Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-07-23
The Rhinelander city council has re

/ wood are needed to make up the loss
/ that has resulted because of the tim
| Der workers strike which has tied up
| the sawmills for over nine weeks.
Dogs of those wEo are visiting in
Wisconsin from other states and have
brought their pets with them must
| have licenses just as though both dogs
and owners were of the Badger state,
according to an opinion by the attor-
ney general to Dist. Atty. Easton John
son of Whitewater.
| The Rhinelander Wood club named
committees to raise funds, provide
| equipment, and locate available sup
plies of wood which willhbe municipal
| " cut and transported to the city
! woodward for Rhinelander homes at
cost. Cruisers, hired by the club are
| touring Oneida cosnty locating timber
| A campaign to strengthen grange
societies throughout tho state Of Wis
consin is to be conducted this summer.
| The campaign was started in Winnie
| bago county under the direction OF
w. H. Jones, of Perry, New York, dep
uty of the national grange. Calumet
and Manitowoc counties are next on
| the list.
| Ray Lidbom has assumed his duties
as postmaster of Grantsburg. He sue
ceeds E. T. Bunker, who has served
as postmaster for the past i've years.
The Sturgeon Bay Apple Growers
association is the name of new cor
poration, incorporated for $4,000, to
promote apple interests of Door
| county.
f. B. Heimstreet, president of the
| jefferson County Old Soldiers associa-
tion, a, Frank Foote, secretary, are
making arrangements for the annual
reunion Of the old soldiers which will
be- held at Jefferson Aug. 10. No dues
will be collected this year, and fine
dinner will be furnished to all the old
soldiers free.
John Downey, IL years old, who was
visiting at a neighbours farm house,
near Darlington, found a dynamite cap
and not knowing what it was, laid it
on a stone and struck it with ham
mer. Three fingers on his right hand
were blown off and the whole arm
was badly mangled. The caps had been
used for grubbing stumps.
| Suit has been brought by Louis
Stark of Crystal Lake, against the
Badger Public Service company Of
Elkhart Lake, for $40 900 damages and
costs, for the death of his wife, Mrs.
Barbara Stark. by accidental electro
cution at Crystal Lake on the morn
| ing Of June 8. The complaint charged
the company with negligence.
With the year half gone, some $4,000
new automobiles have been purchased
in Wisconsin. little item Of $50,000.-
| 900 or $60,0O0,000, according to Secre-
| tary of State Hull A total Of 255, 900
| licenses have been issued in advance
of this time last year, The remaining
six months will put the total over
100000, according to present indica-
lions.
Ray Schaff, farmer of Athelstane,
Marinette county, has established
silver fox farm there. He has pur-
| chased three pairs of silver foxes from
| a silxer fox farm in Prince Edward
Island and paid $1,000 per pair. The
| foxes were purchased last fall and Mr..
Schaff already has six pups. He has
enclosed a tract of land one-half mile
square.
Tony Mask made a movie" rescue
when the 2-year-old son of Griff
Thomas wandered onto the tracks of
the Milwaukee railroad in the path of
fast passenger train at Genesee de-
pot The engine was SO close when
the child toddled on the tracks that
| it was impossible for the engineer to
stop. Mask ran in front of the train
and grabbed the child, with the en-
! CINE almost on top of him.
County agricultural agents from
eleven counties of Northern Wiscon-
sin will hold two-day conference in
| Ladysmith Aug. 2 and 8. The coun-
ties to be represented are Douglas,
BAYFIELD,, Ashland, Burnett, Chippewa,
Washburn, Polk, Barron, st. Croix,
Taylor and Rusk One day of the con-
| ference will be devoted to demonstra-
ton work and trip will be made to
| the state demonstration farm near
Conrath, 9 miles southeast of Lady
smith. H. M Jones, county agent of
Rusk county, is pushing the project,
and is cordially urging all farmers of
Rusk county to attend and reap the
| benefits of the conference.
| Having covered enough ground
while delivering his route out of the
Beloit postoffice to have carried him
around the world five times-and be
/ 800 miles on his sixth circumnavi-
cation of the globe-Alfred Perkins,
Beloit's Oldest mail carrier, is to retire.
The total distance he has covered is
estimated at 142,500 miles. Perkins,
for nineteen years a rural mail car
rier for the Beloit postoffice, will be
/ 65 years old next November. AS soon
as he does he will be automatically
retired on a pension of So per cent Of
his salary. Perkins Will be the first
Beloit postman to be SO pensioned.
Melvin Solve, a graduate of the Rice
Lake high school and instructor in the
University of Oregon, has received a
1 fellowship from the Scandinavian
/ American foundation in New York,
which awards him $1,000 for a years
] academic course at the University of
NY