Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-02-18

The Twin Cities will be asked to
contribute $1,000 each, to the Y. w.
G. 4. fund for educating foreign field
secretaries
At meeting of the Appleton coun-
Gil a resolution was introduced provid-
ing for twelve men from the city be-
ing represented on the county board
instead of six as at present.
The Marinette board OF education
has petitioned the city council for an
addition of $4,000 to the school budget.
The money is to meet the increased
salaries of the teachers.
Wolves are numerous on the marsh
west of Plainfield George Nigle, Jr.,
shot a large grey wolf OF the coyote
species near the ]. A. Stumble farm.
The bounty is $40 and the hide is
worth $40.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip E. Rose, of
Oshkosh, were married fifty-nine years
ago, Feb. 8. They did not celebrate
the anniversary with any special event,
however, as Mrs. Rose has been i'll
for several days. The family came to
Oshkosh in the early sixties.
Miss Corrine Lawton, Fort Atkinson,
and Fenwick Pugh. Racine, have been
selected to play the leading roles in
the annual class play to be put on by
students of the dramatic classes at
Lawrence college in the spring. The
play chosen is Sheridan's comedy,
1.-THE Rivals" Fifty students took
part in the tryouts for the characters.
The members of the Sheboygan fire
department have asked for another
raise in pay of 20 per cent. The
present salaries are: Chief, $16O; as
sistant chief, $3.50; electrician, $3.50;
captains, Sis; lieutenants, $112.5O;
third year men, $110; second year
men, sos; first year men, $102.50.
Postmaster L. ]. Evas has submitted
plan to the Marinette city council for
remembrance of Marinette heroes
who fell in the late world war. He
suggests that for each one who paid
the supreme sacrifice an elm tree be
planted on Carney blvd, the citys
best thoroughfare, and that a brass
plate bearing the record of the hero
the tree memoralizes be placed on it.
Mr. Thompson, state rural school in
Spector, in an address delivered at
Durand, informed the citizens that I'M
less the city takes steps not later than
the annual school meeting, in July,
to build a new schoolhouse, state and
county aid will be withheld from the
school and that it will then be unlaw-
full to charge tuition. Plans are be-
ing made to build the schoolhouse.
That a horde of rats infesting ware
houses and other buildings in Rhine
lander is destroying large quantities
OF food, is the statement made by
deputy state food inspector, G. A
Seryis, Algoma. Citizens are aroused
by the report and the Rhinelander Ad-
vancement association has called q
meeting to determine some course OF
action in Kidding the city of the pests
The three babies of Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Slammer, Kenosha, died within
a period OF five days. Louis, Jr.,
year old, was the last 10 be taken
Death came following pneumonia anC
influenza. The day before his death,
John, 2 years and months old sue
cumbed TO an attack of the same dis
ease and forty-eight hours earlier,
Mary, l year and 5 months old, hao
died Of whooping cough.
At meeting of the Dodge county
highway commission it was decided
to employ eight more patrolmen fol-
the roads in that county. Last yeai
twelve patrolmen were employed. The
salaries for the patrolmen for the com
ing year were fixed at S160 per month
with bonus provisions. A Iarg
amount of new machinery has been
purchased for road building in Dodge
county.
The agronomy department of the
College of Agriculture at Madison has
shipped four bushels of Scotch field
peas to be planted on any one farm.
er's land in Barron county as demon
stration. The peas are to be given
to a farmer with the understanding
that he is to return four bushels in
the fall These four bushels will be
put out with another farmer the com
ing year, the plan being to introduce
better grade of pedigreed grains
Mr.. and Mrs. August Selsemeyer OF
Sheboygan observed their sixty-fourtn
wedding anniversary with quiet fam
lily reunion. Both were born in Ger
many and emigrated to this country
at an early age. The couple was mar
ried at Sheboygan Falls and later
moved to Sheboygan, where for a time
they conducted the Washington house,
a popular boarding house. Mr.. Selse-
meyer was assemblyman from his dis
trict in 1881.
The city of Horizon is petitioning
the state rate commission for an in
crease in water rates over the present
minimum rate of 50 per quarter for
lge-eighths-inch meter. No change in
the minimum rate will be asked. The
water plant of the city is under mu-