Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Aft. T. Ringing died at his country
place near Dover, N. j., last Tuesday.
But two Of the original seven brothers
are now living.
The city of Superior sold seven
prices from II to % cents a pound
according to quality
Emerson Phelps, Stevens Point, II
years, was instantly killed at Custer
when struck from the platform be-
meath the wheels of freight train
The body was terribly mutilated.
A commission of Nebraska archi-
tects and state senators arrived in
Madison to look over the state capt.
toll. Nebraska is going to build a
new statehouse, and they are getting
ideas.
A drainage canal five miles in
length will be constructed in Racine
county to drain 5000 acres of land.
Ewald A. Wegner, a blind soldier,
has applied for the benefit of the ed
vocational bonus for soldiers.
Mrs. j. P. Stein, 101 years, who
came to Buffalo, Wis, from Germany
so many years ago that she learned
to talk Sioux, died at her daughters
home in Mondovi, last week She out
lived number of her children
While out at night hunting coons,
Clyde Lafferty, Is, son of Ed. Lafferty
of Maiden Rock, climbed tree and
fell 30 feet breaking his back. He is
paralyzed from the injured place
down.
A Kenosha school boy drew knife
and dared woman school teacher
to touch him. The school board,
therefore plans to establish school
for bad boys, where ample means of
restraint and correction will be pro-
vided.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Caldwell, Yer
non county, out for a Sunday visit
with relatives, were grief-stricken
when they found their babe, Annabelle,
three months old, had died on the
journey. Brain hemorrhage is sup
posed to have caused the death
Weather forecasters at Oshkosh are
spreading the statement that the
present fall is to be season of mild
weather and that the winter, at least
up to the holidays, will be without
severe cold. The first hard frost
few nights ago was fully a month lat
er than usual.
Eight hundred and sixty-five acres
of reclaimed land, territory which for
years was nothing but marshy will
derness near Mather, are yielding
second rich harvest of Chinese and
Irish potatoes, cabbages, onions, hay,
grain and Chinese vegetables, which
are shipped daily to restaurants of
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and
Minneapolis. American farmers who
scoffed at the yellow men who came
to that region from Chicago under
the backing of Nip Lung and Toy
Jung are beginning to think that the
oriental may have something on them
when it comes to farming. The col
ony project was the ambition of Toy
jung, who graduated from the agri-
cultural school of the University of
Wisconsin and from Stockton, Calf.
potato fields, but he lived barely long
enough to see it we'll under way.
Toy jung died last year of Influenza
The colony, which was plunged into
gloom over the loss of the man who
was at the helm, continued the work
successfully. The colony comprises
80 Chinese. Women are not allowed on
the farms. None but relatives of the
workers may be shown over the gar
dens. Some farmers, even today, will
not concede that the Chinese method
of twice blowing the land and har-
rowing it even unto the twelfth time
without the use Of fertilizer can long
remain success. They insist that
advancing years will take the fertil-
ity from the SOIL There is a report
that the farm may be converted, part
ly at least, into a vast celery field
next year.