Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-05

the place and create a fine farm in adj
dition TO going into the store bust
ness.
No trace of the lone bandit, who
robbed the Couderay. State bank OF
several thousand dollars, has been
found The man left Couderay in an
automobile and is believed to have
made a successful getaway.
Frank Paulik asked the city OF
| Plainfield to pay him $3.50, said to be
the loss resulting when five COWS, be-
! longing to him, were poisoned in the
public dumping pit while running at
| large in the town. The council un-
animously rejected the plea.
Albert c. Nelson, a farmer living
between New Amsterdam and Midway
is the first hunter in that vicinity to
run afoul of the game laws. He was
arraigned before Judge Brindley and
! fined $50 and costs for shooting
ducks after p. M, September Is.
Judge Becker of Monroe has carried
his demand for $4,000 salary due him.
he claims, because his conviction for
violation of the espionage law was
later reversed has carried his case to
the supreme court. The Green county
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Burglars forced open the safe at
the GAINESVILLE station of the Chicago
Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
Tuesday night, taking $3.50 and mile
age tickets valued at $240. The rob-
berry was not discovered until the
agent opened the station Wednesday
morning.
A driver for an Elkhorn construc-
\ InY To 1IyI
inmate operations as he filled a gaso-
line tank on truck. His clothing
caught fire and he was nearly burned
to death before he succeeded in put
ting out the flames. The fire COM
pany put out the flames on the truck.
S. j. Lauersdorf, proprietor of a
Juneau shoe store, is friend of root
beer While returning from Milwau-
kee with his family, a short circuit
in the battery set fire to his sedan on
the highway near NashOtah. Two
bottles of root beer, in possession of
the children, were the only exiting
uishers available and effectively
quenched the blaze.
A large automobile containing 100
gallons of alcohol was seized in a
garage at La Crosse by Sheriff Ed
ward Miller Two men who drove the
car into the garage left the city a
few minutes after the car was siezed.
Frank Meager, Stevens Point farm
err, was arrested and fined 500 and
costs for having a jug of moonshine
in his barn. Meager claimed the
liquor had been put there by hired
hands.
Judge James Wickham at Eau
Claire sentenced Ernest Forester, a
farmer, found guilty by jury of re-
ceiving stolen property, to four years
in Waupun prison. Five bandits, the
state charged, met at Forester's house
May II, after they had robbed the
Augusta State Bank, to divide the
loot and each paid for the use of the
house as a rendezvous. This was
testified by Ray Rudy, brought from
Waupun as a witness for the state.
The police department, patrOlman,
night Waterman and department of
public safety Of Emerald, Wis, was
arrested, charged with selling moon
shine. He was fined $500 and costs.
William Granger, the police depart
ment, ct AL, was arrested when fed
eral prohibition enforcement officers
asked him for a quart of liquor.
Granger replied that he was sorry,
but he had just sold his last quart
to the village constable. Emerald is
in that section of northern Wisconsin
known as Little Kentucky"
S. Hoffman, Chicago salesman, is
alive after miraculous escape. He
is alleged to have been racing with
a Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
passenger train near GAINESVILLE, which
was going about 40 miles an hour. AS
he crossed the tracks in front of the
train his engine stalled. The auto
mobile was hurled 100 feet over a 10
foot embankment and smashed into
hundreds of pieces. AToffman landed
on the cushion of the car His most
serious injuries were decorations of
the legs and a sprained back.
To have married the same man
twice and then divorced him was the
peculiar lot of Mrs. Alfred Oberweiser
of Menasha, who has been granted a
divorce from her husband, Alfred
Oberweiser, who was last heard of
in Boston. Mrs. Oberweiser was first
married in February, 1918, at Hamlet
n c. Oberfeiser is said to have given
an assumed name. When the bride
learned of the deception, she insisted
on a new marriage, and this time the
groom used his correct name. Mrs.
Oberweiser was granted the right to
use her maiden name.
To have her marriage first post
poned by the death of relative and
then a few days later to be run over
by an automobile and injured almost
badly enough to make another post
ponement necessary was the unhappy
fate of Miss Mabel Jensen, Menasha
She went through with the ceremony
despite the accident, and is now Mrs.
Joseph Schieri. Mrs. Schieri was run
over Monday by a Neenah autoist and
carried for two blocks before the
driver was aware he had struck her.
She was in the company of her pro-
spective husband at the time.
There are 3,0S5 persons reported as
teachers and principals in Wisconsin
high schools, report of the state
superintendent of public instruction
shows. Of these 1874 were in schools
under city superintendent and 1,401
in schools under county superintend-
ents. College graduates serving as
teachers in the city high schools num-
bered 995, and those under county
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