Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-09-24
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! Haircuts cost so cents and shaves
% cents at Madison barber shops
The Methodist conference, in ses-
sion at Eau Claire, voted to admit lay
men to the annual conference.
Paul KraYer, Portage, aged p,
pleaded guilty to taking an automibile
just for joyride'' and was sentenc-
ed to one year at hard labor at Wau
pun.
Roy Race, 6, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Tony Race, Amigo, had his abdomen
punctured by a nail while climbing
a post. An operation was performed
on him.
John Reardon, La Crosse black
smith, saved the life of Harold Nagle,
8, when he rushed into the street and
/ jerked him out from under the wheels
Of heavy wagon.
DeLyle Person, 2, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Daniel Person, is dead at An
tigo as the result of burns received
/ when he fell into a pan Of hot water
placed on the kitchen floor.
John Hanson, Neenah farmer, is
out a valuable horse. Airplanes fly
ing over the city frightened the ami
NAL and it ran into a slough, became
mired and drowned.
While returning from work to his
| wife and eight eeks-old daughter,
| Anil Juska, q, Kenosha, was instant
! ly killed when a Northwestern train
struck the small car he was driving.
i Adam Shidel, Milladore farmer, is
dead of injuries received when he was
attacked by an infuriated bull His
i left leg was broken and left hip mu-
tilated, ribs on his right side broken
and his body badly torn.
Clarence Dunn and Albert Zellmer,
| Beaver Dam fishermen, were arraign-
ed before Justice Lyons, charged by
| Conservation Commissioner George
Hall with having hoop net in fish
ing waters. They pleaded guilty and
were fined $50 and costs.
Seventy head of registered Holstein
cows, heifers and calves we're sold at
the Geo. Kuettel farm, for members
of the Winnebago County Holstein
Breeders Association and brought
/ $4,000, an average of about $3.50 a
head. There were Al heifers, Il
calves and Is COWS in the group.
The body of Lient Patien Galten,
former Milwaukeean, who was found
! spondent note, will be taken to Mil
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32Sth machine gun battalion and later
in the intelligence department
Burr Sperbeck shot his wife, An
ma, through the right lung at the
Northern hospital, Oshkosh, and i'm
mediately killed himself with a shot
through the temple Mrs. Sperbeck
is recovering. Mrs. Sperbeck sued
i for divorce alleging non-support. Her
action enraged her husband
The federal grand jury indicted Lee
veranz Berenek, Milwaukee, and Geo.
] Hitler Oshkosh, for selling hard IL
4 quor. Miller was indicted on six
counts for selling gin and whisky
He pleaded guilty and paid $50 on
each count. Beranek is charged on,
three counts with selling whisky He
will stand trial
Catching his heel in the f1ywhee1 of
I a gasoline engine on the farm of his
father, John H. Johnson, Winchester,
Francis Johnson, IA, Saturday morn
ing complained of a stiff neck. By
noon lockjaw had firmly set his jaws.
He was rushed to the hospital at
Oshkosh where he died Sunday af-.
ternOon, just little over week af-
i ter the accident.
Fish rescue work on the upper Mis-
sissippi river has exceeded all previ-
Gus records, with thesseason only half
over, according to Supt c. F. Gull
Ter, in charge of the work More than
/ 50,000,000 small fish have been taken
from land-locked sloughs thus far and
sent to inland lakes or thrown back
into the river. Last year 100000
fish were saved.
Charges of violating the Wisconsin
cold storage law have been filed
against Armour and company, Chi
cago, in a complaint sworn by Chas.
J. Kremer, field inspector Of the state
dairy and food commission. 1t is al
| legged in the complaint that 4,4OO lbs.
of prunes in storage at the Wiscon-I
sin Cold Storage Co., Milwaukee, have
become unfit for food.
Beer is an intoxicating liquor, no
matter what its alcoholic content, il
! 1t is sold as beer This was the rul-
ing of Judge G. E. Page, Milwaukee,
before whom JOS Piekarski, sa-I
loonKeeper, was tired on charge of
selling liquor to minors. Drivers Of
the Val. Blatz Brewing Co. have been
served with orders to appear before
the federal grand jury.
E. NJ. Jacobsen, Kenosha truant Of
f1cer, appealed to the county proba-
ton officer to prevent the marriage of
a girl not yet 15 She plans to be
married to man much older and
he1 mother has consented The girl
seems uninterested in the wedding
plans, but bitterly opposes the de-
mand of the truant officer that she go
to school. 1t was said that the girl
had not as yet completed fourth grade
school work.
A valuable team of horses owned by
j. r. Means, Stevens Point, plunged
IA feet to the bottom of hidden cess
pool at the Means residence, when de-
fective planking gave way. One of
the horses was choked to death as
the harness became entangled around
his neck and the second animal crash
ed down on top of the first. Three
hours were required to remove the
living horse. A long trench was dug
across the lawn to permit the animal
to be pulled out