Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

MdiA5ICO III pOWSA III III oOA1S
weeks ago, had DR.. 4 etterer ampu-
tate the finger at the first joint Mon
day.
A j. Lunt, mayor Of Racine, is
under fire corrupt practices being
alleged in his election in April The
case will be heard outside of Racine.
William Lehman of Oakland Cen
ter, and Lloyd Hanson, Cambridge,
were arrested at Lake Mills for the
theft of $500 worth of cigars, cigar
cts, kodaks and flashlights from the
Kravich pharmacy at Lake Mills.
Most of the loot had been sold.
| Bloodhounds were used at Mari
nette without success in an effort to
| locate a nude man who sprang upon
| Miss Hulda Johnson, school teacher,
! on a lonely road, and attempted an
attack Miss Johnson broke away
after a severe struggle and made her
way home where she fell unconscious
and bleeding. She says her assail-
ant was of middle age, medium build
and with dark hair and features.
Water mains from the pumping
station at Eau Claire became inoper-
alive owing to deposits of iron and
manganese and vegetable growths in
/ the sections and for a week river
water was turned into the mains
while repairs were going on in the
supply line. Possible contamination
was taken care of by using chlorine
and hypochlorite in the water. The
state board of health loaned it's APP
paratus to the city.
Frank Rood, Charles Conley, Ras-
mus Peterson and Gus Dace, employ
ed in the Kenosha Foundry Co. plant.
! were seriously burned in an eXplOs-
| Jon of hot tar paint last Monday
The explosion occurred in the dip
ping room, where red hot pipes and
tile were being dipped in moulten tar,
Gas formed in the small room and the
blast sent a shower of flaming tar
over the four men who were working
near the tank. Other employees fought
the flames with fire extinguishers and
prevented damage to the plant. Po-
lice were unable at first to identify
the men, whose faces were disfgured
by the hot tar burns.
Wayne Stoddard, 10 years, son OF a
Stoughton alderman fell fifteen feet
down from a railroad bridge when
he lost his balance. Both bones of
his left arm just above the wrist
were broken by the fall. His nose
also was broken, the upper gum was
split, and four Of his upper teeth
were knocked out. In addition to
these injuries, he sustained a cut in
his upper lip and his legs and arms
were badly bruised. The little fell
! low was removed TO the local hospital
where his injuries were attended to.
The question of an increase in the
governors salary from the $4,000
maximum now established by the
constitution, will be considered at
the next general election as a result
of the final concurrences of the as
sembly in resolution calling for
amendment to the basic law of the
state to permit the legislature to es-
tablish maximum wage for the chief
executive. This proposal has gone
through two legislatures and has only
to meet the approval of the people be-
fore becoming incorporated in the
constitution. 1t establishes the mini
mum salary at $4,000 and permits the
appropriation of any amount over
that for the governor.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, agriculture inter
propaganda of back to normal
when transportation costs, freight
rates, continue to soar beyond rea-
SON. Along with the lack of markets,
freight rates form the big sore spot
still lurking in the eyes of the pro-
ducerS in Southern Wisconsin. r. K.
Overton, we'll known farmer in Rock
county, last week shipped Sc hogs to
| the Chicago markets. 1t cost him
$76 to sell the hogs. This was freight
rates and shipping charges. He re-
ceived $50 per hundred-Weight,-
i just one-half the amount he received
for hogs sold July 10, a year ago.
Yet the freight rates on the hogs at
a reduction of so per cent in price,
was 40 per cent higher. The cost of
producing the hogs sold at $50 was
almost as great as tnOse sold a year
ago at $16.10, and this does not count
the big jump in freight rates. What
| ever profit that can be made by the
/ farmer is lost in paying freight rates.
! Stock produced in the last year to
/ be sold now on the declining market
was made ready for the market with
high wages, high taxes, high land and
| high feed COSTS ''You cannot con-
vince the farmers there are going to
be normal times until transportation
| costs get down to a lower figure"
said Mr. Overton. Just at the time
when the farmer has a poorer market
the freight rates take a big jump.
There is not chance that the grow
er can ship his stock or products by
/ freight and break even"
The Stanley (Wis) Republican,
June 10:-My eye caught an interest
| ing item in the Elkhorn Independent
/! last week fine little country weekly
that comes to my desk from the fine
little city in the southern part of the
state. 1t stated that the firm of Oil
yer Ditson & Co., music publishers
of Boston, Mass, had just settled a
claim against them by citizen of
Elkhorn for $56.OO0 And what do
you think the claim was? 1t was a
claim for royalties on that famous
old hymn "The Sweet Bye and Bye"
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