Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-09-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

lie rev. JOnn b. hlOcK6F, pastor
of the North Side German Catholic
church, La Crosse, has been trans
ferred by Bishop Schwebach to a
parish at Rockville, Wis.
Mr. and Mrs. John LANCER, Wiscon-
sin Rapids, have returned from Water
loo where they attended the funeral
Of Mr.. Langer's father, who is sur
vived by exactly 100 descendants.
Surviving him are eleven children,
sixty-two grandchildren and twenty
seven great grandchildren besides his
wife.
The town of Merrill received the big
trophy cup at the Lincoln County fair
for having the finest town booth of
vegetables, grains and canned prod
ucts. The cup was of silver and was
two feet in height, with geld lining.
The town of Merrill booth scored a
total or "a first prizes and IS second
prizes on individual entries.
Chicken thieves are reported active
in Dodge county and several hundred
dollars worth of poultry has Neen
stolen. Leland Borngraeber lost $50
spring chickens from his brooder
house. At the farm of George Illig a
flock of ducks was stolen, the thieves
in their haste trampling under foot a
number of ducklings. At the scene of
these and Sc 9ral other thefts the
tracks Of a motor truck were plainly
visible.
A bumper crop of potatoes from the
same plot Of ground for 43 consecutive
years is the agricultural record made
in Sturgeon Bay. The plot of ground
is owned by Mrs. Paul Rose, SO, known
to the populace as Grandma" Rose.
For the last forty-three years she has
raised potatoes on the same plot of
ground, consisting Of two city lots. In
spite of her advanced age she has
planted, cultivated and dug the pota-
toes herself. She is still leading an
active life.
Father T. ]. Hennessey, former pas
tor of ST. Demands church, Water
town, has sailed for Ireland to visit
his mother according to word which
his former Pensioners have received.
Father Hennessey, who was one of
the best known priests in Wisconsin,
has lately been serving a church at
Austin, Texas, and wrote Watertown
friends upon his embarkation for Ire
land at New York city
Northern Wisconsin blackberries
are ripe and berry pickers have taken
to the woods wherever they abound.
The red raspberries have long gone,
but blueberries are still good picking
JIG many places and even some rasp-
berries may be found. The wild cram
berry swamps give promise of a big
yield and good picking is usual almost
up to December The wild rice har-
vest in the swamps and oyerfiowed
lands is in full blast
Wisconsin hunters this year will
not be permitted to kill more than one
buck, according to new regulations,
ordered by the state conservation
commission. Killing of more than one
buck with horns less than three inches
in length is prohibited. Instructions
from the commission on the attach
ment of the metal tags to the carcass
require that they be attached at the
hook joint of the tendon, and locked
around the leg of the animal.
An infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. M. Porter, living a few miles east
of the city of Medford was so badly
burned that she died few hours
later. The baby had been left in the
care of older children while the par
ents were assisting neighbors fight
forest fires which were threatening
their homes. The children were play
ing in the yard near bed of Goals,
and the baby, unobserved by. the
others, crawled into the Goals. When
rescued her whole body was badly
burned.
MaTinette city has established rec
ord in raising funds for the Boy
Scouts unsurpassed in the four states
of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and
Minnesota, for community of it's size.
In a campaign of one week over $751;
600 has been subscribed and the chair
man of the finance committee has set
$4,000 as the goal. If this amount is
reached Scout officials say, that it will
be the largest amount ever collected
in the United States in city of $4,000
the first year. The contributions in
clude six of $1,000 each and several of
$500 each.
The division of markets, Madison,
calls attention to the fact that the
question of the large increase of the
urban and the almost insignificant in
crease of the rural population is of
prime Importance in the consideration
of the problem of the cost of living.
The enormous increase of consumers
of farm products as compared with
the slight increase of producers is due
TO three causes: Many sons of farm.
ers born and bred in the country are
leaving for the city; men willing to
hire themselves to farmers are de-
creasing rapidly both in number and
in quality; and the concentration OF
immigrants in large cities.
The tug Whelan, with 5000 cords of
Canadian pulpwood, lost by the tug
Traveller in a Lake Superior storm last