Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! NEWS OF THE :
BADGER STATE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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Orders are expected in Florence
daily to open the Florence iron mine,
which has been closed for the last
year It is probable also that the
Ernst mine will open before spring.
The Badger Lumber & Manufactur-
ing Co, Oshkosh, was wiped out by
fire, causing loss of 100000. A
new warehouse was the only building
saved.
Sheriff Courts of Brown county
cleaned out the office vault as his
| first official act after assuming his
duties The vault contained four stills
and nearly one hundred gallons of
moonshine.
Farmers throughout Barron and
Sawyer counties report that wolves
are bolder and more numerous this
winter than for many seasons past.
Livestock is constantly menaced by
packs.
high school teams in district stock
Judging contests, Neenah high school
entries won the right to participate
In the state contest to be held in
Madison some time in March.
William T. Whiting, "a, millionaire
paper mill owner and vice president
OF the Wisconsin River Paper and
Pulp Co., died at his home in Stevens
Point from pneumonia. He came to
Stevens Point from Oshkosh early last
spring.
The new canine census taken at
Beloit shows that the city possesses
five hundred and seventy-nine dogs
one dog for every thirty eight people
Of which but one hundred and twenty
three are females The dog popula
ton is taken every year here when all
the animals are listed for new Ii
censes.
Canadian bonds amounting to $785,
900 have been purchased by the an
nuity board of the teachers insurance
and retirement fund during the year
it has been in existence, while $449, 10C
has been loaned to the farmers OF
Wisconsin on first mortgages, accord
ing to a report made by Henry John
son, retired state treasurer, to Solo
mon Levitan, his successor.
Fire caused by spontaneous Sombus
ton destroyed the large grain eleva
tor and warehouse of the Buergel
Mating Co., Mayville, causing a loss
estimated at 100000 The grain ele
vator, one of the largest in the mid
die west, had just been re-opened
after being closed during the holidays
and 20 carloads of grain had beer
stored in the warehouse.
Gov. Blaine has appointed John NJ
Becker, Monroe, county judge Of
Green county. The post became va
cant through the death of Judge John
L. Sherron. Judge Becker was re
moved from office during the war
Judge Becker then sued for his sal
/ airy, but lost his case. On an appeal
to the United States court of appeals
he was vindicated.
The city of Whitewater lays claim
| to being one of the largest dairy cat
tie shipping points in the country, and
points to the record of the last year
when more than 200 carloads of dairy
cattle were loaded locally and sent tC
nearly every state of the Union. Thou
sands of head of cattle have gone
from that point in the last year. q
larger number to Mexico and some
| into Canada.
John L. Bumbalek, a. student at the
! University of Wisconsin college OF
agriculture, was appointed to the
| Wisconsin land settlement board for
the term ending Jan. /, 1926. Bum
| balek is a former service man. The
land settlement board, composed OF
the dean of the college of agriculture
the commissioner of immigration and
/ one former soldier, aids service men
in obtaining homes on Wisconsin land
open for settlement.
The use of honey in place of alco-
| hol as an anti-freezing mixture for
automobiles is spreading in Brown
county where farmers have found II
to be both practical and cheap, &C
cording to County Agent J. N. Kava-
naugh. Equal parts of honey and
water are said to have been used
in making the mixture for use in the
radiators of automobiles. In expert
menting with the new mixture the
Brown county agent said that it had
proved successful.
Another scene in Milton colleges
long drawn out melodrama, Down
With the Dance" has been enacted
with the announcement by Acting
President A. E. Whitford that all stu
dents who dance hereafter in soft
drink parlors and similar semi-public
places of the village will be severely
disciplined and possibly expelled. For
several years the dance question has
been a storm center in Milton, but
never until now has such a drastic
| step been taken by the college author