Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-10-13
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HERE AND THERE.

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! Toledo $500 employees, men and
women. were lad eff by tie WHY'S
Overland company last week Falling
off in the demand for cars was the
reason given for the curtailing pro-
] duction.
! Alexendria, Mimi Cussav Nelson,
/ son-in-law Of Senator Knute Nelson.
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
upon his conviction of the murder of
Jos. Middleton, farm hand. A tenn
/ por2ry stay IVES granted
! Rockford, Ill,-On August 10Th Geo.
Roper had liberty bonds WORTH S42,5OO
stolen frcm him, Saturday, John
Pfaelski, Chicago laooror. kicked over
rusty pail that arrived in a carload
/ OF scrapirc1, and the bonds tumbled
| out.
! San Francisco-Argument on the
action filed by Atty. Gen. Fowler of
! Nevada to dissolve the divorce OF
Mary Pickford Fairbanks, the mo-
ton picture actress, from owen
Moore, has been set Nov. 6 in the
Mlnden, New, court, where the di-
vorce was obtained
Belvidere, Ill.-The price paid for
milk dropped more than 81 a hun
dred pounds when the Borden plant
at Algonquin cut the price from
$50 to $2.521a. Other plants at
! Garden Prairie and Cherry Valley
reduced the price from $3.50 to ST.
! 65. The Bowman plant at Poplar
/ Grove continues to pay the old rate.
Washington Reductions during
July and August in the prices OF
farm products cost the farmers OF
the country approximately $715O-
| 100000, it is estimated by George P.
Hampton, managing director of the
! Farmers National Council. The es-
innate is based on the prices pro-
ducers received for wheat. corn po-
tatoes, apples, cotton, and beef cat
tie.
Rome-When last juno Signor Clio
llttl assumed power, he told of the I'M
/ exploited wealth contained in the IN
dersoil, which the government pro-
posed to develop. The fact is that Italy
has struck oil in several provinces.
Italy should in some years be able to
overcome the tremendous industrial
handicap due to lack of fuel Incl eased
by the recent Franco-British monopoly
in the Roumanian and Black sea oil
fields.
Berlin Hindenburg,s seventy
third birthday was the occasion of
a nationalist demonstration by school
boys and university students in
Hanover, led by teachers and pro-
fessors. The procession Haunted
former imperial flags. Hindenburg
told the youths:
Times are hard, but God has not
abandoned the German people vet
Much has been taken from us, but
God will give it back to us. One
thing remains to us: Our father
land. | appeal to the youth of Ger
many"
/ Observation-Disclosures coal pro-
duction during the week of Sept 25
totaled 11,81700 tons with daily
rate of 100000 tons, the highest of
any week during this year.
The production Of hard coal Jumped
from $4,000 tons during the week of
/ Sept. Is to 1,650,0O0 tons during the
! week of Sept 25
Total biturlirous coal production
/ this year is 392,747 900 tons, 81 SOC, 900
tons ahead of the same period during
1919, but 44,000,000 tons behind 1918.
| Monroe Center, ILL., Sept 28-Mem-
bers of the congregation of the Union
church tore down the main part of the
old school building here the other day.
the material to be used in the new
church. Bees had made the school
their home for years, and tons of hon
ey were taken out, much of it in ex-
cellent condition.