Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-16
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
ltems Of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.


Evansville factories are running tul
0last and the local banks show al
increase of 100000 in deposits over
1917.
The Stevens Point city council re
1uced the salary Of the city health
officer from $3.50 to $500. The actor
caused such a protest that the council
reconsidered and then raised the sal,
AIRY to $500
The beauty spot has been banned
at La Crosse high school Miss Anna
Collins, a teacher, ordered five girls
10 wash off the decoration. Other
teachers have begun campaign to
extend the anti-spot activities to all
girl students.
When Max Lafave Hawley, police
man, took knife away from a Fin
nish Woodsman he had arrested, he
closed the blade OF the knife and was
shot in the left hand. 1t was found
shat it was a combination knife and
revolver Of % caliber that the woods
man carried.
The John Strange Paper Co., Men,
aska, has announced a fiat reduc-
sion OF 20 per cent in wages to be paid
all Of their employees, including their
office force The mills, which has been
cIosed for ten days, started up last
week, but officials stated that they
could make no guarantee to the en-
Dloyes of steady work.
According to federal report, 726 tons
OF fish were caught and shipped from
The Mississippi river by professional
fislermen during the past year. This
was sold at an average price of 107
cents per pound, making the total re-
eceipts $156,96O.00. Fishermen were
most active between the Wisconsin
liver and LeClaire, Wis.
Beet pulp is proving a cheap and
beneficial food for the herd of cattle
n0w fattening up here at the Green
Fay stock yards, according to local
cattIeren. The cattle have taken on
weight heavily since being shipped
mere six weeks ago. 1t is said that
by feeding the animals there for
ninety day period, their market value
increases about rs per cent.
A loss OF $4,000 was saved the
Eacine Pure Milk Co. because of the
failure of Charles Nelson, manager,
TO carry out his usual plan of taking
1he days receipts from the Office to
mis- home and then to a bank Nelson
teS%1u Ills w 1lG GIbCI Cll dIl duIO W uI1NS
10 his home, when they were ordered
cut by masked men. After making
. vain search, the bandits ordered the
&wo back in the car and disappeared.
The hospital at Rice Lake, which is
being built to the second story at
"a cost OF $150,000, with a capacity Of
SO beds, will soon be finished if plans
are successful, according to the Rev
a. M. Hardness, centenary publicity
manager of the Methodist Episcopal
church The board decided to issue
bonds for $4,000, bearing interest at
J Ger cent, payable semi-annually, to
nature IN from ten to twenty years
Miss Maizie Hoffman and Miss Alice
Van, Delavan, narrowly escaped death
While skating on Lake Como when the
ace gave away and both went down.
NO one was near at the time, but their
cries for help attracted the attention
OF Mrs. Van Metre, a lakeshore resi-
dent, who extended a ladder to them
5ust as they were about to go down
T0T the third time. The girls were
Immediately taken to their rooms in I
Bradley hall, but have suffered no i'll /
effects from the accident.
: 1he thousands of motorists who |
WISH Door county during the height of |
the summer season will have an OPP |
portunity of viewing one of the most /
spots in the region /
r Washington island This island has |
been named the gem island of Lake |
Michigan" and eXceIs in natural /
scenery. Lying nine miles across I
from the Door county peninsula, it /
was beyond the reach of most motor
lists, and all except occasional large
boats. The island is separated from
the mainland by the historic passage
known as Deaths door, which figured
IL the early history Of Wisconsin,
Catd< Pete Anderson, veteran mail
.ssssssYrier and boatman, who serves the
residents OF Washington island, has
a boat at Manitowoc for
ferry purposes and besides carrying
the usual mail, passengers md auto
m0biIes will be ferried across,
A box, which according to convict
at the state prison at Waupun, con-
fa ned valuable jewelry, diamonds, sill
yer and gold watches, was removed /
IRON the Fond du Lac river by some I
unknown person James Fairbanks, a
guard in the prison plant at the state
penitentiary, told David Boudry, Fond |
Tn Lac, how convict who is now ser
wing a term at the prison, had three |
years ago thrown the box, which he |
asserted contained iewelry and other
xgsaables into the Fond du Lac river,
when pursued by police. According
40 Fairbanks the convict planned to
fscover the box when he had served
mis- time and that the contents would
enanle HIM to live in comfort. Boudry
together with his brother, Ovid, went
10 the Forest-av bridge over the Fond
s3u Lac river and there noticed that
4 Undiscovered box that tailed with
4be description OF the one hurled IN
the river by the convict, lay embedded
81 the clay and ice near the east bank.
AS the two men peered over the bridge
pedestrians eyed them with curiosity
TIE two brothers decided that 1t would
be better to return for the box little
later. When they returned the box
was gone and they noticed footprints
ana indications that the ice and clay
rad been chopped. The name OF the
convict was not disclosed.