Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-12-18

dltIOnS are improved.
An unnoticed pimple on her hand
caused the death of Mrs. Karoline Oh
son, La Crosse. Blood poisoning de-
velOped.
Employees of the M. & NJ. Paper
Mill Co., Marinette, on strike for
three weeks, appealed to people of
the twin cities for aid in reaching a
settlement.
Florence, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
| Arthur J.. Eaton, Racine, died at
Jackson, Miss, of pneumonia, while
on violin recital tour.
Sergt. Ray Robson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Robson, Rhinelander, has
been cited for bravery on the battle
field. He captured machine gun
nest single handed.
Work on acid plants being built by
the government at Cuba City and
New Diggings has been ordered
stopped.
The WatertOWn city council has ap-
propriated 5000 toward a community
Christmas tree and 5000 toward ex-
penses OF a celebration in honor of
returning soldiers, Feb. %.
| Despondent, Mrs Arthur Strutz, 25,
committed suicide at Appleton by
| taking poison. She was found un-
conscious by her sister, Mrs. John
Plesser. Mrs. Strutz left note in
which she begged forgiveness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Busow, Water
town, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary at West Granville
near Watertown. The Rev. j. Prag-
err, who officiated at the wedding, was
present at the celebration.
| John Berman, GAINESVILLE, uncon-
scious since Thursday, when he was
overcome by gas, died Monday. Fire
motor, consuming three tanks of OK
ygen, to no avail.
The state board of health has warn
ed undertakers that they are subject
| W pIOScCuIlOn IL Lucy luISI UOulGS
before death certificates have been
filed. Disregard of the rule has been
noted in numerous funerals of in1u-
enZa patients.
The state railIo DAD commission has
granted authority to the city of Neils-
Vile to raise its water rates. 1t was
claimed that the present rates were
not sufficient to meet the increased
cost OF maintenance.
Pat, big bay horse of No. 2 fire
station, La Crosse, has been constant
ly on his feet for eleven years. One
winter night in 1907, Pat slipped and
fell in his haste to respond to fire
alarm, and had to be assisted to his
feet So ashamed was the big bay
over his awkwardness that night,
that he evidently vowed never again
to be found in a position where he
could not respond to an alarm at the
first tap of the gong. Pat sleeps in
a half sitting posture, backed up
against the chain which crosses the
rear of his STALL Firemen insist that
the horse, not satisfied with his pre-
paredness attitude, also awakenS ev-
cry forty winks to be sure he isn't
missing anything And because of
Pat, the firemen at No. station are
not overly enthusiastic over the pro-
ject to motOriZe the fire department.
Not, as most people seem to think,
because the badger formerly abound
| ed here, for in the past Wisconsin
was never fayorite home of this
little quadruped. The familiar nick
; name originated rather with the
settlement of southwestern Wiscon-
sin whose lead mines attracted the
| first considerable migration to Wis
consin. The hardy lead miners who
pushed into this portion of the north
western wilderness intent on digging
fortunes from the earth with their
picks were composed in the main of
1.-TWO groups. One, made up of men
from southern Illinois and farther
south. went down the Mississippi to
their homes every winter and return
ed in the spring to labor for another
season; the other. composed Of min
ers from the eastern states, could not
thus easily go home, and so they
"burrowed in" for the winter in rude
shacks or huts, which frequently
were built after the fashion of dug
outs. The men who went south for
the winter and returned in the spring
were given the name of suckers"
from the similarity Of this practice
with that of the well-known fish of
the Mississippi, Rock, and other
western streams. The men who win
tered in the lead mines were called
badgers" They were the first per-
manent settlers in the lead mines
north of the Wisconsin line, and thus
the name became associated with the
state. Thus did the people of Wis
consin and Illinois gain the popular
nicknames of Badger" and Suck
er" by which they have ever since
been known.