Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-06


driver of a Wisconsin highway com
mission truck, was killed by a Chi
cago, Milwaukee e st. Paul railway
train near Columbus when his truck
was hit by the engine.
Gilbert C. Campbell has been ap
pointed to the post of traffic manager
of the Oshkosh association of com
merce by the transportation commit;
tee of the association. Mr. Campbell
will succeed Robert ]. Hodson who re
signed to go to California.
Appleton citizens are making a de
termined effort to secure the re-direc-
ton of state highway Ia, which now
runs from Menasha to Chiffon, from
the Sherwood intersection to this city
Two routes are suggested, one to
make the turn at Lake Park, and a
second to turn at Finnegan's Corners,
a mile south of the city, by way Of
the Lake road
Two hundred and twenty hogs on
the Outagamie county asylum farm
have just been yaccinated by DR.. H.
D. Larvelere of the state department
of agriculture, Madison and Dr. Viii.
liam Madison, Appleton. as a precau
ton against cholera. The work re
quired nearly two days. The hogs
were all in a healthy condition and
showed no signs Of the disease.
The eight mile sand wagon trail
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35 to a considerable extent in Burnett
county, is under Improvement and will
be completed this fall The state
highway when the eight mile stretch
is completed will offer a beautiful
scenic short cut from the Twin ports
to the Twin cities, cutting off thirty
miles from the old Minnesota route.
In six months there will only be 81
women in La Crosse a city of 25,00O.
with long hair, BARRIERS estimate. At
the present rate at which the long
tresses are being sacrificed to the
shears they say that this is a very con
servative estimate One barber says
that in the last month he has cut
enough hair to make five mattresses
and an over-stuffed davenport. Both
young and. old are succumbing to the
charm of short locks.
On the shore of the Wisconsin river
near the Indian camp at the Dells.
before a rustic altar the first Indian
child to receive baptism was named
Harriet Stand Rock Deborah. She ia
the daughter Of Roches Deborah
chief Of the $50 Winnebago Indians
encamped at the head of the Dells
He desired that his little daughter
have a Christian baptism. Before the
peoples of his tribe a handful of water
from the Wisconsin river was sprin-
kled over the forehead of his little
daughter.
Notre Dame university of Indiana
has come to Dodge county to purchase
% head of pure bred Holstein cattle
as a basis for a new and better uni
versity farm herd The shipment is
largely Homestead strain purchased
through the Dodge County Holstein
association, of which Francis Darcy
is secretary. Similar purchases were
made by the university in Dodge coun-
ty last winter, and shipped to South
Bend. Cattle were selected from
farms near Juneau, Clyman, Hustis-
ford and WATERFOWL.
Monroe gas users are elated over
the action of the railroad commission
in reducing rates in that city to 20
cents a 1000 cubic feet. The new
price of 50 net was set after lengthy
investigation by the commission, made
on its own initiative and not because
of complaint by the city. A valua-
ton of the plant Of the Monroe Light
and Fuel company will be made next
month by the commission and should
this reveal an injustice to the com
pany in the new rate, the old one may
be reinstated, it Is said.
Farmers throughout the northwest
ern part Of the state have commenced
the harvest of their second clover
crop. The crop is iB excellent condi-
ton and in many instances it is great
en- than the first crop. Other crops
are reported by farmers to be in very
good condition despite the frost which
visited parts of this region. Some
corn was touched by the frost and as
a result the cutting of ensilage has
started. In many parts Of Barron,
Washburn, Rusk, and Sawyer coun-
ties the threshing of oats has been
completed.
Nearly $4,000 will be spent by the
city of Two Rivers next year for street
paving. The program of the street
committee has been drafted and calls
for both concrete and vitrolithic pave
ment. Two Rivers will take advan
tage of the new state law which pro-
vides that cities may obtain state and
county aid on construction Of city
streets which are part Of state
trunk highway. The basis of the
state-county aid on city streets is 1S
feet. and under the law the city can
obtain one-third of the cost on 18 feet
from the state and another third from
the county. The actual amount to be
spent is $S7,86O. of which $44,S90 will
be paid by the city at large and $SS,
47O by property owners.
Mr.. and Mrs Hans Bronson, Chetek,
celebrated their fiftieth wedding an