Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-02-23


at juneau, were sentenced to four anc
one-half years in Green Bay.
| A Leghorn pullet on the farm of
Mons Larson, Campia farmer, laid an
| egg that measured by inches. Mr..
| Larson was so elated that he has be-
gun poultry association in his home
| town.
When the Wisconsin solcns ap-
peared diffident over buying the por-
trait of Ex-Governor Philip at $1,000,
Mr.. Philip settled the matter by TAX
! ing the picture himself. The artist
/ had asked $4,000 for his work.
A search warrant for John Hulaski,
Rib Lake farmer, was issued to Med
! ford officer who found complete out
/ fit for distilling on the farmers prem
/ ises. Hulaski pleaded guilty and paid
i q fine and costs totalling $432.68.
! COUNSEL for Archie Laisson, Green
/ Bay, charged with assaulting two IA
1 year-old girls, was denied a new tria!
| by Judge Monahan. Laisson was con-
/ victed in September and is now serv-
| ing a five-year sentence.
Pleading guilty to using face towel
| for more than one customer, Phyliss
| Janelle, Green Bay barber, paid a
| fine of $40 and costs. The complaint
was made by the state health officials
who said sanitary regulations were
not being lived up to in the shop.
The Little Eva" law is before the
| Wisconsin legislature for consider
alton. The solons are asked to pass
law forbidding girls under 16 from
playing the part of Little Eva i'll the
! time-honored Uncle Toms Cabin.
Thirty members of the Methodist
church at Palmyra are responsible.
Eight sheep owned by Emery Och
ler Winnebago county farmer, had
to be killed because the animals
showed signs of rabies. This makes
q total of 81 sheep belonging to Mr..
Oehler which had to be killed as the
result of a typhoid epidemic in that
locality. A dog went mad and at
tackled the herd as we'll as other an
imals in that vicinity. The owner will
receive compensation from the state.
The Federated Trades council of
Milwaukee has presented a petition
to the state legislature asking for
the abolition of the state railroad COM
mission. The recent arbitrary raise
in gas rates in Milwaukee caused a
tremendous uproar. Many people
feel that originally created to protect
the people from corporate wealth,
the agencies are now being favored
by the body supposed to control them.
Residents OF northern Wisconsin,
particularly of Langlade county, fear
full of being attacked by moonshiners
while passing through the woods at
night, started cleanup" that result
ed in the sheriff Selling the largest
still found in the northern country.
The raid was made near Evergreen.
Joseph Wurgen was arrested and a
still operated by gas engine, 29 gal
Ions of mOOnshine and several tanks
filled with mash were seized as evil
dence against the entrepeneur of
mOOnShinerS
While dancing a jig at a party in
" rightstown, Thomas Scanlan fell
dead on the floor The coroner's jury
reported that death was due to heart
disease but officers believe that Scan
lon had been indulging in moonshine.
Ben Bacon, who went with ScanlOn
to the dance, admitted that he had
purchased a quart of moonshine pay
ing $3.50 for it. The liquor was car
ried to the dance in a Mason jar Ar
rests are looked for
AS a result of the closed season
prohibiting trapping of muskrats in
Dodge county, rats are being slaugh-
tered by the dozen by mink according
to Frank Burkhardt, Kekoskee nat
Gralist. Burhardt reports that the
closed season allowed the rats to
propagate until they are living in the
Horizon marsh by the dozens. In
stead of being depleted by trappers,
the minks have been attracted to the
swamp and are preying on the rats,
destroying them in large numbers.
Burkhardt is an old trapper and buyer
who lives on the edge of the great
marsh He says that both mink and
rat have made the swamp habitat
for years. This year however, the
number of rats exceed the number
ever seen in the marsh before, he
says.
U. S. Atty General Palmer has adj
vised that Mrs Margaret Burlington,
negress, serving a term in the Dane
county jail for using the mails to de-
fraud, be committed to the West Vir-
ginia penitentiary. She was kept in
this state because the penitentiary at
Jefferson City. Mo, refused to receive
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of Mrs. burlington started when she
inserted advertisements in newspapers
representing herself as a poor girl of
Is who wished to get married. She
advised prospective husbands to send
her money to come to them. When
the money was received she would
tell that she was a negTess. After
capturing white husband, who di-
vorced his first wife to marry her, she
was tried at Superior for using the
mails to defraud, and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary and
to pay fine of 81 800 Her son, Ken
meth, who has kept her from being re-
ceived in the Missouri penitentiary,
was one year old last Monday.
An investigation resulting from the
report of DR.. w. H. Dobbins, Menom-
inee Falls, will be made by the sheriff
of Waukesha county of the death of
Fred Wildish, farmer, who was de-
clared a suicide by the coroner, after
the man was found shot through the
head early in January. Wildish had
just returned from visiting his wife,
who was i'll at q milwaukee, hOSnital