Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-10-25
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Carl Johnson, Wallace farmer, run
over by load of grain, died of in
juries at st. Joseph's hospital, Ne
nominee.
Claude Dexter, II, of New London,
was accidentally shot by his compa-
Mon while they were hunting. He
will recover.
John Nelson, Barron county farm
er, lost all the fingers of his right
hand when his hand slipped into the
blades on corn shredder.
Limestone grinders, ordered 80 days
ago, are beginning to arrive at point
of delivery in Grant county to begin
work for the enrichment of farm soils.
Adolph Bruette, Porterfeld, is at
the Marinette hospital with frac
tured leg. While skiddin,g logs one of
the timbers swung around, crushing
his leg.
Roy Miller, 12-year-old son of H. ].
Miller, Humbird, suffered burned
hand when cartridge with which the
lad was playing, exploded when struck
against a rock.
The shipyards of the Manitowoc
Shipbuilding corporation are a busy
place with the advent of fall. Several
repair jobs have been obtained within
the last few weeks.
The body of an unidentified man,
about As, was found near the Omaha
railroad tracks at Kempton, midway
between Fairchi1d and Augusta.
Death is said to have resulted from
natural causes.
Theodore Kruger, Monticello, was
fatally injured when his auto was
struck by a Milwaukee road train at
the highway No 81 crossing. He was
on his way to Oshkosh from Aurora
vile at the time of the accident.
After a residence of IS years on the
same farm on which he was born,
Emil Corbisher of Gardner, Door
county, is dead During his life he
witnessed the Belgian settlement in
the southern part of Door county de
velop into rich agricultural district
While taking a horse to water
trough on her fathers farm near
Colby, Esther Wetenkamp, 10, suffered
crushed skull when the animal
kicked viciously after she had struck
it with a stick. Physicians at hos
pital in Chippewa Falls, where the
girl was taken, found a Jagged four
inch cash in her skull.
Edsil Huntoon, who June 1 planted
a field to potatoes near Waupaca, is
harvesting 225 bushels of potatoes to
the acre. Huntoon is an expert grow
I er and he advocates planting at about
the time he planted this field. An
other field, which he finished planting
June 8, is giving much lighter yield,
about $50 bushels per acre.
The building of a canning factory
at Cobb by leading business men Of
Markesan, Green Lake county, at a
cost of 100000, has sent farm values
soaring. Charles Tremaine sold eighty
acres south of the village to Albert
Nagel at $3.50 an acre. Lands close
to the plant all have gone soaring as
they are adapted to the cultivation of
peas, sweet corn and pumpkins.
A donation of $4,000 has been given
the county road and bridge committee
by the Kinzel Lumber company of
Merrill, which will cover the cost of
extending the Norwood road north to
Grandfather bridge, west of the Wis
consin river This extension of the
Newwood road may be followed in
time with connecting link westward
with the Taylor county road from Rib
Lake.
Bears are reported as being more
numerous in the vicinity of Lady
smith this fall than for many years
past. Mrs. L. T. Stevens, wife of an
employee in the pulp mill at Thorn
apple Dam, went out to their pasture
to drive in the cows, and saw five
bears. H. NJ Flunker, Ladysmith fur
buyer, shot and killed a black bear
weighing ESQ pounds few miles
northwest of the city.
Word was received at Oshkosh that
the Adamson corporation of Los
Angeles, which recently purchased
thirty-four head of pure bred Guern-
sey cattle near that city, wired their
agent, who is in Indiana, to stop at
Oshkosh on his way hack to California
and purchase twenty-five additional
head Of cattle The first shipment of
cattle reached the western coast sixty
one hours from the time they left
Chicago.
The Ashland National bank, the old
est national bank in northern Wiscon-
sin, which was organized in 1884, and
has occupied its present home since,
is soon to move into a new building.
The new building has been erected on
the opposite corner from its present
quarters, is of Bedford stone, two
stories high, and cost $4,000 It's
vaults are said to be the, largest in
the state outside of the First Wiscon-
sin National bank Of Milwaukee. 1t
is expected that the building will be
ready for occupancy Dec /.
A Barred Rock hen on the Joseph
Koula farm on North ridge, La Crosse
county, laid two mammoth eggs meas
uring nine and one-half inches in cir
conference In one egg was found
another egg of normal size, embedded