Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-09-19

Grant at Rockford with the second
contingent, scheduled to leave today
He failed to register.
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Charged with allowing a prisoner
to escape from JAIL Police Chief Will
liam COblentz was suspended for 80
days and Patrolman w. G. Hill was
dropped from the Amigo force, fol-
lowing an all-night hearing before
the local fire and police commission.
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Wild ducks in GAINESVILLE are an I'M
usual sight, but bridge pedestrians
have been seeing them for the past
few weeks. The water fowl are the
property of local liveryman who is
raising them with a tame flock. They
receive much popcorn from the James
Vile people.
Miss Rose Black of Maryland mar
ried Chicago painter named William
Haake The husband was drafted, and
unable to bear leaving his young bride
he turned on the gas. Their bodies
were found together next day. The
wife's five brothers reside in Wiscon-
sin.
Persons who give liquor to soldiers
who come to La Crosse face prosecu-
ton not only under the federalS stat
ute but also under a city ordinance
which prohibits giving away liquor
without first obtaining a retail license.
The first conviction of that nature
came last week, when Judge Hunt
fined William Clary of that city $40
for the offense
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Clyde B. Terrell, aged %, living
on his fathers estate near Lake Butte
| DIES Morris, has national reputation
as naturalist. He has given expert
advice in regard to the great Algon-
quin park in Canada and on various
occasions has been called in consul
tatiOn with veteran students and
scholars in the art Of nature and the
great out-of-doors that encompasses
her vegetation and winged creatures
The Terrell reserve is noted for it's
work in supplying academic institu-
lions with various specimens of wild
life for experimentation, and for the
young man in charge, whose reputa-
ton for knowing nature in all her
Wildness is attributed to a persistent
desire to know more and more about
the things that live in the everyday
life about him.
Much time and effort in land clear
ing will be saved, it is believed, by the
use Of a new trip for homemade stump
pliers devised by J. E. Frost Of Lady
smith, which is being shown in the
land clearing demonstrations now be-
ing given by the College of Agricul-
ture. The chief advantage of the trip
which not been patented but will be
donated to the land clearing forces of
the state through the generosity of its
originator, is that is makes it unnec-
! cessary to climb the pile every time a
stump is ready for release
The trip also makes it feasible to
burn and pile the stumps at the same
time. This means that greener stumps
to which more or less earth adheres
can be burned more readily and COM
pletely than would be the case if the
pile were made first and fired later.
The trip is about ten inches long,
and is made of common iron which
any blacksmith can duplicate. A piece
Of logging chain is attached solidly
to the trip at one end, passed around
the stump through a ring and is
caught by a pivoted grab hook. This
hook is held in place by a lever, which
is tripped by hand rope at the will
of the operator.
This attachment, when used on the
homemade pliers of the Conrath type,
should prove to be of great value to
settlers on cut-over land Heretofore
the pliers have been equipped with
tongs or chains to hoist the stumps.
Blueprints of the trip at cents apiece
may be obtained by addressing the ag-
ricultural engineering department,
University Of Wisconsin, Madison.
1000
Drain Cylinder Oil.
All new cars and those which have
been run few hundred miles should
have the cylinder oil drained from
the crank case. 1t is good economy to
have this oil drained after the first