Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-30
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twenty-five feet of 500 tracks ware
washed out near Downing, west of
Colfax, in Wednesdays storm. A YER
liable cloudburst drowned several
cattle and damaged highways and
fields.
c. j. Carpenter, 46, New Auburn, in
jured in a dynamite explosion, died at
a hospital in Chippewa Falls. He was
a member of a crew clearing land and
went too near a tardy blast. One leg
and his jaw were fractured.
Marshall Strum, Eau Claire, is
dead from scarlet fever and ten of his
family and neighbors are i'll of the
disease. Failure to report the illness
of a child in the household was fol-
lowed by spread of the contagion.
That La Crosse has been practical
ly selected as a station on the United
States air mail service route between
Minneapolis and Chicago, was the in
formation disclosed by C. T. Egge
superintendent of air mail service
sent out to perfect plans for the com
mencement Of the service in July
THE Equity Society of Wisconsin
comprising about $4,000 of the sub
stantial farmers of this state, does
not approve of the tactics of the Non
partisan league and will not affiliate
with 1t in political affairs" declared
II. G. Hanrahan of Green Bay, state
organizer, in discussing the recent
meeting of the Nonpartisans in Mad
ison.
No trace has been found by the La
Crosse police of Claude Dooley alias
Geo. Thompson, wanted for the muir
der of Frank Colgan, north side rail
road man stabbed to death during a
quarrel in Copeland park. A drag
net has been out over several states
by railroad detectives, in an endeavoI
to apprehend Dooley, known as a
boomer" switchman.
An echo of the financial difficulties
which resulted in the failure of the
Farmers Cooperative Packing com
pany of La Crosse is being heard in
circuit court, where the suit of the
packing company against Isabella
Boyd and directors of the National
Bank of La Crosse is on trial This
is suit to recover money paid into
the company on the allegation that
the value of the plant of the Lang.
don & Boyd Packing company sold
to the cooperative company, was
misrepresented.
Wlnnebago county farmers are TAX
ing measures to guarantee themselves
a SUFFICIENT supply of sugar for next
year. Almost every farmer in the
county who has sufficient land has
planted an acre of sugar beets and
will practically raise his own sugar -
BY selling the crop from his sugar
patch he not only receives a very ac-
ceptable profit. but is allowed to take
in part payment as much sugar as is
needed for his family until the next
crop is harvested. County Agricul-
tural Agent Gustav Sell estimates
that one acre of beets will produce
5000 pounds of sugar.
The salvaging of 5000 cords of val
liable pulpwood, lost in storm Sept.
"A, 1919, is being accomplished along
a 1O0-mile front on the south shore
of Lake Superior from Copper harbor
on Keeweenaw peninsula, to Onto
nagon, and farther west. This raft.
invoiced at $4,000. is probably worth
more now, on account of pulpwood
scarcity. Search this spring showed
that the raft had beached itself over
such a wide territory of coast as to
make salvage difficult The largest
quantities were found between Eagle
river and Copper harbor, and at the
latter place, headquarters were estab-
lished by Mr.. Kingston, agent of the
PulpwOod Co.. and with a fleet of gas
oline boats the wood is being made
into raft, and secured by boom of
logs towed from Ashland by the tug
Saugatuck of Milwaukee.