Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-01-01

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en- by the Shawano County Bankers
association in Shawano 1t was voted
to hold four regular meetings each
year in the future.
E. w. Ballschmider, AZ, photograr
pher, died at the home Of G. w. Kent,
Sheboygan, while playing cards with
three friends. Heart failure was the
cause. He is survived by his wife and
one son.
Wisconsin paper mills imported
more than 100000 worth of Canadian
pulpwood and ground wood pulp
through the port of Ashland alone this
season, according to official estimates
made here.
A woodsman named Rusk dropped
dead at one of the Foster-Latimer
Lumber Co.'s camps near Mellen
shortly after he left the supper table.
The body is being held here while au-
thorities are making an effort to hnd
the mans relatives.
Three highway men, travelling in
Charles Dewsnap on highway 10, near
Endeavor, and after binding and gag
ging the threesmembers of the family,
ransacked the house and escaped with
about $500 worth Of valuables.
His vision obscured by frost on the
windshield, A. T. Lobdel, Durand,
drove his truck into the path OF
street car in Eau Claire. The car cut
the cab from the truck and hurled it,
the driver and his companion, Clar
ence Fessenden, upon the courthouse
lawn. Lobdel escaped virtually I'M
scratched and Fessenden's arm was
broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Moves and family
of four children narrowly escaped
death from coal gas in their home in
Sheboygan. Mr.. and Mrs. Moves were
overcome, ard when their daughter
Aleta, went to the telephone to call
for assistance, she, too was overcome
Neighbors were called by other mem
bers of the family, and physician
resuscitated them They will all live.
The Iron county board, in session
at Hurley, adopted a resolution to use
available funds to improve the Lake
Superior park near Saxon. The reso-
luton calls for planting trees and
shrubbery along the roads and paths,
for improving the beach and for plac-
ing of piles and breakwaters neces-
sary to protect rowboats and launches
on the lake shore adjoining the park.
Several fires did damage amounting
to SLIPS in Fond du Lac and North
Fond du Lac The worst of the fires
were at North Fond du Lac, where
the residence of Mrs. Mary Spindler
was destroyed and the Washington
school building badly damaged. Fire
starting from an overheated furnace
caused between $4,000 and $4,000
damage to the roof and interior of the
school.
Redemption Of $4,000 in outstand-
ing bonds, the final payment in the
debt of $4,000 assumed by the city Of
Amigo in the purchase Of the Amigo
water works, has been made, giving
the city full title to the plant pur-
chased in 1914 OF ths $4,000 final
payment $4,000 was surplus in the
treasury Of the water department.
The $4,000 balance will be paid from
the first tax collections early in 1925.
Since purchase by the city the plant
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Crying for aid, his hands and feet
frozen, Bernard Ulik, Is, an inmate
Of the county insane asylum, was
found FIVE miles south of Manitowoc,
after having escaped from the insti-
tuition three hours earlier. He was
clad only in his underwear and his
feet and hands were unprotected.
The thermometer registered below
zero. He was rescued by farmer
who called a physician. The latter
packed the frozen boy in snow. Ills
condition is serious.
Many persons suffered from expo
sure to sub-zero weather when the
locomotive pulling southbound North
Western Passenger train NO. 22O was
derailed when switch snapped on
the railroad right of way in front OF
the passenger station at Kewaskum.
Seven coaches filled with passengers
waited nearly four hours at the siding
before an engine from this city could
be sent to pull the crippled train
through to Milwaukee. With the en-
CINE off the track all heat in the
passenger coaches was shut off.
Checking of records by Secretary OF
State Fred Zimmerman has resulted
in the collection of $1,400 in fees from
foreign corporations that have amend
ed their charters, it was revealed at
the secretary's office. Receipt of fur
Their fees is expected to double the
amount already collected, according to
Mr.. Zimmerman. Foreign corpora
lions are required by law to file with
secretary Of state certified copies OF
all amendments to their charters. Mr.
Zimmerman said. BY searching
through the records, he found that
about ninety corporations had failed
to meet this requirement.
More than a million pounds of pyro-
tol has already been distributed to
Badger farmers this year, according
to John Swenehart of the Wisconsin
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