Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-29


passenger rates after Jan. 1st, 1921.
i Matthias Brost 6S, Sheboygan, was
run over by a street car near his home
He sustained double fracture OF the
left leg.
the equity store at Prescott was
i looted by robbers who came at night
and took $1,000 worth OF jeweiry anu
cutlery. ~
Burglars attempted to steal 400
/ nound safe from the Wisconsin brass
company plant at Kenosha but were
frightened away by a Waterman.
Frank Marjeski, Peshtigo, fell 40
1 feet with a wheelbarrow OF bricks
while working at a fibre mill. His head
and shoulders were hurt but the man
/! will recover
L. Henschel OF Sturgeon Bay bagged
| d silver grey fox in the northern part
j of Door county. Wolves and red foxes
! are common but the silver grey are
/ rare and valuable.
Rock county has $1,S50OOO worth OF
1 silt-edge road bonds but cannot sell
i Them because they bring per cent in
! terest and the market is Hooded with
stocks netting to per cent.
Albert KIozkelen, Appleton, 80 years
! frightened a rife in wise, tied string
/ to the trigger, leaned his head against
the muzzle and blew hlmselI INTO
! eternity. A widow and several child
iren survive.
/ A team valued at $3.50 and owned
I by VIM. II. futile of Manchester, ran
from their station near the Milwau-
! kee tracks at Beloit. The horses were
/ struck by an engine and cut in two.
| The driver was not in the rig when the
accident occurred.
/ A new bungalow owned by A. c..
/ Schroeder, Birmingham & HiXon man
ager at Orfordville, was burned to the
ground with loss OF $500 just as
the carpenters were putting the last
! touches to it, The family had just
moved in.
Mrs Virginia Daley Stevens, 49, La
Crosse, askes divorce from Milton
/ alleging that her husband slept with a
/ long knife under his pillow and often
threatened TO cut her throat while she
slept. They were married August IL,
/ 1920
GAINESVILLE farmers propose to get
more for their milk and sell it cheap
! er to the consumers by a direct mar
keting system. The farmers receive
about cents a quart for milk that
retails for Is cents. They propose TO
receive at least cents and sell for
/ 10 or II cents.
1 Governor e. L. Philip, soon to be
! plain citizen, has bought the Gustav
/ Kuhnau farm of 112 acres in Sank
! county. The farm has level fields,
| towering sand bluffs and Otter creek
runs through the center Of it. The
t governor expects to put up handsome
| buildings and make the place the most
beautiful in Sank county where he was
I! born
/ Mrs. Lillian Rebstock of Milwaukee,
sued her mother, Mrs. Bertha Menta,
! for $3.50, alleging that the old lady had
assaulted her The mother rebutted
| with the claim that she was giving
I parental chastisement. Then the old
lady brought counter-suit for $500
saying that the daughter had called
/ her vile names. The case is under ad
yisement
/ A Dale farmer tried out whisl1ey and
Eloonshine on his hogs to observe the
effects. The porkers exhibited the
usual SYMPTOMS of jag. On postmor-
tenn the farmer discovered that the
hogs that drank the whiskey had red
and swollen shouts. The hogs that
drank moonshine had shrunken tails.
An estate of 81, 500 left by Mrs. Clara
4 Korkersch of Bangor, is in court await
| ing decision. The heirs reside in
| Czecho-S loYakia and the alien prop
1 erty custodian rules that they live in
| an enemy country. AS such the prop
erty reverts to the government The
! heirs contend that C2echo- Slovakia
won its Independence in the world wal
/ and is not an enemy country
!
was all agog last Friday when mail
plane flying from Chicago to st. Paul
was forced to land owing to fog. The
pilot landed near the village and dis
covering engine trouble hired farmer
to take the mail to Hillsboro. 1t was
! then sent to, St. Paul by the old relia-
! BILE train. Mechanics from Chicago
came and made repairs and the bird
man went on his way next day
| John Beier, Brinkman ridge farm
hand, near Cashton, went to Waupun
! for life and Mrs Nick Biesen for two
years for the murder OF Nick Biesen,
Bier's employer. In commenting on
the case the Viroqua Censor says:
SO ends the revolving tragedy which
has scandalized Brinkman ridge, east
| OF Cashton, for the past few weeks,
wrecked home, sent good man to
his grave, rendered little children Or
phans, placed q lustful farm hand he
hind the bars to reflect upon the enor-
nifty of his double crime for the rest
of his life, and treacherous wife to
the same institution with the harlot's
red brand upon her brow. Sometimes
/ it takes frightful examples like this
to make US realize that clean living
always pays =
Mrs. Julia Rimshaw, Kenosha, wild
ow, with her daughters, Anna, Z, and
Sophie. 8. were burned to death and
their home destroyed when can OF
gasoline exploded. The mother att
tempted to clean the top Of the kitchen
range with gasoline The fluid ignit-
ed and spread to a can of gasoline