Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29


Nicholas Netzer, Lena, suffered in
jury to two fingers while cleaning up
the village cemetery. when a large
tombstone toppled over on his hand.
Samuel Sigman, Two Rivers, has
been named secretary to Congressman
George Schneider, Appleton, and will
leave for Washington in a few days.
Duncan Bordie, so, was taken to the
hospital in Marinette in a critical con-
dition from the woods, where he was
working for the Superior Lumber Co.
He suffered q stroke of paralysis.
Nine head of cattle, three horses,
several hogs and a large number of
chickens were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the barn on the
farm of Chris Henkle, near Cutler.
The New Lisbon Fish and Game
club at its annual meeting elected
the following officers: G. w. Nc.
Nown, president; H. f. Beckman, vice
president; Otto Balgord, treasurer;
John Meunier, prominet Wisconsin
Mason, and for Is years an office en-
ploye at Fairbanks-Morse factory at
Beloit is dead. He belonged to the
Wisconsin Consistory and Tripoli
shrine, Milwaukee.
More than $500 has already been
collected by the state prohibition de-
partment from delinquent doctors and
druggists who did not pay their 1921
and 1922 fees for writing prescrip-
lions and selling liquor.
County engineers are urged to take
steps to enforce the re-registration
provision of the new state motor We
hicle license act, in a letter sent to
all county engineers by State High
way Engineer A. R. Hirst.
Farmers residing south of Birch
wood have petitioned the postOffice
department at Washington to grant
a rural mail delivery to Pribram,
seven miles from Brentwood The
length of the route will be- approx
mately twenty-five miles.
Heart failure due to excessive drink
ing of moonshine, is believed to have
caused the death of Myrran Harri-
man, So, a woodsman, who was found
dead in bed in Catawba hotel.
Hartman was known to have been
drinking heavily for several days.
w. &. Finnegan, deputy state fire
marshal at Green Bay, has resigned,
w. Stanley Smith, state insurance
commissioner, has announced The
resignation will take effect on Dec. /.
He has been connected with the state
fire marsha1s Office for fourteen years.
The Wisconsin river this fall is
lower than it has been for many
years, due to the extremely dry wealth
er earlier in the year. The volume
of water from the north is far less
than usual and fall Of more than
foot is noticeable along the banks
of the stream.
Roy DeBeyer of Richland Center has
been bound over to circuit court by
Judge H. G.. Bell in municipal court
at Tomahawk. He admitted having
forged check for $40 at Tomahawk
and another for $40 at Chetek. A 16-
year-old youth who wrote the checks
for DeBeyer has been placed on pa
role.
After serving % years on the Chip
pewa Falls fire department, Charles
Brecke was named chief of the depart,
~ ont nv tho rolioo ord fro of,,,, ~ e.
sion to succeed Joseph Meuli, Sr., who
resigned Chief Meuli will be retired
on pension Dec. 1, after serving
more than score of years in the
Chippewa Falls department.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De Grave.
Lena, had a narrow escape from
drowning when car, driven by John
T. Kremm, blinded by the glare of the
lights of an approaching car, went
over a high embankment near Sualn
leo and 'tumbled into creek Mrs
De Grave was unconscious when res
cued. Mr.. Kremm's back was injured
o. H. Vaudell, secretary.
Wild geese are on the wing. Their
clarion call is becoming a familiar
sound at Neenah as these shy wan,
derers of lonely coasts fly high over
the city, southwark. Geese have sell 4
dom been known to alight in that
vicinity so hunters have to be con,
tent with the thrill of observing them
wing past.
e. C. Holm, a Merton, Waukesha
county merchant, fled voluntary pc
tition in bankruptcy in federal court,
listing liabilities at $9,O81, assets, So
928.8S, and claiming an exemption of
5000. Harry Kuhnke, a grocer of the
town of Sugar Greek, postoffice adj
dress, E1khorn, Wis, also filed. His
liabilities were given as $2,581.37, as
sets $1,205 and exemption $3.50.
A change is to be made in state
Highway IL, which turns east at
Maplewood. The road proposed will
run north of Maplewood until it inter-
sects with 70. The new route will
not be used until the road is inn
proved for travel. The new route will
cut off the view of the beautiful Cor
don Grove, east of Maplewood, the
mecca for tourists during the summer
season.
After being under construction
since the summer of 1922, the new