Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-10-18


Edward Hammett, wealthy Sheboy-
gan furniture dealer, has purchased
Strawberry island, north of the Door
peninsula, and will convert it into a
summer home.
Lloyd Fjerstad, 20, was Douglas
county's first 1923 hunting season
victim, when shotgun with which
he was hunting accidently discharged,
tearing a portion of the boys right
hand away.
William Trebian, miner employed
at the Pacquette mine, Shullsburg,
was seriously injured when he was
caught in belt and thrown into the
hosting machinery. Physicians say
he will recover.
Julius Colder, farmer, received part
of charge of picrid acid in his face
while blasting stump on his farm
four miles from Rib Lake. The physi-
clan who was called said Golder's eye
sight will be saved.
Gertrude Karpenske of Heller, Z,
suffered compound fracture of her
left femur while climbing the wheel
on her fathers wagon while it was in
motion She slipped and the leg went
between the spokes.
With the proceeds of the sale of
a genuine black fox that he had cap
tured two weeks ago, Fred Fielder,
a settler near Argonne, paid off the
mortgage on his farm. He received
more than 5000 for the animal.
j. H. Ross of Curran, Jackson coun-
ty, was pinned between threshing
separator and tractor and escaped
without serious injury, although a
steel beam of the separator was bent
where it had pressed against his body.
Farmers in the Ojibwa district in
Sawyer county are making arrange
ments for the erection of cheese
factory at Ojibwa in the early spring.
The building will be 80 by SO feet and
two stories high and modern in every
way.
Herbert Hoffman, 15-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hoffman, Clinton
vile, had his right hand seriously in
jured in a corn husker. The accident
occurred when the boy attempted to
push cob into the husker with a
stick
Fire on the farm owned by John
Landt in the Town Of Mishicot, Mani
towoc county, destroyed a large barn,
the seasons crops and expensive farm
machinery. The blaze is believed to
have started from spontaneous COM
bustion in the granary. Neighbors
saved the dwelling. The loss is esti-
mated at about $500.
Forest fires are doing much dam
age to growing timber in the eastern
part of Barron county, the dry
weather and strong winds doing much
to favor the fires. The towns east of
Rice Lake on the 500 line have been
fighting fires for several days, the
fires reaching the plant of the Flam-
beau Lumber Co. at Ladysmith, with
resulting heavy loss.
Walter "A. Duffy, agricultural agent
in Barron county, has commenced the
selection of choice potatoes grown on
the farms in his county for the pur-
pose of exhibiting them at the state
potato show, to be held at Stevens
Point, Nov. to 8. The county agri-
cultural committee has appointed Mr..
Duffy and James Hanson to gather
and arrange the Barron county potato
exhibit
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the large barn of James Fossland on
the Sheridan road near Kenosha,
causing a loss estimated at more than
S17OOO. In the barn were seventy
tons of hay and large amount OF
farm machinery, which was stored
there by Fossland, dealer in farm
implements 1t is thought that tramps
entered the barn and accidentally
started the blaze.
Approximately thousand hunting
licenses have been issued this year
to Barron county hunters. F. S.
Woodland, county clerk. is following a
plan this year which he inaugurated
last year of authorizing bank cashiers
throughout the county to issue Ii
censes. Five hundred deer tags have
been issued and the number of trap
ping licenses to date is about one
hundred with 100 tags.
AT a special meeting of the district,
a big majority was given in favor Of
issuing $4,000 in bonds for the pur-
pose of building a new high school at
Bloomington. An even larger ma
jority was voted in favor of borrow
ing $4,000 from the state trust fund.
A special tax of $4,000 was voted in
July. This withsthe salvage from the
old school will make the new struc-
ture available at a cost Of $4,000.
Gambling devices and games OF
chance are gradually being eliminated
from carnivals travelling with Wis
consin fairs, and from itinerant shows
reaching a large number of cities in
the state, according to announcement
made by G. B. Ballard, state treasury
agent. He declared that his depart
ment is enforcing the statute forbid
ding the use of all devices intended
to attract patronage by appealing to
peoples gaming tendencies.
Burglars robbed the Bassine Grain
Elevator office of 1881, and broke into
the city scale Office and the office OF
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