Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-04

Elsie, 2-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. julius Frederick, died of an
illness which she contracted during
| the voyage from Germany to Monroe
with her parents, who arrived a few
weeks ago.
Relief from the shortage of refrig-
orator cars that has hampered ship
ment of Wisconsin produce to market
recently, is seen by the railroad COM
mission, with assurance by the inter
state commerce commission that 600
heated cars would be sent to the state
at once.
For the first time in Hurley. women
have been drawn by the jury COM
missioners for the term of circuit
court early in January To Winnie
Faul goes the distinction of being the
first woman in Iron county to be
drawn on a jury panel In the 36
drawn, 10 were women.
Capt. William M. Napier of Lake
Geneva, only known survivor of the
crew of the Great Eastern, which laid
the first Atlantic cable, passed his
eighty-fourth birthday last week. The
day was also the fifty-sixth anniver-
sary of the wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Napier.
Police tracing systematic thefts of
tires and other auto accessories in
Kenosha have arrested Herbert G.
Dowie, Max Ladewig, Jr., and Arthur
Guenther, all switchmen employed by
the Northwestern road. Ladewig and
Dowie have signed confessions of
opening two cars and implicated
Guenther, who asserts his innocence.
More than 100000 cases of peas
have been shipped from the Barron
cannery since the season closed. OF
100000 cases canned this year, only
$500 cases remain in warehouses.
Practically the entire output was
shipped to the markets of. New York
city, Washington, D. c., Boston, Mass,
and Portland, Me-, for fancy table
stock.
A record in egg production was
made recently by a turkey hen owned
by Wenzel Teifarek, a farmer north
of Oconto. A record kept during the
laying season showed that the hen
had laid SO eggs From a third Of
these, which were used for Matching,
10 chicks had been raised and were
marketed in the fall at 35 cents a
pound, bringing more than 500 to
the owner.
Mengers & Albert, who have been
operating the Spread Eagle ranch,
near Florence, under a lease, being
unable to arrange for feeding facili-
ties, have shipped their large flock
of sheep to Price, Utah. It required
seven double deck stock cars to trans
port the animals. This movement was
made necessary by the fire several
weeks ago which destroyed the firms
immense barn containing the winter
supply of feed.
BILLY Boy, one of the oldest Chip
pewa Indians living on the Couderay
reservation, Couderay, is dead. He
was one of few pagan Indians and
had his own private cemetery in his
front yard, where 20 of his children
and nearest relatives were buried in
pagan fashion with little frame build
ings. covering each grave. He was one
of the most influential Indians on the
reservation and was always prominent
in Indian councils.
The Washburn city council has
passed an ordinance regulating public
dances, and providing a license fee of
So. If dance is given without the
permit of the mayor the one giving it
is subject to fine of from $40 to $25
or Imprisonment in the county Jail.
The ordinance also provides that the
dance must close not later than /
a. M, and that no boy or girl under
Is years old will be permitted to at
tend.
The state crop service reports that
there is an increase of approximately
10 per cent in the number of sheep
and lambs in feed lots on Wisconsin
farms this month, as compared to a
year ago. The report says that the
sheep and lamb feeding industry in
Wisconsin is confined to a relatively
small number of larger feeders and
farmers. Returns indicate that copper
cent of sheep and lambs on feed in
the state are shipped in from the west
and only 10 per cent native.
John Clifford, editor of The Water
town Daily Times, and Democratic
leader in the state for many years,
was killed and his wife and son, 10,
were seriously injured when a closed
car in which they were riding was
struck by a Milwaukee road passenger
train at the Eighth-st crossing in
WATERFOWL. Mr.. Clifford was born in
Emmett, Wis, Nov. 5, 1873. At the age
of Is he became deputy clerk of courts
Of Dodge county. In 1893 Mr. Clifford
established The Juneau Independent.
He devoted his attention to this paper
until 1906, in which year he was elect
ed clerk of courts of Dodge county.
In. 1918 he was the Democratic candi-
date for congress and in the winter
of that year became associated in the
publishing of The Daily Times at Wa
tertown.
The Tomah Cow Testing associa-
ton has just completed it's first years
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