Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-03
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Despondent over loss of a grain
elevator destroyed by fire and other
financial troubles, Ernest Biddick, 81,
hanged himself in warehouse at
Livingston.
Seven of the main thoroughfares
of Eau Claire have been designated
by the city council as arterial high
ways. Rules laid down by Milwau-
kee will be adopted.
Trucks owned and kept in other
states but oper@sed daily in Wiscon-
sin must be licensed in Wisconsin, T.
E. Bump, assistant attorney general,
held in an opinion to Fred thinner
man, secretary of state.
A campaign to raise funds for the
relief of students in Germany is under
way at the University of Wisconsin,
in charge Of Miss Margaret Quayle, a
former student, and now Of New York.
The uniyersity's quota is $4,000. About
81 200 has been raised 80 far.
The dedication of Memorial park,
Sheridan-rd, Menominee on Memorial
day under the direction of Oscar Falk
post of the American Legion has been
announced Trees were planted last
year, one for each soldier er sailor
who gave his. life in the World war.
Mrs. Carrie Anderson, 70, is in a
critical condition at the General hos
pital where she was taken when found
unconscious at the bottom of the stair
way in her home The aged woman
is believed to have fallen headlong
down the stairs. Her head was bad
ly bruised.
Ben Rehrauer, tester for the Fenni-
ton, in his report for February, shows
377 COWS under test, sixty-four OF
which exceeded production of forty
pounds of butterfat. This showing is
one of the best yet made in the state.
Mrs. Novinska's herd of Fennimore,
Of fifteen grade Holsteins made the
highest average production with 46.5
pounds of butterfat
Dodge county leads all Wisconsin
cheese with an output of 19,837,84o
pounds annually, according to figures
made public in support of the organ
/ ization of foreign cheese pool. Co
lunbia and Washington, the two other
great brick cheea counties of the state,
together produce 6,737,583, which is
less than half of Dpdge's output.
Rescue squads of the conservation
commission can enter private proper
~ on which sloughs left by receding
Taters leave stranded fish, according
to J. E. Messerschmidt, assistant
attorney general, in an opinion to the
state conservation commission. The
question arose ever the refusal of a
man to leave the squad on his property
for the purpose of taking the fish
back into deep water.
Approximately $4,000 in emergency
funds have been voted by the state
emergency board. Sufficient funds
were approved for purchasing three
automobiles for the state prohibition
department, and two automobiles for
the oil inspection department The
board declined to approve request
for approximately $4,000 IF the agri-
cultural department for Sademn1ties
in tubercunn test work.
Believed to have been respondent
over the breaking of of mis- romance
with a La Crosse girl, Charles Hamn-
ton, of La Crosse, swallowed four u
chloride of mercury tablets outside
the girls home. He was rushed to a
hospital by the police. Physicians say
his condition is serious He had rela-
tives at Fairfield Ia, and has been
employed as a railroad brakeman IN
La Crosse. Sarah Hamond broke OH
her romance with Hamilton week
ago.
Mystery surrounding the disappear
ance of Otto Kruger, who vanished
from Wausau on Nov. 4, was solved
March 9th when the mans body was
found floating among ice Dogs In the
Wisconsin river. Lawrence SchalloW,
school boy, who first noticed the
corpse, vii receive the $500 reward.
There were no marks of violence on
the body, and the dead mans money
and watch were found in, the clothing.
1t is believed Kruger fell from a
bridge while he was intoxicated.
Carl Carlson, agricultural agent OF
Rollins county, Kansas, arrived at
Wausau with j. B. Lamson, purchasing
agent for the Burlington road, and
they selected several carloads of
grade Holstein COWS to be used as
foundation stock for dairying in north
west Kansas Mr.. Carlson says that
farmers of Rollins county, while hard
hit last year by the low price OF
wheat, have planted a large acreage
again and also more corn, but that
they want dairy cattle as side line
to protect themselves.
Menasha will have hospital, ac-
cording to DR.. G. C. Del Marcelle,
Neenah, who has purchased the Will
liam Stewart property He plans to
begin Immediately to convert it into
hospital.
Suffering from infirmities Of old age
and weakened mentally by failing
health, William McCulloch, a pioneer
resident of the town of Nekimi, Win
| nohaoo county hanyad himself Mr..