Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-23

1uIO CuSIOuy.
Bert Handy, a Juneau county farm
er, is said to have discovered a new
successful method for fattening hogs.
Mr.. Handy uses a peanut butter by
product which he obtains at price
cheap enough to feed with.
Chippewa Falls citizens will vote
this spring on the question of NUM-
cipal ownership of the waterworks
and electric light plant. The matter
was referred to the voters after three
months wrangling in the city council.
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Joseph Baron, aged 90 years, died
recently at his home in the town of
Sharon, near Stevens Point. Mr.. Ba-
ron, who came from German Poland,
saw his descendants come to fifth gen
Grafton.
Mary Ann Rose, said to be the tall
est woman in Wisconsin, died at Sun
ny Rest sanitorium in Racine, last
week. Miss Rose was % years old,
and 612 feet TALL and weighed only
100 pounds Physicians ascribe her
rapid growth and death to disease.
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| Peter Burns, aged 81 years, said to
be the oldest living employee of the
Fairbanks-Morse company of Beloit,
killed himself by cutting his troat with
razor after all illness lasting fifteen
weeks. Burns mind was deranged.
George Houts of Ladysmith, aged
IA, was shot and killed when he at
tempted to remove a 22-calibre rifle
from a stump where he had laid it.
The hammer caught in the act of re-
moving the weapon and the charge
struck the youth in the temple.
A grade Guernsey COW, owned by G..
Hoppert of Sheboygan, has produced
10 pounds of butter in sixty consecu-
tive days. Some authorities place the
average production per COW in Wis
consin at 10 pounds yearly, which
this record equals in one-sixth of
the time.
'To my beloved dog, Willie, 1 leave
$1OO.
"To my friend, Otter Amarud, l.
leave all the balance of my property.
81 have three brothers, Odin, Ole
and Amer, but l do not wish to leave
them anything"
Thus read the will of Mrs. Mary
Johnson, a wealthy Lacrosse widow,
filed for probate last week. Amarud,
who is made the residuary legatee af-
ter the dog is provided for, is dead.
DR.. C. D. Schirmer, Glidden veter-
mary, was crushed between a snow
pillow and the caboose of logging
train, fifteen miles out of Glidden and
will die as the result of his injuries.
Schirmer was standing on the rear
end of the caboose with intention of
taking a snapshot of the pillow in action
when the machine jumped the track.
When the wreckage from the col
lision was removed Schirmer was
found with leg artery severed and
his pelvis crushed. The unfortunate
man was taken to an Ashland hospital
after a four hours journey, where an
operation was deemed inadvisable.
r. F. Rosenew, an alleged million
aire from Sioux Falls, S. D., stopped
at a Waukesha hotel and for several
days kept the guests and attaches of
the hostelry in a state of breathless
awe while he RECALLED them with stor-
inc Of Il 10 INN limo
ufacturer and railroad operator. He
was also able to arrange loans for va
rious amount ranging from $40 to $50,
but eventually his dupes caught on"
Rosenow was arrested as a vagrant
after a call came from Milwaukee
boniface stating that he had invest
ed $66 in the promoter. One of Rose
now's best stories was that he intend
ed spending 100000 in Waukesha in
dustries, and was looking for mana
ger.
The Wisconsin State Journal thus
tells of a remarkable operation re
Gently performed at Denver upon
Homer Tappins, son of M. ]. Tappins,
formerly of Iowa county:
Homer Tappins, son of M. T.
Tappins, secretary of the state
board Of health, has undergone
one of the most unique and scien-
tific operations for tuberculosis
that is performed. For some
months the boy has been in the
hospital at Denver, Colo, and ac-
cOrding to reports his condition
has been slowly declining.
Last week he wrote his father
and asked permission to have an
operation performed upon him
for collapsing the lung which is
affected with tuberculosis. Upon
receipt of a letter from the we'll