Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-10-01

Fur thieves broke open a rear win
dow, pried apart iron bars, and entered
the store Of the United Cloak and Suit
Co., Green Bay, escaping with go fur
coats valued at $4,000.
Following a recent breakdown due
to her age, Mrs. Mary Mcmahon, 104,
died at her home in Eau Claire. She
had lived in Eau Claire seventy-ive
years. Up to few months age she
was active with her household duties.
Complete organization of the several
fire districts In the forest areas of
the week beginning Oct. 5, according
to letter sent to Elmer S. Hall, con-
servation commissioner, by Gov.
Blaine.
The Sixth Wisconsin battery re-
newed friendships Of Civil war days
In its forty-ninth annual reunion at
Lone Rock. Five survivors Of the COM
pany attended. Ten soldiers of Rich
land and Sank counties, not members
Of the Sixth battery, also were present.
A large dairy barn on the farm of
G. B. Lehman, near Athens, was de-
stroyed by fire which was started from
sparks while threshing crew was en-
ployed in the barn. Considerable hay,
grain and farm machinery were de-
stroyed, together with the threshing
outfit
A mechanical device which, 1t is
claimed, will find subterranean depos-
Its Of metal, has been invented by
group of University of Wisconsin IA
Guilty members who have returned
from experiments In the wilds of Can
ada in the interests Of a private cor
poration.
A baby boy, but few hours old,
was found by the roadside near Kelly,
six miles southeast of Wausau. The
child was nude and had lain on the
ground exposed to the rain and wind
probably since it's birth. Two hand
kerchiefs were found near 1t, but
neither more any mark Of identified
ton.
The injunction which since Aug. Ii
has restrained Madison law enforce
ment officials from confscating slot
machines in Dane county has been va
Gated by order of Judge A. G. Hopp-
mann In circuit court Chief of Police
Trostle and Sheriff Joseph Daggett
have ordered all machines found In use
to be confiscated.
Fire, which started in the paint shop
of the Hudson Manufacturing Co., Of
De Pere. caused damage estimated at
$4,000. The loss is covered by insur-
ance. The plant, in which barn equip
ment and farm implements are manu-
featured, will be idle for an indefinite
period and GA men will be thrown out
Of employment as a result Of the blaze.
The 1926 state convention of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles will be held
in Plymouth, June 16 to Is, it was de
cided at meeting Of state officers of
the order with local Association of
Commerce members. Plymouth was
picked as the next convention city by
delegates to the Marshfield convention
this year but the action had to be rati-
fed and the dates set by the state
officers.
Removal Of wild duck food from
rivers and lakes of the state for COM
mercial purposes Is a violation of
game statute of 1923, Atty. Gen. Her
man l.. Ekern has informed Congress-
man FlOrian Lampert, Oshkosh in
answer to a query from Mr.. Lampert
on the subject. Sportsmen Of the Fox
river valley have protested to Con-
gresham Lampert the practice Of TAX
ing wild game food out of Wisconsin
lakes and selling 1t.
Police Chief Franklin Trostle of
Madison has announced intentions Of
forming Boy Scout traffic squads,
members of which will be vested with
police powers, to guard street inter-
sections near schoolhouses before
opening and after dismissal of school
each day. The police chief and Scout
officials plan to drill the boys In the
direction of traffic in classes which
will start shortly.
A strapping pair of 8-year-old grade
roans, weighing 1850 pounds, owned
by the Robert Lutz Stone Co. of Osh-
kosh, broke the state record in the
horse pulling contest at the Winnebago
county fair. Hitched to the University
of Wisconsin college of agriculture
special horse pulling dynamometer,
they pulled 5000 pounds for 271a feet.
The old state record was 2,725 pounds.
The world record is 3,425 pounds, made
by a team owned by the Blue Line
Transfer Co. Of Des Moines.
Ten days before her death, while in
apparently good health, Mrs. Fredicka
Pulls, of Manitowoc, 70 years DID, made
complete arrangements for her funer-
al After visiting Evergreen cemetery,
where she selected a lot and provided
for its perpetual care, she called on
a marble worker from whom she
bought a tombstone. Then she went
to an undertaken and purchased a
coffin. Mrs. Pulls said she was not
sick and explained that person Of
her age ought to give affairs of that
kind attention.
Hospitality cost John Sren, Beloit,
Sc in cash. an unceremonious eviction
from his car by his guests" and sew
eral anxious hours of wondering If he
would ever see his automobile again