The Oshkosh school board suspects
that it is in the clutches of a coal ring.
Ed. Clemons of Portage, was fined
$8.50 for shooting prairie chickens.
The big sink hole between Tomahawk
and Merrill has at last been filled up.
The Electric Light company of Merrill
will furnish light free tor churches.
A large bed of yellow ochie has been
discovered near Dodgeville.
Rock river is so low at Janesville that
the electric light dynamo cannot be
run.
Wool to the amount of 230,000 pounds
has been purchased at Ripon this sea
son.
It cost Ed. Clemons, of Portage, five
dollars and costs for killing a prairie
chicken.
Duck shooting on Puckaway lake
promises to be unusually good this
season.
The Hayward Lumber company has manu
factored 22,000,000 feet of lumber already
this season.
Many ot the Fond du Lao county farm
ers have commenced plowing ' several
weeks earlier than usual.
Baraboo is expecting a boom. The
iron fiads near there continue to improve
in appearance.
The best crop raised about Portage
this year is the melon crop, this bcibg
especially true of watermelons.
The contract for repairing the state
Veterans’ home has been let to Sherwiu,
of Waupaca, for $1,600.
H. G. Winslow has been re-elected sup
erintendent ot schools of Racine, at a
salary of $1,200 per annum.
A Waupaca cranberry grower offers
seventy five cents per bushel for picking,
or allows the pickers to pick on shares.
Since the fire at Marshfield the freight
earnings of the Wisconsin Central at that
place have been $4,500 per week.
The l op harvest will begin this week.
In the vicinity of Mound the crop is
heavy and the quality of hops is excel
lent.
