Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-30

ties of $4,000 and assets OF $4,000
When Peter Kutil, Manitowoc, drovs
his car into his garage for the night
a revolver was thrust into his face
and he was told to give up his money
The robber vanished into the dark
ness with $1.44.
Paul Morgan, a buyer of choice
dairy cattle at Darlington, shipped .
carload of Holsteins to Marcus, Ia,
The bulk of the shipment came from
the Holstein farm of H. L. jolly, who
resides near Darlington.
E. A. DeCampsi, manager of the
National Lead Co. of Chicago, has
purchased the Tamarack Lodge on
Red Cedar Lake, two miles from
Brentwood. The lodge was purchased
from w. A. Hance of Liverpool, III.
County Agent A. w. Knott of Wau-
paca county has resigned to become
dairy specialist with the agricultural
college at Manhattan, Kas. He is the
second local county agent to resign
within a year, his predecessor, ]. H.
Dance, having left last January.
The number of visitors registering
at the state capitol indicate that this
seasons record will head the list
During the past week 1,155 persons
registered, and it is estimated that at
least half that number made the
rounds of the building on sightseeing
trips, without the use of a guide.
The big Bekkedal Lumber Co. saw
mill at Couderay, was nearly wrecked
when box holding the main drive
shaft under the building gave way,
tearing loose other boxes and con-
crete stands, breaking all the pulleys
on the shaft and twisted the 4-inch
steel shaft like wire. 1t will take
a month to repair the damage.
Spooner's new creamery at Birch
wood, which started operations a
month ago, is making exceptional
progress, averaging eight hundred
pounds of butter day. The cream
cry has one hundred and seventy pa
irons and five cream haulers have
been engaged. The butter which is
not sold locally is shipped to the Chi
cago market.
The Big Badger fair will hold forth
at Platteville Sept. to Z. An i'm
portant item on the bill Of exhibits
is the liberal purses offered for ex-
pert horse shoe pitchers. The courts
will be placed in front of the grand
stand and will be the gathering place
of experts each day from this locality,
Iowa and South Dakota.
Daniel G. Kinrade, native of the
Isle of Man, died at Beloit after work
ing 81 years for the P. B. Yates Ma
chine Co. He moved to Berlin, Wis,
in 1856 and started working for the
Berlin Machine Co. in 1869. When
that plant moved to Beloit, he came
with it and worked until the time OF
his death. The plant changed its
name during the war.
John Westergreen died in a Finnish
bathhouse on his farm while taking
bath near Brentwood A Finnish
bathhouse is wooden building with
a stone floor. Preparatory to taking
a bath, a fire is built on the stones
till they are well heated, then the fire
is raked out and cold water thrown
on them, causing a heavy steam. The
occupants sit on perches built around
the inside.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Freeman and
daughter, Florence, of Waupun, were
seriously injured when wheel on
their automobile broke and the car
tipped over in the ditch. Mrs. Free
man sustained several broken ribs,
while Freeman had one ear so badly
torn that twenty-one stitches were
required to close the wound. The
daughter, year and a half old, sus-
tanned a broken arm.
Three carloads of fine grade Guern-
sey cows were shipped from Platte
vile over the Northwestern railway,
consigned to various points in the
state of Maryland The cattle were
all tuberculin tested, and were shipped
in special stock cars The consign-
ment was made up of sixty fine dairy
COWS with association records to their
credit. Another carload of Guernseyss
was shipped from this section to Hast
ings, Neb.
At the last meeting of the city coun-
ell at Washburn, it was unanimously
voted to engage the American Ap,
praisal Co. of Milwaukee, to make an
original cost appraisal of the plant OF
the Washburn Water Works, the cost
for the service not to exceed $500 The
wisconsin railway rate commission
also has under negotiation an ap-
praisal of the plant but has given no
tice that it will be some time before
the appraisal can be made.
A. M. Cronce, proprietor of Glover
Leaf Lake dance hall and soft drink
emporium at Clintonville. was recent
" arrested on counts pointing a gun
at an iofffcer of the law, having moon
shine in his possession and also re-
sisting an officer. He was recently
found guilty of the first charge and
fined $50 and costs amounting to $3.50.
On the two other counts he was bound
over for trial at the next term of the
circuit court.
Stuart Fuller, former Barron coun-