Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-09-03
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! NEWS OF THE :
! BADGER STATE !
Observation-Disclosures

Harvesting Of Door county's bumper
apple crop has begun. An unusually
large yield is expected this year, own
ers declare, and the quality is excel
lent.
r. w. Lathrop, Crawford county SUI
pervising teacher, who has been active
In Junior club work in the county, has
purchased a small fran near Wau-
zeka and has resigned his school posi-
ton.
N. A. Coady, farmer living in the
town of Weston, near Menomonie, was
almost instantly killed when box of
dynamite caps which he was holding
exploded. He had been blowing
stumps from school yard.
Reed Stoppenbach was fined $50 and
ordered not to operate a motor vehicle
for one year when he appeared before
Justice Charles Buss, at Jefferson, and
pleaded guilty to a charge of operat-
ing an automobile while intoxicated.
The Central Wisconsin Cheesemak-
ers, Buttermakers and Dairymen's Ad-
vancement association will hold its an
nual convention in Merrill, Oct. q, %
and 30 Plans are underway for many
entertainment features.
A fire caused $25 900 damage on AL
bert JepsOn's farm, five miles north Of
New London. The fire started in
straw stack and was blamed to a
threshlng crew which was working on
the farm.
While playing Soldier, Marvin
Kuecht, 8, member of a tourist party
at one of the Oneida county lakes, ac-
cidentally shot his 7-year-old brother
In the shoulder. The boys found a
revolver belonging to a guide.
Chester Manthei, 15 for the third
time won the ton litter championship
Of Rock county. His Durocs checked
over the scales on the opening day of
the GAINESVILLE fair at 2,055 pounds
They were narrowed Mar s and were
from the same dam that produced the
two previous county championship
filters.
Thieves stole a bag CT first class
mail from the Hammond station, rip
ped it open and left the sack near the
station. The sack was overlooked
when other bags were gathered up and
was stolen before it was called for.
There is no estimate Of the value of
the contents, but no registered mail
was included
DR.. II. G. Oberholser Of the United
States bureau of biological survey in
terviewed over 100 owners of over
flowed lands near La Crosse, prelimi-
nary to the purchase by the govern
ment of lands to make up a wild life
refuge along the upper Mississippi.
DIR. Oberholser said that an appropria-
ton Of 100000 Is now available for the
purchase of lands. The average price
is So per acre.
Ripon was selected as the meeting
place of the biennial convention of
the Wisconsin District Evangelical
league in 1927, at the closing session
of the 1925 meeting at Fond du Lac.
The Rev. Paul Prell, Shawano, was
elected a member of the executive
board of the Wisconsin district, to-
gether with one delegate from the She
boygan and one from the Fond du Lac
leagues. These delegates, who will be-
come members of the executive board,
will be named at later date.
Farmers in the Marengo valley
south of Ashland are reported to be
chopping down poplar trees for the
cattle, which feed on the leaves, in the
absence Of1grass. The drought is max
ing itself felt unusually hard in some
portions of the state, and pasturage
is exhausted in some places. The
Marengo valley farmers, many Of them
coming from Finland, are trying out
the leaves and twigs of young trees,
having learned the practice in Finland.
Cattle seem to thrive on the diet.
Wisconsin is third in the manufac-
ture of paper and wood pulp, with
$11S000,000 invested in the industry,
according to information given out at
state fair headquarters. Wisconsin's
paper mills use 1900 cords of pulp
wood daily, or pile about five miles
long They turn out 1900 tons of
paper daily or about enough to load
no box cars. The annual paper pro
duction would fill 10000 box cars, or
would make a freight train 300 miles
long
Gilbert Van B. Wilkes, United States
engineer, and j. A. b. Thompkins, his
associate, met shippers of the Ephraim
district at a convention relative to the
governments undertaking the dredg-
ing of Strawberry passage between
Strawberry island and the Door coun-
ty peninsula. No definite action was
taken at the meeting but indications
were that the government would not
undertake the work and the likelihood
is that the Goodrich Transit Co. would
discontinue its service to the ports Of
Ephraim, Washington Harbor, Egg
Harbor and Sister Bay.
A large hard maple tree was recently
sold by Herman G. Hacker, of the town
of Pella, Waupaca county, to J. w.
Hewitt, Neenah, for $40. The diam
eter of the tree was 40 inches at the
stump. "he butt log scaled 700 feet,
and the three logs into which the tree
was cut came to 1500 feet The logs