Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-04-07

- - IA dtA " Uullu anu operate Oh
electric light, heat and power plant in
Mattoon
The Taylor county agricultural
agent has been notified by l. Bewick,
state club leader, that the best garden
clubs of the state have been carried
en- in Taylor county and have won SEQ
in prize money
Sluice gates at the Neenah and Me-
nasha dams have been opened to re-
duce the water level in the lake and
river and great volumes of water are
row finding an outlet through the
lower Fox to the Great Lakes.
Mayor Mechanic, Hayward, has been
Informed by Representative A. P. Mel
son OF the Eleventh Wisconsin con
gressional district that Hayward is to
he presented with an artillery field
piece. The gun is one captured by the
French army from the Germans.
Conductor John Misslen Of the 500
line was severely scalded in an acct
cent which occurred in the caboose of
his train at Owen. A basin containing
boiling water was Jared from the
stove when the train came to sudden
STOP the water hitting him full in the
face.
John Leuthi, a Rusk county farmer
has family Bible which was printed
in Switzerland in 1872. 1t has 1850
pages, a picture and maps and meas
ures ten inches wide, sixteen inches
long and four inches thick. The Gov
ers are boards one-half inch thick and
are covered with hog skin, the corners
being edged with tin The book is in
a good state of preservation.
The Milwaukee-Oco nomowoc-Water
town road is to be kept open for auto
traffic this spring, in so far as the JET
ferson county portion is concerned
The read and bridge committee of JEFF
ferson county held a meeting at Water
town and plans were laid to keep the
road passable. Posters are to be
placed limiting loads which may be
carried over bad portions Of the high
way
Truman Rice, 95, one of the oldest
residents of central Wisconsin, is dead
at his home in Stevens Point He
came to Wisconsin in 1856, residina
for time at Plover, and later at Nc
Dill. He was a veteran of the Civil
war. His fourth wife, suries him. One
son and one daughter, several grand
children and eat-grandchildren also
JN loo do y; ~
at rs.
Farmers in the towns Of Oak Grove
and Clyman, seeking the convenience
of electric lighting in their homes and
dairy barns. have contracted for an ex
tension Of the Juneau city se~yice line
ten miles to accommodate thirty farm
homes. The cost is $4,000. and when
the line is completed in August thu
city of Juneau viii take it over for
operation and maintenance as part Of
It's lighting and power system.
Homes are flooded in many parts OF
Ia Crosse. bridges are threatened with
destruction, the wholesale district is in
danger Of being cut OH from the rest
Of the city, and railroad lines in all
The manufacturing districts are under
water, as the result Of the Mississippi
river being beyond the flood stage
The raging waters have reached more
han Is feet and are reported rising
at the rate of one inch every hour
ELAN Beardsley, a farmer near Ra
cine, missed three colts and heifel
recently He found the colts, but the
heifer never came back. A short time
later he saw a pelt on sale which he
recognized as that of the missing
heifer. He learned that it had been
procured from Alvin Heimbauch, a
neighboring farmer near Waterford A
Jury in the Racine Municipal court
found Heimbauch guilty of larceny OF
The heifer, which was valued at SIS.
Carl Garthwaite committed suicide
at the home of his brother-in-law
eight miles north of Lancaster. His
body was discovered hanging from a
oeam in the barn He had tied rope
TO the beam and jumped off, choking
himself to death. Carl was an ex
soldier, having spent twenty-five
months in France. He had been on
i've battle fronts, and had suffered
from shell shock. He was recently
married, and for some time has wor.
ried over money matters.
Vernon county, Wisconsin, gets its
name from George Vernon Weeks
Lyons, Walworth county. who cele-
brated his eighty-second birthday
Mar. 13 and has been a resident of the
county for seyenty-eight years The
county now known as Vernon was al
first known as Bad Axe county, but
the settlers did not like this name. as
il sounded too warlike. At that time
the county judge was Sylvester Fish
who came from near Buffalo, n Y,
and was a boyhood friend of Mr.
Weeks. At the suggestion of Judge
Lincoln, the name of the county was
changed to Vernon in honor of his
friend
twenty-five dollars a quart was the
price paid in GAINESVILLE for liquor
When arrested on charge of intox
ication he gave the name of the man
from whom he purchased the booze
But before the police could grab him