Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-13

| because he mistook him for a deer.
Karlinski had been fishing in a stream
near which Zick was hunting. The
dead man resided at Montreal, three
, miles from Hurley where lick also
| lives.
Wedding parties are not exempt
from Fond du Laos speeding laws, at
least not in the mind of Mayor r. D.
Haentze. Driving along in his little
1915 model auto, his honor observed a
three-car wedding party that was
doing 30. He gave chase, ordered
them to stop, placed them under ar
rest and told them to appear in court.
W. J. Demmerly of Stevens Point
was struck by lightning and rendered
unconscious. His face and head were
badly burned, bruised and cut. The
crash came just as he was climbing
under wire fence. Miss Edna Nc
Greedy, his sister-in-law, ran to the
place, but could not revive him and it
was two hours before the man was
again fully conscious.
FIT. Atkinson has a city band that
would be credit to city many
times her size At the April election
by vote of to 1, her people voted
to give $4,000 per year for its sup
port. The band in return furnishes
one concert each Wednesday and
music for Memorial Sunday, Decora-
ton Day, 4th of July and the Annual
Community Picnic-the proceeds of
any other work to go to the band.
Stanley Mazalek, 16, Chicago, was
arrested Tuesday charged with burgl-
min CT in
had been employed on the Mileuski
farm near Portage and was a charge
of a Polish charitable institution.
Following the finding of candy and
goods in a deserted street car the lad
confessed the seven burglaries, saying
he was hungry and wanted sweet
things to eat, but was without funds
or friends.
Thomas Little, sc, engineer on the
Milwaukee road Al years, died last
Wednesday at his home in Portage.
He was the hero of a train wreck at
Rio, Wis, on Oct. %, 1886, when Is
people lost their lives. The train hit
an open switch while going mile a
minute. He stuck to the throttle and
crawled out from under the overturn-
ed engine, covered with blood and
dirt, and rescued scores of persons
from the burning coaches.
The marketing division which has
established standard grades for Wis
consin cabbage under which they will
hereafter be sold, reports that with
the exception of New York, Wiscon-
sin markets more late cabbage than
any state in the union. In 1920,
10000 tons of cabbage were raised
in Wisconsin which had market
value of $1,012,000. These figures
make cabbage the sixteenth in value
of all the farm crops in the state
About 25 per cent of last years crops
were unharvested.
The state board of education will
continue as one of the administrative
agencies directing the Wisconsin
school system as a result of senate
action late Wednesday in killing the
Olson bill calling for abolition of the
board IA to 10. Reorganization of
the state board Of vocational educa
ton to become merely nominal
agency to fulfill requirements for
federal aid, was included in the bill.
This ends attempts to do away with
the state board of education, of which
there have been three this session.
Coming through the rye" crew
of haymakers, under the direction of
J. F. Wallace, superintendent of the
Eau Claire county asylum, noted a
trail that adjoins the ski grounds in
Chippewa Falls. To reach the hay
field they hauled mower along the
trail. The mower hit jug. Follow
ing the trail two barrels of mash were
discovered. Corn, yeast and sugar
were ripening in the sun and ready
for cooking, doubtless for the visitors
of Mardi Gras week. Sheriff Melville
confiscated the mash and is searching
for it's makers.
Shortly before his death the Hon.
Publius V. Lawson, of Menasha, wrote
an article for the Wisconsin Con-
servationist giving the result of years
of investigation as to where the
Great Yellow Lotus" is to be found
in Wisconsin. AS a result of the pub
LEGATION of that article several parties
have already been made up to visit
the ponds where the lotus is to be
found and secure bulbs and seed for
planting elsewhere. The blossom of
the Great Lellow Lotus is frequently
ten inches in diameter, and it's leaves
are correspondingly large.
George Saunders, who previously
pleaded guilty to violating the white
slave law, was sentenced in federal
court at Milwaukee to a year and a
day in the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kan. His sentence had
been postponed because he denied that
he had profted by the downfall of
! 1S-year-old Betty Marden, alias Arm
old, the girl in the case. Miss Marden
was in hospital during the previous
hearing. Tuesday, Miss Marden testi-
| fed that Saunders had transported her
from Chicago to Milwaukee for the
| purpose of having her engaged in
commercialized vice.
Highway map service of the Wis
consin highway commission is being
generally used through the state, the
commission reports. The map shows
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