Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-12-27

Superior will be in the future connect
ed with each other and Bayfield, by
means of telephones.
Thieves made their third visit
in less than a week at La Crosse, when
they invaded the home of G. n. Lagen-
bach, vice president of the Heileman
Brewing company, taking $1,000 in
jewelry.
To be buried in her own private
cemetery in corner Of her farm near
the graves Of her five husbands, was
the last wish of Mrs. Emma C. Van
Sickle, who died at La Crosse. Over
the graves Of the husbands are tomb
stones erected by the wife's own
hands.
Morse & company of Be
lott announce that it will issue 900
shares Of preferred stock at 500 per
share, bearing per cent interest, and
that preference will be given employees
Of the company. The company reserves
the right to purchase in 1920 all stock
issued to employees at the rate of $105
per share.
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Henry Clay Arbuttle, 10, reputed die
expert pleaded guilty in Milwaukee to
charge of larceny as bailee of plati-
mum valued at $4,000 from an interna-
tional dye concern, by whom he was
employed to manufacture dyes by
secret process. He was sentenced to
three years in the Green Bay reforma-
tory for boys.
Kehosha had a 8 year old hero in
the person of Raymond Deming, who
saving his mother, Mrs Elsie Deming,
from burning to death, under condi-
lions which were thrilling. The moth
er was starting a fire in the kitchen
stove when a spark caught her dress.
She was in flames when the little boy,
hearing her cries, went into the kitch-
Ell and, crawling on chair, smothered
out the flames with a rug. The woman
was terribly burned and the boy had
five fingers swathed in bandages when
he went to school the next day.
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The community in the town of Arena
known as Dover" enjoys the fame of
being the birthplace of the grain bin
der, the first machine being put in
operation on the G. w. HaZelton farm
by the inventor, John F. Appleby in
1867. The invention of tieing a knot
by machinery was great step in me-
chanical science and has proven one OF
the inventions which has been of in
calculable benefit to mankind Little
did Mr.. Appleby, or the men who wit
messed the first operation, have any
idea that it would revolutionize the
harvesting of grain. In 1879 Appleby
sold a half interest in the invention to
the behring's and McCormicks for
$4,000 and Appleby became associat-
ed with them.
Sweeping changes in the tax laws
of the state were proposed in the re-
port Of the state tax commission which
has just been sent to the printer The
changes are concurred in by the en-
tire membership of the tax commits
sion. The report says that revenue
derived from the assessment from per-
sOnal property taxable in 1915 COM
puted at the average local rate was
81 ,026. AS the aggregate income
tax for the same year was $685. ,085,
it follows that a repeal of the person
al property tax law would result in
a loss of over $2,O0O,0O0 revenue un-
less compensated in some other way,
says the report. 1t is believed that
such compensation can be secured by
a Redistribution of personal property
and certain minor changes in the in
come tax law.
Wisconsin's 1916 cranberry crop
amounted to about 300 barrels, and
in spite of soaring prices for other
food stuffs, the normal price Of from
$3.50 to $500 barrel still prevails.
This fact is even more remarkable
when it is remembered that central
Wisconsin and the Cape Cod area Of
Massachusetts furnish the bulk of the
nations cranberry supply. That the
past season proved a difficult one for
cranberry growers is the report from
O. c. Made of the Agriculturist exper-
iment station, who is the superinten-
dent of the experimental farm at Gran
moor. This was largely due to the hot
weather of July and August, which in
some cases prevented the growth of
uniformly large berry. In most we'll
drained boys the average yield was
higher than from the poorly drained
ones, which produced a large percent
age Of so-called ''pie-berries. Insect
losses in the Wisconsin cranberry boys
were far less troublesome this year
than heretofore, owing chiefly to the
frequent use of water in May and June,
when the rainfall was heavy AS the
vines were completely submerged be-
fore the blossoms opened, most of the
vine-eating insects as we'll as the fruit