Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-08

| Nine buildings were struck by light
nlng inside OF fifteen minutes in a
Milwaukee storm last week
The Menasha Cooperative Co. has
disbanded alleging that confiscatory
national and state legislation had
taken all the profits.
Mike Thompson, Baraboo, raised his
employers check from So to $50 by
adding 20" and ''y." The two little
letters sent Mike to Waupun for a
year
! Tie body of William st. Martin,
Rockford, was found in freight car
at Aenosha. His head crushed in and
bloody hammer nearby told a. grew
some story.
i Hugo Gedde, Superior telegraph OPP
orator, was robbed of $11 by two ban
dts who gave him back ten cents adj
vising that times are hard and
things cost so much"
i Claude Shields, little son of Mr. and
/ Mrs. W. H. Shields, Menominee, who
was visiting in Wausaukee, fell into
a pail of hot water while playing. He
| is in a critical condition
Chapter 626, 1919 laws, requires
motor cars to carry headlights that
will enable the drivers to distinguish
! objects 200 feet ahead with design
and adjustment to avoid dangerous
4 glare or dazzle.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Kazda enroute to
| Francis Creek, we're struck by a
Northwestern train. The car occu-
pants were thrown fifty feet. Mrs.
| Kazda later gave birth to a still
born child. She is not expected to
live. The Kazdas have been married
a year.
Christ w. spaeth, Milwaukee's
"sun spot" specialist, predicts that
the first snow storm of the winter
will occur on December 9th He states
| that mild and fair weather will pre-
vail until the early part of Novem-
Der, when the temperature will grow
colder. The winter will be slightly
colder than a year ago, according to
his prediction.
Sentence has been passed by Judge
/ T. w. Hogan, Amigo, on four boys
/ who confessed to series of burglar
les. Oliver Willis, II, drew a term Of
one year in the state reformatory at
Green Bay, and Paul Running, IA,
Ben Murphy, Is, and Fred Ratske, IL
/ were committed to the state industri-
al school for boys. at Waukesha.
Mrs Minnie Thompson, Milwaukee,
dropped dead on the street as she
pointed her Grant husband out to an
officer. Mrs. Thompson, deserted for
months with a 2-year-old daughter,
searched for Thompson when she was
not working to support herself and
child. She thought she saw him with
another woman. The shock was sd
great that she dropped dead The
child is inconsolabie.
While drilling for water on the
farm of H. r. Johnson, two miles
north of Washburn, drillers struck a
| small vein of oil at a depth of 12O
/ feet, but there apparently was to be
no continuation of the flow to any ex-
tent and drilling was proceeded with.
A few feet farther down fine vein
of iron ore was struck. Drilling was
continued and at a depth of 225 feet
a fine flow of water was struck, Civ
ing one of the best wells in that sec
ton.
! Arnold Albertson, Dallas machin-
ist, was taken into custody by reve-
nue. officers who also confiscated AL
bertson's homemade "still" Albert
son was pouring offthe days batch of
booze when the "revenooers" hove
into sight He is lodged in Jail at
Eau Claire awaiting trial. This is the
| governments first move against il
licit whisky making in this state It
is asserted that ''moonshine" outfits
flourish abundantly.
A raft of pulpwood valued at
$4,000 was cut loose from the tugs
America and Saugatuck off Outer
| Island, Lake Superior, in a heavy
gale. Effort will be made to recover
the raft which contains 5000 cords
of wood w. r. Wheaton, Appleton,
manager for the Pulpwood company
| in on the scene directing operations.
In the past ten years IS rats valued
at $2,500,000 have been towed across
the lake from Canada to Ashland.
But two have been lost.
There has not been single killing
frost in the vicinity of Ashland Gu
cumbers, tomatoes and other plants
susceptible to frost are still growing
and ripening. 1t has been a banner
year for cucumbers and tomatoes,
which in former years were difficult
to raise in northern Wisconsin, 1t
has also been phenomenal year in
north Wisconsin for corn Yellow
antam sweet corn, especially having
been big crop, and late sweet corn
is still being gathered in gardens
The INT packing plant on Pixies
Creek, near Bayfield,, is developing in
to much larger institution than at
first anticipated. 1t is in charge of
John Swenhart, Wisconsin University
explosive expert" and he has with
him about 80 men, The plant is COM
posed of four buildings The powder
is shipped in carload lots from the
government magazine at Sparta, .and
the crew at present employed packs
about 5000 to 5000 cartridges daily.
These are made of parafine paper,
and when loaded contain five ounces
of INT. The cartridges are packed
in boxes containing about 100 pounds
and distributed to farmers in the or
der in which applications are re-
| ceived.
One of the few remaining primitive
industries of Brown county has been
temporarily wiped out by the 1919
/ legislature. Muskrat and mink trap
ping, which produced about $50 900
annually to trappers, must cease I'M
/ til Nov Is. 1921 OcOnto and Wash