Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-03-22
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

history of the school by so students
Nellie May Sullivan is to be Valedic-
torian of the class.
After one of the most successful
winters since before the war, lumber
camps are breaking up in the north
ern part of the state and thousands
of men are being released for other
employment.
Miss Lynnette L. Vandervort OF
Fond du Lac has been nominated for
the distinguished service medal for her
services during the war by Secretary
Davis of the war department, accord
ing to dispatches from Washington.
d. G.
Licenses to work as master plumb
ers were issued to seventeen appli-
cants, and as journeymen plumbers
to forty-eight candidates. as a result
the state board of health at Milwau-
kee and Wausau.
The new Evangelical Reformed
church of West Bend was dedicated
Sunday, Mar. II. The building was
recently completed at cost of $4,000.
The present pastor, the Rev. G. Rup.
pert, has had charge of the congrega-
ton since 1898. The congregation was
organized in 1890.
The Fl. L. Moreland black fox ranch
in the town of Hughes, Bayfield, coun-
ty, was entered by thieves and five
black foxes, worth $1,000 each, were
stolen This practically depletes Mr..
Moreland's pen of black foxes. The
pen was established when Mr.. More
land trapped four black foxes 10 years
ago.
The heroism of dog parents was
brought to light when tvs Airedale
dogs chose to burn to denth rather
than leave their four pups. The six
dogs and 10000 eggs, partially
Matched, were consumed by flames
which destroyed three buildings on
the chicken farm of M v. Nelson, five
miles south of Madison.
Mrs. R. o. Combellick was shot and
killed and her husband seriously
4 wounded by Miss Clara Lipke, the
slain woman's sister, in their home
at La Crosse Miss Lipke had been
confined recently in a sanatorium and
was said to be deranged when she did
the shooting. 1t is not known where
she obtained the revolver.
During the last year Oconto county
has done $4,000 worth of co-opera-
tive business, according to County
Agent R. A. Amundson. The two lead
ing items in this list are livestock and
cheese production. During the year
1915 cattle were shipped from the
county. This stock was worth $117,-
8025O. During the year, Oconto coun-
ty farmers sold 1,145,332 pounds Of
cheese, valued at $231437.99. the aver
age price a pound being 20.2 cents.
Wood county highways in winters
to come will not be blockaded every
time snow falls. The highway COM
mission has purchased combination
snow remover and highway patrol ma
chine after a demonstration on high
way 10 that convinced them it was the
solution of the road problem in this
country In a demonstration on high
way 10 the machine walked through
80 inches of snow that had been I'M
touched since the beginning of the
winter. The new machine will do the
work that is now being done by two
Packard trucks and four men. The
county board may purchase additional
machines this summer.
John Van Buren,, ST., and Mrs. Hat
tie Peters, accused of the murder of
4 Willie Peters, whose body was found
at the bottom of an abandoued we'll
i Dec 20, were released on bail and re-
turned to their home near Waupun.
The bonds of 81, 0G0 required by the
circuit court were signed by DR.. w. P.
Smith, family physician, and John Van
Buren,, jr. No objection to the pro-
/ ceedings was offered by the district
attorney. Peters farm property is
listed as security for the bonds and
part of this property includes the farm
4 that Willie Peters rented from John
Van Buren,, sr. Mrs. Peters and her
grandfather will be tried at the May
term of circuit court in Fond du Lac.
Petitions for a countrywide tuber-
culin test of cattle in Wood county
have been signed by 100 cattle own
ers, according to County Agent r. A.
i Peterson, and the test is now assured.
The actual testing, which will take a
A month, will not be started until early
fall, as there are several other coun-
ties which have already filed their Pc
titions. Clark and Taylor counties,
which recently filed petitions, will
probably be tested at the same time
as Wood county The entire cost of
the work will be paid by the state,
with an indemnity in the case of cat
tie killed of half the difference be
tween its value and the salvage value,
but not to exceed $40 for grade cattle
and $50 for pure bred.
Because Frank Ringel laughed while
the district attorney was reprimanding
him in municipal court at Superior, he
was compelled to pay fine of $50
and costs on one charge, and on an
other, given sentence of 80 days at
the county work farm without the
alternative of a fine.
A wage increase ranging from 8 to
II per cent, general in most paper