Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-10-04

virginia, 6-year-OIQ daughter OF MI.
and Mrs. George f. Mertinke of Ead
Claire, lies in local hospital, seri-
ously injured, as the result of being
run over by a heavy sedan.
Fred Glausner, a cheesemaker at
factory near Monroe, narrowly averted
the loss of an eye when the steam
boiler gauge burst in his face. A cut
to the bone an inch long was inflicted
by the glass above the eye.
The assessed valuation of property
owned by Algoma residents is higher
by S187,19O for 1923 than for1922, ac-
cording to the records of F. E. Mari,
city clerk The total for all property
for 1922 was $2,085,845 and for 1923
it is $2,272,035.
Kicking over a kerosene lantern,
Charles Clussman's bull started fire
which destroyed large barn and
nearly all Of its contents in the town
of Plover near Meehan. Twenty tons
of new hay and this years crop OF
oat straw were destroyed.
While assisting in filing silos on
the Henry Borgan farm near Dallas,
Mueller Hegtvedt caught his foot in
the knives on the blower, and but for
the quick action of Highway Commits
sioner Ike Baland, his whole leg would
have been drawn into the blades by
force of the suction. He lost part of
his foot.
George Carlson, Chetek farmer boy,
lost his right foot i'm attempting to
catch a ride on a passing freight. His
foot slipped from the steel ladder on
one side of a box car and was crushed
between the track and a wheel of the
car. The accident occurred when the
boy left his work in a field to catch
the train.
The John Harrington family, town
of Seymour near Eau Claire, are
among the heirs to the S250,000 estate
left by the late Mrs. James K. Nor
ris, a wealthy widow who lived in
southern Wisconsin. Each member
of the family is left bequest of ST.
coo and $4,000 in jewelry is divided
among them.
Work on the drainage of an 700
Brown county, has been started It
is expected that the project, which
will cost about $1,000, will be COM
pleted by Sept. 1, 1924. 1t is said
that several miles of drain pipe,
graduated from diameter of five to
o;rJo+oo,, i-,oIoc will he 1oid
While John Duit, Arson, was out
with a threshing crew, with is wife
and two children alone at home, the
house was entirely destroyed by fire
that caught from chimney spark.
Neighbors rushed to the scene and
formed a bucket brigade, but failed
to save the contents Of the house.
They protected the farm buildings.
Through a decision rendered at a
hearing before Samuel Byram of the 4
Wisconsin railroad commission, all
interu.ban trains Of the Rockford and
Interurban Co. will come to a com
plete stop before crossing the town
line crossing on the Beloit road be
tween Evansville and Beloit, after
dark. During the day they will slow
down to five miles an hour.
Glenn Leach, superintendent of the
bureau of fisheries, Washington, dis
tr1ct supervisor H. L. Garfield of st.
Louis and G. F. Cutler, superintendent
of the Mississippi valley fish rescue,
have made arrangements to build a
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Lynxville, 16 miles north of Prairie
du Chen. A deep well at Lynxville,
recently completed, flows $50 gallons
minute eight feet from the ground
level.
L. G. Bartlett, go, Sheboygan's old
est Civil war veteran and the oldest
man to complete the march at the G.
"a. r. encampment in Milwaukee, died
Sept. "a at Sheboygan. He was born
in Jefferson county, New York, 1888.
and came to Sheboygan county in
1856. He enlisted in the Fourth Wis
consin infantry and served five years.
He was pioneer druggist, justice of |
the peace at Cascade 40 years, and |
for several years was county super
intendent of schools.
The big sugar beet factory of the
Chippewa Sugar Refining Co. at Chip
peWa Falls will begin operations this
year on or about Oct. Is and will run
three months. This will be the long
est run in the history of the plant.
Three hundred people will be en-
ployed, working on two shifts Of IL
hours each. The acreage this season
was $500 acres and this is expected
to produce about 700 carloads. The
output at the present prices is ex-
pected to bring 100000.
Anton Bret of Stratford, %, was ac-
cidentally shot through the heart and
instantly killed at that place. The
deceased had gone to the Motor Inn
to secure pistol from William Spind-
Ter, with which to kill some hogs, He
was given an automatic pistol, but it
contained two cartridges he was
unable to remove He asked Mr..
Spindler to remove them and he at
tempted the task One was removed
safely, but the second was discharged,
the ball passing through Briefs heart.
Fred Norton, IS, proprietor of a
hotel at Tripoli, married and the