Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-06

-O-O-O-
Frank Schultz, farmer residing on
the Winneconne road, near Neenah,
has an apple tree on his farm loaded
with ripening apples, and at the same
time covered with blossoms. 1t is
presumed that the weather conditions
existing this summer have caused the
phenomena.
-O-O-O-
Alexander Mesick, aged 81, was
killed and two other men injured
when the automobile they were driv-
ing overturned on the Green Bay road
out of Milwaukee. The driver became
confused at a road turning. Mesick's
neck was broken in the plunge.
-O-O-O-
Mrs. Mary Lemanski, of Beaver Dam
aged los years, 3 months and one day,
died last week. She was native of
Germany and came to America many
years ago. She was married in 1888
when Is years old. Six children, thir-
ty-seven grandchildren and twenty
two great-grandchildre survive.
-O-O-O-
-O-O-O-
$4,000 is the value placed upon
the Dane county tobacco crop, accord
ing to estimates made last week. IS
per cent of the crop has already been
sold to manufacturers. II to 16 cents
per pound is the price being paid the
farmers this year. The usual price is
around 10 cents pound.
-O-O-O-
Frank StOppenbach, a Jefferson bus
mess man, had three ribs fractured
and his lung pierced when the car he
was driving with his fiancee, Miss An
toinette Jennings, and her mother and
brother, rolled down a steep bank
near Fish Creek. The others escaped
serious injury. Stoppenbach was TAX
Ell to a hospital.
-O-O-O-
DR.. Paul Rupp, Of Milwaukee, after
examining into the mental condition
Of Matthew Leidgen, 9 years old, Mil
waukee, who recently shot Max Ora
den in fit Of anger, reported that the
youth was slightly above the normal
according to standard tests. The
Leidgen boy was held to the circuit
court.
Fred Krebs, of Whitewater, sustain
ed a peculiar injury when he was
pinned beneath the automobile he was
riding in to town. Krebs' left hand
caught in the broken windshield and
some of the glass severed all the cords
on one hand except those of the
thumb. 1t is doubtful if he will ever
again have the use of his hand.
600
George Townsend, a Cainville Cen
ter man, had what might have been
serious accident last week when the
team he was driving to a moving ma
chine, became frightened and ran
away. Townsend was thrown off the
mower and knocked unconscious No
bones were broken and no harm done
to the team or machine.
-O-O-O-
A shocking affair occurred at Ben
ton when the young son Of Phillip
Cross, was killed at the Kitto mine.
Young Cross stood on the mine brink
gazing down when a part of the pump
shaft above broke off and fell upon
his head. The youth was hurled down
the shaft distance of 220 feet. He
was found dead.
-o-o-o-
Judge A. G. Backus Of Milwaukee,
returned from a northern Wisconsin
motor trip with the carcass of huge
turtle run over in the road near Ath-
ems. Judge Backus saw the reptile
and thought at first it was a dog or
cat. The turtle weighed fifty pounds,
and will be mounted at Marshfield and
later adorn the walls Of the Milwaukee
press club.
George Rivers, aged II, Philadel-
phia youth and Edward Smith of
Massachusetts, enroute to the Pacific
coast, stopped off at Madison. They
gazed long and hard at an automobile
standing in the street and then at
tempted to drive it away Rivers and
Smith were caught before they had
sentences of one year at Green Bay.
-O-O-O-
Cedarville in Marinette county, con-
tains ffty-four Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa farmers who have settled there
during the past two years. Amberg
township was voted dry by these new
citizens, who also last week organized
an anti-tobacco club. Among the
young men, especially, will Cedarville
be a tobaccoless town.
-O-O-O-
James Maxwell, aged 46, went in
search of food, SO he asserted, to the
kitchen of Father Housman, a Pine
Bluff Catholic priest, but 2 o'clock in
the morning puts a suspicious look on
the affair, so Judge Hoppman Of Mad
ison, claimed, when he gave Maxwell
one year in "quod." The priest came
home from a sick call to find Max
we'll in hte kitchen.
-O-O-O-