Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-08
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when she caught 1t in an electric
wringer.
Henry Martz, A, of Pound, Mari
nette county, lost his right arm below
the elbow when his glove caught in
a feed cutting machine.
The Woman's Board Of Home Mis-
sions of the Presbyterian church, has
purchased a lot at Hurley on which
will be erected a parish house.
unframed and the contents of the
building were saved. Defective wiring
was the cause of the fire. The build
ing was erected twelve years ago.
Since 1919 the cost of operating the
city of Sturgeon Bay has exactly dou.
bled In that year the entire cost was
$4,000. The present tax budget calls
for $128,0OO.
Workmen on the old Stepka farm,
near the Vernon county line, cut a
large maple tree there. Frank Kolow-
rat reports that the log cut into 1,120
feet of lumber.
Fire destroyed the large barn of
Frank Cleasby in the town of Pleas
ant Valley, Eau Claire county, causing
loss of $1,000. The origin of the
blaze is undetermined.
There is a general increase in the
number of industrial accidents
throughout the country with an in
crease in Wisconsin over last year of
LOO, the state Industrial commission
reports.
William Willard, 81 years old, Of
Sullivan, died of fractured skull, re.
ceived when an automobile in which
he was riding, and said to have been
driven by r. L. May of Sullivan, struck
telephone pole.
The Bekkedal Lumber Co. hardwood
mill at Couderay closed, having fin
ished the season cut, after having
been in operation since last March.
The mill will not be reopened until
March. There is a ten years cut left.
All the concrete road work in Ra-
cine county has been finished with the
exception of mile and half on the
Kilbourn road. The Wind Lake road,
on highway Sc, between Burlington
and Milwaukee, has been opened to
travel.
Two hundred twentyfour exhibits
were entered by more than 100 boys
and girls under Is in the annual
Junior Livestock exposition at the
University College of Agriculture,
Madison The exhibitors represented
l3 counties.
Losing his way, as he was returning
from making the rounds of his trap
line in the Twin lakes swamp near
Chetek, Wis, Arthur Schnoor, 26, was
caught in bog and held fast until he
died from exposure and exhaustion
several hours later.
New Franken, the largest sugar beet
station Of the Green Bay Sugar COM
pany, is unloading the last of the beets
at present. AS high as eighteen. car
loads are unloaded daily New Fran
ken has over 800 acres of beets and
the output will be about $50 carloads
H. Potter of Twelve Foot Falls,
near Amberg, Marinette county, and
bis son, were badly burned during an
explosion when the father was en-
deavoring to quicken the fire in the
kitchen stove with kerosene. The
father, whose hands, face and side
were badly burned, jumped into a
pond of water. The boys burns are
deeper and his condition is serious.
A total of 1,135 students have en-
rolled for military drill at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin this fall, under the
new voluntary system provided by a
law passed by the recent legislature,
according to figures just announced by
Mai. O. L. -Brunsell, commandment. This
is a decrease of about IL per cent from
the total of 1910 students who were
drilling last year, under the compul-
sorry system.
Brandon, Ripon, and other towns in
the western part of Fond du Lac coun-
ty are yoicing strong opposition to the
Two year road building recess, pro-
posed in petitions now ready lAsr pre-
sentation to the county board at it's
November meeting. The eastern part
of the county has it's roads and it is
unfair to stop construction before the
western is likewise provided for, is
the contention. A lively scrap is in
prospect when the county board meets
on November Is.
A herd of seventy-fve pure bred
Holstein cattle, the property of the
late George Schuster estate of Muk-
wonago, was sold at auction at the
sales pavilion, under auspices of the
Waukesha County Holstein Breeders
association. The highest price paid
was for cow, $3.50; while the lowest
price for any animal was $40, paid for
a male calf. The second large amount,
$3.50, was paid for mature bull. The
majority of the cattle were purchased
by breeders of Waukesha county.
Because it can boast but two living
members, Elisher Thompson and Os
car Chamberlain, John Granzo post.
No 1913, Grand Army of the Republic,
of Seymour, has ceased it's activities.
Holsteins sold at GAINESVILLE at the
annual sale Of the Rock county Hol-
-Friesian Breeders association
brought fair price, with the average
- of 10 &c