Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-16
WISCONSIN
!. STATE NEWS


sin, died in Rhinelander following
several months illness. He had taught
nearly 40 years in this state.
The hickory nut crop is one of the
largest in history, two, three. or even
four bushels of shelled nuts reward
ing the hiker who cares to work in
the hickory grove for day in the
Green Bay vicinity.
Dewey Mccain, 20, Shell Lake, was
seriously injured when horse he was
driving kicked him in the face. Nc
Cam was found on the ground with
his jaWbone broken in several places
and in an unconscious condition. He
was taken to ST. Paul for immediate
treatment.
Plans are under way to celebrate
the completion of MerrilPs white way
with community band concert and
possibly a street carnival. The uni
form system of flag decoration will
also be completed at the same time
and Merrill's newest bank building
will be finished
Lewis Oliver, As, Caroline street,
Waukesha, was crushed by a lumber
truck which pinioned him against a
woodpile in the Gittner lumber yards
He was first removed to his home, but
was taken to the Municipal hospital
in the evening. He is in a critical
condition
Running across the street directly
in the path of a car driven by Alvin
Schmidt Colby, Wis, Arthur Nelson,
IL, son of C. A. Nelson, Washburn
farmer, fell and was run over. The
car passed over his lower chest. The
boy suffered internal injuries and is
not expected to live. The driver was
not held
Mrs. E. T. Goodrich, Westboro, had
narrow escape from being seriously
burned when she fell down a flight Of
stairs while carrying a lighted lamp
The lamp broke, saturating her cloth
Ing with OIL Fortunately the light
was extinguished Mrs. Goodrich's
arm was severly bruised and cut by
the broken glass.
Plans for an excursion of twenty
five or more Green county Holstein
breeders and dairyrnen to inspect con-
ditions in Mississippi are under way,
following visit of ten Mississippians
who stopped in Green county on
tour of Wisconsin tointerest breeders
in sending dairy cattle south to help
introduce dairying there.
A total Of $15,726,747.6 was paid
out by the service recognition board
to former service persons up to July /,
when the board was replaced by the
soldiers rehabilitation board, a sum-
mary of activities of the previous body
announced by Adjt. Gen. Ralph M.
Immell, shows Claims were allowed
to 114,792 former service men.
Mrs. Mixco, said to have been the
Oldest woman member of the Potta-
wattamie tribe, died in her tepee near
SopertoD. Forest county, where she
had lived many years. She was the
widow of Chief Mixco, who was long
active among the Pottawattamies.
The woman was well past the century
mark She leaves many descendants.
A. r. Hirst, defeated candidate for
governor in the republican primaries
and former state highway engineer.
has begun his duties as chief eng1-
neer of a Des Moines, Ia, paving con-
Germ at a salary Of $4,000 a year, it
was announced after a meeting OF the
state highway commission. He will
continue his residence in Madison and
the concern may move its offices to-
Milwaukee, it was said.
Sparks from the exhaust Of gaso-
line engine used to pump water on the
farm tenanted by Clarence Egan, three
miles west of Fond du Lac, destroyed
all the buildings on the place with the
exception of the house, causing 9 loss
estimated at $4,000. An appeal for.
help was sent to the fire department
in this city but the iremen were un-
able to check the blaze owing to the
lack of sufficient water.
Emil Wendt, 48, farmer of the town
Of Halsey, was found dead under his
automobile beside a road in the town
of Hamburg. There were no witnesses
to the accident William Sell, driving
along the road, passed the overturned
automobile CHANGING back he no
ticed the lights were on and returned
to investigate, and the body was
found. The affair was so plainly an
accident that no inquest will be held.
Two barns, one large and filled with
many tons of hay, and the other
smaller and containing grain, were
destroyed by fire on the farm owned
by the Church brothers, three miles
east of Gillingham's corners. near
Neenah. How the fire started is not
known. Farmers formed a bucket
brigade and attempted vainly to fight
the flames. Some grain and the stock
was saved but 80 tons of hay were
burned
Frank P. Charapata, 80, was cleo
trocuted when he fell against a live
wire while working on high tension
power line at Plymouth Efforts were
made for nearly two hours to restore
life without success.
Mrs. William Kinnear, So, died at
her home in Eau Claire. Her hus-
hand onened drug store in 1886,