Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-20

Six barns burned in one week in
the vicinity Of Edgerton and Deer
field
oliver Grant, GAINESVILLE saloon
keeper, was arrested for selling ITS
beer.
43 WATERFOWL saloon men have
taken out license at the rate of 5000
per year
Appleton has an ordinance to pre-
vent the playing of musical machines
after midnight. Since July 1st the
Appleton saloons have remained open
until all hours.
Claude Stamper, Rhinelander, was
fined SIS for killing deer out of
season. In default of payment Siam
per went to jail for six months and
will thus miss the fall shooting.
Pneumonia was the after-effect of
drinking gasoline by Etheline Nc
Andrew, Wilton. The child drank a.
quantity of the fluid. She was taken
to hospital
Duck hunters in Neenah vicinity
are looking forward to one of the big
geSt seasons in years. Summer ducks
are present in the swamps in large
numbers and with good flight from
the north the season should be ex-
icellent.
Walter Fisher, years, Neenah,
found some shotgun shells in a
tneighbor's house and proceeded to
pound the shells with a hammer A
lpercussiol cap exploded blowing a.
way two fingers and badly mutilating
the left hand.
Pat Helm, Appleton carpenter, liv-
led true to his name when he fell
from roof 80 feet from the ground.
Pat struck scaffolding Is feet fur
Their down and hung until rescued
He sustained broken ankle but was
otherwise unframed
Otto Schnell of New Richmond, a
returned service man who saw the
lperils of the west front, was killed by
lightning while walking in the fields
lof his Wisconsin farm. Ernest
Schnell, brother, was severely
burned and paralyzed by the same
bolt.
A severe lightning storm hit Stew
ems Point doing great damage. The
forum Catholic church, which was
struck in June when two persons
were killed and twenty injured, was
struck again. Buildings we're struck
and stock killed in the storm.
Three deer, unlawfully killed this
Isummer at Three Lakes, cost Crank
Congleton SIS in fines when he con
fessed before Judge Smith in Rhine
lander Municipal court. He was ar
rested as suspect and two deer
hides were found in his shack.
Warren Lewis, teacher in the
Kenosha schools, was saved from
Il n 1sv,or xxy110 I ~
ed him after he had gone down for
the second time. Lewis, who was
not good swimmer, went beyond
the ropes at the bathing beach and
stepped into hole.
fill positions with feed concerns and
Iproduce companies, to manage poulr
TRY farms and serve as teachers and
extension workers with agricultural
colleges is greater than the supply,
according to j. G.. Halpin of the Wis
cOnsin College of Agriculture. Some
lines of pOultrying can be followed
by the crippled soldiers, he says
Louis LaEliSse, Waterman for the
Blatz Brewing company of KenOsha,
found two yeggmen at work at the
office safe. The yeggs ran when the
Waterman approached. A hat and
coat was found beneath the window
and a few hours later the officers
picked up George Williams, brakes
man, who was without hat or coat
Williams denies all knowledge of the
robbery.
An automobile from the sheriff's
office cOllided with an interurban car
on the Milwaukee, Racine and Ke-
nosha line just north of Racine.
Edward Johnson, Ralph Kehl, and
Edward Lingswoller, of the sheriff's
force, were injured, the first severely.
kehl, who was driving, stated that
he was blinded by the glare of the
cars headlight.
Shortly after the threshing outfit
pulled away from William CRAFTS
farm at Lowell, his straw stack burst
into flames and fire spread to adjoin-
ing buildings, destroying barn, gran
larry and tool shed. The flames, which
are believed to have been started by
a spark from the threshing engine,
consumed 1,40O bushels of new
grain. Partial insurance was carried
on the estimated loss of $4,000.
$1,1S0,690 will be expended for
new buildings in Madison this year.
169 permits have been issued to date.
Mrs Michael Picucci, wife of an
Eau Glare IdTm0T, lies IN hospital
with her collar bone and arm broken
and internal injuries as the result of
an attack by an ugly bull. Mrs. Pic
uccci, alone at home while the men
were at neighbours threshing, was
knocked down by the bull when she
went after the cows, and would prob
ably have been killed had not boy,
passing by heard her screams and
drove the animal away.
! Four persons, Madison girl and
Madison man, a Milwaukee girl and
a Chicago man, swan across Lake
Mendoza recently. They negotiated
| the u mile stretch from Pheasant
Branch to the foot of Pinckney
street, in three hours, forty-five
minutes Miss Virginia Pierson, of
Milwaukee, Miss Fannette Sallerman
and Walter Meiller, of Madison, and
Melvin Saunders, of Chicago, were
| the natators. They used the sidearm
stroke and Australian crawl Miss
Persons parents followed the four
swimmers in a launch. Saunders |
and Meiller will swim in the Milwau-