Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-06

lie went lHSE6 " opSut d lew ud9
at the home of August Meyers, assis-
tant superintendent of public proper
ty, and to get acquainted with the
students of the university and the
people of Madison. During the past
week, he spoke before several local
clubs.
is Farmer
For upwards of twenty years, Hay
ward has been grubbing out a farm
in northern Wisconsin, near Conoyer,
not far from the state line. and in
the evening when the chores are all
done, he has spent time writing po7
etry about the northlands.
In the last 10 years three books of
poems have been issued and in them
will be found all the thrills of a new
settler He likes the life in northern
Wisconsin:
Il love the winters chilly blast ]
The snow and sleety storm;
But love them most, when they have
passed
And it is nice and warm
Poems from the North Woods is
his latest volume 1t was written IN
the pineries of the north, surrounded
by stump pulling and land clearing;
by highway construction and home
building. Mr.. Hayward was born in
Iowa, August 81, 1866, and at the age
of IS learned the trade of painter
and decorator. Then for several years
he was commercial traveller.
Ideal Place
Being a nature lover and instinc-
lively a pioneer, 1 chose my present
location as an ideal place to live
and die" said Mr.. Hayward in ex-
planning how he came to settle in
northern wisconsin I'm 1901 | home
steaded 80 acres of jungle two miles
north of Conover. Villas county. |
have built log house and outbuild-
ings and cleared about 70 acres most
ly by hand. have fenced it all and
call it home"
Three books have been written by
him during his leisure hours: Two
Bits, in 1905; Philosophy in Rhyme,
1914, and Poems From the North
Woods, 1922. A little poem on Thanks
giving has struck popular chord
among the people of northern Wiscon
sin:
winds a-shifting, snow a-drifting,
Pine boughs bending to the ground;
Ice a-snapping, Summers mapping 4
Till the Springtime comes around. |
winters pleasure has no measure,
Hurting's good, and trapping fine;
Deer a-jumping, heart a-thumping,
Hiding back among the pine.
"Ven' son baking, no installing
Smell it through the cabin door
Just the living-for Thanksgiving,
King, or Queen, could ask no more. "
Attract Attention
In the years past, Mr.. Hayward has |
had correspondence with many of |
the noted writer's of the country and |
he has letters of commentator from |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Elbert Hubbard |
and James Whitcomb Riley. Many of
his poems were published in a paper
at Eagle River and attracted such at
tention that they are now being pub
hshed by an Illinois publishing house
Enos F. Hayward is man who likes
all outdoors for his front yard In the
cutover timberland of Villas county,
close to the border of the upper PENN
sula of Michigan, he hewed the TIM
Der to build his home and found the
inspiration to write his poetry Eighty
acres of pine and birch thicket which
springs up eternal after every forest
fire belong to him by right of home
stead
In Beauty Spot
:. The Eagle River district in which
he lives is one of the beauty spots of
Wisconsin and state trunk highway 80
which leads the world to it is one of
the most famous tourist trails in the
United States. 1t was an old tote road
when Hayward homesteaded in 1901.
And the little clearing two miles north
of Conover, in the center of which
stands his comfortable log house, was
out of the travelled way That trail
now passes through his dooryard but
his is the last house in Wisconsin and
still out of the way. For although
many travellers seek the heights and
fragrance of the pines, most of those
who make the northern woods of Wis
consin their summer playground turn
back before they reach the end of the
road.
Was Traveller
When he first conceived the idea of
hewing home in the wilderness. he
was a commercial traveller. But his
love of woods and fields was innate.
His parents were Enos and Ellen
Hayward, New EngIanders who pio-
neered in Iowa, settling in Fayette in
1879 II wears before his birth