Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-23

of the high school building repaired. J,
Croker Bros. have received new
threshing machine. 1t is of ]. l. Case
make.
Geo Darling, who formerly resided
heoe, but now makes his home at JEFF
fries, spent the week in the city. We
understand that Geo. contemplates
moving here in the near future.
While E. f. Reynolds was supe"in
tending the digging of a well for the
railroad company at Saxton he struck
d forest bed 30 feet below the surface.
The logs and leaves appear perfect
where they have been for ages. The
timber is mostly spruce. He brought
down samples sawed off of logs per-
feetly sound.-Antigo News-Item.
"What is the pedigree of your calf?"
asked would be buyer of farmer.
''Well," said the farmer fall [ know
about it is his father gored book agent
to death, tossed a justice of the peace
on top of the barn and Stood tighten
ing rod man his head in the fence cor
ner. His mother chased a female lee
turer two miles one day. If that amt
pedigree enough to ask four dollars for
you needn't take him."
A resident of Iron Mountain set out
shade trees for doctor. A short time
later the physician was called to at
tend the mOther-in-law of the man
who had set out the trees. The old
lady died, and the physician presented
his bill. After paying it, the citizen
thought of the trees and made out and
presented bill for them. "But the
trees died, protested the doctor. $50
did my mother-in-law, retorted the
other man. The doctor paid the bill.
From present indications the coming
hunting season will offer the best sport
as conditions are very favorable and
all reports indicate that game anima Is
and birds will be unusually numerous
in their accustomed haunts. The mild
winter enabled the deer to keep out of
the way Of pursuers and the slaughter
was not so great last winter, while the
season has been favorable for breeding
aud there has been an abundance of
moisture ann good feed for birds thus
far this summer. Men who have been
through the wild land district state
that birds are exceptionally abundant
and very tame.
A generation ago the only people
who knew the north to any extent were
the lumbermen and they went out in
winter, saw only pine and thought
nothing of the soil in which these pines
grew to the tall maturity that was
Joy to the lumberman's heart-and
pocketbook. They left the lands as
they were cleared and let them go for
the taxes. Now they are trying to win
back those lands by paying years of
back taxes to get them. They have
discovered that they are valuable and
not alone that, they have discovered
that the hardwood that was declared
nuisance by the pine men is also valu-
able, so the clearing away of the great
hardwood forests S giving more fine
land to the Milwaukee Journal.
An alarm of fire was turned in Fri
day morning. The fire was in the M.
Hayden residence on the county road
and before the department could reach
the scene the house was almost wholly
consumed. Mrs. Hayden was at home
alone, with her two children, one an
infant and the other about three years
old. When the fire broke out she
took the infant and ran out Of the nouse
with it but could not find the other
child and the flames spread so rapidly
that it was almost impossible to enter
the house. Walt Merickle, by the
means of wet clothes around his head
managed to enter the house through a
window and made q search of the room
the child was supposed to be in, but
could not find him. Just as he was
about to come out an explosion OF dyna-
mite, which was stored in the attic
occurred, the conclusion blowing Mr..
Merickle and Aug. Ziebell, who also
was aiding in the search, ou5 through
the window and knocking down Max
Ewald, who was standing near by. All
escaped without serious injury which
seems miraculous. The child was not
in the house at any time as he was seen
coming up the road from one OF the
neighbours home.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINISTER