnam, SO, rest
dent Of Superior for the last % years,
died at her home in that city following
lingering illness. Mrs. Sweetnam
was widely known, having taken an
active part in women's club work IN
the state up to the time of her last
illness.
The Hayward Rod and Gun club en-
tered vigorous protest against recent
action of the legislature in causing
changes in the fish laws, which will
soon result in depicting the waters OF
northern Wisconsin of game fish, 1t
was asserted. Fear was expressed
among sportsmen that muskellunge
will become completely extinct.
Marshf1eld city officials inspecting
the efficient sewage disposal plant at
Monroe were duly impressed when the
drinks were served from the small
creek draining the filter beds where
city refuse is reduced. So pure is the
water after four and a half hours OF
filtering and treatment that Ferdinand
Fritz, plant superintendent has drunk
it for years with no harmful results.
Carl Fritz, 80, farmer near Della
van, is dead and Adolph Eckman, a
farmer living quarter of a mile south
of Darien, is being held at the Wal
worth county Jail at Elkhorn on a
oI,o shot
quarrel at the Eckman farm. Fritz
was shot down by Eckman, according
to Eckman's admission, when the VIC
tim tried to force entrance to Eek
mans home
Out of one hundred forty-six COW
testing associations in the state max
ing report for June the Boscobel-Fen-
nimore tester, Ben Rehrauer, reports
registered Holstein making the high
est production of butter fat. The cow,
Moochy Anna, is owned by Lou Doer-
ingsfeld & Son, a member of the cir
cult. Her record for June is 1923
pounds milk and 1884 pounds butter
fat, the highest record for any asso-
citation in the state.
Owners of small Wisconsin home
steads will have their tax burden
lightened by about $40 next year as a
result of the Johnson law, enacted by
the legislature exempting from taxa
ton buildings and improvements on
homesteads to the value of $500. This
statement is made by John Harrington,
member of the state tax commission,
who has prepared a table tending to
show that the effect of the law will be
to lift the tax burden from small
homesteads owners and place it on
larger homes. The law will effect a
sliding scale of benefits.
An open season on muskrats will be
In effect again this year, after a sea-
son of state wide protection, the con-
servation commission announces with
the publication Of new game laws en-
acted by the 1928 legislature. The
The legislature made few changes of
vital Importance affecting Wisconsin's
game laws, according to r. s. Scheibel,
secretary of the commission. In all
thirty new laws touching upon game
protection and regulations were en-
acted, with the majority relating to
commercial fishing.
The Fennimore city council adopted
an ordinance making it imperative
hereafter for all milk dealers selling
in the city to have license. With
the application for the license must
be filed certificate from duly au-
thorized veterinarian appointed by the
board of health. inspectors will have
the right to enter barns, buildings and
wagons and examine all containers to
see if the place is in a sanitary con
dition. The inspection must show all
dairy cows from whom milk is sold
to be free from tuberculosis and other
communicable diseases.
Official announcement OF the sale
of the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and
Power Co. for consolidation with the
Northern States Power Co. was an
nounced by the state railroad commits
sion at Madison. The property valua-
ton is over $2O,OO0,O 900. The commits
sion received telegram from Chi
cago, announcing the purchase of the
properties which operate in 73 cities
and towns in western Wisconsin and
eastern Minnesota The sale is the
largest to be contaminated in the pub
lie utility field of Wisconsin and In
wolves properties in Eau Claire, Chip
pewa Falls, Menomonee and La
Crosse, Wis, and Red Wing, MINI.
A force of 80 attendants carrying
their own mess equipment, sleeping
quarters, veterinarian, and radio out
fit will accompany an exhibit of 13
carloads of quality livestock to be
shown by Rock county breeders at the
Green county fair at Monroe the week
of Aug. IA. Eight cars Of Holsteins,
Brown Swiss, Jersey, Shorthorns,
Guernseys and beef breeds, three cars
of hogs and two of sheep are included.
The exhibits, intended to rival those
Of the home county, are sponsored by
the farm bureau and will be taken to
other county fairs and the state fair
The exhibits at Monroe will be housed
in the new $4,000 sales pavilions and
stock barns just completed.
Emil Heynen of Green Bay caught
an eighteen pound pickerel while troll
ling in the waters near Sturgeon Bay.
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