Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-28

coal by consumers in carload lots has
been started. Two owners and two
tenants OF business buildings recent
ly ordered a car which they bought at
81 a ton, including freight and dray-
age.
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Oben Lem and Jim Henderson, two
=. 12-year-old boys attending the Prairie
school, near Edgerton, performed an
act Of heroism when they recently res
cued a little girl from drowning.
and Christina Oonsgard, s. played on a
pond near the school during the noon
hour Suddenly the ice broke through
and Christina went under the water
The Lein boy went to the edge Of the
+" ice and was unable to locate the child.
The Henderson boy Immediately fol-
lowed and taking hold of the Lein
boys feet, let him down under the ice
and in this manner he was able to To-
cate the little girl and her sled. The
little girl was taken home and re-
turned to consciousness. The two lit
tie boys are the heroes Of the neigh
borhood
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Some people Sleep so soundly their
beds can be moved into the street
without disturbing their slumber. Not
so with George Ostendorf of Darling
ton, who foiled an attempt to actual
ly remove the house he occupied from
it's foundation during the night. Part
of building, owned by r. H. Driver,
occupies two feet of land that is
claimed by E. H. Rodham, who has a
garage on an adjoining lot Mr. priv
er repeatedly refused to move the
building and a bitter feeling result
ed between the two men, Mr.. Rod
ham employed a gang of men to clear
his land Mr.. Ostendorf, the tenant,
awoke when he noticed the house was
moving slowly but surely He went
outside and fist fight followed, IN
which Rodham suffered the worst.
And now Drivers house occupies the
original ground
A movement is on foot in the north
west to make st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis the head of naviga ton on the great
lakes, instead of Duluth and Super
Tor. This is to be accomplished by
a ship canal that would debouch from
the headwaters Of the st. Croix river
in Burnett county and by connecting
with chain of lakes and rivers in
Washburn, Sawyer. Bayfield, and Ash
land counties, terminate at Ashland
in harbor on lake Superior The
idea is by no means a new one as
maps were prepared twenty-five years
ago showing the feasibility of the
scheme. It arises now from the de-
termination of the twin city people
to have an all-water route for their
-four and other products to the east
and to afford cheap freights for coal
in lake barges. Some of the lakes on
the proposed route are fifteen miles
long and very deep and wide
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Fourteen years ago, says the Marsh
field Herald, John Gadson, of the
town of Richfeld, purchased a full
blood Holstein COW of T. E. Venue
dom for SIS paying the price in wood.
In those days COWS were not worth
what they bring today, especially the
kind Of an animal this COW was. Dur
ing these fourteen years, with the ex-
ception of the last two, the COW in
question gave her pail of milk at each
milking and increased the herd each
year with an offspring. Last Monday
this faithful old animal, having out
lived her days of usefulness as a
breeder and mixer, with others of her
kind, was shipped to Chicago to be
killed for beef. During her years as