Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-14


former incumbent ]. F. Wallace.
Tax rate for the city of De Pere for
1928 will be Approximately $44 a thou
sand on assessed property values.
Many improvements, especially roads,
streets and schools, are largely re-
sponsible for the high rate. it was said.
The farm residences of Herman
Phiel, situated on the outskirts of Por-
tage, and Lee Manley, located in the
town of Arlington, were destroyed by
fire. Both blazes were due to defec-
tive chimneys.
Herman Emmons, 5S, committed
suicide by taking poison at the home
of his father-in-law near Galley Lake,
where his wife and two children lived.
Mrs. Emmons started divorce proceed
ings and Emmons is said to have told
her he would "save her that trouble"
Word has been received of the ap-
pointment of A. H. Herrick, Madison,
at present a student at Western Re
serve university, as a Rhodes scholar
to Oxford university. Thirty-two
Rhodes scholars are appointed from
the United States each year.
Lawrence college students are TAX
ing an active part in a drive Of Apple
ton churches to collect clothing for
Near East relief work. The cabinets
of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. w. G. A. at
the college have formed working
organization among the students and
are meeting with excellent results.
The Plymouth city council has de-
cided the city needs a police depart
ment that will operate at all hours.
Orders have been given that the police
station must be open at night, with
an officer constantly in charge. Pre-
Viously, it has been complained, a
policeman was hard to find at night in
Plymouth.
Jack Greefe, sheriff of shawano
county, was shot in the back and right
hand by a man he had arrested and
who gave his name as Pat O'Reilly,
SIS. Sheriff Greefe arrested O'Reilly
when he noticed the 1atter's queer &C
tons and on driving him to jail in his
automobile the prisoner drew a revolt
yer and fired twice at the sheriff be-
fore he was disarmed.
Mrs. Pelagie ellison, II, grandmother
of Odile ellison, 19-year-old Dyckes
yifie, Hewaunee county, girl who was
accidentally burned to death two
hours before the hour set for her mar
riage to a Dyckesville farmer, died at
the home of her son. Physicians said
the shock of the tragic death of her
granddaughter was the cause Of the
aged woman's death.
Mrs. Arabella Locke, known as *tha
grand old lady of Winnebago county,
celebrated her one hundred fourth
birthday anniversary, Dec. 4, at her
home on mro-Winneconne-rd No
special gathering was held, as she was
recently injured in a fall and it was
decided not to overtax her strength.
IN spite of her age, Mrs. Locke reads
the newspapers and until her accident
helped some about the house.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau fedora
ton has been informed by Harrison
Fuller, director of the conference for
the prevention of grain rust, that
there is every likelihood that congress
will appropriate 100000 for barberry
eradication next season. Mr. Fuller,
with a group of farm bureau presi-
dents and agricultural experts from
the middle west, recently appeared be-
fore the agricultural subcommittee Of
the house in support of the eradica
ton bill
Postal authorities predict that this
years Christmas mail will be the
heaviest in the history of the country.
According to E. L. Ormsby, Chief
Clerk of the Railway Mail Service at
Milwaukee, energetic preparations are
being made in Wisconsin to meet this
situation. He states, however. that
the Christmas mail problem is largely
one of sorting and routing, at which
very little extra help can be used to
advantage. The bulk of the holiday
mail will have to be sorted by the
regular ill year d1OU1lQ 1O4 ", eto O41y
highly skilled and experienced men
can do this work Mr. Ormsby states
that holiday cards and parcels should
be mailed early, before December 18th.
to give the sorters enough time to
handle them.
Outlining it's activities during the
past biennium, the state conservation
commission has announced that with
in that period it had collected, exclu
sive of fines, $3.50. 1o8, which had been
turned into the state treasury. Fines
imposed for 1894 convictions for vio
Iation of game and fish laws totaled
800, all of which was placed in the
school fund, the report said. Total
arrests numbered 2,235, while conisca
tons of guns were 1,487, which sold
for S12,720. Hunting licenses brought
in 1895, 779; trapping licenses, $70,979;
nonresident fishing licenses, $134, $685.
and carp fishing licenses $42,617. The
fishery division of the commission re-
ports that in the two years it planted.
339 ,355,700 fish, consisting Of black
bass, pike, pickerel. muskellunge, sal
mon, roach, sunfsh, whitefish, catfish,
crappie, white brass and five varieties
of trout.