Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-12

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| light vote was cast.
Joseph Pelt, IS, was found dead Ia a
field near Eagle with 80 caliber re-
volver near the body. He had bullet
wound through the head.
Struck by an automobile while walk
ing on highway Is at noon June q
R. E Lawrence, 81, was fatally IN
/ jured He died on the way to the hos
| pital
Arthur Welk and Frank Wilder, both
of Baraboo, opened the fishing season
with the biggest catch taken of Devils
Lake park in several summers. Inc
fish was an 18-pond pickerel
Henry E. Benish, former vice presl-
dent of the Hoeppner Barelett Co. and
building contractor Eau Claire, SUI
fered a fainting spell while fishing on
Half Moon lake Sunday, fell into the
lake and drowned in four feet of wa
ter.
Frank A. Mitchell, former postmas,
| ter of Menominee, died twenty-four
hours after being struck by mari
nette bakery truck driven by Lyn'
wood Rudolph. Conclusion of the brain
was the cause of death. The stricken
man never regained consciousness.
William Leroy Benedict, 80, and his
wife, 80, was struck by ali Omaha pas
senger train on a crossing south OF
Shell Lake June A. They were from
Seward, Neb, where Mr. Benedict was
a manual training teacher. They were
coming to Wisconsin on fishing Trip
Stricken while milking cows on the
farm near Monroe where he was en-
ployed, Orville Kuhl, Is, died WITHIN
few minutes from malady the
nature of which is unknown Since
having a case of chicken pox he mao
complained of a pain in the shoulder
Edward J. Sailstad is keeping tc
himself at the Wisconsin State reform
atory, Green Bay, where he is serv-
ing four-year sentence on an arson
charge. Sailstad does not mix with
the other inmates at the prison and
he refuses to see any newspapermen'
Officials say he is model prisoner.
Bobbed hair saved Elsie Tecklin
from serious injury and possible death
when the girls hair was caught In
pulley at the Croker Chair Co, fac-
tory, Amigo, according to physicians
who attended her. The hair was torn
from the scalp over an area of several
square inches, but beyond the loss Q:
the hair no serious results are ex
pected.
AS a final step in its 1924 program
Of naturalization work, the Madison
Lions club has announced that it has
undertaken the task of making cltl-
zens of 500 aliens on the city's West
side. Each member of the club has
been assigned from three to five for
eigners to interview and assist them
in obtaining their final naturalization
papers.
A steel coal car with a consignment
of coal to the Smith Fuel & Ware
house Co., Baraboo, went on a ram,
page and almost killed two employees
of the warehouse as it was being
backed to the sheds to be unloaded.
The switching crew of the North
Western road lost control of the car.
The car plunged through the side Of
the shed.
The Humbird potsoffice, entered by
robbers who forced side window,
was robbed Of $50 in stamps, accord
ing to Postmaster A. F. Hahn who
checked the loss. The robbery was
the second within a year. Although
q package of parcel post was broken
open. its contents were Dot taken.
Hounds were used in an effort to
trace the robbers.
Little change in the road conditions
of state highways is noted In this
weeks state highway department road
report. A new detour is shown III
Dane county at Middleton, at the juno
ton of Highways IL and Al; a detour
at Blue Mounds on Highway 19, still
exists in good condition. Highway AZ
in Fond du Lac county is being worked
and sixty-seven in Dodge county,
causing some detours
To Pauline Ormsby De Kol Canary.
a pure Holstein, goes the honor
of being the largest producing COW Of
the breed in Wisconsin's 165 COW test
ing association, according to J. Ora
mer. wisconsin college of agriculture.
The animal made a net profit Of 1878
in less than year records show. In
323 consecutive days the COW pro-
duced, in the herd Of Leo Kuhl & Son,
Hazel Green, 22,914 pound Of milk
and 839 pounds of butterfat, equal to
1.04S pounds of butter.
Approximately 200 Wisconsin boys
and girls will be rewarded for activ-
tiles in agricultural clubs by atten-
dance at the annual club short course
here June 20 to "a, records received
by the college of agriculture show.
The attendants will be determined by
scholarships awarded by banks
schools community clubs and other
organizations. The Milwaukee Associ.
alton of Commerce offers six scholar
ships and Brown, Kenosha, Racine and
washington counties offer five schol
arships in each county.
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