Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-15

CoHSln Aull-SaI0Onz league.
A. G. Cox, president of the Northern
Wisconsin State fair, of Chippewa
Falls, has sold the Linderman flour
mill at Osseo to John Wogstad, White.
hall, after operating it continuously
for % years.
Acting on a tip that ,Neenah fruit
dealers were receiving booze ship
ments, police raided a box car IN the
500 line yards and examined its con-
tents. None of the alleged contra
band" was found.
Eighty-two persons were killed in
automobile accidents in Milwaukee in
1922 it was announced by the National
Safety council which has compiled
statistics from police records of the
last year.
Gilbert E. Vandercook, Milwaukee,
has been appointed, special assistant to
the United States attorney general,
according to an announcement from
Washington, which says that he will
devote most of his attention to Wis
consin matters.
The Rev. James Blake was present
ed with a silver tray at a reception
in his honor on the occasion of his
eighteenth anniversary as pastor of
the Stevens Point Baptist church and
his twenty eighth year in church work
in the state.
Louis Anderson, widely known
Door county farmer, was saved from
being gored to death by an enraged
bull on his farm by the timely assist
ance of his shepherd dog. The dog
fought the bull, which returned the
attack, enabling Mr.. Anderson's chill
dren to drag him to safety
Births, deaths and marriages were
fewer in Iron county during 1922 than
/ in 1921 Last year there were two
hundred f1fty-four births in the county,
seventy-seyen deaths and forty-two
marriages. In 1921 there were two
hundred eighty births, ninety-two
deaths and seventy-one marriages.
The Brown County Bar association
has authorized committee to take
charge of erecting tablet marking
the residences of two pioneer mem
bers of the bar, Henry S. Baird, who
was appointed attorney general by
Gov. Dodge in 1886, and Timothy o.
Howe, who served as United States
senator
The state has 100000 more in its
general fund now than it had a year
ago, according to a recent statement
by State Treasurer Levitan. On Jan.
81, this year, the general fund had a
balance of 5000, 69195, as compared
with balance of S3,784, 1916 Jan
81, 1922. In all funds of the state
there was. a balance on Jan. 81, this
year, of $8,171.068.91, as compared
with balance a year ago of 1884,
$685..
The Wisconsin potato exchange
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state at Madison as a
non-stock corporation to buy and sell
potatoes and other farm products and
equipment or supplies for farmers and
their families upon a non-profit basis
The headquarters Of the corporation
will be in Madison. In addition to
the purchase and sale of farm prod
ucts and supplies the corporation pro-
poses to assist its patrons in the col
lection of claims, to provide informa,
ton relative to crop conditions and
estimates to the demand for potatoes
and other farm products.
Dairy cattle from Wisconsin were
shipped to every state in the Union
but five, and to Mexico, the Bermuda
Islands, Hawaiian Islands. India and
South America, last year bulletin of
the university extension department
shows. Of the 10000 cattle, Illinois
received the largest number, 8,181;
Iowa was second with 4.159, and Mex
leo ranked third with 1899 Nevada,
Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
and Vermont were the only states
which did not receive Wisconsin cat
tie. Eight lonely cows made the long
trip to India.
Market broadcasts started from the
state department of markets new
wireless station at Waupaca. Quota
tons on livestock and produce from
the principal centers of the country
are included in the report. The new
broadcasting set is one of the most
powerful in the middle west and can
be heard by farmers in all parts of
the state. The department of markets
was the first state department in the
country to broadcast market reports
by wireless telephone on a daily
schedule. Since its pioneering in this
work. the movement was spread all
over the country.
J. F. Istel, poultry fancier OF Al
mena, Barron county, on Jan. ], 1922,
decided to keep a record on poultry
sales. He started with seventy-two
hens of the white Wyandotte type.
During the year he received $198.87
from the sale of eggs, $3.50 from the
sale of roosters, and $38.25 from the
sale of hens, making total income
of $264.62. His total expense for feed
was $65, leaving a balance of $19962
In addition to this he has on hanG
f1fty-siX hens and one hundred and ter
pullets. and is selling at the present
time from four to six dozen eggs
day.
e. L. Whitney, better known to his
friends as Grandpa Whitney, reached