Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-27

Lunglade county will spend more
than $4,000 on county highways in
1926 in the way of new construction
and graveling, according to a highway
resolution passed by the county board
last week.
More than ton of carp was taken
from the mill pond at Lower Amherst
in nets, with permission from the con-
servation commission to rid the pond
of these fish. Some of the carp
weighed as much as 20 pounds. More
hauls are to be made before the pond
freezes.
The city council of Mineral Point
passed an ordinance last week against
drunken drivers. A fine of $25 or 80
days in the county jail is provided for.
Platteville has similar ordinance,
but the maximum fine is 500 and the
maximum term in the county Jail is
six months.
Miss Veva M. Divan, of Monroe, for
two years girl pig club champion OF
Wisconsin, has won additional honors.
She is now state champion home eco
nomics girl. For this she wins a free
trip to the third annual national boys
and girls congress, at Chicago, Nov.
20 to Dec. 5.
The board Of supervisors of Oconto
county has placed a ban on all gam
bling devices in the county. A reso-
luton was passed authorizing the abo-
bling and the officers of the county
were instructed to arrest anyone oper-
ating such machines.
A resolution favoring passage by
the legislature of a law permitting
election of county board members
from townships for two-year terms,
the same as permitted in cities, was
passed by the Rock county board of
supervisors at its November session.
1t will be conveyed to the legislature
at the next session.
Charles F. Borchardt, veteran car
penter, Of Merrill, met with instant
death when he fell from an open win
dow on the first floor Of an addition
to the Albers F. Peterman home to
cement driveway. Borchardt, who had
been fastening casing to the window,
suffered a fracture of the skull. The
cause of the accident could not be
learned.
Gus Malinowsky, IL, clerk in shoe
store, In Marinette, was seriously in
jured nnd two automobiles and Mali
bicycle were wrecked in the
first accident of snowstorm that pre-
vailed all day. The automobiles in the
accident were driven by Tony Wahl,
a drug store clerk, and E. S. Martel,
Suamico, Wis. The snowfall was gen
eral in this district
Wisconsin's new champion COW for
production of milk in 10 months as
senior 3-year-old is Wilcowis Ollie
Grace, a pure-bred Holstein of the
Mrs Louis H. Dickinson herd at Lake
Geneva She completed her 305-day
test period with record of 20,222.6
pounds of milk and 268.65 pounds of
butterfat, equal to 1858 pounds of
butter. She made her record milking
from three-quarters.
Damages Of $400 for horse which
was killed in Superior during an cleo
trical storm are asked by the Duluth
Superior Transfer Co. in suit against
the Duluth Street Railway Co., now
pending in the Superior court. The
transfer company claims the horse
was killed when the trolley wires run
ming over bridge shortcircuited with
the car tracks, causing the death of
the animal when it stepped upon che
tracks.
After the county board Of super
visors voted to request the state tax
commission for figures on property
sales in Sheboygan for the last FIVE
years, to make comparisons with the
county assessors annual report before
adopting the annual equalization pro-
gram, l. B. Wensink, county assessor
of incomes, provided the data. Board
members had previously been told
that he had refused to give the in
formation.
More than 100000 voters split their
ballots in the November election, Of
fetal returns of all but nine counties
tabulated ia the secretary of states
office indicate. 1t was the biggest
switching Of votes ever seen in Wis
consin. The Democratic candidate for
governor ran unusually strong. Judge
Martin Lueck received about 100000
votes. On the other hand John w.
Davis, Democratic candidate for presi-
dent, will have but about $4,000 votes
when the count is complete. With
nine counties still missing, La Toilette
has 317,816 votes; Coolidge, 223,762
votes. Gov John J. Blaine drew about
300, 900 voees. 1t is claimed that many
of the votes that went for Lueck, the
Democrat, were also cast for Coolidge
The Democratic vote on the national
ticket was the smallest ever cast in a
presidential race in Wisconsin. 1t is
less than half of the vote for Cox in
1922 when he polled 1922 votes. In
1916 Wilson polled a total of 193,042
in the state.
The State Line inn, an old road
house on Sheridan road, six miles
south of Kenosha, was destroyed by
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