Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-01


ger, escaped serious injury when an
airplane, owned by Scott Lake, Viro-
qua, struck a tree and fell. The plane
was considerably damaged.
The Hillsboro Creamery Co. has
closed its cheese factory, due to lack
of patronage, and the machinery has
been removed and stored. The build
ing will be remodeled and used as q
battery and electric shop.
The Middle Wisconsin Power Co.
has begun the erection of high-power
line from Necedah to New Lisbon.
The line will be in operation June /.
Material for the street lighting in Ne
cedah's business district has been
ordered.
The Commercial club of Park Falls
has decided to publish booklet set
ting forth the attractions of this re
gion to summer visitors. The booklet
will contain many photographs of
nearby beauty spots. 1t will be given
to all visitors.
Mrs. B. J. Walker, Almond, Wis, is
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in Portage county to qualify for the
office by filing bond with the proper
offices of the county. She was elect
ed at the spring election.
A representative of Chris Schroeder
& sons, Milwaukee hotel builders, will
survey the hotel situation in Beaver
Dam as the first step towards obtain
ing a modern hotel for this city.
Tentative plans favor the erection OF
a 75-room structure at cost OF
! $25O,OOO
Two trophies, one offered to the
Waltonian catching the largest brook
trout in Lincoln county streams and
the other to be offered to the Walton
ian catching the largest rainbow trout,
are being exhibited by H. E. Kluetz,
Merrill sportsman. The season opens
May /.
Mrs. John Dormady, resident of Ash
land for 40 years, died from injuries
received when she fell from second.
story window of her home. She had
been in the habit of sitting in the win
dow waiting for her son William to
come home, and it is thought that
she lost her balance
Emil Sitko, 7-year-old son Of Frank
Sitko, Drummond farmer, lost two
fingers of is right hand as the result
of the explosion of a dynamite cap
with which he was playing. THE lad
picked UP the dynamite cap in one OF
/ is fofI de- OF,
ing had been done.
The Wilton village board authorized
an appropriation of $4,000, which aug
mented by an equal amount from the
county Of Monroe, will be spent on
the highways inside the village. The
roads of Wilton are bad in wet wealth
er. The $4,000 will be used to make
permanent improvements.
The Minocqua town board has ap-
propriated $4,000 for a new water sup
ply system for Minocqua The bid of
a Chicago firm of $4,000 for the install
lation of the system has been accept
ed. A special election will be held to
vote on a bond issue of $4,000, the
remainder of the cost of the system
Minoqua's present water supply has
been declared unfit.
With the throb of engines driving
limestone crushers coming from many
fields, Green county farmers are hard
at work lining their soil in the hope
of increasing the alfalfa acreage,
which would mean better cattle,
better milk, and better Swiss cheese.
Seeding is well under way. County
roads are reported in unusually good
condition for this time of year.
The first drowning of the season
at Sturgeon Bay occurred April %,
when Gerald, 10-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Franklin, fell from
wharf and drowned. younger
companion helplessly looked on, The
lad was fishing. The body was found
As minutes after the accident by mem
bers of the coast guard crew, who
worked vainly 40 minutes to restore
life
The second suicide in one week at |
the Wisconsin state hospital for the |
insane at Mendoza, took place when |
Lettie Anderson, 81, of Waterloo, Wis,
ended her life DR.. M K Green,
superintendent at the hospital, said
increases in the staff of attendants
and closer and more personal obseva-
ton of the patients, is being adopted
in an effort to prevent any further
suicides.
Joseph 5McKenna, Chicago, suffered
fracture of his right leg just below
the hip when his touring car struck
culvert, four miles east of Reeds
burg The car was demolished Just
before the crash he threw his 7-year-
old son, who was sitting on his lap. |
clear of the car. The boy escaped |
with only slight cut on the forehead |
The driver of the car also escaped |
without injury.
Harvey Bucholtz, a Peshtigo High |
school student, had a narrow escape |
from drowning when canoe in which |
he was going up river upset in an
effort to turn about He was alone
and was nearly persisted from cold |
before his plight was discovered by I
persons on shore. A crowd gathered I
at the bridge and cable was thrown
to the young man who was thus drawn i
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