Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

streams have caused much damage
all over northwestern Wisconsin.
The body Of William WEIGH, the
Green Bay taxi driver who lost his life
last December when his car hurled
into the river at an open bridge, was
recovered last week in a badly decOm-
posed condition a few hundred feet
below where the drowning took place.
Dynamite was used with good effect
during the recent high water at New
Richmond An ice jam had formed
in the Willow river and threatened
the Anderson bridge, near that city.
The explosive broke the jam and saved
the structure. The highway bridge
at Burkhardt on the same stream was
carried down stream by the jam
which also tore away the foundation
of the Burkhardt Milling and Elec-
trio company, leaving the structure
held only by the main shaft of the
plant
Contracts have been closed with
many state and nearby newspapers
for a big campaign Of advertising
"Old Faithful" Hemlock, Wisconsin's
most important lumber product. The
Northern Hemlock and Hardwood
Manufacturers association offers to
pay So for every 81 spent by local
lumber dealers in advertising this ma
tive wood. Contracts have been clos
ed for S25 700 to be spent this year,
and if results are good, $4,000 will
be spent annually for the next five
years.
Crossing the Menominee river from
Michigan to Wisconsin, Louis Desjar
las, aged IS, lumber jobber, and
Henry Bruso, aged &c, wood worker,
were drowned in the rapids. The &C
cident took place 80 miles north of
Marinette where the men and their
families were camping on the river
bank. The men were crossing in a
boat with a young man named John
Jerue, aged 20. The craft struck a
cake of ice and sprung a leak. I'm
able to swim, Desjarlais and Bruso
went to the bottom before the eyes
of their Mortified families. Jerue
swan to a cake Of ice and was rescued
later.
Judge Henry GRASS of the circuit
court has appointed Greene, North,
Fairchild and Parker of Green Bay as
legal representatives in the matter of
a temporary injunction obtained by
several tax payers of Brown county
against the proposed bond issue of
$650,000 for the purpose of building
a trunk system of concrete roads in
this county. The judge acted upon
the request of the county board of
supervisors. The matter will be heard
in circuit oh its merits. This is to be
in the nature of friendly suit, mas
much as an appeal will be taken by
either side to the Supreme court to
obtain a ruling on the constitutional
ty of the state highway aid law.
The United States forest products
laboratory at Madison has discovered
new power fuel which may displace
or supplement gasoline
1--WE are making grain alcohol from
wood" recently said F. w. Kressman,
one of the experts in the laboratory.
stead of gasoline.
"The practicability Of ethyl, or grain
alcohol made from wood, depends on
the price of gasoline after war. 1t can
be made at from 20 cents to 25 cents
per gallon, although grain alcohol
now sells for So cents per gallon. At
ter the war, grain alcohol will go
down sharply and gasoline will decline
also. If gasoline, which now sells
around 80 cents a gallon, gets down
below the cost price of making the
new grain alcohol, the manufacture
of the alcohol will not be profitable"
Almost any kind of wood can be used
to make grain alcohol.
George j. Seybold, about 35 years
old, was shot and almost instantly
killed at Kenosha, in an attempt to
escape from a policeman who was TAX
ing him to the police station.
Seybold's home has not been deter
mined. Letters found in his pockets
bore the address of Hon. George j..
Seybold, care Keen ranch, Letcher,
S. d." One letter shows that he was
on Lis way to Milwaukee, and another
apparently from his wife, indicates
that she and two daughters are in ST.
Paul, Mimi.
Seybold registered at the Hotel
haywood, giving Milwaukee as his
home. A telegram was also found
which he wrote to the Cogan Publish
ing company, Al Cawker building,
Milwaukee, requesting that money be
sent to him in Kenosha.
1t is said that later a wire was re-
ceived from st. Paul asking that Sey-
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