Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-04-28

Thirty-fiye years ago this month
Montfort voted down by 26 majority
proposition to build new high school.
A year ago a proposition to build
new school at a cost of $4,000, carri-
ed.
An attempt by Assemblyman c. B.
Ballard of Appleton TO have the coun-
ty board rescind a resolution adopted
in Dec 1917, and censuring Senator
La Follette's stand on the war, failed.
Ballard said the vote for La Toilette
delegates indicated the people agreed
with his stand, but Ballard met severe
rebuke from several of the supervis-
ors.
A pardon was granted to Joseph
Thompson of Racine last week by
Gov E. l.. Philip. Thompson is
serving one-year sentence for fourth
degree murder. He was sentenced in
| October, 1919. Gov. Philip found
that Thompson was not entirely guilty
in the accident which he killed a man
with his automobile and that Thomp-
son was the sole support of an aged
mother. The pardon re-establishes
Thompson's rights to citizenship.
Lewis P. Mosher of Genesee, not
withstanding his "a years, looked hale
and spirited as he appeared in cir
cult court at Waukesha to tell how
his wife, Margaret, aged 40, had been
cruel to him. They were married in
1916. He declared Mrs. Mosher had
/ chased him about the farm with a
j pitchfork and otherwise mistreated
| him. Mr.. Mosher said his wife was
a Congregationalist and he a Metho-
dist and they differed regarding pray
er.
Ole Anderson, so, was found dead
| in his cell in the police station at SUI
perior when patrolman entered to
| feed the prisoners. Death was attrib-
uted to denatured alcohol poisoning.
! Anderson had recently been released
from the county workhouse, where he
had served a term for drunkenness.
He was again arrested for the same
offense and was given suspended
sentence on his plea that he wanted
to go to the woods to work. He was
rearrested the same day when again
found in an intoxicated condition, and
| died in the night. According to Po-
lice Capt. Louis Osborn, in all cases
Anderson had been drinking denatur-
ed alcohol
Thirty thousand cords of Canadian
pulpwood will be RATED across Lake
Superior this season from Nipigon
bay to Ashland. 1t will go to the
pulpwood Co. of Appleton, the hand
ling of the RATS and transferring OF
the pulpwood from the water to the
cars being in charge of the John
Schroeder Lumber Co., Ashland and
Milwaukee. The Schroeder tugs Ash
land, Henry F. Brewer and Sauga-
tuck at Ashland will probably tow the
RATS across the lake. The Canadian
tug Traveller, which has been engaged
in this work several years, was tied
up at Ashland last fall, but was sold
during the winter and will be taken
to the 500 and perhaps to Lake Mich
igan. The block of 10000 cords
which will be RATED this summer, is
understood to be the last of tract
which the company has been operat-
ing for several years. Last year 81 :
600 cords of pulpwood were RATED tC
| Ashland. During the past ten years
or more, RATS have been safely
brought across Lake Superior on the
Isle Royale-Ashland route, and dur
ing that time but two have been lost
The Apostle islands afford shelter, ex-
tending out into the lake so miles, SC
| that for two-thirds of the distance
from Nipigon bay, the RATS are shell
tered, either by Isle Royale or by the
Apostles. Some pulpwood has been
brought across the lake in the holds
of vessels. but rafting has proved the
most satisfactory, especially during
July and August, when storms sell
J dom occur.