Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18


| G.. o. Wig has resignee. as cashier
of the Hawkins State bank. a posi-
ton which he has held many years
He has been succeeded by Lawrence
Hartman.
Mrs Ingred Tollefson, Westby, was
probably fatally burned when kero-
sene stove exploded. M Galstad was
burned while extinguishing the flames
in Mrs. Tollefsons clothing.
Members of the Crandon Rotary
club and their wives were entertained
at a banquet at the Planets resort on
Stone lake Bert Williams of Mil
waukee was the principal speaker.
Gustave Gleiter, 80 years old, a
farmer near the town of Lincoln, fif-
teen miles from Alma, Wis, was
killed when crushed between thresh-
| ing machine and tractor he was NOV
ing.
Roy McCredie, Madison, highway
patrolman, is in critical condition
in a local hospital here as a result OF
being run down by a motorist. The
accident occurred on the Sun Prairie
road
o. G. Cox of Sheldon has purchased
| the majority of stock of the KEENAN,
| State bank and has assumed the man
agement of the institution. For sew
eral years Mr.. Cox has been director
in the Farmers bank of Sheldon.
Thomas w. Grooms, former resident
of Rhinelander and at one time sheriff
of Houghton county, Mich, died in
Mosinee following paralytic stroke.
Mr.. Grooms was native of Stevens
Point and was born Sept. IS, 1859.
A $1,OOO,OOO pavement project COW
ering construction through period
of five years has been adopted by the
Appleton city council Five miles OF
the proposed 20 miles will be con-
structed in 1926 at possible cost Of
$25O,00O. Appleton has done no paw
ing since 1919.
Serious INJURIES were received by
Ella Hunter, S-year-old/ daughter Of
a settler near Birch lake, when she
fell into an abandoned well on her
fathers farm. The well was filled
with rubbish within about nine feet
of the top. The child was in the well
four hours before being found.
Highway 81, through Green county
from the Dane county line to the
Illinois state line, is now continu-
GUS stretch of concrete, more than
thirty miles long. The last Of the
concrete on the final link south Of
Monroe has just been poured and the
stretch will be open to traffic within
three weeks.
The body of a man on whose cloth
ing was printed a name, 0. Albrecht,
was found floating in the Shebogan
river, Sheboygan. He was dressed in
working clothes, but wore house slip
pers. He had no valuables on his
clothing, and This fact makes the au-
thorities believe he may have been
robbed and then thrown into the river.
Joseph Kahle, owner of Kahle's re-
sort, Gilbert, has been granted a
patent on a farm gate. Visitors to
his resort have witnessed the opera
ton of the gate for nearly two years,
the gate opening as a vehicle APP
proaches it and closing after the
vehicle passes. The weight of a COW
or lone horse is not sufficient'to open
the gate.
Clarence Schubert, 81, son of Mrs.
Mathilda Schubert, Menasha, had his
right arm ripped open when his arm
struck circular saw at which he was
working at the plant of the Menasha
Wood Split Pulley Co. 1t may not
be necessary to amputate the arm, &C
cording to physicians. Schubert is
junior at the University of Wisconsin
and was working at the Menasha plant
during the summer vacation.
William Freeman farmer living
near West Beaver Creek, is thinking
seriously of Harvesting lightning bolts
to do his spring blowing. During a
severe electrical storm recently,
bolt of lightning struck a pine Tree,
stripped it bare of needles and then
took the ground The bolt Travelled
| along the ground, throwing dirt in
, every direction A furrow about two
feet deep was plowed for a consider
able distance.
Articles Of Incorporation Tor the
Appleton Game company, which VIII
manufacture amusement devices, have
been filed and plant is to be erected.
The capitalization is $4,000 The
firm has taken over the manufacture
ard sale of amusement devices In
vented by H. l.. Post of Appleton. W..
| d. Schlafter is president, Seymour
Gmeiner is vice president, Frank r.
Wright secretary and Charles Q. Mel
son general manager.
A new special whole wheat Hour
mill is being erected by the Konrad
Schreier Co., brewers, Sheboygan, ana
is expected to be completed by Dec. Il
Special machinery is being manufac-
tured. 1t is estimated that 30 men
will be employed. Former employees,
engaged before the passage OF the pro-
hibition amendment made it necessary
to CIT down operations, will be gwen
interference. Chemists have been ex-
perimenting for Is months on the new
whole wheat product, and they peneVe
+bov have developed something entire