Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-02

| Mrs. S. Hedmark. Glenwood City
celebrated her 101st birthday. The
| old lady was born in Norway.
The bank at Stockholm was held
/ up and robbed of $1,000 in currency
and $500 in silver by bandits who es-
/ capped in motor car driving toward
| St Paul.
j The large, modern school at Winter
was burned to the ground with a loss
| Of 100000. The fire Of unknown orr
gin, started on Sunday. Insurance of
+, $4,000 was carried.
Reports from the north woods say
that deer are being killed by the
| wolves. Old trappers report finding
numerous carcasses with their threats
| slashed by fangs.
| Themes Williams, 81 Oconto, was
struck by train and badly mangled.
He had gone to Marinette to see a sick
| brother and was on his way home
when the accident happened.
| Mrs. Guy Golf of Delaven has sued
the Milwaukee road for $25.300 for
| damages resulting from the death of
her husband. Mr. and Mrs Golf were
riding in motor car that was struck
killed instantly.
! One boy was drowned and another
narrowly escaped death at Two Rivers
when Claude Magilsky, 6, fell into an
open space where mem had been har-
yesting ice. Victor Krizizcke, 4, was
rescued. The body of the Magilsky boy
was recovered by the coast guard. 1t
had been in the water an hour
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for him outside the courtroom, VIM.
Walters, 46, La Crosse, pleaded guilty
to a theft of goods from a factory
where he was employed and was SEN
fenced to one year in Waupun. Goods
valued at $3.50 taken from the La
Crosse Rubber Mills was found in the
| mans house.
Mrs. Mary Rodenschmidt, Cross
Plains, died at her home 81 days after
she was one hundred years old The
old lady was born in Luxembourg and
came to America in 1852. Her hus-
band was Civil war veteran who died
aged so. Mrs. Rodenschmidt was one
OF half a dozen centenarians in the
state
Judge Grimm of GAINESVILLE rendered
verdict for $4,000 in favor of Err
nest Armstrong, wealthy farmer, who
sued the w. E. Stewart Land Co. and
the Stewart Farm Mortgage Co., of
Kansas City, Kansas, alleging that de-
ception and fraud had governed the
sale of wild land" in the Rio Grande
valley of Texas.
The state of Wisconsin may be able
to collect $214000 from the federal
government as claim for material
furnished to the guard in 1916 when
the Wisconsin troups were sent to the
border and again in 1917 when the men
were equipped for over seas service.
The claim has been audited and APP
proved by the war department.
John Schuester of Oshkosh, peddling
milk for a Ft. Atkinson firm, was ar
rested for insulting a woman patron
of the company 1t developed that the
man had been but recently released
from prison on parole and he was sent
back to Green Bay. Schuster is q
former university student who first
went wrong by stealing car and kept
the game up until he landed in the re-
formatory
There will be no spring flood on the
Mississippi according to old river
men such as were experienced in
1920, when damage aggregating ST.,
100000 was done to the river towns
by high water A stage of not more
then ten feet is looked for this year.
The wiseacres base their contention
on the fact that not much rain fell
last fall, a snowless winter, and the ice
gone from the river the earliest in
known history
Ben Dietzler, %, former soldier, al
though minus a foot considers himself
lucky. He was working on a saw car
riage at Cadott when log partly cut
in two rolled his way. Stopping the
carriage he jumped but as he did so
he struck the release lever and the
carriage started again. This threw the
man onto the platform and he was
whisked toward the revolving saw
BY superhuman effort he threw HIM
self to one side but was unable to re-
move his foot which he saw cut off at
the instep.
John Demli, the Grand Chute far
mer who sued Frank Grogan. Joseph
Jensen, Harry Donahue and Benjamin
Prugh of Appleton for $4,000 alleging
that the men raided his home during
the 4th Liberty loan drive and as
sauTted him, lost his case in jury
trial for damages. Demli charged that
the might riders called at his home
after midnight on Oct. 10, 1919, forced
him to leave the house and assaulted
him. He charged that a rope was put
around his neck and he was dragged
from his feet while members OF the
raiding party kicked him and threat
ened to hang him unless he Bought
Liberty bonds.
HIGHLAND COUNTY
The proposed new power plant and