Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19


mer session will open in Madison June
80. The registration is expected to
come close to $1,000 Last year APP
proximately 400 students registered.
A doubled headed Poland China pig
with double mouth and three OPEN
ings in a row for nostrils was born
on the farm of Roy Miller, Juda. A
veterinary doctor says the pig can eat
through both mouths.
Pinehurst farms, Sheboygan Falls,
one of the most widely known large
dairying farms in wisconsin, has sold
out its stock of 95 pure-bred Holsteins
at public auction. Dairymen and cat
tie buyers from all over the state at
tended the sale.
Construction Of a 100000 concrete
dam across the Menominee river has
been started in Marinette, for the Nj.
and M. Paper Co. The dam, which
will be 4S0 feet long and twenty
foot base and ten-foot top, will re-
place wooden structure.
Failing to see a passenger train at
crossing in Sheboygan, Harold
Kurtz, II, drove a team of horses on
the tracks and one was killed instantly
and the other so seriously crippled
that it had to be killed. The youth
fell backward into the wagon box and
was uniniured.
Knocked unconscious for more than
an hour, Henry and Frank Schmidt
and Edith Hackbarth, all of the town
of Byron, Fond "a Lac county, We're
severely cut and bruised and the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
torn in two when it struck culvert
on the Brownsville road.
M. and Mrs. r. G. Whitcomb cele-
brated their golden wedding anniyer-
sary at Monroe Mr.. Whitcomb has
been superintendent of the Green
county farm alsot 4S years. He was
born in Rock county July 6, 1848. Mrs.
Whitcomb, 70, is, an Ohio native. A
son, Walter j., is now in active charge
of the county institution.
Rain-soaked roads hold no terrors
for Arnold Albright, farm boy, who
walked nine miles to Monroe to try
his luck at entering a clown contest
in circus. Professors of the clown
college were so pleased with Arnold's
demonstration that he was chosen one
of the nine of so applicants who APP
peared with the regular clowns.
Smith Bros, commercial fishermen
of Port Washington, caught an 30
pound sturgeon in one Of their pond
nets, recently. The fish is fine speci-
men five feet long and is now on
exhibition, alive, in the aquarium at
Smith Bros fish house. The local
fishermen have made application to
the state conservation commission to
keep the fish alive, and it will prob
ably be held for exhibition purposes
for the State fair.
An army of cutworms, wireworms
and grubworms is playing havoc with
Green county's corn crop as cool.
damp weather continues. Planting is
not yet completed and many farmers
are finding replanting necessary. Flint
corn, quick crop, or soy beans and
millet may have to be resorted to If
the combination Of bad weather and
low grade seed continues to prove a
menace to the corn. The hay crop,
although better than last year, will
not be as good as at first anticipated.
Lightning which struck the chemi-
cal recovery plant of the Stevens
Point Pulp and Paper Co., at MeDill,
a mile south of Stevens Point, caused
q fire which destroyed the building.
resulting in a loss Of 100000. Fire
men used seven lines Of hose to battle
the flames for four hours. Twelve
huge chemical tanks were unchanged.
The loss was confined to the building,
shafting and piping. The company
announced it will rebuild immediately
The paper mill proper will be forced
to close two months.
Plunging 20 feet to the bottom Of
gravel pit at the side of highway is
near Amherst Junction when their car
was backed too close to the edge Of
the embankment, Paul Frymark and
his son and daughter are alive to tell
Of their hair-raising experience. They
were not injured seriously. The car
ended its mad plunge by turning turtle
into six feet of water at the bottom
of the pit. The spot where the acct
dent occurred has long been regarded
as dangerous as the edge Of the pit
is very close to the road.
Dancing to music OF an automatic
piano in roadhouse or soda fountain
parlor constitutes public dance with
in the meaning of the Outagamie
county dance ordinance, John A. Ions
dorf, district attorney of Appleton.
was informed recently by Asst. Atty.
Gen. Bump. The legal department de-
clined to revoke its previous opinion
on the dancing question, although il
las been reversed By. a ruling of the
Dane county superior court. Mr.,
Bump referred to the ruling on tho
Dane county dance ordinance and as
serted that the legal department 10
still of the same opinion.
George w. Duncan, former Oconto
resident and at one time sheriff Of
Oconto county, fell dead at Calder
wood, Mich, where he had been EN-
ployed as engineer for the Sawyer