Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-04-21
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Judge Stevens of Dane county held
court at Richland in place of George
Clementson, deceased.
After 81 years of married life, Mich
ael Eckel of Paoli, town of Montrose,
Dane county, was granted a divorce
from Mrs. Amelia Eckel upon cross
complaint. She originally started the
action. The couple have four chill
dren. Cruel and inhuman treatment
vas charged Mrs. Eckel is said to
have left her husband about a year
ago
The state conservation commission
cannot move the bass season back to
its former time Of June LIST, even if it
wished to do So according to W. E.
Barber, of the commission. Petitions
are coming to the commission in large
numbers asking that the season be
moved back The commission is en-
powered to place further restrictions
on the game laws, but can remove
none imposed by the legislature
George Pope, Darien, has sold a
tWO-year-old Holstein bull for $4,000,
and the animal will be shipped with
as other cattle to South America.
Walcowis Ollie Hertog was purchased
from Nathan Dickinson. Lake Geneva.
when months old, and cost Mr.. Pope
$3.50. He took prizes at four state
fairs last fall and third at the Ma
ti0nal Dairy show at Chicago and the
Cattle Congress at Waterloo, Iowa.
Henry Johnson, state treasurer,
Madison, has received letter from G.
L. Lathrop, farmer at Wauzeka, pre-
senting a bill OF $500 for damages
done by rabbits to his blackberry
bushes. Mr. Lathrop in his letter
states that if a farmers animals did
damage to his neighbours property he
would be held for damages, and that
1t state animal did damage to a far
ner's property the state should be
held for damages. The bill has been
referred to the state conservation
commission,
Potato dealers at Stevens Point pre-
dict that potatoes will advance to $40
per hundred pounds this spring. On
the local market the price has reach
ed 81 per 100 pounds, or $500 per bu.
portage county and central Wiscon-
SIN farmers have disposed Of a large
part OF their potatoes, there being a
rush to the market when roads per-
mltted travel and prices remained
hlgh. Frosts which damaged south
ern crops will cause the shortage and
hlgher prices, the dealers contend.
stevens Point is one of the principal
potato centers Of the state.
The cold weather of the past week
following the blizzard will practical
~ double the maple sirup output Of
MiCRnnCir
weather of the closing days of March
lessened the flow of sap. and the seas
on appeared to be nearly over; in
tact, several sugar bush camps on the
Bad River reservation were already
broken up when tn eblizzard occurr-
ed. The cold nights and warmer DAYS
started the sap flowing again. maxi
ing practically two seasons for sugar
making. Sirup retails among the far
mers who produced ii as high as $50
per gallon, and III some cases as low
as $3.50.
While the Rev. Theodore Martens
was consoling Pearl Burgner, IS. Su-
perlor, and was telling her to follow
the advice Of her parents and avoid
companions they believed were bad.
the girl drank iodine before the pas
tor could stop her. She was rushed
90 hospital and it is believed She
will recover. The pastor, who is in
charge of Christ German Lutheran
church, to which the family belongs.
was called by Mrs. Burgner who ask
ed him to dissuade her daughter from
certain companionship. According to
the Rev Mr.. Martens, while he was
talking to the girl and urging her to
turn over a new leaf" she complain
ed that it was useless to make a
change She had one hand behind he
he said, and suddenly put bottle to
her lips.