Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-07-05


during the first five days of operation
according to Paul H. Craven, director
Hot weather, he said, was responsible
for the large number attending.
Isabel Blankenhorn, 40, committed
suicide by jumping into Lake Whine
bago She escaped from the Fond du
Lac hospital. She had made previous
attempts to take her life, due to de
spondency over i'll health.
Mrs. Matthew Vanlangenberg Of
Bellevue, near Green Bay, died at q
Green Bay hospital as the result OF
injuries she received when she tripped
while getting out of an automobile
She was So years old.
Tourists near Rummeles, Villas
county, captured a fawn with broken
leg. Evidently the animal had been
shot by a poacher. The leg was set
and the fawn will be kept until it is
able to roam the woods again.
With the discovery of hundreds of
dead game fish along the shores of
Deerskin lake. near Eagle River, con.
servation wardens are on the trail of
parties who are alleged to have dyna-
mited the waters. Large size pike,
bass and pickerel were among the fish
destroyed.
A man believed to be M. T. Strait,
Black River Falls, was killed by a
train at Warrens. He had arrived in
Warrens with horse and buggy, but
appeared dazed by the heat. He left
the buggy and wandered on the track
just as the North Western train ar
rived. He was killed instantly.
Tied to a telephone post by his
safety belt, Lyle Evans, rs years old,
of Neillsville, sustained compound
fracture of his left side and a severe
sprain to his right leg when the pole
broke. Evans fell from height of
twenty-five feet or more. Because Of
the safety belt, he was unable to
throw himself away from the pole as
it fell.
Plans for the revival Of Cheese day,
I1dI fuAl4QC4 OCn OCACO1 oC1OA
well known before the war, are being
actively pushed at Monroe now and a
financial drive is meeting with enthus-
iastic response. Oct 2 has been Sc
lected as the date and 5000 buttons
TO advertise the attraction will be
placed on sale in few days. A pa
rade, free milk and cheese and an ex
hibition of quality cattle will be
among the days features
When an automobile in which he
was riding tipped over on highway 10
north of Stevens Point, Alex Shuda
-33, of the town of Hull was crushed
so that he died at the hospital shortly
after. Ben Jerzak, driver of the car,
escaped with slight injuries. The ac-
cident occurred at a turn in the road
and was caused, according to Jerzak,
by the lights on his car going out.
Shuda is survived by his wife and
seven children ranging in age from 8
to Is.
The salt water steamship Agga,
from Bergen, Norway, is due for a
long wait at Superior Far from his
home port, the ship master, an indie
pendent Viking, sailed into port on
Lake Superior, his first venture on
the great unsalted seas. The vessel
grounded on sand bar in the bay
and for four hours the master waited
for flood tide to free his ship. When
told there was no tide the skipper
said he would stay on the bar until
there was one. He refused the aid
of tugs.
A carload of high-class Holstein
11eifers has been bought at Water
town by Edward Mueller. of La Crosse,
Kan, through Frank Darcy, secretary
Of the WATERFOWL Holstein associa-
ton. They will be shipped to Rush
county, Kansas, where they will be
distributed among farmers by lottery.
More than 5000 pedigreed Holsteins
have been shipped from WATERFOWL
so far this year as foundation stock
for dairy farms. The city Of Mexico
has been the largest purchaser, Kan
sas next, Missouri third Adjoining
states have also been liberal pur-
chasers. The dairy business in Dodge
and Jefferson counties has increased
SO per cent since the war
The Iron River Water, Light and
Telephone company has filed its petit
ton with the Wisconsin Railroad com
mission for permit to reconstruct and
raise it's dam across Iron river and
hearing on the petition will be held
on July II. The dam which this one
is to replace was washed out the
early part of last December when the
company dam at Mud lake, west of
Iron River, gave way under an extra
strain, taking with it the road and
approaches to the dam which had
been constructed jointly by the power
company and Bayfield, county. 1t was
expected that arrangements would be
made between the company and the
county to reconstruct this part of the
state trunk highway over the dam as
before, but other plans have been
made and the road will be built just
north of the former route.
Mr.. and Mrs E. McGrew, Omaha,
Neb., were drowned in Trout lake,
Villas county, when the fiat bottomed
boat in which they and four friends
were crossing the lake upset during
a high wind. The four others man
aged to cling to the overturned boat