Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-10-06

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4 the Pautsch home in which he had
been locked up alone while Mrs.
Pautsch was shopping.
Never before in all the history of
Grant county has there been such an
abundance of nuts, of all varieties as
are found in the woods along the Big
and little Platte rivers and their trib-
utaries.
That prairie chickens are NOR.
plentiful in Wisconsin this year than
for many years past is the belief Of
state conservation officials, Madison,
upon receipt of reports from all parts
of the state.
William Luecke1. employed by tbs
Interlake Pulp and Paper company,
Appleton, was painfully burned when
he fell into molten sulphur which had
overfowed from vat. He will re.
cover.
Although they live in the same
state, Judge Griff Thomas, of Hurley,
and his brother, George Thomas. Clear
Lake, have not had a visit in 36 years
until last week when George drove to
Hurley to visit his brother
The Rev Father Francis Xavier, for
six years pastor of st. Joseph's
church in Walsh, Marinette county,
with Miles as a mission, has been
transferred to Gresham, by Rt. Rev.
Bishop Paul Rhode of Green Bay.
After serving twelve years as pastor
of the Norwegian Danish Lutheran
church at Rhinelander, the Rev. j. A.
Snartemo has resigned to take
charge of two large congregations
near Sturgeon Bay.
While milking COW, Mrs. Caroline
Kuehlhold, 78, Auburndale, suddenly
toppled off the milking stool and died.
1t is believed heart disease caused
her death. She was born in Germany
in 1874.
Oil can explosions claimed their
tenth victim of the year in Beloit
when Theodore Calkins, q, died from
terrible burns suffered when gas
oline can with which he was filing
blowtorch exploded.
Shortly after he arrested two intoxi-
Gated men found lettering in an alley,
Joseph Linnen, "a, night Waterman at
Waupun, was stricken with paralysis
and died three hours later. His death
occurred on the thirty-fourth anniver-
sary of his wedding.
Valentine Faber, Oshkosh, his wife
and two daughters, narrowly escaped
from serious injury when their new
automobile was struck by switch
engine on the Milwaukee railroad and
dragged 20 feet. The car remained
upright, however. Faber said he did
not see the flagman at the corner.
L. Kevil Larsen, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. P. Larsen, of Neenah, a gradu.
ate of Neenah high school and
Lawrence college, left for England,
where, at Oxford university, he will
study the coming three years, under
a Rhodes scholarship which he was
recently awarded.
Echoes of the severe sleet storm
that swept Wisconsin last winter are
still heard by the state railroad com
mission, in the form of telephone com
pany applications for increased rates
The Mattison and Manawa telephone
companies, the Eden Telephone Co.
and the New Lisbon Telephone Co.
are applying for rate raises and have
hearings scheduled before the com
mission. All of these concerns were
affected by the storm.
The 1888 grade crossings in Wis
consin claimed toll of 43 deaths and
172 injured during the fiscal year end
ing July /, according to G. NJ. Larson,
of the state railroad commission. In
making his report, Mr.. Larson de-
clared that it now appeared that the
majority of grade crossing accidents
are more directly due to the amount Of
traffic on the highways and railroads
rather than to the dangerousness of
any given crossing.
Financial budgets of the University
of Wisconsin and of the nine Wiscon-
sin normal schools are being drawn
up for submission to the state board
Of education and the state board of
public affairs for approval before re
quests for money are placed before
the 1928 legislature. Requests of the
higher educational institutions for
funds are expected to total approx
mately $8,500,000 annually, or $4,000,
900 for the next biennium. The 1921
legislature authorized expenditures of
$140O0,00O, which excluded practically
all construction projects.
The Wisconsin Supreme court has
granted the application of the state
democratic party committee for an
immediate hearing on applications of
that party for a writ of mandamus
against the secretary of state, order
ing the placing Of the democratic
candidates for state offices in the
official democratic column of the Nov.
7 election ballot A decision is ex-
pected by the high court by Oct 10.
The ballots must be sent out by Oct.
13, according to statute, and a de
cision must be reached by Oct. 10 to
allow the necessary stages of printing
and mailing to be carried out.
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