Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-08
SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Work on the erection of new $780,
600 freight and passenger depot for
the 500 Line railway at Menasha will
be begun within two weeks, is is an
nounced.
Walter R. Miller of Fall Greek was
arrested and taken to Fort Smelling
to answer charges for draft evasion
four years ago. He registered in 1917,
but did not appear in answer to the
draft call when his number was drawn.
Robbers broke into the post office
at Ironton, Sank county, and escaped
with $500 in cash and $500 in stamps,
according to A. J. Blakellee, the post
master. Entrance to the building was
gained by breaking through the front
door.
Two prisoners, held in the county
bling a 500 Line freight train, escaped
from the prison by cutting their way
from their cells and through iron
barred windows and then dropping 80
feet to the ground.
Stumbling when it went to get a
drink of water on the shore of Pay
ment lake, Mercer, a horse owned by
a local farmer buried it's head in the
sand and was unable to extricate it.
self and drowned in a foot of water
before it could be pulled out and
saved.
The Rev. Mr.. Fox, nephew Of the
late Bishop J. j. Fox of Green Bay,
who for many years was pastor of Our
Lady of Lourdes church, Marinette,
has been named pastor of the Catho-
lie church in Lena. He was stationed
in Seymour before entering the United
States army as chaplain during the
world war.
A complaint, recently sworn out by
J. D. Angus, charging A. d. Croft with
conducting Sunday dances at sum-
mer resort in Oconto county, was dis
missed in Justice Stuelke's court at
Gillett 1t was shown that the Wis
consin statutes do not provide penal
! ty for operating a dance hall on Sun
day, but that those who attend such
diversions are liable to prosecution.
The Jim Cherf apple orchard, five
miles east Of Amigo, is this year more
than ever before one of the many won
ders of upper Wisconsin. On the
Cherf 40-acre orchard the estimate of
4,000-bushel crop is made. There
are % varieties of apples in the crop
and the trees are SO heavily laden that
it has been necessary for Mr. Cherf
to let contract to prop up the
branches. Under one tree there are
% branches propped up.
Two serious fires in Menominee did
damage estimated at between $3.50, geo
and 100000 The first fire was at the
state fair grounds, where two barns
were burned = While the Menominee
fire department was fighting this fire
another blaze attributed to firebugs
broke out in a Stori block, and this
ragged furiously and unchecked until
! the fire apparatus made the long run
back from the fair grounds. On &C
count Of this delay the block was COM
pletely Quilted.
Plans for boosting Wisconsin dairy
products throughout the country will
| be discussed at joint meeting of
committees representing the Wiscon-
sin Dairy Council and the Wisconsin
| Bankers association in the Hotel
Pf1ster, Milwaukee, on Sept Is. The
pIaYo ic +O roico q fund IF q yproxivo7 a
1y $2,500,000 to finance the movement.
| With this sum, an intensive advertis-
| ing campaign will be started, inform
ing the world that Wisconsin has g.
! 100000 COWS and that its butter, milk
| and cheese are superior to the pro-
ducts of other states.
Perfect weather and splendid patron
| age rewarded the efforts of State Fair
association officials to giIe Wisconsin
| a great fair and combined with I'm
usually strong exhibits and amusement
| features to make the 1922 State fair
! the greatest ever held Visitors and
! officials united in declaring this years
fair a remarkable success. Gate re-
ceipts amounting to $108, 709.10 and in
come from concessions estimated at
| 100000, to which may be added other
income from entries, percentages and
miscellaneous payments, put the fair
close to a paying basis. Total attend
ance for the week was the second
greatest for any Wisconsin State fair,
being exceeded only by that of 1920.
The turnstiles recorded 266,69S admis-
sions, as compared with 237,014 last
| year. The 1920 total attendance was
1884. Waukesha county, in compe-
tition with all other counties in the
state, carried off the high honors at
| the fair, winning the sweepstakes with
a total of 6,228 points, based on awards
granted exhibitors from, that county
Milwaukee county took fifth place with
1914 points. Rock county, with 4,442
points, took second place; Walworth,
with 4,130, took third place; La Crosse,
with 4,089, was fourth, and Jefferson,
with 2,731, was sixth.
Jimmy Z'Amico, As years old, was
shot to death in Madison while in his
meat market. Several revolver and
shotgun shots were fired. The slayers
escaped Police expressed belief
that family fued was responsible.
Z'Amico's brother, Angelo, Chicago
saloonkeeper, was shot in similar