Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-22


Work will be commenced on ZOO
foot dam at Big Falls on the Flan-
beau river, II miles above Ladysmith,
in the spring of 1921 by the owners
of the site, the l.. e. Meyers Co., Chi
cago. This is the most important
water power on the Flambea.
having head of IS feet, and will de-
velop 100000 horse power. 1t is ex-
pected that much of the power will be
transmitted to Ladysmith, where it
will be available for manufacturing
purposes. The Meyers Co. will also
build dam 600 feet long across the
north branch of the Flambeau, just be-
low turtle Dasin rendering that basin
o big storage reservoir.
The state department of agriculture
is waging war against the bargain"
seed houses that are shipping adul-
terated and cheap seed to the farmers
OF Wisconsin. For several years the
seed and weed control division OF the
department has been warning farmers
against the purchase of seeds from
certain mail order houses outside the
state Samples of their seed collected
from various sources and examined
| in the state laboratory showed many
Of the statements made by these bar
gain houses to be false and warnings
were published in the papers urging
| farmers not to buy seeds from these
companies.
Charles Lightfoot, Edward Knudson,
Eric Solberg, and Herman Smith, EN-
ployes, and r. O. Kleindinst, supt Of
the Eau Claire gas plant, were over
come on entering basement room of
the plant in which a broken pipe dis
charged fumes. Lightfoot and Knud-
son discovered the break and were
overcome trying to remedy it. The
others tried to rescue them. One sue
ceeded in breaking window pane so
! that the fresh air revived them enough
to get out Knudson, half conscious,
plunged back to rescue Lightfoot
whom he supposed still in the room.
Miss Eva Zabrowski, "a, Portage
county girl, must serve nine months
in the county jail here for her part
in connection with an infant corpse
found floating in the Wisconsin river
near Stevens Point. A charge of muir
der preferred against her was with
drawn and in place an information
filed charging her with concealing the
death of child born to her $50 that
it may not be known whether born
alive or not or whether it was muir
idered" Miss Zabrowski pleaded guilty
to the later charge
Fred Bentz, Wausau, and John Kuj-
wa, Almond, were killed instantly
when scaffold on a water tower at
Stratfordf broke. The men fell 90 feet.
KujWa was dead when picked up and
Bentz died 20 minutes later. Albert
Schroeder, working inside the tower,
had q narrow escape by holding on to
two bolts until a rope could be lower
ed to haul him to safety.
Employees of the Simmons Bed Co,
OF Kenosha are to share in the profits
Of the company for the year of 1920
half million dollars will be divided
among the employees. Every employee
oil the company from the office boy to
the president, shares in the profits,
according to the amount of earnings
for the year.
By a decision of Judge Sheridan.
Milwaukee, Mrs. L. 0. Hahn, principal
beneficiary on the will of Theo John
son who left a 100000 estate may not
share because she was one of the sub
sCribing witnesses to the document
The other relatives will receive the
estate.
Tom Koneoskas, woodsman, employ
ed near Lugerville, was fatally injtIr-
ed by tree falling on him. The mans
skull was crushed but he managed to-
walk a mile to camp where he lapsed
He died later in a hos
pital
VIM. FL. Bogler, As, Baraboo, shotI
through the head with a re-
EolVer He was a former saloon man
and had been Respondent since pro-
hibition became effective.
The county clerk al Hurley in 1920
paid out 1913 bounty for wolf scalps /
end 50 for wildcats.
Nels Nelson, As, Beloit, sought de- /!
serted shed and blew his head off with /
q shotgun.
Bjerne Bjerkevold was held att
Eidgerton for forging checks to a total
of $295.