Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-03-22


the County Guernsey association.
District Attorney A. N. Whiting has
announced his candidacy for munich
pal judge of Langlade county He
!. will be opposed by JudgeIA. B. Good
rick, who is a candidate to succeed
himself.
Drifts ten feet deep or more in
many sections of Fond du Lac county
left the entire district snowbound fol
lowing the recent twelve hour blizzard,
in which more than eighteen inches
of snow fell.
Fire destroyed the Fall River House
at Fall River, one of the oldest hotels
in the state. The hotel was built in
the early ffties. The Russell build
ing, housing the Woman's Relief corps
and the G. A. R., was also destroyed.
Fall River has no fire department.
So much skinned milk was dumped
into the creek running past the Yes
per condensery that a silo factory inn
mediately below was forced to shut
down until it could pipe around the
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its boiler
James Van Duser, 81, who attained
nationwide prominence as dairy au-
thority, having been awarded premier
honors as a butter maker at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago, died of heart
disease at WATERFOWL. He was Wis
consin dairy and food inspector for
II years and proprietor of a creamery
at Hebron, Ill, for ten years prior to
that
Building of a $4,000 clubhouse and
community recreation center will be
started in the spring or as soon as
the weather permits, by the Kimberly
Clark company at Kimberly. The
company directors, authorizing the
plan decided that although times were
not favorable for going ahead with
the complete building as originally
planned the need for recreation CEN
ter is so great that the structure will
be built in sections.
Prior service of teachers is not to
/ be computed in determining the
amount of benefits due members of
the Wisconsin teachers retirement
fund, Atty. Gen. Herman L. Ekern
commended before the state supreme
court in arguments on the suit com
menced by Mrs. Ella Dudgeon against
Solomon Levitan, state treasurer, to
recover $17,477 as death benefits due
to the estate of her husband. Millions
of dollars of state money are involved
in the action.
Wisconsin's biggest milk check
King, Hay River, Dunn county. by the
Trout Brook cheese factory, R H
Sampe, manager, for milk delivered
during January The months milk
was the product of 38 cows of Mr..
Kings herd. Mr.. King fed ensilage.
hay, ground oats and corn, with a
little oil meal, with four men under his
immediate supervision in caring for
the herd The milking was done by
the dry hand" method.
Reports from points in the state in
dicate that the blizzard of Sunday,
Il
Wisconsin, with the central and south
ern parts of the state suffering most
from the heavy snow and high veloc-
ity wind Train service was democrat
lied in practically every section of
southern and central wisconsin and
! in many points as far north as Green
Bay, and telephone and telegraph
wires were out of commission in most
i places. In the lake shore counties
the storm was especially severe.
Dr.. J. M. Donovan was elected presi-
dent of the Fox River Valley Boy
Scout council at meeting in Apple
ton, at which were represented the
scout councils of Appleton, Neenah.
Menasha, Kaukauna and Little Chute,
which comprise the valley organiza-
ton Other officers chosen were Frank
Charlesworth, Kaukauna, vice presi-
dent; Julius Kahn, Appleton, treasur-
er, and H. P. Buck, Appleton, execu-
tive. The organization will have COM
plete control of Boy Scout activities
| in the member cities, with a proposed
budget of $6,450 to finance the work.
Twelve hundred boys and girls at
tended the series of Monroe county
meetings arranged by County Agricul-
tural Agent Liddle and, Miss Harriet
Hutson, county superintendent Of
{ schools, for the purpose of extending
and organizing the summers work.
Four hundred signed up to become
members of calf, pig, sewing, or can
ming clubs. Many parents attended
the meetings. Further applications
for membership in the four clubs will
be received within the next few weeks
and 500 members is the county's hope
Raymond Egan, formerly of Mani
towoc county, who gained fame dur
ing the war as a composer of songs,
died at Phoenix, Ariz., where he had
gone when physicians advised him
that he was suffering from tubercu-
losis. Till We Meet Again and So
Long Mother, were the two songs that
gave him. recognition. Mr.. Egan was
horn in the town Of Meme, where his
parents were pioneer settlers. He at
tended country school there and later
enrolled in high school at Manitowoc
Several. years ago he moved to Chi
cago and then went east.
A. P. Simons, Delavan meat mer-
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