Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-20

enrolled at the university.
Chiefly as the result of the state po-
tato show Barron county farmers have
sold 10000 bushels of certified seed
potatoes.
The drug store of C. H. Naffs, Mad
ison, was entered at night by thieves
who opened a locked safe and made
away with $780,
Madison police are looking for tho
robbers who stole jewelry valued at
$1,000 from the home of Dr. J. H. Lee
The jeWelry included a diamond ring
valued at $780,
Mrs. Samuel Welsch, Baraboo, was
knocked down byan auto driven by j.
]. Scheaha, Chicago, on a crossing in
the Sank county town. Mrs. Welsch's
face was lacerated from being dragged
along the pavement but no bones were
broken.
]. G. D. Mack, state engineer, be-
comes the coal dictator of Wisconsin
institutions by anew law giving him
sole authority to enter into contract
for buying COAL He will purchase
about $4,000 tons. The average cost
will be about Sc ton
The age at which girls may be
classed as delinquent was increased
from Is to 81 Wednesday by the sig
nature of Gov. Blaine to another of the
eight child welfare bills passed by the
legislature. Age of dependent child
rem was raised to Is by the bill.
Settlement of the strike at the Green
! Bay Paper & Fiber mill was made by
| the men accepting a cut of 1212c per
cent in wages and nine hour day.
The company refused to deal with
union officials and the men appointed
a committee for the conference.
| Arthur Seehafer, Merrill was in
| stantly killed when milk collecting
truck he was driving crashed into a
| Milwaukee road train at crossing.
| The mans body was thrown As feet
and parts of the truck 100 feet The
young man had just begun work on the
| route.
Dismissal of Police Chief Maurice
Straub has been asked of the Rhine
lander fire and police commission in
petition charging inefflciency, i'm
morality and failure to properly per-
form his duties. The petition is signed
! by the Woman's Christian Temperance
uniol and Oneida county league for
! law enforcement.
! Julia, years, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Wagner, Oconto Falls,
had a narrow escape from death when
grasping the top of a corner drinking
| fountain, the ornament, weighing 40
pounds, became loOsened and toppled
over knocking her to the pavement.
! The child suffered a gashed forehead
and body bruises.
| Harry Hoffman, salOOnman of Scott,
near Merrill, asserted in court that a
| bottle of moOnshine found in his place
was for rubbing his back. The moon
| shine had been given him as a pres
ent, he said. He was found guilty of
violating the Mulberger act and fined
| 5000 and costs in addition to a 60-day
| Jail sentence.
Harrison Birmingham, employed by
the Sturgeon Bay Electric Co., escaped
death when he came into contact with
a 3,000-yolt wire. While making a
connection on a high pole his spur
slipped and he grabbed the live wire
for support. His companions saw him
collapse and swing from the pole by
belt. When he was rescued he was
| thought dead, but was revived His
hands were burned to crisp.
| Sanford Stevens, Stoughton, SEN
| fenced to serve GO days in the Dane
county Jail on charge of drunkenness,
was freed in order of Gov. Blaine last
Tuesday just as he was about to be-
| gin serving his sentence. Stevens, an
eX-service man, was rrrested on a
charge Of drunkenness. Relatives said
! he was more in need of treatment for
moonshine poisoning than a term in
jail, and asked the governor to inter
Upnp with tho ppclIlt ctatpd
| The quick eye and trusty 3S of
Constable Thomas Brandish, Cornell,
prevented the escape of two boot
leggers and as result Mathew Pc
caver and Martin Popch are serving
six months sentence in the county
jail at Chippewa Falls on a charge
of possessing and transporting liquor.
Pecaver has a scalp wound inflicted by
when he tried to escape. The men
had three and half gallons of moon
shine in suitcases when arrested.
The wild BURBERRY pick in the north
woods and barrens has begun and the
succulent fruit will soon be on the
market. Pickers motor for miles to
reach the region where the berries
are plentiful. A state law this year
will prevent the use of rakes in the
BURBERRY field and cranberry swamp.
Improvised rakes, often made out of
shingles, will strip a bush of it's ber-
ries in short order, but it takes the
green berries as we'll as the ripe ones
and is a waste of fruit.
Picric acid, the war explosive which
chemists told university of Wisconsin
agriculturalists could not be used in
a commercial way, will be cartridged
at the rate of 10000 pounds a day at
Sparta, Wis, for use of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and northern Michigan far
mers in blasting stumps. Under an
! agreement reached at a recent confer
ence 100000 pounds of picric acid
from the government stores will be
distributed to the farmers. The acid
will be sold at the cost of cartridging
plus carriage. This is beating spears
into plowshares and swords into prun-
ing hooks with a vengeance