Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25

H. G. Brooks has sold the Eden
Telephone Co. to Charles Pitt, Ere
mont, Wis. The Eden company serves
$50 subscribers.
Miss Matte L. Mcmahon has re-
signed as librarian at the Ladysm1tn
public library. Her successor has
! not been named.
/, Injuries OF serious nature were
suffered by Felix FrasieN Rhinelander'
a woodsman, when he was hit by a
falling tree while at work near star
lake His recovery is doubtful.
James P. Foy, former star pitcher
for Glidden, Wis, was sentenced to
one year at Waupun for larceny. the
charge stated that he took 500 from
the person Of John F'riedal, who was
| sleeping in rooming house at Gid
| den.
Driving privilege was taken away
! from Edward Lafond, West Depere,
by Justice P. S. Kingston. Lafond
was ordered not to drive an automo
bile again after he had been arrested
on charge of driving while intoxl-
Gated.
Police all over the country have
been, asked to watch for Edith Osness.
17-year-old Ashland girl, who disap'
peared recently. 1t is believed by the
police that the girl ran away with
Joe Lockashur. machinist, who has
also disappeared.
A thief, who evidently was in pos
session of the correct lay of the land,
entered the furniture store Of Beduhn
& Goetz, Two Rivers, and robbed tae
safe of $35. The thief selected the
correct one of six cash drawers In
the safe, not molesting the other five.
The Wiese cigar factory, Madison,
will be closed, it was announced by
George Wiese, proprietor. The fac
tory makes the Bob La Toilette and
the julius Caesar cigars. 1t will be
turned over to an eastern concern.
Labor difficulties are said to have led
Mr.. Wiese to dispose of the factory.
Vivian, 1O-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Dave Machia of Sawyer, died
at a Sturgeon Bay hospital from burns.
Her clothing caught fire when she
came too near an oil stove. The
hands and arms of both the father
and mother were badly burned in put
ting out the fire that enveloped the
child's clothing.
Fire starting from a threshing en-
CINE entirely destroyed all farm barns,
grain and threshing outfit on the farm
Of William Froelick, near Columbus.
Three thousand bushels Of newly
threshed grain were consumed in the
fire. All buildings burned excepting
the residence. The Columbus city fire
department was called to aid.
The steamer Clemens Reiss, after
unloading coal at Manitowoc, took the
first load of wheat from this port to
Buffalo since last spring. With the
present heavy grain movement on 1t
is probable that number of boats
will take grain down the lakes before
the close of navigation. Elevators
here are receiving large shipments
daily
Miss Matena Tollefson, So, for SO
years teacher in Manitowoc schools,
died. of heart disease while engaged
in household duties. Miss Tollefson
was one of the most widely known
instructors in the vicinity, She was
formerly president of the County
Teachers association. During the re-
cent vacation she attended summer
school at the University of Wisconsin.
engaged in special work.
The smudging of corn fields to pro-
tect them from frost and insure the
ripening of the crop may be resOrted
to by some farmers in the BarabOO
locality if killing frosts are imminent.
"Smudging' is merely building smoky
fires near the fields. This practice
has been frequently employed in the
southern fruit fields and to some ex-
tent by northern farmers in cases or
unseasonal weather such as threat
ems this fall
The Barron county creamery, the
| largest in the world, still registers
a high degree of dairy prosperity with
| $108, 160.75 paid to 1,049 patrons for
one months cream. The creamery
| handled S27,398 pounds of cream and
made 245,819 pounds of butter. The
average return for all farmers was
over 500 a month. The four highest
| checks were almost $500 each and SO
farmers got between 5000 and $500
each In addition to this creamery
there are seven other creameries and
"A cheese factories in the county.
Wisconsin will produce in round
numbers 100000 bushels of certified
| potato seed stock this year, it is esti-
| mated Most of the supply will be OF
standard varieties including Rural
New Workers, Russet Rurals, Green
Mountains, Spaulding Rose (King),
! Triumph, Irish Cobbler and Early
Ohio Marketing through the recently
organized Cooperative Sales associa-
| ton of certified seed potato growers
/ starts with this crop. More than 80
per cent of the growers have signed
| the contract, the directors announce
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The old Tribune building, Clinton
! Vile is being converted into a milk