Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

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stray stack, covered with ice and
snow, tipped over and struck him. He
was taken to a Sheboygan hospital.
The annual gathering of the Outa-.
game County Pioneers association
will be held in Appleton on Feb. 81.
1t will be the forty-eighth convention
of the old settlers of the county.
The high cost of being sick took a
| new jump with the announcement by
| Green Bay physicians of an increase
i'll rates. Day calls are to be increased
from So to SO and night calls from
So to S..
G. D. Fritzsinger, secretary of the
| Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce,
heads a new oil company to be known
/ as the Wood Oil Co. The new organi-
cation will job oils for the Grand
/ Rapids dealers.
/ After hiccoughing constantly for the
last three days, A. L. Crosby, owner
OF the Market Square Music shop, Ke-
nosha, became unconscious and it was
only after five physicians had attended
/ him more than three hours that he
was revived
That the demand for logging horses
was the heaviest in years is the state
| ment of Sam B. Ullman, well known
4 horse dealer of Amigo. He predicts
/ very strong demand for farm horses
in the spring.
The "Flu," SO prevalent elsewhere
has scarcely been heard of this winter
in the northern part of Wisconsin,
Not a single case of FLU" has been re-
ported at Ashland this winter A year
ago, deaths from the disease were
common in this region"
E. j. Goodrich, prominent lawyer of
/ Amigo and father of Municipal Judge
/ r. b. Goodrich, is dead as the result
/ of a stroke of apoplexy. He was 70
/ years of age and had been confined 70
lis bed with complication of dis
cases for. about three months.
The Ashland Weekly Call, estab-
lished in Ashland about two years ago,
| by f. W. Haislett, has changed hands
and has been absorbed by The Ashland
| Daily Press. This leaves Ashland with
The Press as its only paper During
the past twenty years or more, num-
Der of weekly papers have been es-
tablished at Ashland, all being alb
| sorbed ultimately by the local Press,
or going out of business.
The village of Prairie Farm, Barron
county, returned at least temporarily
to kerosene lamps and gas lights. The
Prairie Farm Electric Co. discontinued
/ furnishing electric light and power
Feb. 1. The company has been operat-
ing at a loss for three years and the
railroad commission recently granted
| it's request to discontinue service. Ar
rangements are being made to bring
/ in electric power from some other
source.
Government officials are conducting
| hearing at Chippewa Falls with a
view of determining the rating of the
| three candidates for postmaster to sue
coed Postmaster Cunningham, recently
| resigned The three candidates for the
| appointment are Ernest Nickel, as
sistant postmaster since Cunningham's
resignation; Edward Richter, who has
charge of the Office of the Leinenkugel
Brewing Co., and William McGough,
| railway mail clerk.
Six years ago the city of Neenah
was about $4,000 in debt, was borrow
ing money to pay interest on borrowed
money and the annual taxes were con-
sumed in paying debts of the preced-
/ ing year. Now Neenah is out of bedt,
is working on more or less of budget
| system, is using the taxes for the cur
rent years expenses and is steadily
reducing its bonded Indebtedness the
effects of careful and conservative mu-
nicipal administration.
| What is undoubtedly the highest
price ever paid in northern Wisconsin
for a cow and calf was received by
the St. Croix county asylum farm near
New Richmond for the p B. Holstein
Minita Korndyke Ormsby 282746 and
her -months-old heifer. They
were purchased by P. F. Spaulding,
Warren, Mimi, for $2,100. The coun-
ty farm purchased the cow only one
year ago for $500, and thus made
/ $1,700 on the cow in one year.
Thousands of Western sheep were
fattened on the cutover lands of the
Lake Superior country last summer,
and the number will be much larger
next summer, according to informa-
ton from stock men. That the pine
barren region is the best feeding
| grounds for sheep in the state is the
statement of Frank S. Catlin, owner
| of big ranch north of Ashland. The
barrens are a succession of rolling
sand hills, between Ashland and Iron
River, between the Northern Pacific
| railroad and Lake Superior, covered
| with scattering jack pines, but with
an abundance of buffalo grass, blue
| joint and bunch grass, much more nu
| tritious than tame grasses.
Legal steps will be taken by the ma
| tional board of the American Society
of Equity to ascertain the exact fnan
cial condition of the organization as
| left by the members of the old board
who were ousted at the recent national
| convention in Madison.
Due to an alteration when at work
in one of the j. w. Wells Lumber
company's camps near Wausaukee,
Marinette county, William Kostak IS
in the hospital at Marinette with a