Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-07

idents of Rock county was assured
with the purchase Wednesday, by the
county board, Of a suitable tract of
land on the Rock river, near James
Vile.
Judge C. z. Luse, in federal court
at Superior, paid fine he had i'm
posed on Charles Lemieux, Indian Of
Ashland, who pleaded guilty to il
| legal possession of liquor Lemieux
/ had spent several months in the Ash
land county Jail awaiting trial. He
| was fined 81 and told the court he
| had no money. The judge gave the
clerk a dollar and Lemieux walked
from the room a free Indian.
The number OF newspapers pub
! lished in Wisconsin is diminishing
from the height it reached in 1913
when there were 595 daily or weekly
publications. From SO daily and 536
weekly newspapers the number has
fallen to so dailies and 369 weeklies,
total Of 419. Consultations have
taken place in many towns account
/ ing for the decrease. Of the 49, 203
are republican, 81 democrat, 155 in
dependent, three socialist, one non
parrish leegue and one prohibitionist.
The trend is away from the strictly
party organs toward independent.
An alleged moonshine ring, said to
be carrying on heavy traffic in Dane
county and Madison, may the subject
of investigation by federal grand
jury to be summoned in the capital
this month.
Harold johnson, Maiden Rock, found
pearl valued at $1,000 in a clam
she'll while hunting CLANS in Lake
Pepin The pearl is of pcrfec+ shape
and lustre, and weighs 311@ grains. 1t
is a cream color.
Auto beggars have made their ap-
pearance in the Green Boy district
| Near Bellevue q car YVES stopped by
the road and all passing machines
hailed with a request for donation.
The beggars claimed they were on the
way to RhinelandGr and after hard
luck needed money to buy new tires
with. The unique request was gen
orally granted
John Johanson, Brooklyn farmer,
has sailed for Norway to spend the
balance of the summer in his old home
fall and winter in his old home.
Mandt Torrison Of Manitowoc, fish
ing at Lake Kegonsa, landed a 15-lb.
pickerel. HFa also caught On 11h
|
fine fish.
| Nearly one million acres of Wis
consin lands have been organized in
| to drainage projects where land-OWn-
ers cooperate under the Wisconsin
laws in construction of outlet drains
to make the areas suitable for prof
table farming, according to q. E..
! Jones, chairman of the department Of
40 hxyD
versity Mrsh soils are said by Prof
Jones to be commonly rich in nitro
gen, but poor in PHOSPHORUS and pot
ash With proper drainage, fertiliza-
ton and management, these soils are
among the most valuable in the state,
after drainage has taken place.
William Conn of Amigo was SEN
fenced by Judge A. 3. Goodrich
to one year in the states prison at
Waupun after pleading guilty to the
charge of manufacturing moonshine.
Two gallons of whiskey and, so gal
Ions of corn mesn were found in
raid on the Conn premises. Conn had
previously served ten months in the
Milwaukee house of correction for a
similar Offense. He owns a 60-acre
farm at White lake and has a wife
and eight children.
Henry Goetske, Reedsburg farmer,
was struck by an automobile driven
by Frank Wagner, while walking to
town, and instantly killed. Wagner
sounded his horn aus he approached
the man and it said that Goetzke
walked directly in front of the APP
preaching car. Wagner drove his car
to the ditch but could not avoid the
accident. GoetZkc, so, leaves q large
family.
The S-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Wilding, living south of
Neillsville, was instantly killed when
struck by car driven by Jas. Weed
Of Arcadia. The little girl ran across
the road, but ran beck just as the car
was passing. In an effort to avoid an
accident, Mr.. Weed drove his car into
the ditch and broke a wheel. The
girls neck was broken. No blame is
attached to the driver.
A classic in thievery that almost
goes the man who stole the red-hot
stove one better, was perpetrated at
Appleton by George Mouffler, a her
NIT living near Seymour Mouffler
had been arrested for stealing chick
ems from neighboring farmers. When
arraigned in municipal court the
sheriff noted that one of MOuffler'S
legs was much larger than the other.
He investigated and found that Mouf-
fer had stolen q blanket from the
! Jail and wrapped it about his leg.
He was sent back to the Jail with the
! blanket and the judge ordered an eX-
animation by an insanity commission.
With thousands of dead fish decay
! ing in the sluggish water Of Fox river
menacing the health of thousands of
! persons in the valley, the district at
torney has appealed to both U. S. sem
ators to urge the war department to
! flush the river. Thousands of fish
! when caught in shallow pools of the
river, that has fallen to the lowest
! level in years, remained there and
| died The stencil is so nauseating
that many persons have been forced
| from their homes along the river. Of
! ficials in the U. S. engineers office at
Milwaukee have refused to flush the
river because it involves the lowering
of Lake Winnebago below the legal
limit Thousands of dead fish, from
bass fry to surgeons weighing from
| lJc IN fho.