Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-31

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Wis, got his hand too near the tim
ing gear and it was drawn into the
cogs and lacerated. He was taken to
La Crosse.
Otto Olson, SO, rural mail carrier of
Eau Claire, lies in a hospital with a
fractured skull, as the result of being
knocked down by an automobile driven
by Robert Huettner, proprietor of a
barber shop.
William Poellinger Of La Crosse, a
fireman, claims the record catch in
spearing fish through the ice this
winter with a 12-pound pickerel. The
fish was caught in Joe Lynn slough,
tributary of Black river.
George Carroll, SO, factory repre-
sentative of the Chevrolet Motor Co.,
died of heart disease at Darlington,
Wis. Mr. Carroll, formerly of Milwau.
kee, was chief dispatcher for the Mil
waukee division of the milwaukee,
road.
The Dodge county board adopted a
traffic ordinance and provided for the
employment of a motorcycle police
man to patrol the main concrete high
ways of the county. Numerous COM
plants of speeding last year prompted
the supervisors to set speed limit in
Dodge county and provide for its en-
| forcement.
Menominee's original water station
pump, installed in 1884, is being taken
out to be replaced by electrical equip
ment. The old pump appears to be
in as good condition as when it was
installed. 1t has operated almost con-
tinually up to last summer. It goes
to the scrap heap, not because it is
worn out from excessive labors, but
because. it is no longer adequate for
the work.
Moses Hooper, believed to be the
oldest practicing attorney in Wiscon-
sin, celebrated his eighty-ninth birth
day, entertaining members of his
family to dinner at Oshkosh. He is
robust and active, daily attending to
affairs of his law office. For many
years he has been attorney for the
paper mill and water power interests
of the lower Fox river at Neenah and
Appleton.
The state conservation commission
has assured sportsmen at Crandons
that temporary fish hatchery will be
built on the Peshtigo river, north Of
Crandon, to determine whether the
ta1, oi7nIo
and brown trout. At a meeting Of the
Forest county board $4,000 was ap-
propriated for hatchery site. The
purchase will be held up pending the
experiment.
Fishermen Of Oshkosh and adjoin-
ing territory are up in arms over the
change in the fishing laws of the state
which prevents them from angling
from Mar. / to June 1. Previously
they were allowed to catch game fish
with hook and line at all seasons of
the year, except black bass, sturgeon
and trout. The big run of white bass
usually occurs in April. A protest
has been sent to the state commission.
During the last year there were re
ceived by oil dealers in Grantsburg,
forty cars of gasoline, approximately
$4,000 gallons, for which the con-
.sumer paid $4,000, it is anticipated
that other stations in Grant county
handled fully as much as did this
place, making a total of $150,0O0 paid
for gasoline in the county A fair
estimate would be that one-third of
this amount was used for JOY riding,
rate Of $14O day.
Roadhouses in which there is
nickel piano or in which dance music
of any sort is provided are included
under the provisions Of the Dane
county dance hall ordinance, Robert
Rieser, deputy attorney general, says
in an opinion to Dist. Atty. Theodore
G. Lewis of Dane county. Mr.. Lewis
intimated that immediate action will
be taken to close up all such places
in Dane county or force them to take
out dance hall permits.
Henry Dean, an employe in whole
sale drug store at La Crosse, stepped
backward into an elevator shaft and
plunged from the third floor to the
concrete basement. He got up, shook
himself, readjusted his glasses, and
started upstairs to resume his work.
Horror-stricken fellow employees in
sisted that he be taken to doctors
office, but the doctor could find moth
ing wrong with Dean. Its funny
didn't break my glasses" he said.
1t has been proud year for every
one connected with Viroqua's big CO.
operative creamery, for during 1928
that institution smashed all previous
records. and for the first time passed
the half million mark in receipts. In
1922 the creamery manufactured 1,147,-
$40 pounds of butter. In 1928, 1,295,-
982 pounds were made and the gain
of 1852 pounds was sufficient to
fill seven railroad cars with the prod
uct of the creamery. To make this
train of 80 cars of butter, 3,773,925
pounds of cream were delivered to
the creamery every pound of it being
brought in by patron-owners.
William E. Hubbard, one of the old
est and best known Civil war veterans
in Upper wisconsin and father of
-, TT.Lbo,,d Of PIoinoIondor died