Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-15

summer, according to an investigation
made, following a report from Madi-
son that there would be 81 farms idle
in the county.
The Oconto branch of the Marinette
Knitting Mill has not been abandoned.
A letter received by the secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce, says that
operations will be resumed as soon as
business conditions warrant.
Driven back to her old home town
by slackness in the theatrical pro-
fession, which she had followed for
several years, Miss Bobby Lee has
opened shoe shining stand in front
of a La Crosse barber shop.
Marshall TAM, 3-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs Frank Tanz, of the town of
Union, Eau Claire county, died from a
fractured skull he received when he
fell from high seat and cut his head
open on a farm machine which his
father was driving.
Dwight T. Parker, state banking
commissioner, has announced that the
First State bank at Sanborn, Ashland
county, had been taken over by the
banking department and the doors Of
the bank closed. The Sanborn bank
is an institution of $4,000 capital and
$4,000 deposits. Frozen assets is
given as the cause of the closing.
Edward Kruger, so, a farmer liv-
ing two miles west of Chelsea, was
found dead in a field by his wife,
who had gone to look for him when
he failed to come home at supper
time. He had been dynamiting
stumps during the day and evidently,
had failed to get under cover in time
after lighting the fuse. His head was
mutilated
Fair to middlin'," was the word
passed around by fisherman in answer
tic inquiries if the fish are running
well in the trout streams. Dozens
of anglers have spent the last few
days in the woodlands. The streams
in the Menominee reservation are pro-
viding the best sport, according to
the anglers, several of whom came
back with nice catches.
Thieves entering the home of
Adolphus Menor, Marinette, selected
Is $40 bills from roll of $500 and
robbed the pantry of batch of cup
cakes made by Mrs. Menor. The money
had been drawn from the bank for
payment on an automobile. Police do
not expect any great degree of diff
Guilty in determining the age of the
thieves or their previous experience
in crime.
Fox river claimed its first victim
of the season when Walter Knuth, s,
drowned when he fell into the water
while playing at the old Greiling dock
just north of the North Western road
bridge at Green Bay. With several
OF his playmates, the boy was fishing
sticks out of the water. He reached
for one, lost his balance and fell in.
The swift current soon pulled him
out into midstream. The body was
found four hours later.
The work excavating for the new
high school in Mineral Point is under
way. Old buildings have been sold
and will be removed. The new school
of red brick with Bedford lime stone
trimming is to be two stories high,
89x112 feet, with eleven class rooms.
a domestic science department, man
ual training department and big
gymnasium in the basement Athlet-
les is to be made compulsory part
OF the regular high school course.
Fifty or more slot machines in She
boygan saloons and other places OF
business have stopped operation by
order of Mayor Schuelke. The ma
chimes had been permitted by the
police on the misunderstanding that
they came under the silent salesman"
law, giving something in return for
money inserted in them. Mayor
Schuelke, however, said they were OPP
Grated in violation of the city ordi-
nances on gambling, and order them
removed.
The Island Lake school in district
No. 1, Town of Stephenson, Marinette
county. was destroyed by fire. The
building had not been in use this term.
as the pupils were transported to
other schools. The cause of the fire
is unknown. The building was in
sured for 800. The furniture and
books were removed to the Caldron
Falls school last fall. This is the
second school in the district to burn
recently, the Crivitz school building
burning in March.
A queer specimen of trout which
was caught by an 11-year-old girl IN
Loves creek near Eau Claire is puz-
cling fisherman. The fish, which
weighed more than three pounds was
landed by Constance Rowell, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher RoWell OF
Eau Claire, after a hard tussle. The
fish broke the bamboo trout rod be-
fore it was landed. It had the prom
inent markings of both the rainbow
and the German brown trout, but the
head was unlike that of any specl-
men of the trout family. Behind each
gill was a large irregular splotch OF
bright red.
Mrs. Eva Griswold, so, former Ra-
cine newspaperwoman and wife OF
Dave Griswold, pioneer newspaperman
of Racine, died at her home after
short illness.