Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-07-02


A large and heavy hay and clover
crop is already predicted by the Ash
land county agricultural sages. At
present the clover is about two feet
high, and with fair weather there
should be a very heavy second crop.
Conspicuous among 800 prelates and
priests who attended the golden jubi-
lee of the Rt Rev. James Schwebach.
bishop of the La Crosse diocese, was
the Rev. Father Philip Gordon of SUI
perior, the only ordained Indian priest
In Wisconsin.
the threatened typhoid epidemic,
which caused the serious illness of
upwards of twenty Neenah persons
and resulted in five deaths, is over.
No new cases have been reported
since May IA.
Fifty Eau Claire sportsmen voted
unanimously for one buck law and that
the season be closed for mink and
muskrat this year, at the Rod and Gun
club With 1000 lakes and 5000 trout
streams Wisconsin was hailed as
hunters paradise.
The last issue of the Rusk county
bonds sold in 1901 to raise funds with
which to build the courthouse, have
been paid and cancelled. The bonds
amounted to $4,000, drew per cent
interest and run nineteen years.
L. ]. Hett, owner of carnival COM
4 A3Yar r T oh 1o1o
into court charged with permitting
gambling. He denied all knowledge Of
gambling and was released on $500
bond.
Lyman Nash, Manitowoc, who has
attended every Lawrence college COM
mencement in the last half century,
was elected president of the Lawrence
Alumni association. Other officers are:
BENJAMIN Rohan, Appleton, first vice
president; Mrs. Laura LummiS Schultz,
Appleton, second vice president; Miss
lZelia Ann Smith, Appleton, secretary;
DR.. H. w. Abraham, Appleton, treas
urer.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 was
paid by 10 or IL saloon keepers of Hur-
ley for whisky which turned out to
be nothing but water when the bar
rels were tapped. Strangers came to
Hurley and allowed each saloon keeper
to test the whisky before it was sold.
They used water bag under the arm,
from which tube was connected to
the tube which was used in the barrel
to test the whisky.
Albert Tegen, son of Mrs. August
Meyer of Manitowoc, graduates from
high school with a record, it is be-
lieved never equaled. During the en-
tire fourteen years of his schooling
he never missed class and has never
been tardy. He will go to the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin next year and says
he hopes to finish four more years of
perfect attendance.
A re-rating of the fire insurance
risks in the state has been ordered
by Insurance Commissioner Platt
Whitman The work of re-rating, will
be done by counties and the work has
already been started in the northern
counties of Wisconsin, where climatic
conditions make it impossible to Sc
cure men to push this work during the
winter months
Green cow hides were bought by
Ladysmith dealer recently for cents
per pound The wool market at this
time is unusually dull. In fact some
buyers have been instructed to buy
/ no wool on account of the uncertainty
of conditions in the wool market in
general. A year agu wool was being
bought at prices ranging from SO cents
per pound up. 1t is predicted that the
present low price of hides and wool
will, in a short time, affect the retail
prices of shoes and wooden goods.
The body of Grover Hansen, who
disappeared in Fond du Lac last
March, was found on the bank of the
Fond du Lac river The body was prAc-
tically nude, while the clothes and
overcoat which Hansen wore when
last seen we're in pile few feet
away. Dist. Atty. James Murray has
ordered an inquest to be held to de-
termine the cause of death Hansen
was an ex-service man and had re-
/ turned lTOm ldACC a olO1 ClAO NC
fore he disappeared from his home.
The fine-stemmed, leafy sorghum
known as Sudan grass is the most re-
cent addition to the list of supple
mentary hay crops. Wisconsin farmers
can grow Sudan grass very success
fully, as has been demonstrated the
last four years in various places in
the state. Sudan grass prefers
warm, sandy soil, but will do very well
on any upland soil suitable to small
grains. Soils that are worn out or
very sandy are not adapted to it.
Walter L. Dexter, X, one of the lead
ers of the Democratic party in south
eastern Wisconsin as far back as half
century ago, died recently at his
farm home in Pleasant Prairie In
1877 he was elected to the state assem-
bly, and later served two terms as sher-
if of Kenosha county. He was lead
er in the development of successful
agriculture and great believer in the
wisdom of farmers going in for live
stock as well as the growing of grain
crops.
The Brandon Times was sold by
Mrs. Ida Brown to G. A. Norman and
son of Greenwood, Ind. Mrs. Brown
has been owner and publisher of the
Brandon Times for the past twenty