Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-07-10


Francis Olson Of Sister Bay re
ce1ved severe bruises when team Of
horses he was driving ran away, drag
ging him along the highway.
Five utilities were authorized tt
raise rates by the state railroad com
mission. They are the Darlington
Electric Co.; LaFarge Electric Co.;
Pardeville Electric Co.; Marathon
Telephone Co.; and the Grantsburg
branch of the Wisconsin Tele phone
Co.
More men have been released from
employment by the Consolidated Wa
ter Power and Paper Co. at Wiscon
sin Rapids, and it is said that the
men are being told to take other work
if they can find it, as there is little
prospect of early resumption of the
normal working schedule.
All enrolment records for SUM
mer session were broken as classes
for the summer term began at the
University Of Wisconsin June 80.
While the total enrolment can only
be estimated now, it is certain that
more than 5000 students are enrolled,
passing last years record mark by
several hundred. The session will last
six weeks.
Gogebic parish camp on Lake CALI
lee, near Mellen, has opened for the
season. Groups Of girls and boys from
Gogebic range cities will be at the
camp all summer. Russell Henry,
Auburn, N. Y, will supervise the boys
and Elizabeth Morey of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin will be in charge
of the girls.
Water in Sugar river has receded
almost to its former level after being
so high for five days that traffic from
one side Of town to the other was
detoured to Brodhead seven miles
away. Contractor Edwin Kelly, Sun
Prairie, building a new bridge, has,
however, been unable to resume con-
struction, part of his machinery being
still submerged.
Leona Steinmetz, IL, was almost in
stantly killed and her brother, Albert
Steinmetz, %, was probably fatally in
jured when their automobile was
struck by a 500 line limited, Is miles
west of Chippewa Falls. Both were
thrown distance of 40 feet. Stein
metz, it is said, mistook a freight
train which passed by a few minutes
before, for the limited.
The new state graded school build.
ing in the Brownville school district
has been practically completed and a
large number Of people from the dis
trict and from Stanley took part in
the dedication ceremonies. The speak.
ers at the dedication services were
George S. Dick, state rural school in
spector; County Supt. Anna Johnson,
Ralph Ostrander, J. M. Bolon and w.
H. Bridgman.
w. H. AuBuchon, Merrill, caught a
blackbird on plug while fishing for
bass at Little lake. AS the boat from
which Mr.. AuBuchon anG companions
were fishing neared an unusually
promising spot, Mr.. AuBuchon gave a
mighty cast which landed his plug in
one of the trees where a blackbird
dashed itself against the intruder sew
eral times and became caught on one
of the hooks.
All major crops in Wisconsin con-
tinue late. due to backward and I'M
favorable weather conditions, accord
ing to the July / agricultural sum-
mary announced by Paul G. Nyhus,
state federal cooperative crop report
ing statisician. Corn particularly is
small and late, the report says. Tim
othy and mixed hay have greatly i'm
proved during the last month and al.
falfa has made an excellent first
growth, it is said.
A ive-foot alligator, kept for some
years in show window at Wonewoc,
became unruly this spring and was
taken out to a slaughter house at the
edge of the village where it was con-
fined in a pen. Several weeks ago,
it escaped and has been roaming
about the sloughs adjacent to the river
ever since. Several attempts to catch
it were unavailing and at last a hunt
was organized. The alligator was
finally shot by Jack Kucher
Dormitories to accommodate $50
students will be built at the Universe
ty of Wisconsin next fall, it has been
announced. The buildings are to be
unit Of proposed university dormi-
tory system, and will cost 100000.
The buildings will be financed through
sale of bonds. Bonds covering half
the value Of the dormitory will be
offered for public sale and the uni
versity will purchase the other half.
Principal and interest will be paid
from student rents.
A 17-inch telephone post, part Of the
storm proof line erected by the Wis
consin Telephone Co., in Fond du Lac,
following a disastrous sleet storm two
years ago, was moved ten inches and
broken off short by an automobile
driven by c. E. Pierce of Menasha,
it was discovered when linemen went
to repair the post. Pierce was unin-
jured in the crash but his car was
wrecked. He plunged into the ditch
and hit the post after side swiping
another on highway Is.
Bert Welch, Delavan, is held in the