Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-26
AROUND WISCONSIN
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH

Wisconsin produced $4,000 900 lbs.
of tobacco last year and Dane county
produced 4S per cent of the total.
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100000 pickerel eggs have been
placed to hatch in Tenney park, Mad
ison, by the state fisheries.
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A high school basket ball game and
party given at Bear Greek, near An
pleton, is said to have caused an eni-
demic of influenza in the village. Near
ly every family is affected.
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Following an investigation of charg
es that pilfering of express packag-
es was being done at La Crosse on a
large scale, Joseph Bakalars was SEN
fenced to 80 days for the theft Of 50
worth of goods.
Edward Coleman of Barron. was
nearly blinded and lost part of one
hand while experimenting with a.
spoonful of dashlight powder in his
room at Ripon college. The explo-
sion blew out the windows and wreck
ed the room.
900
More than 100000 will be spent in
building new dams and otherwise i'm
proving the channel of the Mississip-
pi river between La Crosse and Prair-
lie du CHEN this year. The six-foot
channel project is now COMPLETED
from Winona to Genoa, So miles.
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Bud Kenyon, Socialist orator who
decried the value of Liberty bonds
and called it "a rich mans war" was
given one year in FIT. Leavenworth bv
Judge Sanborn sitting at Eau Claire
Arthur Oschner, Sank county farmer.
paid a fine of $500 for criticising
Americas part in the war.
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Superior police hold 1000 gallons
of seized "red-eye" and are in a
Quandry whether to sell or give it
away. A bill is before the legisla-
ture to devote the proceeds of seized
liquor to the police pension fund.
Whiskey is worth SIS quart in the
lake towns.
That the biggest rough fish haul,
10000 pounds of carp, in the upper
Mississippi river valley this winter,
was made in Black river, prohibited
water, is the charge against Roy Mil
Ter, George Holzhammer and Ed Hoff-
man, commercial fishermen, PREFER
ed by game wardens. An investiga-
ton has been in progress for a month.
1000
Hand over $4,000" demanded Ole
Nelson, hunter and trapper, thrusting
revolver in the face of Teller Fred
Klumb in the First National bank at
Menominee Hello Ole," said Cash
Ter G. A. Blesch, who just then en-
tered. Ole got all fused up, changed
his mind about wanting the $4,000 and
fed to the street, where he was ar
rested. He is held for observation.
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A three year program of road build
ing calling for an expenditure of
$15,000,000 means an additional tax
of about $40 Of a mill per capita and
is not burden for Wisconsin tax
payers, according to A. N. Hurst,
state highway engineer who opened
the annual seven counties road school
last Friday at La Crosse. Nearly 200
delegates from seven counties came
to attend the meeting.
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The Sawyer-Goodman Co., Mari
nette, recently cut a white pine log
of the largest logs ever cut on the
Menominee, and at the present price
Of white pine is worth about $3.50.
Another log scaling 1000 feet was re-
Gently cut These two logs are not
able because of the scarcity of white
pine. In former days logging three
logs to a thousand feet were consid-
cred fair size
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Martha E. Stephenson, widow of the
late United States senator, Isaac
Stephenson, through her attorney has
filed papers in the Marinette circuit
court preferring her legal share of the
estate instead of that portion left by
the will. The estates value is csti-
mated at about $4,000, 900. Mr..
Stephenson's will provided that his
property be left in trust, divided into
nine shares, of which the widow re-
celved one and each of the eight chill
dren Of their heirs one share each.
600
Bernt Sandsmark of Stoughton, suf-
ters from paralysis as result OF a
nghtning storm in the summer OF
1916 Sandsmark was working in a
leld and took refuge under a tree
wi AAIS d SIOTHl. ILLS do
being dangerous he stepped away just
as bolt struck the tree. Since then
MS trunk and limbs have been affect
ed After trying numerous cures
Sandsmark has gone to Davenport, la.
10 see what the Palmer School OF
Chiropractic can do for him.
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An unsuccessful attempt was made
tuesday night to rob the new Van
Dyne State bank at Van Dyne, a viii
lage located about 10 miles south of
oshkosh. The robbers, believed to be
expert craftsmen, got the outer door
Oh the bank vault open by using an
acetylene torch, but they were unable
10 break open the inner door, either
being disturbed in their act or being
unable to use the acetylene outfit
with success.
George Gadbaw, 10, son of Gene
Gadbaw an old Platteville resident,
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