Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-03

pOSltlOn running all eager Ill tue mil ~
that place.
As nice timothy hay rs we ever saw
was car load shipped, by John Green
from Rumneles, to w. j. Walsh in this
village. 1t is found that the hay, raised
by Mr.. Green on the marshes north of
our village, is OF much nicer grade than
is shipped i'll by outside parties.
The Annual Convention of the Wiscon-
sin Agricultural Society will be held in
the capitol, at Madison, from February
3rd to the 7th. A very instructive and
interesting program is arranged. Re-
dnced rates on all railroad lines is given
1upon application to the local station
agents.
John Lentz, of Michigan, has opened up
u restaurant iii the Opera House Block,
insrear of +. D. Porter's saloon. where he
will serve, to all corners, anything in the
edible line, fronla sandwich to a first
class meal Mr.. .Lentz has had consider
able experience, having cooked in allum-
Der of hotels and restaurants. Heswill
take day or week boarders at the very
lowest price.
Word reached the village last Wednes-
day of the death OF Dan Robertson OF
Minocqua, who was q former resident Of
our village. Mr.. Robertson was an en-
ployee, for the past eight years, OF the
Land, Log 4 Lumber Co., having esti-
mated timber for the above company in
various parts of the state. Mr.. Robert
son leaves many friends in this village
who were sorry to hear OF his untimely
death. The remains We're taken to Raul
sonlville, N. Y, for interment.
Jack O'Day was i'll the village Fri
day between trains. He reports logging
operations greatly retarded for the past
Week caused by the warm weather. At
the present writing water two to three
inches deep covers most of the lakes at
the landings, and inquite a few instances
the teams Lave broken through. Mr..
O'Day's camps have been running since
June 10th 1895 and if the weather is
favorable until March he will have put
in, during this time, about forty million
feet OF logs. This will end O'Day &
Daiy's logging operations on this point
of the Wisconsin river.
Mart Hirzelhas fifteen men and four
teams employed in harvesting his sum
ners supply OF ice. He uses an ice pillow
which cuts the ice to II depth OF twelve
inches drawn by one horse, then ice bars
are used and the cakes broken off and
hOated up to slide, where block and
tackle are used, pulling the cake up on
platform OF even height with the sleighs,
where it is loaded OH the sleighs and
pully and a rope the cake is safely land
I'd in the ice house. Mart is more than
hustling it in, putting up between fifty
and sixty cords per day with the present
force.
In 1884 Eugene Field wrote story
which he called "'The Werewolf When
it was finished he laid it asideand year
entirely rewrOte it. In 1886
he again took it up and revised it, and
luringth years between that time and
his death in November last, he rewrote it
eight times His last revision pleased
him and he decided to print it. But
death came too suddenly, and the story
was found, unpublished, among hls
Effects Mrs. Field, concluding to have
the story appear, gave it to the editor OF
the Ladies' Home Journal, in which
all of Mr.. Field work, outside
Of his newspaper articles, was presented
to the public. The story will be printed
i'll the next issue of the journal, striking
~ illustrated by Mr.. Howard Pyle.
A popular social pastime during the
coming year will be the leap year pro-
posal party. The girls, who get many
of their ideas of how the amerous swain
makes his declaration of love from read
ing novels and seeing plays, will be given
an opportunity to show how the thing
is done. They seem to think the young
man in real lie IS altogether too prosaic
in his love-making, and they will show
how romantic such situation might he
made The leap year proposal party
consists OF an equal number OF young
men and young women, who are divided
into pairs by drawing lots. The girls
then propose to each man, moving from
one to the other at given signal. Each
man then votes upon the contest, poll
ing his ballot for the girl who makes the
neatest and most pleasing offer OF mar
riage. The girl receiving the highest
number of votes is awarded the prize
Elk.
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO,
is now a ttracting attention In all parts
+bn&vorld on account of the marvellous