Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-02
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.

About 100000 cans of peas were put
up at Waterloo this season.
The new electric route from GAINESVILLE
to Madison is being surveyed.
Kewaunee shipped five carloads of
cheese to Virginia in one week.
Fire on the farm of Thomas F. Meath
near Clyon caused loss of $4,000.
The beet sugar fields of northern Wis
consin produced 10000 tons on $500
acres.
Herman Bemhold of Milwaukee ped
dies ice cream and makes orations at
funerals.
Mrs. Sarah Baldwin. aged 80, one of
the oldest settlers of Waupaca county, is
dead at Manawa.
Lightning destroyed barn stored with
grain near Adel and the damage is es-
timated at $4,000.
Time is no objection to Beloit. The
assessors reports show there are but four
watches in the city.
A farmer named Herman Myer, a resi-
dent of Juneau county, killed his wife
and committed suicide
Spanish war veterans at Neenah and
Menasha have received congressional med
ais made from captured Spanish guns.
Bernard Reinken, pioneer and veteran
cigar, manufacturer of Manitowoc, died
suddenly after three days illness, aged
T6 years.
A marriage license was issued in Rock
ford, H., to A. Fillbach, Cottage Grove,
RixvaI
Falls, aged IS.
Over 60,OO0,000 sunken logs are in the
Chippewa river and its tributaries. A
contract has been let at Chippewa Falls
to raise 100000.
The water is so low in the Little Wolf
river that the logging and tie work has
been transferred to the Wolf. The dry
weather is the cause.
The T. L. Odds Seed Company of Gin
ton has filed an amendment to its articles
of Incorporation, changing the place of
business to Madison.
Joseph Fora was fined 50 and costs
amounting to SIS for biting Anton Upel
on the cheek in Sheboygan. The men
quarreled while intoxicated
son from his tour of inspection and pleas
ure outing in the northern woods The
Governor is entirely rested after his trip.
Fred Hertlein of Allouez is circulating
a petition among the people of the district
beyond the Nemadj, asking that free de-
livery be extended to that part of the
city.
New coarse grain has commenced to ar
rive at the head of the lakes, but the
Superior authorities do not look for
rush before the last of the month or the
first of September.
The work of placing settlers on the
lands in the northern part of Bayfield,
county, known as the cranberry lands
will be begun at once and colonies will be
headed that way soon.
Alfred Klug of Milwaukee. while dig
cling sewer trench, found a glass jar
containing $3,470. It had been buried
by Mrs Xavier Kirschborn, who claimed
it and carried it off without a word of
thanks.
The State railroad commission is tax
ing testimony in the dispute between the
Great Northern and the 500 railroads re-
garding the building of tracks by the
former road leading to the Interstate
bridge between Superior and Duluth.
Mrs. John Anderson and daughter mar
rowly escaped being killed by lightning in
Chippewa Falls. The lightning badly
wrecked Uhe house. The floor in the bed
room where the two women were sleeping
was ripped up and Miss Anderson was hit
by flying splinters.
Charged with assaulting an officer
John Scheberle, for several years chair
man of the town of Shields, is under ar
rest. Policeman G. BUTLER arrested a
farm hand who was working for Sche
bere, who denied the officers right to
fake him. Osborne. the farm hand resist
ed the officer. and in the melee that fol
lowed, the officer was badly bruised.
Friends Of Scheberle say that he merely
wanted to part the men, but the officer
claims that he assaulted him.
George b. Farley, a former well-known
Wisconsin lumberman against whom his
wife recently began action for divorce
has decided to her practically all his real
estate in Wisconsin, located in Chippewa.
Price, Sawyer, Rusk and Douglas coun-
ties. The deed contains the provision
that his wife shall have two-thirds and
his daughter one-third of the property
Mr. Farley resides in Los Angeles, Cal,
having left his wife two years ago.
The Appleton telephone companies hay-
ing notified the city that under the public
utility Law it will he obliged to pay full
rate for all the telephones used, the coun-
ell committee on fire and water has. de
termined to install a telephone switch |
board at the fire department headquar-
ters. purchase its own telephone instIu- |
ments, use the wires of the fire alarm sys- |
TN and have but one connection with |
each of the telephone companies. It is |
claimed the city will thus cut its tele-
phone hills in half. ~ .lEl5