Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-02-11

:Fanltowoc county defeated the S..
j00.000 road bond issue at a special
election by vote OF 2,7O2 to 2,41O.
Miss Grace Dinsdale, assistant prin-
ciral in the Vernon County Normal
Training school, Viroqua, has been
promoted to the principalship.
The Medford Light and Heating
company was closed down to repair
the engine, and all those dependent
on electric power were forced to re-
sort to primitive methods.
Beatrice Faucette, an employee Of the
Boreal Manufacturing Co., Marinette,
suffered badly burned and bruised
right hand when it was caught be-
tween two rollers while at work in the
plant
G. D. Fritzsinger, secretary of the
Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce,
heads new oil company to be known
as the Wood Oil Co. The new organi-
zation will job oils for the Grand
Rapids dealers.
With the present hue and cry about
underpaid teachers. a schoolma'm S
desk would seem to be about the last
place a thief would ransack, but
+ night raid was made on the Glenwood
City high school and about $12 and
fountain pen taken from the desk of
Miss Elsie Mcnamara of the local
faculty
County Clerk Brandt, Merrill. paid
$4O4 county money to farmers of this
county during the year 1919 as bounty
on wolves, foxes and chicken hawks,
the greater part for wolves. The boun-
ty on wolves is $40 from the state and
foxes is 81, and on chicken hawks %
cents. A number of farmers have cap
tured brush wolves
Eighteen children between the ages
Of and Is, attended school for che
first time in their lives. They are
residents at a farming settlement of
Finnish persons at River Branch, IRON
county, too far from any school to
make it possible for them to attend
A new frame school was recently built
and opened There is but one grade
for the entire lot, for all are begin
hers.
A new plan whereby teachers be-
come the advisers of high school girls
has been inaugurated at Amigo. The
girls are allowed to select their ad-
visers, and each teacher will be ad-
wiser to about sixteen girls Every
two weeks talks will be given by the
advisers on vocations, etiquette, n.y.
giene, morals and other subjects. The
meetings will be more or less informal.
and questions and discussion will fig
ure prominently.
The Standard Oil company paid cvcr
to Lars Aslakson, Manitowoc. S25O9
for injuries sustained by the mans son
when he had hiss leg crushed by one
of the company's trucks, necessitating
amputation. There was a question OF
the company being liable as the lac
was hitching at the time of the acct
dent and while the liability was in
question the company turned over the
check for the amount after the case
was called to their attention.
In the damage suit of Hugh Bohlert
Marinette, against the ST. Paul rail
way the jury returned a verdict
$4,000 for the plaintiff The latte.
was struck by train on a crossing
in Marinette and suffered serious in.
juries. The city council for several
years have asked that this crossing
be guarded by gates, without success,
and it is believed that is what in
tluenced the jury. Two more damage
suits for total of $4,000, due to the
same accident are still pending.
One of the most sensational failures
IN the history of the Superior bust
ness world came one step nearer finai
adjustment with the filing of findings
in bankruptcy and an order directing
Louis and Jacob Segal to turn ovel
$45, 900 in cash with interest since Jan
81, 1914, to Lee j. Moss, their trustee,
for the benefit of their creditors. The
order was embodied in findings OF
Charles A. Wilson, referee in bank
ruptcy, which specifies that payment
must be made on or before Feb 16
Ralph Reynolds of Lodi and the
Onoko farm, Waukesha, were the
Srand champion winners at the stock
show of the Wisconsin Shorthorn
Breeders association held in the uni
versity stock pavilion. Reynolds took
first place with his champion bull, and
the Onoka farm won stellar honor in
the champion female class Twenty
three thousand dollars worth of i've
stock was sold following the show, the
fifty-two head disposed of averaging
more than $3.50 per animal. Two bulls
and one female animal brought $1,000
each.
Interest in place names is wide
spread and no request comes more
: frequently to the State Horticultural
society at Madison than that for in
formation about the name of the state
Wisconsin is named for it's principal
river, but the significance of this has
never been satisfactorily determined.
J II is an Indian name, of course, and
the attempt of white men to reproduce
if has lpd IN over tmantv difforonf