Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-06-14

Kept busy repairing ships as a result
OF labor troubles at lower lake ports.
according to shipping men of the head
of the lakes.
William 3. Haily of Superior was
appointed by Gov. Blaine to be coun
ty judge at Douglas county, succeed.
ing Archibald Mckay, resigned. Judge
Mckay has been elected to the SUI
perior court bench,
The right of the La Crosse Luther
an hospital to deny Herman E. Wolf
and Eilef Smedal the privilege of prac
t1clng in that hospital was upheld by
the supreme court. The court upheld
the decision of the lower tribunal
which quashed writ of mandamus
obtained by the plaintiffs.
The 1923 Beloit measles champion
ship is confidently claimed by Leslie
Delaney. Ten members of his house
hold have come down with the malaus
this year. During the month of May,
out OF a population of $4,000, 439
measles cases have been reported to
the city health department.
Howard O'Brien, 20, of Glenwood
City, was instantly killed when he
came into contact with an electric
wire while working in his garage. A
l15-volt wire grounded through his
body from a cord in his hand, at
tached to a portable light, while he
was repairing an auto.
President M K. Farr of the Ameri-
can Shipbuilding Co. denied reports
that the building of lake carriers in
Superior was contemplated by his
company. Mr.. Farr was in Superior
recently in company with G.. A. Tom
linson, president of the Superior Ship
building Co., a subsidiary plant, on
his annual tour of inspection of plants
of the American Shipbuilding Co.
Seven new COW testing association
testers began work in Wisconsin dur
ing May reports A. J. Cramer, of the
Wisconsin college of agriculture. The
new men and their associations are:
Ellington, Lee Nelson independence,
Peter Nelson; Prairie du Chen. L. L.
Settler; Mindoro, George Brudes;
Rice Lake, L. Johnson; New Holstein,
Stuart Lambie; and Southeast Pierce,
Walter Stamm.
County boards have the power with
in the constitution to police highways
within their borders and to declare
and enforce forfeitures for their viola
tin, F. E. Bump, assistant attorney
general, ruled in an opinion to the
district attorney of Outagamie coun-
ty. Fines collected for violations of
the county road ordinances may con-
stitutionally be used for county pur-
poses, the opinion held.
Lightning killed IL head of stock
on the farm of Frank Tess, near
Wausau. Eleven of the animals were
grade Holsteins and one was a regis
tered Holstein bull One-fourth of the
loss is covered by insurance The cat
tie were in pasture when the storm
came up and sought shelter in a
grove of small trees. There was no
trace about the grove of the bolt
striking anything except the cattle
Not one of the trees was injured.
Amigo has been awarded the next
annual meeting of Group No. of the
Wisconsin Bankers association A0-
ton to this effect was taken at the
convention just held in Wisconsin
Rapids. Stevens Point and Wausau
also sought the 1924 meeting. Otto
P. Walch, president Of the Langlade
National bank was elected president
of the group and D. w. Van Doren
of Birnamwood, secretary and treas
urer.
Stealing ride on Northwestern
freight train in the Sheboygan yards
cost the right leg of Arnold Neuwirtn
10, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Neu-
wirth. When he jumped off the train
he fell under the wheels His leg was
mangled SO badly it was necessary to
amputate it. Several other boys
caught the same train. They got on
when it was moving slowly and
jumped off when it was going faster
than they thought it was
The low cost of gas, electric and
telephone services in Wisconsin az
compared to coal was called to the
attention of the legislature by joint
resolution introduced by Senator Teas
dale in which the assembly and SEN
ate are asked to concur in requesting
congress to enact legislation to pro-
tect the average user of coal by com
polling coal producers to label their
fuel according to heat value and other
Street Commissioner August Kie-
SOW, Lake Mills, was killed and Ferdi-
nand Smith, member of the street
commission, was injured, when the
entrance to a sewer they were inspect
ing suddenly caved in. Mr.. Kiesow,
who for many years was also marshal
of Lake Mills, was buried in the col
lapse. Smith crawled through the
lose earth until his head was free and
summoned help. Feverish efforts on
the part of rescuers to bring Kiesow
to the surface alive failed.
Walter F. Whiting, of the Town of
Waupun, was reelected chairman of
the Fond du Lac county board of su-