Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-25

his neck broken in the rear of his
home. How the accident occurred is
a mystery.
Yeggs blew the doors from the big
Standard Oil Co safe at Eau Claire
but found nothing. The total loot was
Is gallons of gasoline they drew from
a tank for their car.
Erik Veum and daughters, Dorothy
and Emma, of Edgerton, have gone to
Norway to spend the summer with
brother of the former who resides in
the picturesque Glommen valley.
William King, Lodi farmer, dropped
dead from heart failure in his garage.
Economy measures forced the drop
ping of thirty teachers from the Su-
perlor schools. The saving is eStima-
ted at $4,000.
Walter Carter and Leonard Crye.
two youths who held up three men in
the Omaha yards at Yarnell on May Z,
pleaded guilty at Ladysmith and were
sentenced to five and three years re-
spectively, in Green Bay reformatory.
Carter is an ex-convict.
The Rev. J. T. Donahue, pastor Of
St. Peters Catholic church, So. Beloit,
has sailed for the Holy Land expecting
also to visit his boyhood home in Ire
land The Fathers of the Divine Word
will have charge of the parish during
Rev Donahue's absence.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gunnar Peterson
Thompson, wife of the late James
Thompson of La Cross, candidate for
U. S. senator against Senator Len
root last year. has obtained passports
to sail for Norway, Switzerland and
France, May q. She accompanies
DR.. A. Gunderson and family.
Henry Shafer La Crosse, was cap
tured by fishermen, who saw him
drag Mrs Gertrude Kane from horse
and beat her on the head with a
blackjack. The assault took place in
Pettibone Park, near the city. Sha-
fer was captured after long chase
and turned over to the police.
Doris Percifeld, 5-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Percifield OF
Beaver Dam, was instantly killed
when struck by an automobile driven
by Jacob SchOll who was attempting
to enter the garage of Fehrer Bros.
The child, with it's mother, was pas
sing the garage at the time, and it
is believed that Schill lost control OF
his car while trying to avoid striking
tho child.
That the passenger pigeon is not
extinct, as has been reported by or
nithologists from Washington, is the
statement of Rev P. r. Schweitzer,
of Lodi, 20 miles from Madison, who
claims as a boy he shot many OF
these pigeons, and saw a pair of them
in Wisconsin last year. He is plan
ming on camping this year near the
place where he saw them. He says
he cannot be mistaken about them,
for as a boy he was as familiar with
them as the COWS in the pasture.
Fire from an unknown origin, but
believed to have been spontaneous
combustion in hay, completely des-
troyed the barn and contents of Geo.
Merriweather, Palmyra farmer. The
loss is estimated at $4,000 partially
insured The home was saved by
bucket brigades soaking it with water.
The loss included $500 bushels of
small grain; 500 bushels of corn; 80
tons of hay; large touring car, trac-
tor, motor truck, calf, SOW, several
pigs, and many farm implements.
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Madison Bond Co., has brought suit
for $4,000 against the State Journal,
charging libelous statements in
news story which stated that Mr.. Ar
mold must bring his books into court
as the result of court order. The ac-
ton was filed in federal court. Arnold
charges that the newspaper report
was false and charged him with OPP
posing the examination of the COM
pany's record in the prosecution of
the TtWo men, B. E. Buchanan and W.
ID. Tenny, charges against whom were
dismissed.
Walter Nichols of Walworth, uses
an easier and surer method of Grad
icating quack grass than the hoe. He
finds that Sudan grass seeded at the
rate of 20 pounds per acre about
June LIST, when the weather is warm,
and on we'll prepared seed beds, will
eliminate quack grass every time.
In 1919 a three-acre strip in his field
was over-run with this pest was left
quackless by this treatment. On
either side of the patch where oats
were sOwn, the weed remand as Wig
orous as ever. Not only did the Sudan
smother the quack but it yielded three
tons of hay to the acre the first cutting
and lot of fall pasture the second
cutting In the corn last year not
spear of quack could be seen where
the Sudan had been the year previous.
Nichols says others may hoe quack if
they like but he is through.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris. Matson, Token
Creek, lost their $4,000 damage suit
against Dane county, brought as a re-
suit of the drowning of their two chill
dren, Myrtle, Z, and John, 6, in a wa
ter hole that formed near q culvert
at Token Creek on June IL, 1919.
near the farm where the Matson
family lives. The bodies of the two
children were discovered in the hole
which had been filled with water that
passed through the culvert. After 7
hours elaboration jury in circuit
court found the parents to have been