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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
Villas COUNTY FAIR
WILL BE BEST EVER
Sixth Annual Villas County Fair
Promises Two Days. of In
terest and Amusement
for Everybody

Plans are progressing nicely for
Villas county's sixth annual fair to be
held at Eagle River Wednesday and
Thursday, September Ia and Is. Each
year the fair has been improved and
enlarged until it is fast assuming the
proportions its founders hoped for.
This year the premium list has been
enlarged to practically double the size
Of former years with the addition of
several new departments among them
being the poultry show, women's and
girls department
These additions bring the fair into
closer touch with greater number
of people which necessarily means
greater success for the undertaking.
The fair association is carrying out
it's policy of steady improvements at
the fair grounds. A new grandstand
completed this summer adds much to
the appearance OF the place besides
providing accommodations for the
crowds that will be here on the two
fair days to witness the amusement
attractions that are being booked for
the event
The amusement part of the pro,
gram is also departure from pre-
vious years. While the county fair
is primarily an exhibition of the pro.
gress of the county in agriculture and
dairying lines, a. few clean amuse-
ments are looked for by the people
attending and, properly handled, they
will in no way detract from the bene-
fit to be derived from the fair by the
citizens of the county. The county fair
is an annual holiday upon which the
people get together to display the
possibilities of the territory it covers.
Like all holidays the amusement part
of the program should not be neglect
ed and the fair association realizing
this and having the means to do it,
this year, have provided accordingly.
For the first time in the history of
the Villas county fair an admission
fee will be charged this year The
necessity for this is obvious. It takes
money for premiums and free attrac-
tons and gate receipts will help out
in this direction.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
DEATH OF CHAs. LEWIS

The death of Charles Lewis, aged
76 years, occurred at Phelps sometime
during the night or early last Satur-
day morning. A few days previous
deceased had been injured in the
woods where hea was working and it is
thought that death was brought about
through the injuries. When called Sat
urday morning he failed to reply and
investigation proved that he had pass
ed away several hours previous to the
time Of finding him. The remains were
brought to Eagle River and interment
made Monday morning.
Charles Lewis was a we'll known
figure in this section of the state,
having come here many. years ago
when the numbering industry was at
its height. He made Eagle River his
Headquarters but had worked at practi-
cally all of the lumber camps and
logging operations in this section,
chiefly as teamster. He was I'M
married. Relatives survive him in
lower Michigan but they were unable
to attend the funeral With advancing
age his health had been failing and it
is thought that his injury in the woods
last week aggravated long standing
ailment which resulted in his DEATH
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
Farmers Should Get Picnic Acid Now


Farmers who share in the govern.
ment's free distribution of picric acid
salvaged from war materials, need not
fear to use it as an agricultural ex-
plosiVe. All they will need to do is
treat it with respect. The records are
filled with the stories of men who
forgot this precaution in handling dy-
Mantle and other dangerous things,
yet dynamite and guncotton and nj
troglycerine, and even the justly ceIe-
brated INT are perfectly tractable
when proper consideration is paid to
their peculiar forcefulness in resent
ing rough handling Men who have as
ISOLATED for years with these explo-
sives neVer-Or almost never-forget
this upersensitiveness 1t is worth
remembering.
The United States Department of
Agriculture, through the bureau of
public roads, has about 12,5O0,OO6
pounds of this salvaged picric acid
to distribute free among landowners
to stimulate land clearing operations.
This explosive was used in large
quantities during the world war. Be
cause of it's high cost of manufac-
ture it can not be classed as an agri-
cultural explosive; but as a salvaged
war material it is recommended to
farmers who can obtain it at lower
cost than they would have to pay for
commercial explosives The only
charges made by the government will
be for packing and transportation.
The headquarters in each state will
know how much these amount to for
the different distances.
"Picric acid says the departments
announcement, is comparatively
safe high explosive 1t is more in
sensitive to shock or impact and to
friction than are the commercial ex-
plosives, but is slightly more sensitive
to shock than INT. 1t is difficult to
ignite, but will burn, at least in small
quantities, without exploding. Theo-
retically picric acid, in the presence
of certain metals, will form dangerous
compounds, but tests Indicate that no
danger will be involved in using it in
soils containing lime or iron. It should
not be exposed to fire or flame, and no
metals should be allowed to come in
contact with it. In ordinary handling
pierre acid in not poisonous; it can be
used in open-air blasting without caus-
ing headaches or other i'll effects"
The picric acid has been prepared
for distribution by drying and packing
in double-dipped parafaned Cartridges
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
BARBECUE SEPT. "a

