Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-15


Lewis M. Smith, whose appointment
by President Harding as postmaster
of Jefferson was recently confirmed
by the senate, took charge of the
office Sept. 1. Mr.. Smith is Jeffer-
sons fourteenth postmaster.
The opening of the fall-winter con
cert season at Lawrence Memorial
chapel, Appleton, for 1922-1923, will
take place on Monday evening, Sept.
25, when Appleton Women's club will
present Nine. Theodore SturkoWR Ryder
in duo-piano recital.
The year-old-son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dan Diesterhaft of Alma, was drowned
in pail of water at their home. The
mother had left the child playing
about the room and stepped to the
telephone for moment. AS she re-
turned, she found the baby with it's
head in the pail.
Dissatisfied with the contract they
have received from canning factories,
pea growers of Winnebago county
have appealed to the farm bureau to
assist them in organizing a co-opera-
tive association. The growers say
that the contracts did not guarantee
them a fair return on their labor.
While bringing the body of his bro
Their, Robert Jacobs, a leading Eau
Claire merchant, from New York city,
where he died while on buying trip,
Leopold Jacobs, an importer of orien-
tai goods in New York, died of cere-
bra1 hemorrhage in the North Western
station in Chicago.
Miss Josephine Grace of Peshtigo
was injured in a peculiar manner.
While sewing by hand on heavy ma
terial she used considerable force to
put the needle through the material
The needle suddenly went through
with such force that it embedded it.
self completely in the sewers leg. 1t
was necessary to remove Miss Grace
to the emergency hospital.
With an enrolment of $50 in the
Neenah high school, the largest in
history, and record breaking enroll
ments in the graded schools, students
and faculties commenced the school
year under extreme difficulties. Con-
gestion is marked in every one of the
five institutions. Children from neigh
boring townships have been barred ad-
mittance to the high school because
of lack of seating and class room IA
cilities.
More than 2,400 acres of Grown in
Wisconsin" grains have been inspected
this season. Very many of the fields
stood the test and will be listed on the
states honor roll. More than twenty
counties were visited by the inspec-
tors. In number Of fields, Waukesha
county leads with ten, Burnett was
next with seven and Brown, ST. Croix
and Rock each had five fields. Brown
and Jefferson counties lead in the
acreage inspection.
BY unanimous vote, the Eau Claire
city council adopted a resolution pub
licly commencing and honoring Alb
Thompson, custodian of the Eau
Claire municipal bathing beach, for
his bravery in rescuing, single handed
and with great danger to his own life,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Arnesen and Nc
Kinley Carton, who were thrown into
the water far out in Half Moon lake
by capsizing of their canoe. The coun-
Gil pledged it's efforts to obtain for
Mr.. Thompson a Carnegie hero medal.
For the first time in the history of.
farming and industrial development
in this country the farmers, manufac-
turers, financial interests and CONNER
clal organizations Of Wisconsin have
combined to show the other states and
each other, through the medium of an
exposition, the quality and variety of
Wisconsin products. The project is to
be known as the Wisconsin Products
exposition and will be held at Milv au-
kee, Dec. IA to 20. 1t is actively sup
ported by 35 farming and industrial
organizations.
An important outgrowth of the 1922
State fair may be the formation by
leading dairy cattle breeders of the
state of pure-bred dairy cattle board
for the purpose of standardizing prices
of several leading breeds. The idea
of such a board is to give dairying
communities where trading in cattle
is not of everyday occurrence the bene-
fit of the frequent buying and selling
of pure-bred stock in communities
where enough trading is done to per-
nit sterilization of values and the is
suance of quotations.
Five persons were killed as the re-
suit of tragedy at Luxembourg when
a Green Bay and Western train
crashed into an automobile containing
the family of Frank Ouradnik, a farm
er of the town of Montpelier. The
accident took place at a crossing and
was witnessed by hundreds of people
who were leaving the Kewaunee coun-
ty fair grounds after day of pleasure
The Ouradnik family had spent the
day at the community fair and were
on their way home. When they reached
the Second-st crossing the fiagman
was at his post, but apparently Ourad-
mix did not see him or thought he
had time to cross ahead of the train
A. W. Anderson and Atty. George
Kelley, both of Neenah, for the tenth
onI