Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-29
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was destroyed by fire with a loss OF
$4,000.
The Green Bay Women's club has
demanded woman police to curb inn
moral conditions in the city.
10000 acres of cutover land in Wash
burn county viii be cleared in the
spring. The land, worthless in the
rough, is worth $40 an acre cleared.
Robbers stole government mail
sack at Green Bay from the Milwaukee
road baggage room and 1000 pieces
oil first-class mail looted and then deS-
troyed.
The best pig OF l. G. Hogan, Orford-
vile farmer, was taken from the city
killed and loaded into a car and taken
away. "A pool of blood and wheel
tracks told the story
Whiskey prices have slumped at
Kenosha and the prevailing rate for
the best Canadian is now SIS. The
stuff is struggled in along the coast
at night by power boats.
Mrs Rudolph Huse, Eau Claire,
charges that her husband has never
given her a kind word or kiss dur
ing their thirty years of married life.
She wants a divorce
Caroline Meyer, IS, died at Neenah
of typhoid fever making the fourth
member of the family to succumb TO
the disease Her four brothers are i'll
and the mother and two brothers pre-
coded her in death
E. r. WiskoW, cheese maker at River
Falls, was arrested for making cheese
from skim milk after selling the cream
for his own profit. He was sentenced
TO a year in Waupun and must make
good his populations.
The body of Jacob Leidnick u, was
found in his home by neighbors. The
odd man who lived alone was kneeling
at the bed as if in prayer. He left his
large estate to Tony Kuehlein, son OF
a neighbor he frequently visited.
Rock county farmers are marketing
their 1920 crop 1.-THE damp and mild
weather recently FASTENED stripping.
Eau Claire county farmers are on a
strike against the elevator men and
refuse TO ship wheat at $1.35 and oats
at 42c.
500 employees of the Hamilton Beach
company of Racine are asking dam
ages of $1,100,000 from local corpor-
ations. They allege that the firms pre-
vented them from obtaining work and
aided the Hamilton Beach company to
break its working contract.
After being choked and beaten by a
daylight burglar, Irene Hendrickson,
maid in the Superior home OF Frank
r. Crampton leaped from a second
story window and ran for neighbors.
The burglar fed without securing any
loot.
An airplane hearse was used for
conveying the body Of William Drefke
from Webster, Wis, to st. Paul. Drefke
died on his farm near Webster and
the road conditions were such that
traffic was impossible. The body went
through by airplane.
Eau Claire, Wis-Capt. Chester Hall
died last week at the age OF l04 years.
He came to Eau Claire in 1856 and was
for many years steamboat captain
and pilot on the Chippewa river. He
was born in New York. Until a few
months ago Capt Hall was hale and
hardy
Wausau Danieski, Marathon county
farmer, is near death from beating
administered by his sons, Walter and
Adam. Adam used hammer and
Walter his fists The old man fed to
a neighbours and was pursued by the
boys. The sons We're captured after
pursuit and jailed
Mathew r. Lynaugh, Madison poll
iceman accused of killing Carl Jan
dorf, student, last May, still draws his
salary OF $13550 a month though sus-
pended from the roll. Civil service
rules prevent his suspension from the
pay roll until discharged though he
has been off duty since the shooting.
John Busa, Stevens Point, was con-
victed of killing his mother and Civ
en- six years in Waupun.
The state fisheries snapped" five
million lake trout eggs for the same
amount of silver trout eggs. The sill
yer trout is Indigenous to the Pacific
coast but tests have proved its adapt
ion to the springfield Wisconsin riv-
ers and deep, inland lakes. They will
be planted in Big Green lake and
Trout lake and in streams feeding to-
ward lake Superior. The new fish
averages from pound to a pound and
a half, is very game and takes the bait
freely during May and June. 1t is
considered quite an acquisition to
Wisconsin fishing.
One thousand parishioners OF holy
Rosary Catholic church, KenoShaj have
signed petition asking for the remov-
al OF FIR. Peter Perardi, priest of the
parish for six years past. The priest
had ignored previous requests TO re-
sign. The trouble arose over bequest
of $4,000 left the church two years
ago by wealthy Italian. According
to the trustees, Father Perardi arrang-
ed matters so this bequest was left in
his name instead ia that of the church.
They don't think this was done with
any other intent than to strengthen
the dictatorship" which they assert
the priest had established over church
affairs. 1t is alleged that this" dictator
ship" is responsible for the trouble,
according to Sam Serpa, member OF
the committed
Mrs. John C. Meyers is dead and her
husband is in a hospital in Sparta,
suffering from self inflicted uoundq