Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-10-11


into the Hitzke pool hall, Wittenburg.
Carl Edwardson, farmer of near
Brentwood, has announced that he pro-
duced SCI bushels Of potatoes on two
acres of his farm
Two carloads of choice young Hol-
stein cows were shipped from Wau-
paca county to the Guggenheim
demonstration farm in Utah.
Helmar Johnson has purchased the
Edward Hines interests in the State
bank of Winter. He will take the
position of assistant cashier.
The enrolment of ST. Martins pa
rochial school at Clintonvil1e breaks
all previous records. One hundred
forty-six pupils are in attendance IN
the various grades.
Buttermakers of the state will oc-
cupy the center of the stage in Madl-
son November 6-8 when the state and
National Creamery Buttermakers as
sociations hold their joint annual con-
Vention.
Ira Johnson, So, of DeForest, Wis,
was injured when his auto was struck
by a Milwaukee road train near the
village of Brandon. Johnson was
thrown several feet and his car was
demolished.
Otto Deckert, a Waterman at the
plant of the Radcliffe Manufacturing
company, Eagle River. was severely
hurt in fall while on duty. He sus-
tanned a broken rib and several bad
bruises on his head.
DR.. Shegataro Moriskubo and his
son, Bruce, Of Minneapolis, shattered
all records for big fish caught in the
St Croix river near Osceola, when
they hauled out muskellunge weigh
ing thirty-seven pounds.
The cheese warehouse that has been
proposed for Neenah for the last two
years is about to become a reality. A
site has been purchased, final plans
accepted, and preparations made to-
begin construction in three weeks.
With 81 per cent of the pupils of
the Superior schools using the school
banking system, the city ranks sec
ond in its division in the country in
this respect, according to the annual
report compiled by the savings bank
division of the American Bankers as
ISOLATION
Crop reports for the current season
show a marked decrease in the Wis
consin clover crop. It is estimated
that this seasons production will fall
to 81 per cent of last years crop. Dry
weather and a short hay crop have
reduced the average from $4,000
scres last year to $4,000 acres this
year
Two 9-year-old school boys suffered
serious injuries when a rifle cartridge,
which they were hammering in
school yard, Chippewa Falls, exploded.
A piece of metal imbedded itself in
Lawrence Horns eyeball, while Earl
Hedrington lost the end of a little
finger. Both boys were taken to a
hospital.
Members of the fire and police de
partments of Green. Bay have petit
toned the city council for flat wage
increase of $25 per month, beginning
on Jan. 1, 1924 The council has laid
the matter over with the understand
ing that when the budget for the com
ing year is made up, the members of
the departments will be called in for
consultation.
Rock county is first not only for live
stock, but it has the champion woman
mixer of the country competing in
the milking contest at the dairy cattle
congress at Waterloo, Ia. Mrs. Har-
old Russell, GAINESVILLE. won the cham
pionship for women, milking 1874
pounds Of milk in three minutes al.
lotted.
While delving into an Indian mound
on the farm Of ]. A. Mayer, near Balm
station in Kenosha county, three Ke-
nosha school boys found several pieces
of Indian pottery and some arrow
heads. The mound has for years been
called an Indian burying place and the
lads gained permission of the owner
to delve into it.
Forest and brush fires are burning
in number of places in the southern
part Of Sawyer county. Due to dry
weather and the leaves, which have
been falling, the fires are travelling
fast and are killing timber and en-
dangering farm buildings. Fires up
near the 500 railroad have burned
over 1900 acres.
Hog cholera, the curse of the. swine
industry, has again established hold
in Rock county. 1t was discovered at
the farm of w. G. Quada, in La Prairie
township, by DR.. J. T. Purcell, Madi-
son, of the state department of agri-
culture. Quada has lost 90 head
Vaccination has been recommended
to check the disease.
Warden w. P. Elliott, Whitewater,
has been appointed to have charge of
the southern Wisconsin district in the
new plan of the Wisconsin conserva
ton commission to have the state di-
vided into six districts, Elliott's dis
trict includes Green, Rock, Walworth,
Racine, Kenosha, Jefferson, Washing
ton and Ozaukee, Milwaukee, Dodge,
and Waukesha counties.
The Jersey breeders of Barron
county have organized county as
sociation, with the rules of the Ameri-
can Jersey Cattle club used as a