Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-04-07


The Circuit court at Clintonyille
has ruled thai when the United States
authorities close the saloons in a city
for any length of time the city is
bound to return the license morey for
a period when they are forced to stop.
business.
Charles Nelson, in charge of an ele
yator at Racine factory, was fatally
crushed when a tractor which was be-
ing driven on one of the upper floors
ran wild and crashed down the eleva-
tor shaft to the floor below, striking
Nelson, who was standing on the lift.
To celebrate his sixty-second birth
day, L. G. Bemis, proprietor of a gen.
eral store at Brentwood, recently en-
tertained the entire population of that
place at party in his store During
the day his entire stock was placed on
sale at cost to help consumers com
bat the high cost of living.
Capt. A. L. Wilcox, La Crosse, pilot
on the excursion steamer G. w. Hill,
received definite word that the gov
eminent towboats and barges will be
placed in operation on the upper MiH
sissippi this summer. The new fleet
will carry coal up river and iron from
st. Paul and Minneapolis to down riv-
err points.
The maple sugar season is
on, but the weather so far has been
too warm for big run of sap. Cold
nights are wanted, with warm, sun
shiny days. A large numbe rof new
orchards have been opened this year
and should the weather conditions
turn better there will be a record
breaking production.
Attorneys for farmers and land own
ers in Caledonia, whose land was TAX
en- over by the government in October,
1918 for the proposed powder plants
were advised by the war department
that an award had been agreed upon
as to the amount of damages to be
paid The awards range from $500 to
$4,000 and the total will amount to
$25O,000.
That there is just cause for com
plant against the street car service in
Madison and that this service can on
. ly be improved by double tracking and
! additional cars, were some of the con
clusions announced by C. NJ Larson.
engineer for the railroad commission.
who has been conducting an investi-
cation of the street car service in
Madison
Frightened al the approach of an
automobile a horse owned and driven
by Fred Naigle, a farmer of the town
Of Caledonia leaped over the three
foot wall Of concrete bridge into the
river twenty feet below and was car
ried by the waters a distance of sew
eral hundred feet before it was res
cued, The buggy was wrecked, but
the occupant was uninjured
Fifty thousand western sheep will
be summered en- the pine barrens be-
tween Ashland and Iron River, accord
Ing to present prospects. The barrens
are covered with buffalo grass An
other drought is predicted in Montana
and sheep mcn lre nogotiatinS 70 send
herds here. Experiments for several
years show that the cattle and sheep
from the west fatten quickly on these
lands.
Gordon Busdey, Of Appleton, will eo
to Pittsyille. near Grand Rapids, to en-
gage in raising Flemish Giant rabbits
on large scale. He has purchased
40 acres of wild lands which will be
divided and fenced into yards of sew
eral acres each and equipped with
buildings. Mr.. Bushey will start WITH
100 rabbits and xpects to have 200o
by fall The rabbits will be raised
both for meat and fur
The rag rooms of Appleton pape"
mills are proving to be veritable gold
mines. Three months ago an Apple
ton workman discovered $500 Lib
erty bond, which no one has claimed
More recently another worker found a
diamond ring. Now, Miss Georgine De
Leest, Kimberly, found $50 in a bale Of
clippings in pile of rags. The
money was all in currency in what
was probably pay envelope.
A misplaced comma will cause a
special meeting of the Waupaca coun-
ty board. Last fall, at the annual
meeting of the board, a resolution was
passed which was designed to bond
the county for the sum of $185.000
Recently when looking over the reso-
luton preparatory to the bond issue
it was discovered that the comma had
been put in the wrong place and that
the board had really voted to bond for
$18,500
Mondovi won state championship
in the livestock Judging contest at the
fourth annual Wisconsin High school
livestock, corn and grain judging con-
test held at the university grounds at
Madison, under auspices of the Wis
consin Livestock Breeders associa-
ton. Waterloo won corn and grain
judging championship Individual
championships were won by Laverne
Taylor. Oshkosh, in livestock judging,
and Walter Wood, Oshkosh, in corn
and grain judging. In livestock judg-
ing the leading teams finished as fol-
lows: Mondovi, Chippewa Falls, Osh-
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