Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-05


en- the opportunity to decide whether
or not they want a municipal fuel and
ice plant. The commission council
has set jan. s for epecial election
appropriating $4,000 for each pro
ject.
DR.. W.. E. Gochenaur, once a vi
roqua dentist, now of Portage, was
waylaid and robbed on a dark street
at that place on a recent night The
doctor was chOked so that the mus
cles of his throat We're paralyZed, his
face battered almost beyond recog-
milton, eyes swollen shut, and inter-
nal injuries are feared
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Recently with the aid of tractor
a 30-acre tract of the Fred Peterson
farm near Appleton was plOwed at
the rate of five acres a day. A head
| light was placed on the tractor and
some blowing was done at night
There still remains forty acres to be
plowed Some Of this pasture land,
which would have been difficult for
/ horses to pillow was done without any
trouble by the tractor.
1000
/ The cattlemen and cotton seed
crushers of Texas have joined in a
movement to save the stock in that
| state, under direction of Food Admin
! istrator Hoover. Much of the work of
bringing these two agencies into CO.
operation was brought about by DR..
Chas. Mccarthy of the Wisconsin Leg
| islative reference library who is one
! of Mr. Hoover's aids From papers
and letters received from that section
of the state it is estimated that the
cooperation of these two forces will
save millions of cattle by furnishing
the owners cotton seed meal.
900
Members of the Brown county ex-
emption board have been puzzled as
! to proper action in two exemption
cases. Emil Luedtke of Howard, was
physically O. K. when examined but
suffered severed finger on Nov IA.
He answered the roll call and was
sent to Camp Custer with others. He
i is said to have objected to examina-
ton and to have attempted to influ
ence others. Charles Trinkner, Bell
vue, fell from a motor car on the way
to Camp Custer and sustained a brOk-
en- finger which had to be amputated.
/ The inference is that both accidents
were Intentional
900
The n Ludington company of Mar
inette. last week sawed it's last pine
log after so years Of pine manufac-
ture. In the future it will be operated
on hardwood exclusively and the
booms, forming it's log pocket, in the
river are to be removed. Former Sen
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continuous charge of operations at
the mill ever since it started in 1858
and was there to see the last pine log
cut. The old boarding house of the
company, which was built in 1860, was
closed last week. During the civil
war days it was the scene of all the
war meetings held during those times.
1900
Farmers of st. Croix county have
or will have this year, in spite of the
early frost which damaged much of
the corn crop, an opportunity to buy
from q stock of 275 bushels of seed
corn, grown in their own county. This
seed stock will be sold at the nominal
price of 81 a bushel. That this is true
is due to the efforts of the county
agent, T. M. Olson, cooperating with
the bankers and farmers of the cOun-
ty.
When the frost damaged the imma-
ture corn, the farmers realized the
need for saving their corn, but in
most cases they had not the time nor
the place to cure it. Mr. Olson con-
ceived the idea of using the basement
of the court house as a curing room,
and he therefore purchased 275 BUSH
els Of corn from good felds-all he
could get labor to gather-and paid
for picking, hauling and stringing it
from money furnished by bankers of
the county. Only such corn as would
not otherwise be saved was purchased.
The purpose Of this plan was not
only to preserve home grown seed
corn for home use, but to improve the
corn of the county. For this latter
reason the corn will be sold slightly
above actual cost, and the surplus
will be used in a fund for encourag-
ing the raising of better corn AL
lowing for cost and for labor exclus-
i've of Mr. Olson's service, the price
was set at 81 bushel.
AS this quantity will not be suffi-
Gent for all needs, the county agent
has prepared a list of farmers who
have seed corn to sell. The price will
depend, of course, upon the individu-
al farmer
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Application will be made to Cover
nor Philip on Dec. II for a pardon
or communication of the sentence of
Edward Olson, serving a life term at
Waupun with James Lynch for the
murder Of Peter P. Olstad. The petit
ton has been signed by large num-
Der Of citizens. 1t was circulated by
Rev. H. M. Olson and others. Olson
: has wife and three children.
The application recalls one of the
most sensational robbery and murder
cases in the history of Dane county.
In the summer of 1912 Olstad, whose
; home was at Spring Valley, Wis,
stopped off at Madison between trains
and stopped into an East Madison sa-
loon. He had several hundred dollars
with him. He had number of drinks