Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-10-15
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After swallowing a pill containing
strychnine which he found while play
Ing about his home, Russell Percy, %
months, son Of Percy Thayer, Fond
du Lac, died at st. Agnes hospital.
James Goude, 1O1, Baraboos oldest
citizen, Is dead. He came to Baraboo
from England when 10, and served In
the LIST Wisconsin artillery during the
Civil war. His wife died five years
ago at 96.
Between 250 and 300 Wisconsin boys
from high schools teaching agriculture
will compete in the state livestock
judging contest in the University Of
Wisconsin stock pavilion Oct. % and
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Announcement has been made by
trustees of Lawrence college that the
formal Inauguration of DR.. Henry Mer-
rift WristOn as president Of the insti-
tuition will take place the last week
in November. Invitations to attend
the ceremony will be sent to heads Of
colleges, universities and normal
The annual meeting of the Wiscor-
sin State Nurses association will be
held in Eau Claire on October 10, 20
and p. Report of the international
council of nurses will be given by Miss
&dda Eldredge, president of the Amer
tcan Nurses association, and by Miss
Cornelia van Kooy, president of the
state association. The last day of the
meeting is to be taken over by the
State League of Nursing Education.
Members of Coranto the sorority
of women students in the course in
journalism at the University of Wis
consin, have just moved into their new
chapter house, which they purchased
last spring. The house will be a stu
dent home for seventeen of the soror-
ity's twenty-one members and pledges
The COrantO house is believed to be
the only undergraduate women's jour
nalism clubhouse in the United States.
With state production of 1927 900
bushels from 21,700 acres, Wisconsin's
cucumber harvest for 1925 has topped
that of any previous year. The yield
this season is nearly four times last
years crop and three times any former
harvest. An average production is in
Dictated as being seventy-five bushels
to the acre. In acreage the crop now
outranks sugar beets, cabbage, flax
seed and beans.
Whether congress should be granted
power by amendments to the federal
constitution to regulate the employ
ment of all persons under Is will be
the subject to be debated this year in
the Wisconsin Interscholastic Debat-
ing league, sponsored among Wiscon-
sin high schools by the public speak
ing department Of Lawrence college,
Appleton. The question was selected
after a vote of members Of the league.
verdict awarding $1,000 to the
wife and $1,000 f. the husbands es-
tate was returned by a circuit court
jury at Medford in the suit brought by
Mrs Matt Kramer against H r. Hy-
land for the fatal shooting of her hus-
band while the two men were hunting
deer last fall. Witnesses for the plain
tiff testified that Hyland said he mis-
took Kramer for a deer as Kramer, in
a bent position, was going through a
swamp.
Senator John B. Chase has resigned
as mayor of Oconto to accept the re-
cent appointment by Gov. Blaine as
district attorney of Oconto county, sue
ceeding Irwin Breakstone, resigned.
Just what effect this will have on the
Holt Lumber Co., largely over taxation
matters, which led to closing of the
mill at Oconto recently, has not been
determined, but it is believed that
Chases resignation as mayor may per-
NIT amlcable settlement between the
city and the Holt interests
Corn cutters are taking their toll
of fingers in Wisconsin. Within II
hours three persons were brought to
Green Bay hospitals with injuries to
their hands, received while feeding
corn cutters. All Of them lost three
Sngers in the machines. The first was
Mrs. Emma Pasch, of Pulaski, who
lost three fingers and the tips of two
more Edward Black, of Coleman,
lost three fingers on his right hand,
while Charles Sager, of Bonduel, lost
three fingers and part of the palm was
amputated.
Wisconsin potato growers will hold
their annual convention at Oconto on
Nov. SO. Exhibitors are expected
from all of the leading potato grow
ing countless Working demonstrations
will be staged of spraying for insects,
pests and disease seed treatments, use
of fertilizers, disease and insect con-
trails, potato cooking, use of the pOta-
to products and phases of boys and
girls club work. Each demonstration
will be under the direct supervision of
experts and state officials who have
charge of work along these lines and
who are anxious to promote better po-
tato growing in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin has
sent more of its graduates to profess
sonal library schools than any other
university in the country, a report of
the American Library association, just
made public, reveals. To the eighteen
leading library schools in the United
States the University Of Wisconsin has