Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
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Observation-Disclosures

udll, uleu SuueHly at MS nome III OSn-
kOsh, of heart disease. He served in
the 1922 assembly.
The leather jacket worn by Bruno
Knapp of Stevens. Point saved him
from being seriously wounded when a
hunting companion shooting at rab-
bit peppered him with fine shot.
A campaign for 100 new members
has been launched by the Oneida
County Fish and Game Protection as
ISOLATION. The association, which was
organized a number of years ago, has
developed into one Of the largest con-
servatiOn organizations in Wisconsin
Requests to religious and educa-
tional institutions amounting to more
than $4,000 were revealed when the
will Of George B. Mcmillan, Civil war
veteran and pioneer resident of CEN
trail Wisconsin, was made public In
Wisconsin Rapids. Mr.. Mcmillan, who
was IS, died Oct. q.
Poor children in Rice Lake, Barron,
Cumberland, Spooner, Hayward, and
other places in this region will be re-
membered at Christmas this year by
the Elks' lodge of Rice Lake. Christ
mas cheer is brought into the homes of
the poor each year by the Rice Lake
Elks through funds raised by holding
a carnival.
When attacked by q vicious bull
Nels Hanson, a farmer near Rhine
lander, was severely hurt internally
and received numerous cuts and
bruises about the body. The bull
trampled the man and probably would
have killed him had not passing motor
ists succeeded in driving the animal
away.
The 1925 tobacco curing season is
three weeks ahead of the average, the
Northern Wisconsin Cooperative To-
bacco pool says In its latest report.
Since 1t is not uncommon to start TAX
ing tobacco down from the poles as
early as Thanksgiving time, the pool
states, it will be possible for some Of
the early crops to come down during
the early part Of Novmeber, provid-
ing the weather is suitable.
Supt. Frank 0. Holt, GAINESVILLE, has
been elected president of the Wiscon-
sin Teachers association at the annual
convention in Milwaukee to- succeed
c. J. Anderson, Madison. Mr.. Holt
has been president of the Rock County
and Southern Wisconsin Teachers as
sociations and has been member of
the executive committee of the state
association. He is also a member of
the state board of teachers examiners.
Following a raise Of cents in street
car fares, the Beloit city council has
decided that free rides in the police
ambulance must go, too With pur-
chase Of brand new ambulance, the
council has adopted a schedule of am
bulance fares, applying to all except
emergency calls Ambulance rides in
the city will be So, with so cents for
every extra mile on calls outside the
city limits.
Awards of prizes In the Wisconsin
potato exposition at Oconto were an
nounced by the judges, r. E. Vaug-
han, Melvin Luther and J. w. Brann,
of the college Of agriculture, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin. Price county took
first prize, with score of 81 Henry
Rainbow, county agent takes a ban
ner and also the silver trophy hung
up by the Milwaukee Association of
Commerce. Other prize banners ward
ed were Second, Oneida county, 90 !;
third. Forest, "a fourth, Oconto, 90 !;
fifth, Barron, 90, and sixth, Rusk, 81.
Timothy Reidy, 90, town of Nor
rison, Brown county, perhaps the only
man in Wisconsin to have the dis
tinction of fighting OF both sides dur
ing the Civil war, is dead Mr.. Reidy,
who was born in Tralee, Ireland, came
to this country when a boy, settling In
Brown county. In 1857 he went to
Texas and on the outbreak of the
Civil war was required to fight in the
Confederate army, even though his
sympathies were with the north In
1865 he and a companion escaped into
Mexico and then took a ship to New
Orleans from where they reached a
northern city and enlisted in the Union
army.
Nearly $12000,O00 will be available
for highway construction and mainten-
ance in wisconsin in 1926, preliminary
estimates Of the state highway COM
mission indicate. The figures show
that approximately 1887 300 will be
available to counties. Counties will
receive $4,5S7, 191 from the state and
federal governments for reconstruction
Of the state trunk highway system In
1925. Other highway funds will be
divided as follows: For Improvement
of county trunk system, $1,377 900.
Maintenance of state trunk highway
system, $3,S64000. Maintenance of
connecting streets in cities, $4,000.
Maintenance Of swing and lift bridges,
$S1,OO0 Maintenance of town and vii
age roads. $1,494000. Maintenance Of
city streets, $40S,000.
Alcohol, the urge to take another
persons property, and "hard- boiled
auto drivers appear to inspire the
chief part of postwar crime AT least,
they are to blame for the largest num-
Der Of the 1907 criminal cases which
came before the Dane county superior
court during the six years from 1913
to 1923, inclusive.
DR.. Frank E. Wilson, rector Of