Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-20
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when he leaped from a second floor
window of his home at Stockbridge to
escape burning to death.
Citizens of West Bend voted at a
special meeting against a proposed
$250,0O0 bond issue to finance a new
high school building. The vote was
400 to 253.
As &. result of an accident in log.
ging camp near Kennedy, Charles
Johnson, a woodsman, met with inJu-
ries which necessitated the amputation
of one leg.
Several new cabins are being built
at Moccasin resort on Big Court Oreil-
les near Hayward. in order to accom-
modate an increased number of guests
this summer.
Dan Leonard, Langlade county sher-
sff, died at his home. He had suffered
Tor several months with chronic
malady. He was serving his first
term as sheriff.
Fifty new contracts with tobacco
growers in Jackson and Trempealeau
counties were signed last week by of
ficials of the Northern Wisconsin To
bacco pool, according to pool head
quarters in Madison.
Owen, the 3-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs NJ Humphrey, Wautoma, has
been taken to Fond du Lac by his
parents for treatment and possibly an
operation for tia removal of 10
penny nail the boy swallowed last
week.
a representative of the Chippewa
Sugar Refining company spent several
days in the vicinity of Marshall sign
ing contracts for beat acreage this
year. The price quoted was SIS per
ton, plus bonus, if price advances after
harvest.
With the ordering of 10000 pounds
of explosives for Armstrong Creek
farmers Forest county has up to date
as much explosives ordered a was dis
tributed all last year. About $4,000
pounds of sodatol have been ordered
for spring delivery and orders are still
being received.
While conducting a post norton ex-
animation after the death of one of
his valuable COWS, Myron Borden,
West Klondike, found diamond stick
pin protruding through the intestines
The pin was owned by Esther MCGEE,
granddaughter of Borden, and was lost
while she was riding on load of hay
last summer.
After living for more than a century
without having had the care of a ply
stefan, Mrs Helen Eichstadt, 101, one
Of Green county's Oldest residents,
died at her home near Monroe follow
ing an illness of two weeks. A native
of Prussia, Mrs. Eichstadt was mar
RED there and did mot come to Amer
lea until 1881, after the death of her
husband.
Oconto county has been selected as
the ideal place in northern Wisconsin
FOR new state fish hatchery, accord
ing to word just received from Elmer
S. Hall, state Conservation commits
sioner. The site selected is about
three miles from Lakewood, in the
western part of Oconto county, and
near the headquarters of the north
branch of the Oconto river.
Married~women need not apply for
jobs as school teachers iii Stevens
Point. The board of education has
voted not to hire them All teachers
who marry will be expected to forfeit
their contracts Married women now
on the force are to be retained. The
board voted bonuses of $50 to grade
teachers, providing they attend sum-
mer school, and increases for a num-
Der of high school teachers.
Because physicians told him there
was no hope for his recovery from
cancer of the stomach, Theodore
OehleI, IS, farmer of the town of
Nekimi, placed shotgun to his chest
and ended his sufferings at his home
on the Ripon road near Oshkosh. His
body was found on the kitchen floor
with the weapon at his side, when his
wife returned from a trip to the barn.
Mr. Oehler was born at Oak Creek,
Milwaukee county.
The state fish hatchery at Sturgeon
Bay will hatch 100000 commercial
trout fry. A lalge percentage OF the
hatch is sufficiently advanced to BE
planted in water adjacent to be plant
ed in water adjacent to the Door coun-
ty peninsula. Elmer S. Hall, head of
the conservation commission, and B.
o. Webster, superintendent of fish
cries, have just completed an inspec-
ton of the hatchery. Actual planting
of the trout fry will start within a few
days It will be necessary to cut holes
through the ice to plant them in Green
Bay.
The first property damage caused
by fire for many months occurred at
Humbird when the residence owned by
Henry Cook was burned to the ground.
A considerable amount of household
effects were saved.
Peninsula State park, in northern
| Door county, will be improved in a
number of ways during the ensuing
summer OF the 100000 appropriated
by the last legislature to cover four
years work in state parks, $4,000 is