Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-23
NEWS FROM ALL
AROUND WISCONSIN

tlonaI minister, has purchased
farm and 20 Guernsey cows at Amigo
and gone into the dairy business.
DeVere Rowan, 10 years, Tomah.
freshman claims to be the youngest
high school pupil in the United States.
Rowan is said to be exceptionally
bright.
w. j. Odds, 68, Whitewater, was run
down in fog and mist by car driven
by Foster Vinegar farmer. Odds died
in Beloit hospital.
Gottleib Schroeder, deputy sheriff
of Merrill was arrested for unlawful
| ly possessing liquor ana fined 5000.
He was arrested by state dry" agents.
Bert Morgan, Evansville, has the
! highest record for killing crows in
his district. 153 crows were slain by
him and he collected $3.50 bounty.
! Appleton autoists impelled by de-
/ sire to reduce accidents, have petition
ed the county board to require all
horse drawn vehicles to carry red
tail lights" after shutdown.
Mrs. Carl Brandt of kenosha made
the fatal move Of pouring kerosene
on a lighted fire She was found I'M
conscious and badly burned by a
neighbor woman.
Theodore Marthaler OF Grundy, out
hunting deer, accidentally discharged
! his rifle. The bullet knocked out
| tooth and perforated his upper lip
: and grazed his nose.
( Dr. C. H. Cleland and Fred Matson,
/ fishing at Lake Geneva, took out Ii
/ pickerel that weighed a total of IS
pounds. The largest fish was three
! feet long and weighed IS pounds.
! Frank Landers, Racine laborer, out
of work, sought to end his troubles by
hanging himself in his chickencOop.
Mrs. Landers found her husband un-
conscious and cut him down.
Walter Wiesner and Alex Witt, two
young duck hunters Of Sturgeon Bay,
clung to an upturned skiff in the bay
! for nearly an hour. They were res
cued in an almost dead condition from
! their experience
Fire from running gasoline being
| placed in tank on a truck was the
cause of an explosion and blaze that
cost 100000 in the truck department
of the StoughtOn Wagon Co., last
! Wednesday.
John Carroll, GAINESVILLE, found to be
guilty of driving q car while intOX-
! icated, was sentenced to two years in
/ Waupun by Judge Grimm at James,
Vile CAROLS car was wrecked, re-
sulting in hte death Of his companion,
VIM. Butler, in mad ride last spring.
A r. Hirst, Wisconsin Highway
Engineer, refused to attend dinner
at Rockford because Gov. Len Small
of Illinois, now indicted, was to be on
the program. Hirst was mindful of
the gratuitous slap Small gave him
in a public letter last summer.
John Olafson, 81, Park Falls, was
! fatally injured when he drove car in
which he was riding with five other
people, into an open basement The
machine turned a sOmersault in it's
fall and pinned Olafson beneath it..
VIM Griffen, fireman, was killed at
| Whitewater when a dead" engine be-
| ing pulled into Milwaukee for repairs,
derailed with five cars. The tires on
two wheels became loose, and Griffen
| jumped. His skull was broken.
Herman Hall, So, GAINESVILLE, was
trapped in his closed car and
drowned when his automobile went
over an embankment into Bark river
between Hebron and Sullivan. The
body was found in the river by a party
| OF searching T0IdLlF0S.
Child labor has fallen off markedly
in Wisconsin during the last year,
according to figures from the state
Industrial commission. A decrease
of 40 per cent in the number Of per-
mits granted children entering in
dustry is recorded.
Sales amounting to more than $50
| 900 were made in the stores of James
q tn Wpply''
/ Just closed. Five per cent of rebates
or over $1,000 were paid back to Gus
/ toners by the merchants organiza-
ton. Buyers from so cities recorded
Mrs. Villa Smith, colored, Beloit,
is in a hospital with a knife wound
in her breast, and Mary Ella McCord,
also colored, is under arrest on a
charge of stabbing Mrs. Smith. The
women quarreled and Mrs. Smith re-
| lates that Mrs. McCord got busy with
/ big knife
/ Fragrant English violets are bloom
! ing in the yard of the home of F. E.
Corson of Monroe. A blanket of six
! inches of snow is en- the ground and
/ the temperature has been below freez-
| ing, but Mr.. Corson dug into the snow
1 and gathered a bunch of blossoms and
buds.
John Feldt, Monroe, went hunting
without a gun. He was in his yard
after deep snow and saw a rabbit
| leap from beneath a bush and run
/ through the snow. Feldt noticed a
moving hump in the snow and reach
| ing down, grabbed bunny. 1t made a
! fine dinner.
The Kline Memorial chapel, just
completed at Union Grove, near OAR
lington, was dedicated Sunday. The
services were of a union nature and
pastors from several protestant de-
nominations spoke. The chapel is the
gift of Louis W. Kline, old-time res
ident of the valley. The building is
beautiful little red brick that cost
/ $4,000.
/ Henry Vermeesch, 4S, Belgian beet
/ field worker, was arrested at Beloit
and taken to GAINESVILLE to answer q
charge of numbering Mrs. Anna Brick
son. 60. found robbed and slain in the
Erear of her home. Vermeesch was ar
rested on a tip from cab driver who
said he had driven the man frop
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