Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-15

I go bdIOWSK1, a SdlIOT, I0IuIuluS
from a long lake trip, walked down
Grand avenue in Milwaukee, and
meeting a woman, asked her for a
kiss. He was given a thorough beat
ing by her husband, who stepped out
of a nearby store just in time to
hear Balowski's request. The sailor
was fined heavily in addition to the
bruises.
Virgil ]. Muttley, a 'lifer" at Wau-
pun, has again applied for pardon.
He was convicted in 1891, and has ap-
pealed for pardon to every admins
tration. Muttley was a school teach
er, and was. convicted for shooting his
wife.
What again will be one of the lead
ing Wisconsin crops. The Ashland
experiment station has been working
on a type of winter wheat known as
pedigree No. 20S, and finds that it is
we'll adapted for the clays of the Lake
Superior country. A yield of 123h
bushels on a three-acre trial piece was
reported by Bayfield, county farmer.
The wheat weighed 65 pounds to the
bushels. In some places this variety
has yielded AZ bushels per acre, ma
chine measure. Upper Wisconsin
farmers in large number will put in
winter wheat this fall, this variety
being a favorite.
That there is no demand for in
creased passenger rates was the re-
port of the committee on transporta-
ton of the recent assembly. A meas
ure for the establishment of a 213
cents per mile rate was proposed by
Assemblyman Everett
Ellen Anderson, of Marinette, Mich,
will receive the same treatment for
congenital hip trouble given to Lo-
lita Armour some years ago. Ellens
Ann Harbor, Michigan, university hos
pital.
William Wegner, of Milwaukee, lost
his motorcycle in the Milwaukee river
at Broadway street bridge on the night
of June 10, 1914. He and his COM
panion leaped from the machine when
one of the leaves started to rise as
they were crossing the bridge. The
machine went into the river. The 9TH
er day the motorcycle was fished out
of the river by dredge, and the owner
claimed it. Wegner had owned the
machine only 13 days at the time of
the accident.
A special policeman, named Willard
Glow, had his pocket picked at the
Lacrosse county fair. He was en-
ployed to guard the crowd against
thieves.
| Black gnats lowering around the
court house tower in GAINESVILLE in
such dense swarms that they appeared
to be a cloud of smoke, caused the
firemen to make hurried trip to
the dome of the building. The found
only the tiny insects. se
Some of the pay checks stolen by
the robber who held up Operator
Campbell at Oconomowoc were found
torn in two on the tracks near the
city.
Sam Johnson, a Rusk county farm
er, threshed three acres of oats that
yielded 307 bushels, and Arthur .Erick
son, of Port Wing, harvested three
acres of winter wheat that averaged
Al bushels to the acre. He used 5A
bushels of seed obtained from the Ash
land Junction experimental farm.
The dams at Kilbourn and Prairie
Du Sac on the Wisconsin river, devel-
oping 10000 horse power, have been
taken over by J. L. Beggs, of st. Louis,
formerly a Milwaukee man. The Mil
waukee Electric Co. is the largest us
er of power from this source.
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| Frank Alexander, a reptile hunter,
living at Genoa, Wis, recently killed a
RATHER that carried two heads and a
double possibility of death. Alexan-
der claims to have dispatched 800
snakes in his time.
Alvin Grueger, of Beloit, had tooth
pulled and for four days the wound
bled necessarily. It was finally
stopped. Kruger is what is known as
bleeder, and the trouble is due to
the failing of the blood to coagulate.
B. G. Packer, of the Department of
Agriculture will conduct train bear
| ing an exhibit of Wisconsin products
through the state of Iowa this month.
Fruits, vegetables, forage, grains and
grasses from the less developed part
of the best state in the Union will
make up the exhibit, and the idea is
to acquaint the farmers on the high
priced Iowa land, just what is possible
| in this state. Stops will be made in
the main points.
George Graham, "a years old, living
at Tomah, heard the shrill whistle of
tho Clark mills announcing a fire and