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

according TO Supt. PreSSer. Farm nell
is scarce though wages are better thar
a year ago.
Flower vandals are abroad in Ra
cine in great numbers. Each morning
finds some new flower bed prey -tc
their ruthless plundering. More than
twenty gardens on the North Side OF
the city were robbed of their early
spring blooms one day last week.
All records for ore shipment down
the Great Lakes will be shattered this
year by the Great Northern ore docks
of Superior it was determined with
the announcement that 100000 tons
have been contracted for shipment
At present the Great Northern is run.
ming Is trains between mines and
docks This number will be doubled
within few days.
Because the search warrant served
on Clemon Unavich, Racine, did not
cover the henhouse, Court Commits.
sioner Benson dropped the charge
against Unavich for having a pint of
booze concealed in his henhouse.
Warrants in the future will cover
every parcel of real estate, including
the house, all sheds and every sort
of structure, he said.
When at the close of an address to
the Wausau Women's Christian Tenn,
perance union, Dist. Atty. George w.
Lippert was questioned as to why he
did not enforce the prohibition law to
a greater extent in this city and coun-
ty, he replied that it was difficult to
do so because so many good people
in the city and county seem to lean
toward the VETS"
Plans for the construction of forty
five new dwelling houses at Montreal
by the Montreal Mining company have
been indefinitely postponed, owing to
shortage of labor and the continued
high cost of building material. The
company had planned to expend about
$25O,O00 in building operations this
year, but now will do nothing until
1924, at least.
The statute limiting loads of motor
trucks, trailers and wagons to $4,000
pounds does not prevent trailer from
carrying $4,000 pounds and the hauling
truck from carrying an additional a.
600 pounds providing, in each case, the
weight is distributed as the law pro-
vides, r. E. Bump assistant attorney
general, has advised the highway com
mission. He held this statute was de.
signed to protect Wisconsin roads.
The Mount Hope-Lancaster Cow
usual high production through the
month of April with four hundred and
twenty-six dairy COWS under test, one
hundred and two of which qualified as
standard dairy cows, making better
than forty pounds of butterfat for the
month. This is a record of s23.7 per
cent of the total production, regarded
by most expert dairymen as a very
creditable standing.
Calling road houses in Winnebago
county hell holes" Dist. Atty. D. K.
Allen has told the board of supervisors
he intends taking immediate steps to
close these places. They are not only
dangerous to the morals-of the young
people, but expensive as well to Win
nebago county, Mr.. Allen said. He
urged that township officers should
not be allowed to license such places
when the county officers were trying
to do away with them He said he
hopes that when the bill before the
legislature giving control of these
places to the county boards becomes
a law, Winnebago county will lose no
time in making use of it's rights
Timber is being cut in Wisconsin
at rate that if maintained will de-.
nude the state of it's forests within.
twenty years, G. T. Harrington, SUI,
perintendent of state forests and
parks, told the United States senate
committee on forest policy meeting at
Madison. The state forester told the
committee that approximately 10000
900. 900 feet of merchantable timber
remains in twenty-five northern Wis
consin counties. This timber, he said
is being cut at the rate of nearly l..
900, 100000 feet each year. He showed
that the state which formerly was the
first state in lumber production and a
large exporter of forest products now
is and will continue to be an importer
of these products, despite its fairly
large annual cut.
Influenza, measles, scarlet fever and
whooping cough, which we're unusual
ly prevalent, accounted for much of
the increase in the states death rate
in the first quarter of 1923 over the
period of 1922. Figures
compiled by the state board of health
indicate a death rate Of 1872 per thou
sand population, based on 1924 deaths,
which total was 1,496 larger than for
the same period year ago. The rate
is considerably higher than the aver
age for the ten-year period. Nearly
all of the communicable diseases were
responsible for mortality increases.
This was especially apparent with
pneumonia and influenza. The measles
epidemic which has been sweeping the
the state caused a large increase in
deaths. For the first quarter Of 1922
only nine measles deaths were record
ed for the 1928 period eighty-seven
were due to measles.
Painters and paperhangers of La
Crosse have been granted an increase
in wages from 80 to 80 cents an hour,