Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-31
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age at the rear of their home by bis
wife.
The smallest calf ever born in
Oconto county is frisking about on the
farm of Ole Berg in the town OF Bra
zeau The animal when born tipped
the scales at Is pounds and was only
two feet high. It is pure-bred Hol
stein.
At the request of members Of the
G. A. r. in several sections of the
state, Henry Stannard, Of Greenbush,
has announced his candidacy for the
office of department commander at
the annual encampment in Oshkosh
June IL.
The state has complete control over
all inland navigab1e lakes and waters
Franklin e. Bump, assistant attorney
general, advised Assemblyman Law
renee Zimmerman, Milwaukee, in an
opinion. Jurisdiction over these wa
ters resides in the state exclusively
and not in any way in the federal gov
eminent except as to navigable waters
over which the United States govern
ment has asserted control in part he
said.
Arrangements have been completed
for the appearance at Platteville on
July of Senator /. +. Lenroot, as In
dependence day orator in connection
with the Wild-West Roundup which
takes place July and 5. The Cuba
City Military and Platteville Legion
bands will lead the big parade July 4.
Special prizes are offered for the best
floats, and the Wild West part Of the
show is double competitive rodeo
from the famous Delayan ranch OF
washington, S. D.
Frederick A. Granholm, Merrill, EN-.
ployed in the meter department of the
Wisconsin Valley Electric Co., has
been appointed to the United States
military academy at West Point as a
cadet and has been ordered to report
July 2. Nearly two years ago he en-
listed in the Wisconsin National guard
and through the efforts of Capt. Har-
old A. Morgan, w. B. Chilsen and Con.
gresham A. P. Nelson was made the
principal nominee for entrance to the
academy from this district. He will
specialize in engineering.
Three Nekoosa young men, j. H
Campbell, Densmore Buchanan and
Cecil Morgan, were taken to a Stevens
Point hospital after their touring car
ran amuck and telescoped 30-foot
section of a guard rail four miles
south of Stevens Point The top rail
of the fence, 4-inch timber, was
driven through the machine from front
to rear. None of the trio was serious
ly hurt. All were asleep at the time
of the crash, they said. Stevens Point
auto victims in less than two weeks
now total II.
The city of Wausau is within a
short time to become the possessoI
through gift of Mrs. G. F. Rea,, a for
mer resident of Wausau, well
equipped public park and Fairgrounds
Informal notice of the impending pres
entation was given the city council at
a special meeting. The park is to be
memorial to the late Benjamin
Franklin Hammond, father of Mrs
Rea and one of the pioneer residents
and lumbernlan of Northern Wiscon-
sin who made Wausau his home for
many years prior to his DEATH The
grounds are now being improved I'M
dee the supervision and as planned by
Charles FL. Ransdell Of Minneapolis
landscape architect
The industrial commission an.
nounces that it has modified it's order
on fireworks SO as to prohibit the
keeping of any firecrackers and fire
works, except Chinese irecrackers not
more than two inches in length and
coIored fire in compact cases, in a
from a neighboring building. This
modification, the commission says
makes the order more severe in that
spark1ers, son-of-a-gun and the like are
prohibited, but 1t also liberalizes the
old order to permit the handling OF
Chinese flrecrackers. Town and MUM
cipal authorities are still permitted to
give firework displays as in former
years.
A nugget of pure copper, weighing
10 pounds, was found by Leo Travicki
while he was excavating for gravel on
his farm in the town of Sharon north
east of Stevens Point. Other pieces
of copper have been found on the
same farm and in that vicinity in the
past. This part of Portage county
once in the area covered by the edge
of the great glacier, is filled with
knobs and mounds, many Of them Gov
cred with large boulders. The copper
it is believed, was brought down from
the copper ranges in prehistoric days
by the glacier. Copper has never been
discovered in sufficient quantities to
warrant mining It on farm land OF
this vicinity.
The vessel towings tug Crosby, Du
luth. has arrived at Ashland for the
summer. The Crosby has done the
vessel towing at Ashland for the last
10 years. Capt. John Shea, master and
owner of the Crosby, passed the win
ter months in South America, going VI
the Amazon river several hundred
miles. He caught cold on his way
home and is in poor health.
John Farr, 20 years old, lost his life
in a fire which destroyed Ed. Feddes
pool hall and the E. L. Merrill variety