Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-03


but is expected to recover.
Harold Seller, 16, was the first per-
son to drown this year at Sturgeon
Bay He went beyond his depth at
Sandy Beach.
Dan Cunningham, so, is dead, and
several others made seriously i'll as
the result Of a moonshine drinking
party on a farm near Amberg.
Bert Paddock Beloit farmer, paid
fine of $500 and costs for driving
car while intoxicated. Paddock put
up vigorous fight but the jury found
him guilty.
Kenneth Hill, 10, Beloit, hiked from
Beloit to GAINESVILLE on stills, taking
four hours for the trip. He now pro-
poses to walk from Boston to Chicago
in ten weeks.
Herbert Olson, 8, Superior, was the
twelfth drowning victim of the year at
Superior. The child followed his sis
ter from Barker's island to mainland
and fell from a dock.
William Moore, Wausau, was awak-
ened by the smell of smoke and went
up burning stairway to save his four
children The house was destroyed
with a loss of $4,000
The bill reapportioning the state
into senate and assembly districts has
been signed by the governor. The
10Th district will comprise Grant,
Crawford and Vernon counties.
George Wolf, II, Park Falls, was
killed as the result of a bullet from
% rife discharged at squirrel by
his brother The bullet glanced from
. etr ha in hn h.
domen
Joe Hertzberger, 4, was killed at
Kenosha when struck by motor car
driven by J. r. Campbell. The child
ran across the street with piece of
ice in his hand and did not notice the
car approaching.
Robt Mccarthy, Madison switch
man, was arrested on a charge of
stealing 1855 worth of cigarets from
freight car Other robberies spread
ing over six months past are laid to
him by the police.
Thousands of gallons of four and
five per cent beer stored in the watts of
the Jung Brig. Co. at Milwaukee, was
turned into the sewer The Volstead
act and the retirement Of the firm
from business caused the act.
Herman Morrone, held in the Ken
osha county Jail for the murder of his
brother, James, tried to commit sui
eide by hurting himself from the top
tier of cells to the floor. He was bad
ly hurt. Officers placed him in a
padded cell.
The Port Washington Brewing Co.
was found guilty of making beer and
closed by thu government for one
year. A fine was imposed and Her.
bert C. LaBahn, an officer of the COM
pany, was sentenced to the house of
correction for ten months.
Wisconsin has more farms mort
gagged than any other state in the
union. At the end Of last year 98,957
were encountered, 21,S28 more than
in 1910. The total debt on these is
1854 ,574, 391-an increase of $207, 1852
OTIS in the last decade.
The bodies of Robert and Walter
Cunningham, killed overseas in the
World war, were laid to rest at Stur-
geon Bay, their home. Three boys,
the sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Cunningham, enlisted early in the war.
Lester was the only one to come home
alive.
Chris Legler, Monroe farmer, found
a valuable horse dead in his barn. The
animal had walked to break in the
floor, falling through to catch it's head
between rafters below where it stran-
gled. Legler believes the horse COM
mitted suicide as animals do occas-
ionally.
Although 1890 volts of electricity
passed through Archie Timblin, Bar
ron county telephone man, he will re-
cover. The accident took place when
a power wire fell across the telephone
lines. Timblin was not released until
the telephone wires were burned thru
by the heavy current.
An argumen between Fred Yerkes
and Harry Wolfe of Honey Creek in
Sank county, over the relative merits
of dandelion blossoms and leaves Of
the wine plant for making intoxicants
resulted in Wolfe landing in the hos
pital with his leg full of buckshot
from gun held by Yerkes.
August Eberhardt and Ernest Awe,
Manitowoc farmers, were killed the
same day in haying accidents. Eber-
hardt was carried up to the hay loft
when his clothing caught in the hay
fork He fell % feet to the barn floor
below. Awe was killed in a fall from
load of hay. His neck was broken.
The teaching of the German Ian
guage in the Madison high schools,
discontinued during the war, will be
resumed in the fall if enough pupils
register for the course. At a meeting
of the board of education a petition
signed by eighteen persons requested
that German be returned to the curric-
ulum.
That the horse industry in the state
is on the decline is shown by a report
issued by DR.. A. S. Alexander, head of
the department of horse breeding in
the department of agriculture. At the
present time the total number of Ii
censed stations is 1445. In 1920 the
total number was 1868, which was
363 head less than in 1919. There has
been a steady decline in the number
of grade and scrub stations register