Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-13

MI. ana MIS-. ROD NOFIQ, living neal
Shell Lake, are the parents of baby
girl weighing only two pounds. The
baby is a week old and is fed by the
aid of a medicine dropper.
Arthur E. Peterson, Eau Claire, suf
fered broken collar bone and bad
body bruises when thrown twenty
feet from the top of a logging train
on which he was braking.
N. Butler, 70, a farmer of Halle
was instantly killed when he was
struck by a car driven by Arthur Dan
ielson, of Halle. Butler was walking
home from Chippewa Falls.
F. B. Stratton, cashier of the state
bank of Royalton, will be the new
cashier of the Ogdensburg State bank
following the resignation of A. H
Schultz. Edwin Schultz, of Wautoma,
will succeed Mr.. Stratton at Royalton.
Six hundred Odd Fellows of south.
ern Wisconsin are expected to meet
at GAINESVILLE Dec. Is for a special dis
trict convention. H. M. Blood, Chi
cago, grand instructor Of the state OF
Illinois, will exemplify degree work.
Eluding the attendant in whose
charge he was exercising on the
grounds of the Dodge county insane
asylum, Charles Frisbie, 40, an inmate
of the institution, threw himself I'M
der a locomotive switching cars on
the asylum track and was fatally in
jured
Irwin Cope, former secretary of the
Ten Thousand Lakes association of
Minnesota, has been engaged as or
ganizer by the Wisconsin Land o.
Lakes association. Mr. Cope will
spend large share of his time in the
field and will make Rhinelander his
headquarters.
The Waupaca county board of SUI
pervisors appropriated $4,000 for the
erection of a building to house the
county training school for teachers.
This action of the board marks the
end of a long struggle on the part of
friends of the school to secure suit
able building for it.
In the heart of the woods in north
ern Wisconsin, twelve miles from the
nearest farm house, a bee tree was
found recently. 1t contained more
than ESQ pounds of wild honey. 1t
took three men with heads covered
to get it, and they then had to carry
%11,0 hoyaoxy +rryoIxyo V1oi1oc
Mrs. Frank Hicks, AZ, Beloit, met
instant death at Rockton, four miles
south Of Beloit, when a northbound
Milwaukee passenger train struck the
automobile in which she and her hus-
band were riding. The woman's head
was severed from her body. Hicks
escaped with minor injuries.
Owners of the Glover Valley cheese
plant, Brentwood, have practically
completed the work upon the factory
which has been under construction
during the past several months. A
large new basement has been made
and the structure formerly used as
club house will house the machinery.
A female deer with horns about six
inches in length was killed near State
Line in Villas county during the re-
cent hunting season. Several State
Line hunters saw the doe and claim
that it resembled buck from dis
lance. It has been many years einoe
a freak doe of this-lrind has .Deen
killed In the northern Wisconsin
woods.
Brown county closed it's highway
construction season by finishing all
the work planned, including SO miles
of concrete. It is proposed to increase
the highway police force from three
to five. Brown county followed the
policy of arresting drunken drivers
and fining them to the limit, but not
to arrest for mere speed in cases
where there was not recklessness OF
driving.
Sixteen carloads of poultry have
been shipped comparatively this fall
by Polk, st. Croix and Barron county
farmers as a result of a meeting held
last March by managers of the live
stock shipping associations of those
counties. Farmers are not onlp prof
iting by shipping their poultry Co
operatively, but they are getting into
the field of business, learning buHi-
ness methods and how to care for
their poultry to get, the best results"
Man chews tobacco and survives.
Cows try it and die. Nine head of
cattle on the farm of Ernest Haines,
between Stoughton and Oregon, tired
of the routine Of fodder and silage,
nosed their way into the open tobacco
shed last week Each selected a
"cud" of moist, curing leaves. Four
of the cattle are dead and the other
five are reported to be suffering from
acute nicotine poisoning. The loss,
Mr.. Haines estimates, will be more
than $1,000.
The almshouse of Waupaca county
may be used Jointly by the poor OF
Waupaca and Portage counties. A
committee of the local board of super
visors is negotiating with the Wau-
paca county poor committee with this
Arrangement in view. Waupaca is not
using it's almshouse to the fullest ex-
tent and it is believed the board may
be willing to allow Portage county
charges TO be sent there. Portage
county has had no such institution
since a fire destroyed the poor farm