Saturday, September oath, is the
date set for the second annual Farm
ers' Harvest Picnic and Barbecue to
be held at the Villas county fair
grounds at Eagle River. The event
will be held under the auspices OF
the C-S club of farm women.
Six animals will be roasted in bar
becue fashion and served free to the
public. In addition to that the program
will include sports, games and con-
tests of all kinds, with music all day
and dance in the evening.
Judging from the success of the
barbecue and picnic given by this
organization, which was the first of
it's kind ever held here, the coming
event promises to be big day for all
The C-S club are making extensive
preparations to insure even greater
success than they achieved last year.
It is their intention to make the bar
vest picnic an annual affair, giving
farmers and townspeople a chance to
get together at the harvest season.
The program of the day will be
larger and better than that of last
year Mrs Anna Egberts is again in
charge of the barbecue. Two year.
lings and four sheep will be roasted
and served free to all. Coffee and
bread can be purchased on the
grounds at a nominal sum, or farm
ers may bring their own basket
lunch the same as last year, and the
ladies will serve them with the free
barbecue meat.
There will be even more games,
races and athletic events than last
year for the children anu grown-up
children as well. The program of the
races and list of prizes will be pub
lished in these columns and copy
will be mailed to each school in the
county as soon as the committee has
completed it's work. The prizes will
be on display in some suitable WIN
dow in Eagle River.
The only attraction not purely local,
will be the speaker of the day
County Agent Gibson is bending every
effort to secure man he can highly
recommend There will be music all
day with singing and dancing thrown
in for good measure. A big dance at
the opera house in the evening will
wind up the events of the day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02

Wall-Eyed pike, or pike perch, which
inhabit the many lakes and larger
rivers of our state, are one Of the best
food fish in our waters, though the
sportsman does not get the thrills
from catching them that he does in
catching black bass or "muskie."
There are several varieties Of the
pike family or pike perch. Some are
golden or yellow in color, while others
are of grayish color. The golden
pike grow to much larger size than
the gray pike. When catching fish for
the purpose Of taking eggs for hatch
ing purposes, we often catch golden
pike that weigh up to Is pounds.
This fish has been propagated quite
extensively by the state during the
last forty years. In fact, the writer
was the first man to undertake the
propagation of this fish in America,
if not in the world.
The eggs, when first taken from the
which they may come in contact.
When the eggs are first taken from
the fish, they are very soft and if
left in the vessel in which they were
placed would mass together like so
much glue. We place them in wash
tub filled with water and stir them
with dipper for several hours, chang
ing the water, until they become hard
ened. 1t is necessary to do this before
they can be placed in the Matching
jars. Nevertheless, we had a hard
time at first to make them work" so
that we might get a fair percentage of
fry from the eggs, which must have
a circulation of water to keep them
free from one another and to prevent
them from smothering. But some thir-
ty-eight years ago, when we were
using part of the basement in the old
Exposition-bldg in Milwaukee for a
fish hatchery, we had lot of pike
eggs in Matching jars.
A big fire caused the city water
which we were using to become very
roilly and the sediment adhered to
the eggs and caused them to roll free
in the Matching jars. One can easily
imagine how happy we were over this.
discovery. Now nobody thinks of at
tempting to take pike eggs unless he
has some clay soil along in the boat
to Yoil the water. When the eggs are
taken from the fish, they are placed
in the roily water and the eggs are
stirred just enough to mix them thor
oughly and prevent them from adher-
ing O~onR another
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
Some Interesting Facts About Native Pike

