Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-12-28
NEWS FROM ALL
AROUND WISCONSIN

GIONeT, w Is, IS lOIIulldL6 IuunlC-
1pality 1t has a model tax rate, a
tax rate that would appeal to every
property owner, no matter where.
The town budget of Plover is around
$4,000. When the citizens of that
bailiWick walk in to pay their taxes
they will be given the precious bits
of paper without paying cent of the
town, county or state taxes. The
only item they will pay is the school
tax and the reason for that is that
the rates are not uniform in the var
i0us districts. The residents OF the
town of Plover, in the language Of
the seductive catalog, pay no money"
and the reason is that all taxes in the
municipality are cared for from pay
Inents Of income taxes from the Wis
c0nsin River and Whiting-Plover
paper mills Then there are LOCO
left in the town treasury to be dis
posed of, says the Milwaukee Journal
Julius Wurzer was shot and killed
ty an officer making a raid on a still
III the woods near Elton. Wurzer
drew a gun Joe and Luther Pen
nington were arrested
Three state humane agents, ]. F.
Wilson, Hudson; E. Still, Menomi-
nee, and A. F. Nehring, Markesan,
we're appointed by state humane Of
ficer, A. E. Frederick, Thursday. The
men will be charged with carrying
cot the humane laws of the state.
An effort is being made to keep
state trunk highway 10 open between
Wausau and Merrill but the deep
drifts of snow hamper traffic consid-
erably. Farmers have been using
ordinary plows to break the crusts.
Martin Tollefson 46, Sturgeon
Bay broke through the thin ice while
fishing and drowned His wife noti-
fed the authorities that he was mis-
sing. Coast guards recovered the
body.
ed. Keehner, Monroe policeman,
was cleared of charges of drunken
ness and giving information to moon
sinners in regard to prospective
raids, at a bearing in which hundreds
were turned away from the council
room. The charges were made by the
mayor of the city, r. d. Gorham.
Henry ]. Burns, Racine molder, is
Cnder arrest on a charge of embezzle-
Tnent. 1t is alleged that Burns failed
10 turn in 1886 collected during q car
nival held by the trades of the city
w. ii. SomerS of the trade council
signed the complaint.
Otto Dahlmen and Jos. Hendricks,
Edgerton, caught selling liquor, We're
fnded. $500 and costs with the alter
native of six months in Jail The men
pleaded guilty at GAINESVILLE but said
they found the liquor in the railroad
yards while out. walking
omar Smith, Crivitz. lost three of
his fingers in feed mill accident and
mas since been in the hospital with a
bad case Of lockjaw that developed
from infection in the wound.
NJ. B. Olbrich, special assistant to
the attorney general in handling the
custer case against sheriff Hans Rodd
OF Rhinelander, received $50 a day
Tor preparing the case and S10O dav
in court
Racine jury awarded $4G84 to
Hubert Thomas. who as administra-
tor brought suit against the Lock-
wood Oil Co. for the death of his
f0-year-old son. The hoy was killed
by an automobile truck.
The tWo-year-Old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Rav Frank. Rhinelander,
died in hospital from burns re-
ceived when she fell into a tub Of hot
water
Clifford Hanson and Nels Jensen.
Marinettee, had narrow ESCAPE
from drowning while setting nets in
the bay The ice gave away and they
were thrown into the water. Had
they not been good swimmers tie fish
could have retaiated AS it was the
men battled through the breaking ice
until they could get a footing
H.,
Wisconsin was formally abolished
when the men of the sophomore class
voted recentlv to take that step. The
Freshmen will continue to wear tho
green cap in the future hut it viii
be merely a form through which the
freshmen viii learn 70 know each
other r"ther than a mark for promfs
cuous hazing
A story is told Of Clark county
farmer who sold a COW for SIT 80 and
tFon "ou~1t . Noir shoes for his
wife for $3.50. He admitted that the
COW wasn't the best in the herd books
hnt insisted that she had listed longer
tnan the shoes would.
Thomas French, Is, Racine. IS
dead as the result Of injuries received
when a piece of flying steel from
corn shredder struck him Another
piece Of the machine tore through
the roof Of the barn The accident
occurred on the Vrana farm near the
village of Franksville
Two women who kidnapped the son
OF Julius Lentz. at Kenosha. as the
6-year-old child was leaving a Lu-
theran school, are being sought by
the police of Milwaukee and Chicago.
The parents are divorced and the
custody of the child was given the
father
Attorneys for Carl A. Carlson. =
slifer" in Waupun. have begun ac-
zion under writ of habeas corpus
in state supreme court, that may lead
10 his release. Carlson was sen
fenced in 1919 for the murder of
Racine policeman Carlson and one
Earl Loveday, had dynamited the safe
of the American Brass Works and
in their fight met the officer and shot
him. His attorneys in their writ of
habeas corpus claim that the warrant
for Carlson's arrest was void because
it did not specify first degree murder