Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-04-09

in prize money.
Frank Hanning is a patient in hos
pital at Chippewa Falls as result OF
receiving a heavy charge OF fine shot
in one of his arms as a result of the
accidental discharge of shotgun.
Physicians hope to save his arm,
which is badly shattered.
Sluice gates at the Neenah and Me-
nasha dams have been opened to re-
duce the water level in the lake and
river and great volumes of water are
now finding an outlet through the
lower Fox to the Great Lakes.
Mayor Mechanic, Hayward, has been
informed by Representative A. P. Mel
son of the Eleventh Wisconsin con-
gressional district that Hayward is to
be presented with an artillery field
piece. The gun is one captured by the
French army from the Germans.
Conductor John Misslen of the 500
line was severely scalded in an acct
dent which occurred in the caboose of
his train at Owen. A basin containing
boiling water was Jared from the
stove when the train came to sudden
stop, the water hitting him full in the
face.
John Leuthi, a Rusk county farmer,
has family Bible which was printed
in Switzerland in 1772. It has 1850
pages, a picture and maps and meas
ures ten inches wide, sixteen inches
long and four inches thick. The COW
ers are boards one-half inch thick and
are covered with hog skin, the. corners
being edged with tin The book is in
a good state of preservation.
The Milwauke zee Oconomowoc-W Water
town road is to be kept open for auto
traffic this spring, in so far as the JEFF.
ferson county portion is concerned
The road and bridge committee of JEFF
ferson county held meeting at Water
town and plans were laid to keep the
road passable. Posters are to be
placed limiting loads which may be
carried over bad portions of the high
way.
Truman Rice, 95, one of the oldest
residents of central Wisconsin, is dead
at his horne in Stevens Point. He
came to Wisconsin in 1856, residing
for time at Plover, and later at Nc,
Dill He was a veteran of the Civil
war. His fourth wife, suries him. One
son and one daughter, several grand
children and great-grandchildren also
survive He learned to ride a bicycle
at rs.
Farmers in the towns of Oak Grove
and Clyman, seeking the convenience
of electric lighting in their homes and
dairy barns, have contracted for an ex
tension of the Juneau city service line
ten miles to accommodate thirty farm
homes. The cost is $4,000, and when
the line is completed in August the
city of juneau will take it over for
operation and maintenance as part Of
it's lighting and power system.
ELAN Beardsley, farmer near Ra
cine, missed three colts and heifer
recently. He found the colts, but the
heifer never came back. A short time
later he saw a. pelt on sale which he
recognized as that of the missing
heifer He learned that it had been
procured from Alvin Heimbauch,
neighboring farmer near Waterford. A
jury in the Racine Municipal court
found Heimbauch guilty of larceny o.
the heifer, which was valued at $75.
Carl Garthwaite committed suicide
at the home of his brother-in-law,
eight miles north of Lancaster. His
body was discovered hanging from a
beam in the barn He had tied rope
to the beam and jumped off, choking
himself to death. Carl was an ex-
soldier, having spent twenty-five
months in France He had been on
five battle fronts. and had suffered
from shell shock. He was recently
married, and for some time has wor-
ried over money matters.
Vernon county, Wisconsin, gets its
name from George Vernon Weeks,
Lyons, Walworth county, who cele-
brated his eighty-second birthday
Mar 13 and has been resident of the
county for seventy-eight years. The
county now known as Vernon was at
first known as Bad Axe county, but
the settlers did not like this name, as
II sounded too warlike. At that time
the county judge was Sylvester Fish,
who came from near Buffalo, N. Y,
and was a boyhood friend of Mr..
Weeks. At the suggestion of Judge
Lincoln, the name of the county was
changed to Vernon in honor of his
friend
Opening the 1920 travelling clinic
program of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis association, physicians. con-
Quoted free chest examinations in Eau
Claire DR. ]. w. Coon, medical di-
sector of the River Pines tuberculosis
sanatorium, Stevens Point, and presi.
dent of the association, with two mem.
bers of the staff, Dr. Oscar Lott, med
ical director of the clinic activities,
and DR.. A. A. Pleyte, are the examin-
ers. A total of more than 1900 people
were examined at the clinics conduct
ed last year, and of this number re.
ports show that more than $50 OF
these had tuberculosis or were in need
of other medical treatment.
Twenty five dollars quart was the
price paid in GAINESVILLE for liquor.
When arrested on charge of intox-