Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-04-21
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Baltimore Theo. n. Vail. former
president of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, died in a hos
pital here last Thursday Mr.. Vail
was rs years old.
Berlin-The former empress of Ger
many is seriously i'll al her retreat
IN Holland and her death is expected
shortly. the Deutsch Tagcs Zeitung
says. Thesformer empress of Ger
many. the Kaiserine Augusta Victor
Ia. has been reported seriously i'll sew
eral times during recent years. Short
! " before the close of the war she was
under the care of specialists in Ber-
lin. Her health was said to have be-
come worse when the imperial fam
! lily fled from Berlin into Holland. Re
cent dispatches said her old physi-
clans had been called from Berlin to
attend her. She was suffering from
heart trouble supplemented with 9th
er diseases.
Carson City, Ney-Suit to set aside
the Mary Pickford-Ow Moore di-
vorce decree will be filed at Minden
it was definitely announced at the of
ice OF the attorney general The COM
plant which he made public charges
conspiracy on the part of Dauglas
Fairbanks, Owen E. Moore, and
Gladys n. Moore to cvade the Ne
Vada divorce laws and names Moore
and his former wife defendants.
/ Washington Senator Warren, head
OF the appropriations committee, re-
Gently declared that according to pres
ent estimates the ultimate cost of pro
hlbltion enforcement would be $50
100000 year. Wayne B. Wheeler,
counsel for the Anti-Saloon league, in
a letter to Senator Sheppard said:
| IL 1t was necessary to spend even
that amount to prevent waste Of
over S1,000000,000 year spent for
! liquor and to check the lawless of
the liquor traffic, it would not be in
! excusable expenditure"
Atlantic City, n. J.-Venuslike forms
will not be on display for beach adj
mirers this year. At least not beyond
/ the limits of a two piece bathing suit.
Beach Surgeon Charles Bossart has
! forbidden the one piece garment.
Some of last years one piece suits
were more alarming than if the wear
ers had appeared in the grassy hip
adornment of Sandwich island belle.
Then the board walk burlesque shows
scarcely could offer such eye dazzlers
/ as were seen on the beach All fe-
males over 16 must wear stockings
also, no matter how shapely their
calves. Bare knees are taboo.
Sacramento, alif.-Articles recent
ly reprinted from The Sacramento
Union Of So years ago, when the pap
er was founded, show that clerks in
California stores were being paid
from $500 to $500 a month, that butter
was So a pound, milk 81 quart, and
other prices in proportion. Reprints
from papers in 1866, however, showed
a big drop in prices. The Sacramento
board of supervisors let contracts for
purchase Of milk at 20 cents a gallon
and meat at cents pound
Mobile, AIa.-Three trainmen were
reported killed in a head-on collision
between two passenger trains on the
! Louisville and Nashville railway near
Bay Minette, last week The trains
were Nos. 2 and 3. Number was
bound from New Orleans to Cincin-
natl, and number 3. the Cincinnati
! Orleans Limited, was sound bound.
/ New Orleans men were killed
/ in a gasoline explosion at the bottom
OF salt mine near New Iberia, last
week