Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-19

months of 1923, Alex J. Cobban, mead
of the department said.
Norman ). Dunlap, Pepin banker
land business man, wanted on charges
! of forgery, has been arrested at IT.
bana, H., after a four-year hunt The
village of Pepin and the First Ma
tional bank of Durand were the heaV-
lest losers by Dunlap's transactions.
Struck in the neck by the full
charge of a shotgun which he attempt
ed to pick UP from the bottom OF a
rowboat, Arthur Lee Mcpherson, 10,
twas killed while hunting near Cor
nelia, a small hamlet seven miles west
Platteville.
A Lioness club will be organized at
Manitowoc by wives and sisters OF
members of the Lions club. 1t will be
the first chapter in the state. AT a
meeting Of the Lions and their wives
a committee of six women was named
to arrange for the first meeting.
The Citizens bank of Kenosha be-
came the United States National bank
of Kenosha when Comptroller Of Cur
rency Crissinger signed it's charter
as national bank 1t was organized
as a state bank in 1915. It is capital
lied for 100000.
Solomon Levitan, state treasurer,
issued a statement saying that nearly
/ $4,000 more in interest money was
collected from depository banks OF
Wisconsin during the first three
months of this year than was collected
during the same months in 1922.
Charles Abrams, Amigo, veteran
North Western road engineer, has just
completed 81 years of railway service
and been placed on a pension. Mr..
Abrams began work as water boy
and was promoted to engineer after
- years. He brought the first train
into Amigo in 1881, being engineer on
the train hauling the rails.
Tearing nose rings, valued at 45
cents each from the noses of bulls in
shipment, is the latest exploit of the
'hardest-hearted guy" State Humane
/ Officer A. e. Frederick, Madison, re
ports the discovery of a carload of
bulls in the northern part of the state
each bull having its nose torn and
bleeding from having the rings yanked
out.
r. P. Guptill, proprietor of Echo
Bay farm, near Elcho, Langlade coun-
q ty, purchased a carload of grade
Guernsey cattle from farmers in his
territory for shipment to the southern
part of the state. The animals aver
/ aged over $100 head. Elcho is
rapidly coming to the front as a cattle
raising section Mr. Guptill, himself,
is the owner of one of the finest dairy
herds in the state.
Fire on the farm of Senator La
Toilette at Maple Bluff, near Madison,
destroyed three large buildings, caus-
ing several thousands of dollars dam
age. One prize Holstein bull persisted
in the flames. -Four head of valuable
horses, including Kentucky thor
oughbred saddle horse, were rescued.
The fire had it's origin in a meat
smoker being operated in the machine
shed.
A daring rescue by neighbors saved
the lives of four children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Wolf, Wood county farm
q ers, living near Marshfeld, when gaso-
line exploded, the flaming oil covering
the children and setting the home on
fire. Edward, the Oldest, boy of IS,
attempted to start a fire with gasoline
after the parents had left for Marsh
field on a shopping trip. He. was
probably fatally burned about the
body.
Chairman d. H. Parks of the town
of Plover, Portage county, and E. H.
Roster each received 112 votes in the
race for supervisor, and the former
was defeated for reelection by a flip
of coin. Both men agreed to break
: the tie by this method and Roster
chose heads and won the toss.
Parks has been chairman for seven
years. He was the only chairman in
Portage county defeated for re-elec-
ton.
Struck by special North Western
freight train as their auto stalled on
the tracks at a crossing three miles
south of Marshfield, Martha STRIFE
binger, 25, was instantly killed and
Adam Emmerich, SO, was fatally in
jured. Emmerieh died an hour after
the accident. Eanmerich was driving
his auto at a moderate rate Of speed
and on reaching the crossing his en-
CINE stalled. At this moment spe-
cial freight plowed into Emmerich's
car, hurting both himself and Miss
Striebinger some distance along the
, track.
The experiment in humanitarian
started by Wisconsin last year when
three hundred acre farm was pur-
chased six miles from the Wisconsin
state reformatory at Green Ray will
be carried further this year when
twenty men are taken to the farm and
given an opportunity to assist IL the
reclamation work, it was announced
. by Superintendent Oscar Lee. The
farm is intended as the nucleus to 8
state dairy farm and forty head OF
purebred cattle will be quartered there
& this summer. The men chosen for
the working of the farm are all pris-
oners of good record and the honor
system is in effect.
Death claimed one of the pioneer
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