Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-15

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the ditch.
Papers Of incorporation have been
filed for the Crawford County Farms
Co. The firm is incorporated for
$250,000. 1t will operate a number of
farms including some tobacco farms.
Miss Clare Swan, daughter OF
Mrs. Charles Swan, living north Of
Barron, received a fractured skull
when a car in which she was riding
turned over. She is now in Barron
hospital.
A duck hunting trip cost the lives
of three Spooner residents when Yer.
non La PageN26 years old, his brother,
Billy, IL, and Harry Guiding, IS, were
drowned in Spooner Lake, three miles
south of Spooner.
Struck down as by an automobile
as she was crossing the street, Mrs.
Mabel Waldmen, 49 years old, Supe
rior, was knocked unconscious and re.
ceiyed internal injuries which are ex
pected to prove fatal.
After having lived 60 years without
being i'll or figuring in an accident
Joseph Pech, Spruce, was run over
by an automobile. One of his legs
was broken in such way that ampu.
tation at the knee was necessary.
Louis Melass, IS years old, was Sc
riously injured when his automobile
was struck by a Milwaukee road train
at a crossing two miles north of
Stoughton He was taken to hospi-
tai with serious cuts and other in.
juries.
Mrs. George Reedal suffered frac.
tured arm and Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Reedal cuts and bruises, when Mr..
Reedal, Phillips, drove the automobile
into a ditch to avoid striking farm
wagon which was obscured by fog at
Reedsburg.
The county highway connecting with
65 at Seymour Corners, Grant county,
has been surfaced with a second coat
of mine tailings a distance of four
miles. The new all weather highway
is Of big benefit to Darlington and
Shullsburg.
Leo Thurston, Freeport, ILL.,, and his
family were motoring to Evansville to
visit with relatives when their Ear
collided with one driven by Hank
HALEY of Madison, five miles east of
Evansville. Both cars were wrecked
but no one was injured.
Fire destroyed the four story brick
warehouse and stock owned by Till
man Brothers, furniture dealers at La
Crosse, and damaged adjoining build
ings. The loss is $4,000 The fire
started in the basement from spon-
taneous combustion. it is believed.
The diversion Of water by Chicago
through its drainage canal is result
ing in lowering of the level Of the
Fox river, shipping men at Green Bay
say. They report that increasing
numbers of the boats following the
river at Green Bay are scraping the
bottom of the channels.
Mayor Eugene O'Neil of Chippewa
Falls has been appointed a member
of the executive committee of the
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
by the league president, Mayor N.
Welaby of Stevens Point. The league
assemblies each year to discuss civic
problems and management of city af-
fairs.
Fred H. Wells, Monroe bowling
alley proprietor, was peppered with
shot about the body, but not seriously
injured while hunting with party of
Monroe men in woods. near Brod-
head John Gillum, thinking no one
was near, shot into clump Of bushes
behind which Mr.. Wells was con-
cealed.
Allan Peck, while hunting at Supe
rior lake, killed a hooded merganser,
a species of duck that is very rare.
1t is of multi-colored plumage, with a
white hood and long, narrow bill. The
duck will be mounted and preserved
as one of the few birds of that species
which have been shot in this part of
the United States.
Little Helen Fitzgibbon, 7-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Fitz-
gibbon, rescued a playmate, Robert
Groney, 6, from drowning, while both
were at play along the bank Of the
Fox river at Menasha The lad fell
into the water and the girl seized him
before he went under the third time
and pulled him to safety.
Martin P. Rindlaub, IS, chairman Oh
the first state capitol commission who
has been engaged in making arrange
ments for the dedication of the orig
inal first state capitol located near
Belmont, restored by the state in 1922,
has announced that the dedication
has been postponed until June, 1924.
1t is also planned to have an old set,
tiers reunion in connection with the
event.
Farm women as well as farm men
will soon be organized in Green coun-
ty as a result of the effort being made
this month by farm bureau officials
at the annual meetings being held in
the various townships. Women of the
townships are being urged to attend
the meetings 80 that farm bureau aux,
iliaries may be organized and repre-
sentatives chosen to attend the state
meeting to be held In February.
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