Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-02-23

The Wisconsin National Guard will
be recruited to strength of 10 400.
Because he cursed and used vulgar
language at a dance, John MukowitZ
was taken before Judge Thomas of
Hurley. Being unable to pay fine
of $50 he went to jail for six months.
Mrs. Luella Ness, %, wife of a La
Crosse grocer, was killed when the
automobile she was riding in crashed
into a post and an iron arm struck
her on The head.
The interest taken by Pierre Paul
Author in the divorce of Mrs Phillip
Frantzen at Madison leads to the con-
clusion that he intends to marry the
woman when she obtains her freedom.
Author, who lives in Highland Park,
ILL.,, and Mrs. Frantzen, elOped to st.
Louis but were traced and forced to
return. The woman's divorce suit
was the next step in the triangle.
With his skull shattered, his jaw
broken and his body a mass OF bruises,
Henry Erickson, Airdale, was taken
to the Wisconsin Rapids hospital
where he died. His clothes had caught
in fly wheel on a wood saving out
fit, swinging him around and around
the shaft and beating his head on a
log under the machine before his COM
panions could turn off the power. A
pin protuding from the fly wheel shaft
caught his clothing.
Farmers are feeding their potatoes
to livestock while nearly two-thirds OF
WiscOnsin's potato crop lies unshipped
today and prices have dropped from
$175 a hundred weight to so cents.
Reports from other potato-producing
territories in the United States are
all to the same effect-nO demand,
huge hold-over, considerable rot il
storage, some feeding to livestock.
Middlemen are buying from the far
mers only as the retail trade demands.
All the low prizes offered many farmers
declare they will let their crop rot be-
fore selling at the ruinous prices
Prices received by Wisconsin growers
at this time last year were in the
neighborhood of $3.50 hundred W.T.
Richland Democrat
A bill that would enable the state
to acquire forest land at low prices
has been introduced before the legis-
lature by Sen. T. e. Burke, Green Bay
purchase lands suitable for forestry
purposes which have been acquired by
any county under tax deed The state
it is stipulated, shall in each case pay
to the county the amount of the de-
linquent taxes, the interest and the
charges to the date Of purpose. These
lands are to be purchased out of any
unappropriated surplus remaining in
the fund derived from hunting and
fishing licenses in the state and the
money so taken from such license
fund shall be subject to the approval
of the governor, secretary of state and
treasurer. This, it is explained,
would give the state an opportunity
to purchase thousands of acres of land
at few cents an acre and pay for it
without any tax upon the people of
the state. Under s law passed in 1917
counties are now authorized to pur-
chase lands sold for delinquent taxes.
Under a somewhat similar law. Mich
igan has acquired 100000 acres since
1898. The rate of reyersion is about
1000 acres a month. Some of this
land is sold and the proceeds are
used to buy other lands with which
to block out the states holdings. A
half million acres have been sold to
the settlers. Michigan's forest lands
lave steadily increased during recent
years and it is provided by law that
two forest reserves shall be estab-
lished every year. There are now
eight state forests located in differ
ent parts of the state. There is
general movement in Michigan to
increase greatly that states forestry
activities and in particular to provide
for the most effective fire protection
possible as a base for demonstration.