Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-09-01

A rOWbOat capSlZed in Lake Men
dota, 500 feet from shore, and caused
the death of John Bergman and Geo.
w. Monroe, Park Hotel employees. The
bodies were recovered later.
Irene, 4-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Sven Carlson, Glenwood
City, was fatally injured when her
father and she leaped from a buggy
in which they were riding to the little
girls grandparents. While on a hill
the holdback on the buggy broke and
| it went crashing into the horse, which
began kicking. The girls neck was
broken and she died soon after The
mother and another little girl who
were in the buggy were uninjured.
Kenosha comes to the front with
the largest percentage increase in
population announced for a Wiscon-
sin city, official announcement of the
census bureau at Washington giving
that city population of 40,472, an in
crease of 19.101, or 1914 per cent The
next largest increase made by Wis
consin city is that of Racine, which,
with a population of 1888, made an
increase of 54.2 per cent Madison,
with 38,378, and increase of so per
cent, stands third in the list of in
creaSeS.
While Fred Girnau, Eau Claire, was
repairing punctured tire on his car
which he had pulled up at the side of
the road, William Gum, Minneapolis,
came speeding along in a big auto
mobile and struck and wrecked Cir
nau's car. Mrs. Girnau and Chas.
Hart, standing beside the car, were
knocked down and bruised. One of
Harris legs was caught under the
wheel of the car, but as it was an ar
tificial leg little damage was done,
Gun was fined $3.50 in municipal
court and his car was held pending
payment to Mr.. Girnau for damages
to his car Gum settled.
Edward Schirmer of Baraboo, who
has undertaken to shorten the course
of the BarabOO river about 13 miles,
expects to begin actual digging opera
tons in three weeks. The big barge
tions in three weeks. The big barge
chinery and dredging outfit, has been
put together and is now af1Oat in the
Baraboo river near the Butterfield
bridge and those interested are now
transferring a huge boiler onto the
raft. AS soon as the latter is in
working order and the machinery OPP
Grated by steam more rapid progress
can be made. For years the farm
land along the river in certain places
between Baraboo and Portage has
suffered greatly from high water in
the spring of the year and much of
it has been rendered useless for Gull
tivation. The project in hand is to
reduce the length of the river from 26
miles to Is miles by digging a new
- oil; of11o fi11o a
winding bends and with a straight
course for the water it is believed
the river banks will not be overflow
ed and the water will go rushing on
to the Wisconsin without damage to
adjacent farms.
Mark Holdread, 16, Quinn o. Gall,
%, and Oral J. Bell, 10, were drowned
in sight of their families who had
gathered for a neighborhood picnic
on the bank of the Chippewa river
few miles north of Bruce The young
men. with a party of friends, were in
swimming and some of them had
climbed on log where the water was
deep. A boy fell from the log and
sank. Young Gall, who was not
good swimmer, went to the boys aid
but became exhausted and sank. Hol-
dread tried to rescue the boy but met
the same fate. Oral Bell then swan
to the drowning boy, seized him and
was making his way to the shore
when he became exhausted and called
for help. The father of the lad, who
was on the shore, grasped his son and
dragged him to safety. Bell, being
exhausted, sank and was swept down
stream by the current. Holdread was
a member of Troop K, Wisconsin Ma
tional guard, and just returned from
/ the annual meet at Camp Douglas;
Gall was a veteran of the World war,
Ehaving fought three years with the
Canadian army; Bell saw overseas
service with the American army.
A unique exhibit at the state fair
next week will be that of the WiscOn
sin Indians depicting the product OF
| 1920 Indian civilization instead of the
primeval life usually shown. The
Chippewas of Bad River reservation,
Red Cliff, Lac Court d'Oreilles, Lac
du Flambeau, of the Indian school at
Tomah, and of the Laona agency will
present a. farm exhibit. The Oneidas
of Green Bay, the Potawatomies and
Winnebagoes of Green Bay and the
Menomines of Keshena agency are
farmers, cattle breeders and home
builders. 1t may surprise the people
of southern Wisconsin to know that
there has not been blanket Indian
in the city of Ashland in 20 years,
that there is not blanket Indian on
Bad River reservation, and the blan-
ket Indian, in Wisconsin, is as much
of a rarity as the elk or the moose.
The Indians of Lac du Flambeau will
take to the State fair a regular full
size birch bark canoe, such as Hia-
watha probably used when he fshed
/ in the Gitche Ounce, canoe such as
is made today on the reservations,
and which has no equal for lightness
and strength. Outside of few ex-
hibits of this kind the Indian exhib-
it" will consist of things that are