The period in which it takes the
eggs to hatch is from to 20 days
varying with the temperature Of the
water. Fry that hatch in nine days
are much stronger than fry that take
20 days.
Pike eggs vary in size. They will
often average from 100000 to 10000
to the quart.
A fiye-pound pike will produce one
quart of eggs. If so per cent of the
eggs deposited by the mother fish
would hatch, it would take few fish
to keep our waters stocked with fish
in abundance.
The fish crop varies from year to
year in the production. Some seasons
a sudden drop in the temperature Of
the water will kill the embryo in the
eggs during incubation. Fish that
spawn in the early spring in water Of
a high temperature are much better
than those spawned in water of low
temperature. Some waters are much
more productive than others in the
Matching OF fish and will bring them
to maturity much faster. The higher
temperature breeds animal life in the
water for the nourishment of the
young fish when first Matched. Some
waters are practically barren Of fish
food in the early spring, at the time
the fish are planted. The temperature
of the water has all to do with the de-
velopment of insect life upon which
the fish feed.
Pike spawn just as soon as the ice
disappears from the lakes When the
season is late, they often spawn under
the ice
The best season for catching pike is
June During the months of July and
August they do not take the bait very
readily, but it is different when the
water gets cooler. Next to June the
best time to catch them is after the
first frost in September.
Pike fry have been placed in nearly
all inland lakes of Wisconsin, to many
of which they were once strangers
The lakes in Waukesha county, for
example, formerly contained no pike,
but in all of these lakes anglers are
now catching them. However, know
Of some lakes that are said to be full
of pike and yet anglers catch none of
them. BY James Nevin, for many
years head of Wisconsin's fish hatch
cries and one of the most famous fish
in America.
Reprinted from The Milwaukee
Journal) +.-sxs~e,--
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
WANT LOWER RATES

Madison-The State Railroad Com
mission has taken up the plea OF the
people of Wisconsin for a lowering
of high federal taxes on long distance
telephone calls.
Commissioner Henry R. Trumbower
has written to Congressman James
A. Frear, requesting him to present
the subject of revising telephone
rates to the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House, of which he is
a member
Commissioner Trumbower writes
that 15-cent message bears tax of
SO 1-3 per cent; a 20.cent message,
a tax of % per cent, and SO on. He
says the Commission considers such
taxes rather burdensome" and in
forms Mr.. Frear that the Commission
is receiving many complaints from
Wisconsin people who are required
to pay 20 cents for a Is cent message.
He points out that the government
tax on transportation is only 8 per
cent, with an exemption on tickets
and fares of 35 cents and less, and
says that the Commission is unable
ito see why the telephone user should
be obliged to pay larger tax on his
message.
Villas County Fair Sept. IA and 49,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
TWICE WEEKLY NOW

The Northern Lakes Special,
through passenger train from Chicago
to Watersmeet, which has been run
daily, except Sunday, northbound, and
except Monday, southbolnd, will make
its last regular run on September 5.
Through next month and up to and
including October 2 it will be run
twice a week between Amigo anc
WAtersmeet, the Ashland Limited car
ing for its passengers between Amigo
and Chicago. There will be runs
both north and south on Wednesdays,
trips north on Saturday and south on
Sunday night. The Northern Lakes
Special has been very well patron
lied and is reputed to be the finest
equipped resort train out of Chicago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
EAGLE RIVER SCHOOL
STARTS ON MONDAY
Labor Day Marks Opening of
New School Year-Teach-
ing Staff Numbers Sew
eral New Members

