Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
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Prohibition agents are busy in Mil
Waukee cleaning up druggists and sa-
Room men who have been illicitly sell
ling booze 1t is said that numerous
druggists will forfeit their $1,000
bond
A. c. Craig, head of the Samson
tractor works, scored the lethargy OF
GAINESVILLE people in failing to provide
homes for the thousands who have
fi0cked to the city to work in the new
factories.
Eugene Parkinson, 70, and Mrs.
Electa Palmer, SO, were married at
Darlington last week. Mr.. Parkinson
is a former sheriff and assemblyman
from Iowa county Both parties have
been married before.
The Western Crawford county tele-
phone system has been authorized to
increase it's rates from Sc to S12. This
is a mutual concern all but IA out of
$50 subscribers being stockholders.
The deficit last year kas S1270
Raymond Corcoran Of New London.
son of Mrs. Ann O'Malley Sullivan,
was shot and killed at Neuvo, Laredo,
Mexico, by a clerk who had been dis
charged for absence without leave.
COrcOran was buried at Laredo, Texas.
Pastor l.. A. Bremen Of the Chip
9ewa Falls Methodist church created
a mild sensation when he announced
shat in the future moving pictures
would be added to the weekly SER
vices Religious, moral and educa-
tianal films will be featured.
John Mainville, Amigo husband,
Il o,,1y fnr 70 0ilia y
Jty with his wife and accidentally shot
Mrs. Ann Lille who happened to stop
a bullet, was sentenced to serve three
years in Waupun. Mainville was
convicted of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm to the woman. The
case will go to the supreme court.
Two men were killed and third
seriously injured when Northwest
@Fn train crashed into hand car
near GAINESVILLE. The dead are: w.
ID. Dawes and John Ryan, both of
GAINESVILLE. Herman Miller, foreman
of the section gang, was injured. Ell
forts were made to save him but
physicians fear internal injuries. A
curve obscured the train.
To recover $3.50 damages for u
loads Of oat straw, nine loads OF
Fhos eleven has filed suit against
Paul Scheel who leased a farm from
him in Pleasant Springs, Dane com
Nv. eleven alleges Scheel converted
ahe property to his use. Scheel has
denied the charge and filed coun-
ter-claim on grounds that eleven
agreed he should use certain things
on the farm.
James Smith, years, Racine, was
instantly killed when he was caught
ny the wheel Of truck and crushed
against the curbstone The truck
then passed over the child's body
Mrs. Stanley Blomski, Rhinelander,
on trial with her husband for the muir
der of their six-year-old child, is with
out counsel. Local lawyers refuse to
appear for either party. The court
will probably appoint Milwaukee
lawyer.
While walking nome with his Wife
lin the evening, George Gleason,
araveling salesman of Rhinelander,
was held up and robbed of $50 by a
lone robber. The holdup man allowed
Gleason to remove $3.50 i'll checks
grom his purse. This is the first hold
mn to occur in Rhinelander this VIM
ter. The authorities are inclined TO
believe it to be the work Of local tai
ent
August Blank, third of the trio OF
bandits in the robbery Of the Amerl-
can Brass Co.. KenOsha, pleaded
guiltv 10 dynamiting the safe and was
sentenced by Judge Tully to serve
4hirty years at Waupun. Blank had no
attorney and asked for none. Earl
Loyedav and Carl o. Carlson, his pals
are both serving life sentences at the
state penitentiary All three were
Chicago gunner.
Barney Sekat. Racine saloon man
was shot and killed by officials VINO
searched his place for evidence OF
mnonshining. Sekat opened fire on
the officers and one man escaped the
bullets bv Jumping over a bannlstel
and down a fight of stairs. A stu
and plentv Of liquor were found III
tbe rooms. Taken to the hospital Sc
tat lived an hour with bullet through
bis heart and another thru his lung
in the course of which an artery was
severed.
Soldiers in the army recruiting SER
vice at Duluth Ashland, Superior and
eIsewhere with homes in the Twin
cities and other places. who have been
in the habit of obtaining permission
10 run home" for the weekend, were
disagreeablv surprised last week
when they went to the railroad ticket
Offices to purchase tickets. They
learned that Uncle Sam retired from
the control Of the railroads and that
soldiers. instead of paving | cent a
mile for tickets, must now put up
cents.
Skillful manipulation of pair OF
rnicSnrS with the use of q little haste