Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-22

Arthur Jensen, 16, and Joseph Hal
version, II, living near Menominee,
drowned while swimming in the Red
Cedar river. Jensen's body was re-
covered.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
F.. E. Martin of Ladysmith was run
over by an automobile and is in a
critical condition at a local hospital
with fractured skull.
Frank Hokonson, SO, Webster, Wis.
fell dead in circuit court at Superior
as he was to make a plea to the
court in regard to some property
owned by his wife, who is in an asy-
lum
Hoboes can not park themselves in
GAINESVILLE any more within the cor
porate limits, unless they get a job.
A police squad went out Saturday
morning alons the Rock river and
broke up five camps.
Melville Dahlberg, IA, son of the
Rev. Fred Dahlberg, Ladysmith, dis
trict superintendent of the Wisconsin
Children's Home society, was drown
ed while swimming in the Flambeau
river. The body was recovered.
Officers of a recently organized
81 100000 furnace heating company
announced Monday that large furn-
ace factory will be erected at Rice
Lake The plant will be the largest
heating system factory in the coun-
try, they said.
Raymond Slusarski, 8, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Slusarski, town
of Carson, lost his life in Mill creek,
rivulet in Portage county, about
half mile from the family home, by
drowning. A searching party work
ed all day and recovered the body.
Railroad tickets will be valid as
payment for transportation within
the state until thirty days after pur-
chase if the assembly concurs in a
senate bill adopted Thursday. Tick
cts are now valid but twenty-four
hours after the time of purchase.
Two persons were graduated from
the Wisconsin State School for the
Deaf at Delavan. Miss Mary Stein,
Madison, and Alfred T. Baer, Bara-
boo, both art students, are the gradu-
ates. Miss Stein will study at the
art institute, Chicago, and Baer in
New York city.
Mayor A j. Lunt of Racine was
served Monday afternoon with sum-
mons and complaint in special pro-
ceeding started in the circuit court
seeking to GUST him from office. The
complaint declares excessive sums OF
money were spent in Lunt's interest
during the spring election.
Miss VERNE Carroll and John Per-
ry of Superior were sentenced to a
year each in prison by Judge Scion
L. Perrin, when they pleaded guilty
to stealing the wardrobe of Emma
Johnson, friend of Miss Carroll. In
the wardrobe were eight silk shirt
waists, silk nightgown, silk kimo-
no, and blue serge suit.
Mrs. Josephine Week, 81, who re-
sided north of Prentice, met death
when she tripped and fell head first
into the Jump river. Mrs. Week had
gone to the river to wash some
clothes. Upon search her body was
found in the river with the feet
tangled in a piece of fence wire.
Mrs. Week and her husband, Adolph,
came to their farm about two and
one-half years ago.
Fire at Marinette destroyed the H.
r. Below saw mill, casuing damages
at $150,000. The fire is said to have
started underneath saw, gaining
Roadway before workmen could ar
rive with water and chemicals. The
workmen turned their attention to
the millions of feet of lumber stacked
in the adjacent yard and prevented
the fire from spreading. Several
high pressure and smaller hoses
were played upon the blaze. The in
tense heat kept firemen several
hundred feet away. More than $751;
900 worth of machinery, installed
wreckage. The loss is covered by
insurance. The fire will throw about
125 men out of employment.
Lawrence Johnson, 10, was drown
ed, and Raymond Mcbride, 10, son of
Prof. J. G. Mcbride of Superior high
school, escaped death when raft on
which three boys were playing was
broken up by waves from a tug in
Superior bay. Harold Jones, 10, al
though unable to swim, rescued Nc
Bride by clinging to log and pad
ding out to where the two boys went
down. After he saved Mcbride, he
went back after Johnson, but the
lads body slipped from his grasp.
A new $500 launch was blown to
atoms and two men escaped drown
ing Sunday on Lake Geneva when
the boats gasoline tank sprang a
leak and exploded. The men were
L. A. Rang, q Chicago broker and his
mechanic.
Severe damage has been caused to
foliage of all types of trees in Rock
county during the past month. The
curculio beetle, codling moth, cam
ker worm and tussock moths have
caused considerable loss to the fruit
trees. Not only that, but also on the
elms, oaks and maple trees the in
sects have destroyed parts of the
foliage. Weather conditions have
been favorable to the lives of the in
sects, being hot during the day.
The trees are all leafed out and hav-
ing sufficient water, the foliage is
in unusual good condition for insects
as food. Farmers are now using a
spray of lime sulphur, powdered lead
arsenate to so gallons of water to
kill the insects and the eggs which
are now Matching.
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