Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-24

! When three tires blew out Slmul-
taneoEsly the auto truck driven by
Nick Burtsuklis of Neenah, turned
turtle Nick escaped uninjured.
Herman Lebine, "A, said to have
been the largest man in Marinette
i county, died at his home after an i'll
ness of a month. A special casket
was made for the body.
/ Green Bay police arrested moron
charged with a brutal assault upon a
girl of fourteen. Photographs dropped
in the struggle with the girl from the
mans pockets led to his Identification
and arrest.
Cherry shipments from the Door
county district aggregated 100 car
loads compared with 76 cars last year
The total crop amounted to about 300,
600 cases. For ten days solid cars OF
cherries were shipped out of the dis
trict.
! More of a score of indictments were
brought at Kenosha by the special
/ grand jury on vice conditions. The in
dictments cover various forms of law
violation including gambling, open
sales Of liquor, prostitution and brib-
cry.
While changint the trolley on the
east end of the car line at Beloit, two
masked men held up and robbed Con-
ductor Alfred Alexander, of his pro
ceeds for the night. The men made
their escape with a small amount Of
cash.
John Sullivan, %, Waterfowl, was
killed in cave-in of gravel in a pit
at Woodruff. Death resulted from a
fractured skull. The young man was
on visit with two cousins and was
helping them dig gravel for the con-
struction of silo.
The GAINESVILLE city council is con-
sidering an ordinance to bar all child
rem under IS from public dances.
The ordinance provides that children
may attend if accompanied by their
parents, but that ell dances should be
closed before one o'clock.
(, William c. Hook, one of the most
widely known jurjsts in the United
States, died at his summer home near
Saynor Wis, of pneumonia. Judge
Hook lived at Kansas City and had
been on the federal bench since 1903
The body was taken to LeavenWorth,
Kansas, for burial.
A grand total of 3,7G4 miles Of
highway is what Chief Engineer Hirst
of the highway comissiOn, estimates
will be constructed in Wisconsin this
year. This comprises 357 miles Of
concrete, 1,037 miles of gravel, 81
miles of top soil, 1909 miles of earth
roads and 1,204 miles of other con-
| structiOn and surfacing.
! A. H. Rhodes, Freeport was arrested
| by the GAINESVILLE police after a car
stolen from r. w. Cork, Madison, was
identified by the owner. Rhodes was
arrested by the GAINESVILLE police after
an investigation of two cars sold in
that city. Police believe he is one OF
the ring leaders of gang organized
to dispose of stolen cars. Numbers
| had been changed on both cars sold by
Rhodes.
Dist. Atty. Beck of Racine county
has issued orders to the local highway
authorities for the removal of all adj
vertising signs erected within 1000
feet of highway intersections, which
are held to be violations of state law
The signs will be destroyed if they
are not removed within ten days, the
district attorney said. 1t is estimated
that 100000 worth of signs are af-
fected by the order
The U. S. department of agriculture
has an investigator in the state of Wis
consin to study locally grown tobacco
with a view of Standardization. Sim
liar work is going on in other tobacco
raising states. In all cases the ex-
penses of the investigator will be paid
| by the states III which the work will
/ be conducted. The work will finally
cover all OF the principal types Of
! tobacco grown in the United States
and is expected to lead to the esab-
lishment of standard grades for prac-
tically every type of tobacco.
| W. Stanley Smith, prohibition COM
missioner, announced Wednesday that
renOrts from for~ of his men in the
field were that Is moonshine raids
were made Tuesday in Sheboygan, and
two in Fond dU Lac. One still was
found in operation. The men swept
down on Sheboygan and Fond du Lac
unannounced, Mr. Smith said, and cas-
lily found alleged law violations. \
squad of officers headed by District
Officer Parkinson, raided seven moon
shine dens in Bayfield, county farm
houses Tuesday Raids reported for
the day totalled p.
| K. L. Shirts, a Canadian spending
the summer at Bayfield, is in hospi-
! tai recovering from a 36-hour vigil at
Squaw Bay Point, one of the most des-
Olate spots on Lake Superior, where he
was marooned after he lost his canoe
during a heavy storm. He was res
cued by fishermen who found him
clinging to his desolate haven, eX-
hausted and with only shred of
bathing suit on him. His body was
battered and bruised Prepared for
death, Shiras had scratched his fare
well message into the sharp rocks
with a piece OF sandstone.
The Lorillard Tobacco Co. from its
New York Office emphatically deny
that they have closed their Wisconsin
plants because of the new minimum
wage law as it affects the wages of
women employees The company says
it has closed fourteen plants because
of production and that stripping
must stop until the factories can take
care of the strips. 1t is said, however,
that the larger percentage of women
employed in the warehouses are over
40 years, and most of them unable to
work rapidly enough at $2.75 for each
! 100 pounds of tobacco stemmed to