Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-11-24
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Important Events of the Week
Ii Around the Badger State
Receipts of the Kenosha
postofftce have jumped from $S.7S1S7
in 1890 to $21AS7S52 in 1922. accord
ing 10 the report filed by Postmaster
James German with Congressman
Cooper 10 show the need of a new
/ postoffice building in that city. Since
/ 1910 the number of employes has
jumped from twenty-eieht to ffty-hye
with a possibility OF The need OF not
less than eighty-iye in ten more years.
] Thanksgiving dinners will
be provided deserving poor families
IN the twin cities through a pro
I vision in the viii OF the late 5. A..
+ Cook, former representative in con
Gress. Mayors of The two towns have
received checks from the administra.
/ tors Of the estate to be used in pro
/ viding Thanksgiving cheer for needy
/ poor OF Neensh and Menasha.
Superior-After pouring quantity
Of denatured alcohol into the radiator
Of his automobile Arthur Hultner Of
Superior, lit match and held it over
/ the opening, peering down TO see how
full it was. With a warning rumble
/ the alcohol exploded shooting a blue
fame four feet in height, striking
Hultner in the left eye and badly
scorching his face
Crandon-Elmer S. Hall, state CON
/ servation commissioner. and #. ].
Rogers, Forest county highway com
missioner have picked a site for the
new state fish hatchery which MIR.
/ Hall has practically assured, will be
established in Forest county The
proposed location is on the Peshtigo
river between Crandon and Argonne
on highway 80.
Waterfowl ~ In iustriousness of
farmeruappers in central Wisconsin
is gagged by quotations on skunk,
muskrat and other small animal skins.
Last year when prices were fairly
high, the farmertrapper enjoyed
great year. This year jobbers' prices
are SO per cent lower TO. skunk hides
and 20 per cent lowe for muskrat
skins
Rice Lake-A~ bronze medal. bearing
the date of 1889. was discovered by
workmen excavating for a sewer at
Rice Lake II is believed that il was
lost by French fur traders who were
travelling through that region more
than century ago The medal is
now in the possession OF Louis Rindle-
snatcher, who has refused $50 for it.
Brentwood Just after Harr Soren-
son had gone duck hunting on Birch
lake near Brentwood. a large eagle
swooped down and attacked one OF
his decoys The eagle started to ty
away with one decoy but Mr.. Soren-
son, who did not wish to lose any Of
his property, shot it, The eagle meas
ured feet from tip to tip
Brentwood William Lindstrom, St
Paul, was wounded seriously in the
foot while deer hunting in Sawyer
county. The man was Immediately
removed to a Rice Lake hospital
where it was discovered that The bul.
let Of the mans rife caused a wound
as large as a hall dollar. lie viii re.
cover, physicians state.
Evansville Permits have been is
sued for the Chevrolet Motor Co.. OR
Grating the G. NJ C. plants. James
Vile, to build four additional units.
The plant IS now turning out more
than two hundred cars day and the
closed body cars are assembled by the
Fisher Body Co. plant.
Antleo-The Menasha Woodenware
company has donated to I.angdale
county a tract Of 1--WE acres OF timber
land for park purposes Ii is situated
in the Town Of Evergreen on what Is
commonly known az The Second Ever.
green river a widely known trout
stream.
Madison More than forty milton
lake trout eggs have been collected
Ia state batcheries for restocking
Wisconsin lakes next spring, accord.
ing to State Conseryatiouer Elmer s..
Hall. This amount represents more
than FIVE hundred quarts u eggs.
Green Bay Discovery Of a flint lock
musket, probably 100 years old, in The
bed Of The Fox river was made By
a w0rkmeu excavatiag for the new
water tank OF a Green Bay paper mill.
The relic VIII be presented to tho