Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-02-25

vases 10 30 cents per hOur Tor an
eight hour day will become effective
here on March l.
Margaret Sternberg, years old,
vas instantly killed at Wausau by be.
ng run over by a sleigh, loaded with
wood. Her chest was crushed No
3ne saw the accident
Fred Pape, aged 20 years. dropped
dead of heart failure at the SEQ line
iepot ut Neenan while on his way
rom Ciintonville to Waupaca To take
put naturalization papers.
The Wisconsin Telephone company
has decided to string new toll lines
from Marinette to Green Bay and from
Marinette to Oconto Falls. Work will
begin soon, and the two Improvements
will cost $4,000
The supervisors of Jefferson county
reduced the salary of the sheriff of the
county $500, to take effect upon the
election of new sheriff The newly
elected sheriff will be given $4,000
This does not include the amount al
lowed for board of prisoners.
While at Manitowoc to attend the
funeral of her brother. Timothy Sulli-
van, Chicago, Miss Ella Sullivan re-
ceived "a message from Chicago stat
ing that another brother, Thomas, was
dying. She departed on the first train
to return to her stricken brother.
The Masonic building at viroqua,
To- sva
the city, was completely destroyed by
fire. For time the entire business
district was threatened The loss for
the building and three stores, which
were also ruined. exceeds $4,000.
The Sheboygan Business Mems as
ISOLATION will take action on the bond
issue to carry on county highway i'm
provement, by exerting its influence
with the county board. Last year the
county legislators killed a resolution
providing for a referendum vote on a
bond issue for 100000 Various civic
organizations will urge consideration
Organized with no capital stock and
with no dividends or profits to be de
clared, the Eau Claire Milk ProGcsars'
association has been launched by An
ton H. Hoesly, Adolph E. Schmidt, o.
E. Shipper, o. E. Gibson and E, H
Rosrow, for opposing and preventing
monopoly, encouraging competition
and also to protect both producer and
consumer
That there has been a decrease in
tnp MN of ocoidoptc, ~, +l,a c4o+a
during the past year is shown by the
statement issued by the industrial
commission. For the year ending with
1919 there were 17,207 accidents as
compared with 20,342 for the year
1918. The report shows that for the
year 1917 there were 1855 accidents
and for the year 1915, previous to the
entrance of America in the war, there
were 1879 accidents.
In preparation for the great ice
jams which are expected to come
down at the Eau Claire river this
spring, Eau Claire is building ice
breaks on the upper side of the pier
of the Dewey street bridge so as to
protect them against the force of the
ice when it comes Formerly the
numerous dams and booms on the Eat
Claire river served to break up the
ice before it came down in the spring
but these are now gone, permitting
the ice to come down in large, un
broken chunks.
Little Rosemary Rafferty,, yeSrs
old, died from a gunshot wound re-
ceived while she and her brother
Owen, years old, were playing w.th
the revolver of their grandfather
Owen O'Hare, chief of police of Keno
sha. The boy pulled open the top
drawer of the dresser where Cn1el
O'Hare left his revolver for emergency
calls. The grandmother heard the
children laughing and talking. Then
she heard a shot She went into the
bedroom and found the little girl with
the gunshot wound in her shoulder.
Harold Hanisch, son of Oscar Han
isch, Waupun postmaster was placed
on trial in Circuit court there charged
with assaulting Sam Darling, police
man, as an outgrowth of the so-called
Waupun peace night celebration riots
The trial was started Immediately
after Bragg Stoddart, chairman of the
Waupun council of defense and the
Liberty loan committee there, and FIVE
other defendants were acquitted on
charges of rioting. The six men, Stod-
dart, Godfrey, Coles, William Redman,
William Tetzlaff, Elmer Luck and
Clyde Harris had been accused OF
riding Gus Bluemke, an aged resident,
on rail-
The Wisconsin supreme court has
handed down an opinion sustaining
the constitutionality of the statute
giving the industrial commission
power to assess treble damages IN
case where minors are employed with
out permit About 120 cases before
the commission have been held up
pending this decision. The case in
which this important decision was
given comes from Superior. Peter
Heruben, a minor employed without
permit, was injured, and under the
ruling of the supreme court, he will
be awarded $925.64 under the schedule