Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-12-28

Mrs. Gretha Newn...n, rs, mother OF
| the woman shot and killed in June,
1917, by Grace Lusk, Waukesha scnool
teacher, who is on parole from states
lprison because of i'll health, died on
! Wednesday at the Waukesha home OF
her son-in-law, DR.. David Roberts.
Though Dr.. Roberts relations with
Miss Lusk, ere said to have been
| the cause of the tragedy, Mrs. New
man stood by her son-in-law, during
the trial and has s.nce been a guest
at his home. The doctor, who is
wealthy, spent a term in prison for
his relations with Miss Lusk
Seven years Imprisonment and
fine of $4,000 was the sentence i'm
posed by judge Geiger at Milwaukee
upon Bertram P. Herzog, former Wis
consin prohibition officer, who was
found guilty of accepting brides to-
falling $16,500.
800 Madison families accepted the
invitation of Victor II. Arnold of the
Madison Bond Co., to eat Christmas
dinner as his guests at their own
homes. Arnold issued orders to Local
grocerS for TODD and to fuel yards
for coal for all applying to the de-
gree to make every one of his guests
warm and we'll fed on Christmas day.
There were nc strings to the offer and
no humiliation for those applying for
help from Mr.. Arnold. They were
simply Mr.. Arnold's guests in honor
of the day and the one for whom the
day is observed.
Mrs. Annie Leggett, Fairfield, was
fined $39.14 by Justice Halsted OF
BarabOo for knocking one Thomas
Barrow down and over pile OF hay.
Barrow had the aggressive woman ar
rested She claimed self defense.
The large shipments of pure-bred
dairy cattle from the EdgeWater
STOCK and dairy farm at FIT. Atkinson
to old Mexico, have put the town on
the map with the Mexican cattlemen.
Thousands of Fl Atkinson cattle have
been shipped to Mexico in the past
three years. Senior Eduardo Aguilar,
Mexican banker, was in Fl. Atkinson
last week and took back an express
lad He has contracted for three car
loads every six weeks. Senior Jose
/ Cardenas, Mexico City, has been in FIT.
Atkinson and is having two carloads
shipped to him every fifteen days.
Benjamin Kast, former postmaster
at Belle Center, was fined $186.26 in
federal court at Madison last week
after he had pleaded guilty to being
short on his accounts to that amount.
He also pays trial costs. The case
age has been made good. The case
has been pending since 1916.
| Lake Monona troze over last We'd
nesday night, Dec. 81, on the official
day for the opening of the winter.
The other lake, Mendoza, had a skim
of ice that broke up under q high
wind, but continued cold weathe", the
experts said, will cause Mendoza to
freeze this week The freezing up
this year is rather later than usual.
Appleton police and courts are en-
gagged in fight on the moonshiners
who infest the city and adjacent To-
caIities 1t is said the moonshiners
and vendors of the hard stuff are
strong supporters of the 18th amend
ment-prohibition has been big
thing for them.
Five Amberg girls, enroute from
home from Goodman where they had
attended a basket ball game, took
refuge in a schoolhouse between
Pembine and Dunbar when a fierce
Dl1ZZdIu udu6 kH6 IOdUS ILL DdSSlDI
and their car broke down The girls
built fire and made themselves COM
Portable until morning when one of
the party visited farmers and secured
food for breakfast. At noon the girls
hailed team and made their way
home. And listen-they won the game
at Goodman, 16 to L.
Elmer H. Bartlett, "a, Milwaukee,
was arrested at his home Tuesday for
a brutal attack upon a child of six
years. Bartlett, according to the po-
lice, was selling Christmas trees on
the street. He showed the trees to
the child and then, the story contin-
ues, led her to a garage. There the
alleged attack took place. When the
girl began to cry, Bartlett, according
to her story, chased her away. She
ran home, sobbed out her story to her
mother and the police were notified.
A number of attacks of this nature
! have Mortified the people of MilWalI-
kee.
Adolph Schultz, Eau Claire church
janitor fed from home after drawing
1925 from a bank He told his wife
that a neighbOr, Gust Iverson, Was
trying to implieate him in charge
Iverson refused to swear out a war
rant against Schultz, basing his re-
fusal upon the grounds of attendant
publicity. The badly scared Schultz
has not been located.
Ten boys, from 10 to 16 years DID,
were discovered organizing stealing of
iewelry and auto supplies, Eau Claire
police said. The boys had placed
enough INT to blow up business
block, under a bridge in the city.
Mrs. F'rieda Zimmerman of Ocon0-
mowoc has been arrested charged
with the murder of her two step
children, Elmer, 8, and Ruth, Z. |
The bodies of Ruth and Elmer were
found in a cistern by the father on
his return home from work at night. |
The stepmother says the tragedy was
an accident but the district attorney
points out that the cistern was only
eight feet deep, with six feet of water
and a two-foot opening. The sur
face of the water was within easy
reach. The woman's nonchalant way
and stories she told previous to the