Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-25

ably the Oldest man in that section
Of Wisconsin.
Owing to an increase in business,
the Hurd Lumber company, of Med
: ford, has found it necessary to build
another addition to the plant. The
company recently completed an addi-
ton 72x40 feet.
The old curfew ordinance is being
rigidly enforced in Wausau. Acting
on orders from Police Chief Thomas
Malone, all youths under 16 found on
the streets after $3.50 p. m. are es-
corted to their homes.
Judge A. E. Davis, of the county
court, was elected president of the
Marinette County Bar association. A.
F. Murphy, district attorney, was
named vice president, and L. M. Mel
son, secretary treasurer.
Construction Of the Wisconsin
Power and Light Co.'S high tension
line from White river dam, near Wau-
toma, to Hancock is completed. The
company has also acquired a franchise
in Plainfield and will extend the line
to that city.
According to L. H. Ardern, field
man for a picking company, more
Washburn county farmers plan to
grow cucumbers in 1925 to be used
for picking purposes than ever before.
The greatest cucumber acreages for
1925 are anticipated for Washburn
county and for other nearby counties,
it was stated.
Mrs. Herman Miller was burned to
death at her home in Milrose, near
Tomah, when her clothes caught ire
after she had poured the contents of
a kerosene can over stove fire. The
can exploded and Mrs. Miller died 10
later of severe burns. She
thought the fire in the stove had been
extinguished.
That interest in school savings is
on the increase in Rhinelander is in
dicated in the number and amount of
bank deposits. Report for the last
school bank day shows that Sc per
cent of the total enrolment in all
schools Of the city were depositors.
-Four schools had 100 per cent de-
positors. The amount new credited
to Rhinelander school children is $10,-
806.51.
A C. McDougald, SO. died at his
home at Reeve, near Brentwood, where
he had lived for manv years. He was
one Of the pioneer settlers Of this re
gion, settling here shortly after the
close Of the Civil war to engage in
logging operations. He was one Of
the few surviving men who logged
the large pine forests which covered
the spot where Brentwood now stands
In late years Mr.. McDougald has been
blind
Edmund Hong, 38, died at hos
pital in Ladysmith, as the result of
injuries suffered when heavy cleo
trical charge passed through his body.
Mr.. Hong had been employed as con-
struction foreman Of the L. E. Meyers
Co. Big Falls dam. He was on the
roof of the station house adjusting
wires when he came in contact with
a high tension wire, $4,000 volts
passed through his body and he fell
40 feet to the ground.
Bound volumes Of newspapers pub
lished in Stevens Point 65 years ago
have been given to the library Of the
state normal school by Justin NJ. Man
chester. One volume contains issues
of The Wisconsin Pinery from April
8, 1859, to Nov. 80, 1860, and the other
issues Of The Wisconsin Lumberman
from September, 1863, to February,
1866. The issue of The Lumberman
of April 81, 1866. gives vivid account
Of the assassination Of President
Abraham Lincoln.
Albert Eckhardt, president Of the
Farmers and Merchants bank, died
at his home in Menomonee Falls. His
death was due to pneumonia. Mr..
Eckhardt was born in Sheboygan April
z, 1869. He entered the employ Of
the former German bank Of that city.
For nine years previous to his residing
in Menomonee Falls he lived in Mil
waukee and was employed as state
agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Co. In 1908 he became one
of the organizers of the Farmers and
Merchants bank at Menomonee Falls.
While the number of utilities in
Wisconsin decreased in 1922 and 1928,
there was considerable growth of
business as indicated by investments,
revenues and the number of customers
served, according to the biennial re-
port of the state railroad commission,
just prepared for submission to the
governor. During the last two years,
the report said. the total number of
utilities in the state has decreased
from LAST as of Dec. 81, 1921, to Il
631, as of Dec 81, 1928. This de-
crease, it was explained, is primarily
in the electric utilities, where the
number decreased from $40 in 1921
to 319 in 1928, due to consultations
The water and telephone utilities
show slight increase over 1921, 1t
was pointed out, the former increas-
ing from 252 to 258 and the latter
from 979 to 9S3. The number of other
utilities remained about the same.
Chicken thieves who visited the
farm of Henry Tess, mile north OF
Almond village, left fire and destruc-