Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-30

La Crosse is mad because the fed
eral census gave the city popula-
ton of 30,363 or a decrease of "a
since 1910
Raymond Wiley, 8, Baraboo, was
badly burned about the face as the
result of setting fire to powder from
a cartridge he found while playing.
The Wisconsin and Baraboo rivers
on food stage last week did enormous
damage to farms and cities in the re-
spective valleys. Many mills were
forced to close by high water.
Emil Valo, Gle saloonkeeper,. at
tempted to bribe prohibition agent
Haas with 500 following raid on
! the Valo joint. Valo was given six
months in the local hoosegow.
Mrs. John Kolberg, Washburn, was
instantly killed while driving in a
car with her husband, a new driver.
The Kolberg vehicle was struck
squarely by a large Ashland car. Mrs.
Kolberg was taken out of the wreck
I dead
Hurley city councilmen will pass
an ordinance setting the soft drink
| license fee at $500. 1t is claimed that
Hurley vendors are making more
money today than they ever did in
wet" days Moonshine brings Is
cents a drink with good stuff what
ever you ask for it.
| Enos Sherman, Milwaukee, eng1n-
! eer for half century ended his last
run preparatory to spending the bal
ance of his days in ease on pension
| On his way home from the round
house Mr.. Sherman was run down
and killed by switch engine. During
his long life he had never had an ac-
Cident
Albert Tegen, Manitowoc, gradual
ed from high school with a record OF
never having missed day or been
tardy once. Young Tegef nearly
broke his record when sophomore
owing to broken foot bone but his
/ schoolmates came to his aid with a
motorcycle and took him to and from
school during his cOnvalescencC.
Charles Kennedy, a World war vet
eran, underwent an operation at
Marshfield for the removal Of shrap-
mel that had been in his head since
July 4, 1918 when grenade explo-
sion took place in France. To re-
move the offending metal which caus-
ed severe headaches two pieces of
the skull were taken out and the brain
| lifted. Two pieces of steel the size
of finger joint were taken out and
Kennedy is recovering.
Stanley NOwak of Chicago, assist
ed Agnes Pawlowski and Pearl East
man to- freedom from the Milwaukee
House of Correction and hied to Chi
cage where Stanley and Agnes were
made one. Agnes had been confined
on charge of bigamy but that did
not deter her from taking on a new
husband. The police searched un-
successfully until a quarrel arose be-
tween Stanley and Agnes while walk
ing down Madison street and the hus-
band told a policeman all about it.
AS a result the trio are back in Jail.
A. E. Hilton, driving 80 miles an
hour near Lomira, struck small
stone with the result that the car
skidded. In trying to swing the
wheels back Hilton caused the front
wheel to buckle and the car pitched
over into deep ditch pinning the oc-
cupants beneath it. Farmers came to
the rescue finding Hilton's collar
bone broken and his chest crushed in.
Martha Kranke had a compound frac-
ture of the right arm, four bones
broken and lungs lacerated. She was
bruised from head to foot. lone
Kranke was badly lacerated but not
otherwise injured. The injuries of the
first two were deemed fatal.
GAINESVILLE population is 1928, an
increase of 1899 or 31.6 since 1910
A loss estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000 was sustained at Osh-
kosh when a large warehouse at the
plant Of the DeltOx Grass Rug Co.
was destroyed by fire. There were 70
carloads of marsh fiber grass in the
building and eight reapers and two
new tractors. A heavy rain aided the
fire department in combining the
flames to the structure where it orig
mated. The company, of which E.
H. Steiger is president, has enough
material on hand to continue opera
lions and will rebuild the warehouse.