Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-12
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Convicted of criminal assault upon
Elsie Tanck, is year old Green Bay
| girl, lin 3. Caver, negro, 25 years
| old, was sentenced to fifteen years in
| the Waupun state prison
/ Fond du Lac county has increased
in population by 5S4 persons during
the last year. Courthouse statistics
show that there were 1853 deaths and
1,347 births during the year.
Lancelot A. Gordon, county superin-
tendent of schools OF Portage county.
a service man. has been appointed as
of State Elmer S. Hall, of Green Bay
The Green Bay army recruiting OF,
fee leads all substations in the state
in the number OF enlistments. SO, for
| December, according to a report re-
| ceived by Corp. w. J. Brewer.
Completion of a $4,000 consolidated
school is announced in Caledonia, the
| smallest township in Trempealeau
| county The school board has ar
ranged to provide transportation be
/ tween home and school for the twenty
five pupils attending the institution.
Maj. Walter A. Marden, long mem
Der of the national guard and in active
service in France during the war, has
agreed to make the race against
Mayor A. C. McHenly in the recall
election to be held in Oshkosh Feb. !.
/ II is expected he will be the only oppo-
sition candidate, hence no primary
election will be necessary.
/ Green Bay will be mayorless for
4 three months. The council decided
| not TO appoint a successor to Mayor
/ Elmer S. Hall, whose resignation went
in effect Dec 80, due TO the fact that
there were no applicants. All ad.
nlinistrative business will be handled
| by the two commissioners. A new
mayor Will be elected at the election
! April s.
The executive committee of the
| Washburn County Holstein Breeders
! association has decided to purchase a
large shipment of pure bred Holsteins
to be placed upon the farms of Wash
| burn county The first car load 0i
| pure bred cattle will arrive in January
| or February The idea of placing pure
| bred cattle on county farms was in
| stituted along with the land clearing
/ program for Washburn county.
Merchants of Monroe county have
/ checked up on their holiday business
| and after comparing it with that oil
| 1919, the biggest trade ever known
announce that their books show an
| equal business in 1920 This fact is
/ a great surprise because two big con
Germs which employ many women are
closed for an indefinite period of time
Two infant children of Mr.. and Mrs
Benjamin Charette, Odanah, We're
| burned to death when fire destroyed
/ their home. The babies, together with
three other children, who were saved,
had been locked up in the house by
4 their mother while she was attending
| moving picture theater. Clara
! Roundwinde, a 13-year-old neighbor
I girl, rescued three of the children.
The value of Wisconsin crops in
1920 amounting to 1928, 427 900 was 19
| per cent less than the 1919 value and
/ Is per cent lower than in 1918, al
! though 147 per cent above the 1909
| value, according TO the annual review
| of crop production made by Joseph A.
| Becker of the Wisconsin cooperating
| crop reporting service. Twenty-seyen
ued at 1898. 100000, in 1918 at $780,
| $4,000, and in 1909 at $3.50, 1871 900.
! At the annual meeting of the Wis.
| consin Certified Seed Potato Growers
association held at Pembine, Carl
HazeIbery of Mikana seven miles from
| Brentwood, was reelected state secre.
| tary. 1t was also decided at the con
! vention to encourage the growing OF
! better potatoes and meetings of this
! nature will be held at Rice Lake, Lady.
smith Phillips, Rhinelander, Pembine
/ and Oconto, commencing this month.
/ The city of Fond du Lac will take
| no chances on holdups during the col
| lection of taxes that begins Jan. 10
/ An armed guard will be on duty every
| day the tax collection is in progress.
i The affair which almost cost the
| life of Detective William Fischer who
! was fired at by crook, has served
/ to induce authorities to be precautions
/ to prevent any trouble at the Office OF
the treasurer.
Thirty Wisconsin cities exceeded the
/ legal tax limit of 80 mills in their as
/ sessments the last year, report OF
/ the tax commission, dealing with
| financial statistics of cities, shows.
/ Rising costs OF carrying on city gov
eminent without proportionate in
| crease in the assessed valuation OF
| property is given as the cause for the
| existing condition. The bonded debt
! of Wisconsin cities is shown ITO be
! 100000, OF $295S pei capita. The
| legal limit of Indebtedness for all OF
| the cities is established at 1893 600, 900
/ Madison showed the highest per capita
/ debt with $62.65, while seven cities I'M
der 5000 showed no debt at all
Exactly ia foreign students, includ