Eagle River schools will open Mon
day, September 9Th. Indications point
to large enrolment in all depart
ments Accommodations at the high
school will be as crowded as they
were last year, according to the num-
Der of students who have signified
their intention of attending school
here.
Principal H. e. Marshall returned
this week from his summers vaca-
ton and gives us the following list
of teachers engaged for the ensuing
year:
Lydia Hanf, Beaver Dam English
and library.
Marcella Golf, Cable Math, and
science.
9Th and 9Th Miss Laabes, Winnie
connie.
4th Mrs F. Wilson, Pennington.
3rd-Miss Ferguson, Superior.
End Miss Hintz, Stevens Point.
1st- Miss Reader, Amigo.
The names of the other two mem
bers of the high school faculty and
of the teacher for the seventh and
eighth grades were not available at
the time of going to press.
Students desiring places to board
or work for their board while attend
ing school should notify Prin. Mar
shall, who has list of places now
open.
Big Picnic and Barbecue Sept. a.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02

weighing six ounces. These cartridge:
are packed in wooden boxes, each con
tanning 100 pounds of the explosive
One of these cartridges is about
equal in strength to an eight-ounce
cartridge of the commercial dyna
mites used for agricultural blasting
Picric acid is not affected by the
ordinary temperatures encountered in
this kind of blasting operations.
Picric acid should be detonated with
a mo. s" detonator or cap, and either
the safety fuse, with which most
farmers are familiar, or the electric
current may be used. Caps are placed
in the cartridges the same as in
firing dynamite. These caps must be
handled carefully, and should not be
carried with the picric acid or any
other explosives. For stumps and rock
blasting picrie acid is used the same
as dynamite, the charges are placed in
the same way, and the same number
of cartridges are to be used. The cleo
trical method of firing will be needed
in blasting bitches, because the acid
is so insensitive it will not s'propa-
gate"
The picric acid for distribution has
been allotted to the states according
to areas of cut-over lands therein. An
agency will be designated in each
state to cooperate with the departs
ment in the distribution in that state,
and the agricultural college in each
state has been asked to act in this
capacity. All individual orders for the
explosives should be placed with the
state agencies. The bureau of public
roads will not receive individual or
ders or remittances. Such orders will
be combined by the state agencies in
TO carload lots, as ess-than-carload
shipments cannot be made, owing to
high freight rates, Full information
may be had by addressing the Bureau
of Public Roads, Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, d. G.
Farmers interested in securing pic
ric acid for land clearing purposes
should get in touch with County Agt.
Gibson who will have charge of the
distribution of that explosive in Villas
county.
A few weeks ago a demonstration
of picric acid as used for land clear
ing was held west u town and the
possibilities of the explosive were
clearly shown. At the price for which
It can be secured it should prove a
great aid to farmers in this part Of
the state in their clearing campaign.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
VAUDEVILLE PLEASED


The Gene Bradley Vaudeville
Players appeared before appreciative
audiences at the opera house Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of
this week. Their bill included a num-
Der of good clean vaudeville stunts,
farcial sketches and comedies, with a
change of program every evening
Their offerings were away above the
average of the vaudeville programs
usually shown at places of this size
John Schock and brother Matt, J. p.
Wild and r. E. Lau drove up from
Waukesha Saturday to spend ten days
in the lake region.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
Hayward's Philosophy
E. F. Hayward, Conover Wis.

If we would weigh the words we say
And speak but those we mean,
We'd save lot of talk each day
And keep our conscience clean.
The idle words we often speak
And promises we make,
If given credence by the weak,
May cause some heart to ache.
We never know the suffering
An idle word may start,
You never can erase thing
You've written on a heart.
So, I say, weigh each sentence well,
And as I've said before,
You may not have so MUCH TO
TELL,
But you'll MEAN a whole lot more.
(Copyrighted)
Villas County Fair Sept. II and 15-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02

