Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-17

| 4huShIdlS are Sdlu TO De unusually
scarce and hard to capture. Foxes
are still more rare.
Producing an average of 14.OS eggs
| for period of 80 days, a flock owned
by ]. III. Raht, Waukesha county, has
set a state record for flocks of less
than 100 hens for the last month.
In circuit court at Wausau, George
Miller of Woodruff was sentenced to
five years in Green Bay reformatory
when he pleaded guilty to attack on
a 16-year-old girl. Miller is % and
married.
| An unidentified man pulled his
mackinaw coat over his head and COM
mitted suicide by stepping in front of
the North Western passenger train at
Hurley There was nothing on his
person by which identity can be es-
tablished.
Stanley will have one of the three
farmers institutes to be held in Chip
pewa county, according to an an
nouncement from Madison. The other
two will be at Boomer jan II and
is, and at Holcombe on the same date.
The Stanley dates are Jan. IA and Is.
For the second consecutive year.
Frank Brand won the top score for
Swiss cheese exhibited at the annual
convention of the Southern Wisconsin
Cheesemakers' and Dairymen's associ-
alton. Mike Dahler had best brick
cheese, August Thueler best limburger
and Martin Suter best block.
All civic organizations in jefferson
county are uniting in an unique plan
to boost the interests of the county.
A federation was formed at a recent
meeting in Fort Atkinson, comprising
all civic clubs In the county, and the
purpose will be to work for greater
Jefferson county"
The Lawrentian, Lawrence college,
weekly announces that it will become
semi-weekly, published on Tuesdays
and Fridays. With this innovation
Lawrence college becomes the second
college in the state to advance from
the weekly newspaper stage The
other college paper published semi
weekly is at Beloit college.
Death has cheated justice in the
case Of Walter Striker, former farmer
living near Juda, Green county, who
jumped $500 bond last June and
fled with his wife and four children
to Canada after being arrested on a
charge of participating in the robbery
of 30 bushels of oats. He was killed
when struck by a steam shovel while
working with a road crew in Canada,
according to word received in Monroe.
With more than $1,250,000 worth OF
building already done this year, 1925
will break all previous building rec
ords in Eau Claire. Among the out
standing projects on the list completed
this year, or work on which is now
under way, are the new senior high
school, two new theaters new dry
goods store, a new church, a new
Studebaker garage. and the Eau Claire
Coffee Co. building,
Claude Shepard and Ben Pliska,
state conservation wardens, report
having seen a black deer on the hign-
way between Eagle River and Rhine
lander The animal was standing I'm
the road and plunged into the woods
as the car bearing the wardens ap-
preached. Black deer are exceedingly
rare and this is the first spe ,imen
seen In upper Wisconsin in many
years
Mrs. Alice McDermott was awarded
$500 damages In Circuit court at
Kenosha from the Wisconsin Gas and
Electric company and the Milwaukee
Electric Railway and Light company,
owners and operators of two street
cars which collided in Kenosha In
October, 1924 The plaintiff sought
$4,000 for injuries she sustained In
that collision The jury was out seven
hours before 1t returned a verdict.
Harry c. Wolfe, Elkins, w. Va, q
student in the University of Wiscon-
sin, was awarded 5000 damages by
jury which tried his suit in federal
court at Madison for $4,000 against
Prof. A. V. Millar, assistant dean OF
the engineering college, and his daugh-
ter, Harriet. The suit followed an
automobile accident Feb. IL, 1925 I'm
which Wolfe was injured. The car
was driven by Miss Millar.
Paying a fine of So and costs
amounting to $6073 last summer for
having an unlicensed dog so ranked
in the mind of John Nowak, town Of
Belmont, Portage county, that he has
since made attempts, through writing
threatening letters to county officials.
to get the money back Nowak was ar
rested recently and arraigned in coUn-
ty court, where he pleaded guilty TO
the charge of attempted extortion and
was bound over to circuit court.
After winning considerable popular
ity as a mixer and member of several
orchestras and the Sparta concert
band during the last six months In this
city, William Hall, &c, former con-
vict who served term in the state
penitentiary for grand larceny, went
back to his old tricks. Hall pleaded
guilty to a charge of breaking into an
automobile supply store and stealing
SIP from the safe None in Sparta
knew Hall was a former convict.
n The Beaver Dam aerie of the Fra
ta,.naI Order Of EaolaS Initiated a