Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-09-17
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NEWS OF THE
!. BADGER STATE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


One brother and 36 nieces and
nephews will share the estate of Miss
Frances Flesch, Johnsburg, Fond du
Lac county, who died June 20, leaving
an estate worth approximately $500.
Slightly over four hundred pupils
enrolled in Neenah high school for the
opening of the fall term. The registra-
ton at Menasha high school was about
two hundred and fifty.
Washburn county's cattle will soon
undergo their second test for tuber-
culosis. Three years ago a thorough
test was made, followed by a retest of
all infected herds.
Hans Tendrup, 20, Balsam lake,
charged with having shot and killed
Elsie Jensen, %, on Sept. l at party
at Boone lake, Polk county, was lodged
in Jail at Superior to prevent possible
lynching.
Fish by the thousands are dying
daily in the Fox river at Appleton
from poison in the river or from some
strange malady. The general belief
is that due to shallow water, the re-
fuse from the mills is polluting the
stream, causing the fish to die.
Educational costs in the city of Fond
du Lac are lower, comparatively, than
in any other city in the state accord
ing to Supt. L. p Goodrich. Approx
mately 80 per cent of the city's an
nual receipts go for educational pur-
poses, while the average for the state
is about 40 per cent, according to Mr..
Goodrich.
John r.. Bowen, secretary of the Bar
ron County Guernsey Breeders asso-
citation, has received another large
order of Guernsey cattle from Senator
Robert Hind of Honolulu, Hawaiian
islands, who desires to stock his TO-
O00acre farm with Wisconsin premier
cattle stock. The shipment, which is
to consist of 100 head, now is being
completed. A short time ago Senator
Hind bought 90 head of the same
breed.
Horse thieves using a motor truck
are believed by Sheriff w. f. Rohde
to be operating in Dodge county, &C
cording to his investigation of the theft
of valuable colt from the pasture
Of J. w. Williams, a farmer. Blood
hounds placed on the trail could not
follow the scent farther than from the
pasture gate to the highway and this
leads to the theory that the animal
was loaded onto motor truck and
carted away.
Alumni of the University Of Wiscon-
sin will attend the Wisconsin, Chicago
football game at Chicago more than
5000 strong on Nov. 81. The alumni
reservations for the game are sold out,
the athletic department has an
nounced. In selling all of the 5000
tickets set aside for Badger alumni
within five days, a record was estab-
lished at the ticket office In Madison.
Virtually every order from the "old
grads" called for tickets for the Chi
cago game.
At the opening session of the sew
enty-ninth annual Wisconsin confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, held at Asbury church, Mil
waukee, the Rev. A. A. Bennett of Wis
consin Rapids was elected secretary
for the twelfth consecutive time. 9th
er officers elected are: Treasurer, w.
T. Hulen, Kaukauna statistician, the
Rev. w. s. Carr, WATERFOWL; post
master, the Rev. Charles Jaquith
Pickett, and press correspondent, the
Rev. O. w. Haywood, Waukesha.
Wisconsin potatoes were distributed
over wider territory during the past
season than formerly, figures of the
state crop and livestock reporting serv-
ice show. The 1924-25 crop was ship
ped into twenty-five states, outside of
Wisconsin. The Chicago market re-
ceived 6,175 cars, more than half of
the cars shipped The Pittsburgh ship
ments were relatively unimportant
amounting to only sixty-one cars. St.
Louis took three hundred and fifty
three cars, considerably more than
formerly. Wisconsin stock was DIS
tributed as far east as Long Island,
through virtually all of the southern
states, and as far west as Stockton,
Calf.
The highest mortality yet reached
in Wisconsin from automobile acct
dents characterized 1924, when 1888
deaths were officially attributed to
this cause. These are findings of the
state bureau of vital statistics in tabu-
lations just completed No year since
the advent Of the motor car has seen
diminution in automobile deaths.
The record for the last five years
shows 139 deaths in 1920, POS in 1921,
237 in 1922, 252 in 1923 and 1873 In 1924.
The 1924 record shows automobiles to
have led all other causes of accidental
death Next in number were deaths
due to accidental injuries by falls.
Other high mortality were drownings,
179. and railroad accidents, 1873.
George Blooer, Fox lake, was ar
rested and fined 500 for fishing with
set line in Fox lake Game Warden
William Raebe reports that there is a
distinct lessening of fish and game
violations In Dodge county since Judge
Schumacher announced the limit will
be given all future offenders brought