Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

/ Around the Badger State
| Madison-As a result of confusion
over the ruling of the attorney gen
I erals department regarding the state
/ fish laws, Elmer S. Hall, conservation
! commissioner, has addressed letters to
/ game wardens and sportsmen of the
! state, outlining fishing, regulations.
| The letter points out that the closed
! season is in force on muskellunge,
/ pike, pickerel, bullhead, perch, blue
| gill, sunfish, crappie and roach until
| June 1. Exceptions to this rule are
noted in Columbia and Sank counties.
| The trout season opens May l.
! Fennimore-A meeting in Fenni
| more farmers and business men heard
officers of the Wisconsin Pea Packers
/ association point out the advantages
! of canning factory. Favorable &C
now signing pledges for the acreage
| to support such a plant. The Ian.
/ caster Canning company has sold its
\ entire pack for 1924 in advance
/ Cobb, a small village in Iowa county,
has new 100000 cannery nearing
/ completion. Farmers in that locality
/ are planting 500 acres to peas.
1 Chippewa alls-Mystery surrounds
/ the disappearance and return of
! necklace made for Mrs. Emil Hasse
! of Chippewa Fails, by her son, Clar.
| ence, in a New York base hospital,
! where he was confined after service
| in France. The necklace was taken
| from the Hasse home a month ago
Mrs. Hasse advertised a reward for it's
return. She had abandoned hope of
recovering the necklace until surpris-
ed to find it in her mail box.
Observation-Disclosures regarding for
est fire fighting in Wisconsin during
the coming season has been dispatch
ed to all town chairmen in the state
by Elmer S. Hall, state conser-
walton commissioner The commits
sioner also makes an appeal to chair
| men to assist in observation of For
est Protection week, Apr 81 to "a
| Forest protection districts will be es-
! tablished this year in connection with
the campaign.
| Merrill-Trout season opens MAY 1.
/ and the interest of the angler is at a
high pitch. Recently, at a meeting
| of the Lincoln County Rod and Gun
| club, it was decided to buy 10000
! salmon trout eggs for planting in Lin
coin county streams. A. T. Curtis and
| Henry Dudley are cooperating with
members of the club in plan to have
willows planted along the Prairie
! river.
Stevens Point-Dr F. A. Norton,
county humane officer, suffered two
broken toes when a horse, owned by
| Michael Fabish, farmer, of near Stew
| ems Point, kicked him as he shot the
! animal on local street after it had
broken its leg in spectacular run
away. Although Fabish and son were
| hurled out of the wagon neither was
| injured.
Cumberland--At a special meeting
| of the voters of Cumberland, the mo-
| ton for the building of a new high
school there went through without
any opposition. The proposition was
financed by the loan of $24,5OO from
the state trust funds, payable in Is
annual installments, and by the is
suance of bonds to the amount of
! $4,000.
Marshfield-The old Hafer & Kali
SEIZED saw mill on the Richfield road,
a mile south of Marshfeld, has started
Oh its last cutting of logs For more
than so years this mill has cut mil
! lions of feet of lumber annually. This
year there are only three or four
weeks of work to be done and the
! owners have decided to dismantle the
! machinery and abandon the site.
Ashland-Lew Anderson, Ashland
clothing merchant, is advertising that
| he will refund half the purchase price
of any article of clothing purchased
| IN his store if the weather man sends
more than one-tenth of an inch of
rain to Ashland Easter Sunday Mr..
Anderson is protected by special rain
/ Insurance.
Racine-While returning from the
corner grocery store John M. John
son, SIS, Racine, father of six children
fell down small flight of stairs in
the store and cracked his skull on
the cement floor. He died at ST.
Luke's hospital 10 minutes later.
Mount Horeb-Ever A. Lund, 20,
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