Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-10-06

G. j. Kilmer, Alton farmer, raised
tobacco Plant that measured i've feet
from the stalk to the tip Of the leaves.
Counterfeiters have been at work
in the Fox River Valley where bogus
500 bills are appearing. The bills are
fives raised to twenties
Mrs. Thos. Albright, 65, GAINESVILLE,
grieving over the recent death of two
children, hung herself The body was
found by the husband when he re-
turned from his chores
Stanley Guenthor, 20, and Frank
Paulus, II, confined in the Oshkosh
jail on charge of theft, beat up Rob-
ert Peterson, jailer, and made their
escape.
John Pearl, WISCONSIN Rapids hunt
er, had the fleshy part Of his right
arm and shoulder tom away as the
result of trying to pull q loaded shot
gun from boat. Two companions
were hurt by scattered shot.
The body Of Mrs. John Jones who
was drowned in a dory off Racine two
weeks ago, was found near Port
Washington Jones refused to COM
ment on the finding He was in the
hospital for several days after being
rescued
Frank Lang, Kenosha laborer, con-
fessed to the murder of Charles Pac-
mi for his money and diamonds as the
latter emerged from a garage. He first
ordered the movie magnate to throw up
his hands but Pacini reached for his
gun instead. Lang shot and ran away
making no attempt to loot the body
He is married and the father of two
children
Chicago auto theft ring was brok-
en- up by the Appleton police. A
stranger named Wilfred Duke Carnec-
CHA, offered to trade a new Buick for
Ford exhibiting a bill of sale from
Chicago dealer. The man was held
and the case looked into. 1t developed
that the car had been stolen from
Michigan party. The notary public
who executed the bill of sale and the
man who sold the car in Chicago were
parties to the fraud. Several men were
arrested and three stolen cars recover
ed for their rightful owners.
Five bandits attempted to rob the
Oshkosh Exchange bank in broad day
light and succeeded in getting $500 in
bills. A big haul was forestalled by
Cashier John E. Glatz, who reached
under the desk and sounded an alarm.
Glatz was at once shot by the bandits
the bullet penetrating his face at the
cheek and breaking the jaw. He will
be disfigured but will live. The band
its, who were evidently novices,
grabbed the bills from the counter
and fed.
That the Wisconsin fuel problem
may be solved by the use of the native
peat was claimed recently by Herbert
! Garnett of Minneapolis lecturing be-
fore the meeting CT the American
Peat society in session at Madison.
The geological survey reports
indicates that there are 100000 &C.
res OF peat fuel averaging feet in
depth i'll the state Assuming that an
acre will yield 200 tons of dry fuel
the total would be three billion tons
of fuel worth, at So a ton, nine bill N
dollars. Peat is dug from the surface
! to depth of seven feet by machines.
1t is delivered in ? pcsty mass con-
tanning 80 per cent moisture, to the
macerator and spreade% 1t comes
out of this machine to the ground in
ribbons four inches thick end sixteen
feet wide to the ground where it
dried by the sun and air and then
cut into blocks suitable for further
! drying in ricks. When tho moisture
content hcG fallen below 20 rer cent
the peat will burn. The cost of peat
! fuel so prepared is about 1925 per
to nat the swamp. Peat makes good
fuel, has long clear burning flame.
! and no ash residue to speak of. In
foreign countries it is used extensive
! ~ Tor fuel and the same thing may
come to mass in WicpOncip