Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-02-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

Crosse is two feet and half thick as
a result of the coolest winter la
Crosse has experienced in thirty
years.
Russell township, Bayfield, county,
Wis, is the first township in the state
to be able to claim that there are no
scrub or grade bulls in the county
100 per cent pure bred.
Wausau's municipal bathing beach
on the Wisconsin river is a thing of
the past. The beach is at a point
where construction work on the big
new dam has been commenced
John B. Winslow, chief justice of
the Wisconsin Supreme court will I'M
uergo an operation at the Mayo hospi-
tai in Rochester. During his absence
Justice R. B. Siebecker will preside
After an investigation, representa-
tives of the state board of health.
which had been appealed to by Henry
Napuk, ordered the scarlet fever quar-
antine removed from his home at
Neenah
Several farmers in the vicinity of
ANoAAuO1PI WCIS Caught WITH Wdl6I0u
milk and paid fines and costs of ap-
proximately $40 each. One Randolph
factory was short about 1,400 cheeses
during the past month. which led to
an investigation
/ Ex-Gov. James o. Davidson. who is
spending a few weeks at his winter
home in Florida, has sold his Madison
residence on Wisconsin avenue to O..
n. Luraas. The sale will exceed S18,-
600. The Davidsons have not decided
whether they will continue to make
their home in Madison.
A new condensery has opened at
I Mayville. The process is to powderize
whole milk and it is said by authorities
on milk that if this proves success,
it will be the biggest thing in milk of
the present day. So far there has not
been d process of powderizing whole
milk, as, the other powdered forms are
4 skinned milk
During the present year $121 700
will be expended on new roads and
road improvements in Forest county
/ About $4,000 is available for the fed
eral trunk system and $4,000 will be
spent on the road from Crandon to La
oHa. With this sum available, Forest
county will have one of the finest high.
way systems in upper Wisconsin
A check for 81 ,401, received by Aug
rSt Heinemann, Waterloo, for the to-
bacco raised an five acres of land last
! summer. is proof that Wisconsin to-
bacco growing pays. Taking advan.
/ tage Of the recent warm speI, Mr.
I Heinemann marketed his crop with the
/ Li@gett &. Myc~s Co. at WATERFOWL, re
i ceivine u cents pound for the leaf
The price received last year was Is
cents pound
Several decoy letters. each CON
tanning 81 bills. marked for identified
ton. proved the undoing of William H.
/ Hook, Oshkosh, mail carrier for part
of the business district of that city.
! postoffice inspectors assert. When
confronted with the evidence he is
been rifiing the mails for more than
two years, but claimed his depreda-
! lions did not exceed $500.
The village Of Melvina, Monroe
county. has installed a unique lighting
I system, in that all the power for street
lighting as we'll as for business houses
and residences is furnished by good
sized farm electric lighting system.
The owner and operator, Vincent Ma
shak, owns farm outside the village
limits, on which the plant is located.
/ The experiment of furnishing the
/ power for all necessary lighting to the
! village. including street lights, is, to
date. successful.
The Wisconsin Live Stock Insurance
corporated under the Wisconsin laws.
10 insure against the loss of live stock
by death. disease, accident, theft,
lightning and cyclone 1t is another
important movment in the live stock
development in the state. L. P Mar
tiny, noted Poland China, Guernsey
and Percheron breeder of Chippewa
1 Falls, is president and E. n. MCGEE,
Madison. formerly underwater ana di-
rector of the Michigan Live Stock In
surance Co., is general manager.
On March / the Wisconsin State
1 Conference of Social Work will inaug-
| urate new departure in public and
/ social welfare work. Under a budget
estimated at $4,000 for the year, an
expert executive secretary will begin
/ at once to organize the state, down to
/ the smallest rural community, for dis
covering and meeting such problems
/ as those concerning neglected and de-
pendent children, delinquent girls and
women, feeblemindedness, public
health and many Others The program
| is. first, study of local needs. then dis
/ trict conferences through which an
educated public opinion will be formed
/ to compel the needed reforms A state
canvass is now starting for the funds
| for this work.
The Tomahawk city council has or
| dered the erection of large building
| opposite the city hall to be used for
farmers headquarters and for exhibit
/ tiOn DurpOSeS for the annual cOmmll-