Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
HERE AND THERE.
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ChicagO-Plans for the largest ho-
tel in the world to front three blocks
on Lake Michigan and Sheridan
Road. were made public Saturday.
According to the plans, the hotel Will
be in five units, with the present
Edgewater Beach hotel as one unit.
The architects have planned 1000
rooms. The cost isestimated at APP
proximately $15,000,O00. A theatre,
seating $500 is feature of the plans.
Cedar Rapids, lathe Quaker
Oats Co.'S plant here, the largest GER
cal mil. j. the world was forced to
lay off nearly 500 employees on ac-
count of the car shortage.
San Francisco, Calif.-Preceded by
a parade in Chinatown, in which hun
dreds of Chinese participated, a huge
bonfire was rAade last Friday night OF
thousands of dollars worth of inn
ported Japanese goods. The mer-
chants carted the Japanese goods, in
Guiding silks and other fineries, from
theoir stores, to the street, and with
a ceremony a torch was applied.
Brussels The bodies of forty sol
diers have been found in the cellar
of a ruins at Ypres. 1t was believed
they were gassed during the fierce
fighting in this district in 1915. The
men probably were overcome while
asleep, it was indicated. The bodies
were we'll preserved and were identi-
fed.
ChicagO-Fire swept through por-
ton of the Chicago stock yards Sun
day, causing a property loss of $780,
MIL Of hnp
ed, with 800 head of horses. Three
firemen were injured. The fire ragged
for three hours and was not brought
under control until late Sunday night
Greeley. Cola tornado which
struck the vicinity of Severance, 16
miles northwest of this city, Wednes-
day afternoon, killed live stock and
wrecked telephone and telegraph
lines.
There are 58,000000 people in the
United States who are connected with
no church. If these people wanted tC
attend church they would be unable
to do so for not more than one-third
of the population of the United States
has the opportunity to attend church
regularly Sunday by Sunday.
Douglas Fairbanks is suffering from
perience with a too realistic earth
avalanche which descended on him
and members of his company near
Los Angeles, Calf. Fairbanks head
and face were badly lacerated and his
body painfully bruised. He will be
laid up for two weeks doctors say.
PittSburg- grade sugar can
be made out Of ordinary sawdust at a
cost Of about 3 cents a pound, accord
ing to Robert Hyde, chemist, who
says he has invented a process for
effecting this wonderful tranmutation
One pound Of saWdust will make
three-quarters of a pound of sugar
In discussing his invention, Hyde
said: IF made by hand the sugar
Will cost 31a cents a pound, but if
manufactured by machine, the cost
would be cut to less than half that
amount. The process consumes
about ten hours"
A carload of sugar, about 40 tons.
was captured at Omaha making in all
more than 100000 pounds taken over
by the authorities there within a few
weeks. 1t is claimed that this car
was designated for Chicago. but at
Savanna the road was instructed to
rebill it to Omaha. There are fellows
who are not allowed sugar to get out
Of their hands unless they get out
rageously high prices Sugar should
be selling ten pounds for a dollar to-
day. but the price asked in many plac-
es is thirty-five cents per pound, less
than three pounds for the dollar.-Ga-
lena Gazette