Eagle River will meet the Rhine
lander team again this season if dates
can be arranged. Their manager tele-
phoned the locals this week that they
want to play again. That's the proper
spirit. The teams are about evenly
matched and it will take another
game to decide the issue between
them. If they do come again we'd like
to see the game played to a finish
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
AT THE FAIR

Strong & Manley will have an ex-
hibit of Fordson tractors and tractor
machinery on exhibition at the Villas
county fair on September IA and Is.
They will have Fordson tractor and
Slower feed mill set up and will
grind feed free for all farmers who
bring it during the two days of the
fair. See their advertisement regarding
this elsewhere in this issue.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02
RHINELANDER TEAM
FORFEITS THE GAME
Interference With Base Runner
Spells Best Game Played at
Eagle River This Season
And Visitors Forfeit

After eight and one-half innings Of
brilliant baseball, one of the bes
games seen on the home lot this
season, Rhinelander forfeited the
game to Eagle River Sunday after
noon when a dispute arose between
the two umpires over decision al
first base.
The writer was not present at the
game and in getting the facts on the
play that caused the rumpus, has
refrained from taking the word OF
any of The players or those fans that
jump up and down on the side-lines
and tear their hair at any decision
Rather, he has taken the word of men
who know baseball from start to finish
and who can watch a game with
calmness seeing many points that
others miss. Their story is substan-
TALLY as follows:
/ 1t was the last half of the ninth
inning Rhinelander led by the score
OF 6 to S Case, first man up for Eagle,
singled. Morgan next up, grounded
to the infield between first and Sec
ond Case went second On the hit ana
Hoffman, the opposing pitcher de-
liberately interferred with Morgan on
the base line going to first. The inter
ference keeled Morgan over ana
naturally the ball got to first before
the runner did and the Rhinelander
umpire called him out The dispute
arose over Hoffman's interference on
the base line with Morgan. Frankel,
the Eagle River umpire reversed the
decision, claiming that the inter
ference was deliberate as there was
absolutely no possibility of Hoffman
ever getting behind first in order to
back up the throw, as he claimed he
was doing. AS a matter of fact it was
the first time during the whole game
that Hoffman had ever tried to back
up any play on first. Be that as it
may, a base-runner has undisputed
possession of the base line on such
play and there was no need of the
collision 1t looked as though it was
umpire reversed the decision Then
the argument began Neither side
would give in and Frankel gave the
Rhinelander team five minutes in
which to accept the decision as he
saw it as chief umpire or forfeit the
game Rhinelander chose to let the
game go by the forfeit route.
1t is regrettable that the incident
occurred. The two teams are evenly
matched and Eagle had the chance of
its life to win Sunday. It was the be,
ginning of the last half inning of the
game Their was a man on second and
no one down, and the best stickers on
the team were next up. Whether
Eagle would have scored will never
be known, but there was every posi-
bility for tie or even a winning run
in that inning.
Until the ninth inuing the game
was treat for the large crowd that
turned out. Post of Rhinelander
scored the first for his team by driv-
ing out home run over the cattle
sheds in left field. After that Paul of
Eagle River held the visitors hitless
untiR the sixth inning. The locals
did their big work in the fourth
crossing the pan four times in that
frame. They got their other run in
the eighth.
The box score and summary.
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without any rag-chewing or unsports-
manlike occurrences. Fans do not re-
lish such things.

Wakefield, one of the fastest teams
up on the range plays two games
here, next Sunday and Monday. 1t is
promised as being about the fastest
outfit the locals have taken on this
season which means that there will
be two games well worth the money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02

SUMMARY-Home run: Post Three
base-hits: Bowker, Paul. Struck out by
Paul, IL; by Hoffman, 6. Base on balls
off Paul, 1; off Hoffman, 1. Hit by
pitcher: Bowker. Sacrifice hits: Herr
feldt, Morgan, Hafner, Ewald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02

All are cordially invited.
JOS. D. KRUBSACK, Pastor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-02

Villas County Fair Sept. "a and 15-
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LUTHERAN CHURCH

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