Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-25

weeks ago, is making satisfactory re-
covery.
Robbers entered restaurant near
the 500 line station at Ladysmith and
forced the owner to hand over $50 he
had in the till. They escaped.
Fred Olson, %, Beloit, received his
choice of $3.50 fine or six months in
the county Jail for bootlegging. His
father paid the fine. Olson bought the
stuff for $6 quart and sold it for SIS
He said he was out of work and short
OF funds.
A fire in the business district at Eau
Claire caused 5000 damage Satur
of last week. In one building Mrs.
Leona Newell, aged dressmaker, was
trapped in her apartments and was
rescued by firemen who carried her
down ladder through the flames and
smoke. Most of the damage to mer-
chandise was by water. The cause Of
the blaze is a mystery.
After posing as two days as a Ia
borer out of work, Carl Henning, a
prohibition agent employed by the
government, raided the saloon of g..
r. Bartholomew, wealthy De Soto
merchant, and confiscated quantity
of liquor said to have been sold in the
place in violation Of the prohibition
act. The evidence was submitted to
the grand jury in session at Superior.
Frank C. Donkers was voted $1,000
for the death of his bride OF few
days by the Wisconsin assembly. Mrs.
| Donkers was killed while witnessing
aut polo games at the state fair,
machine colliding with her. Donkers
was seriously injured in the accident
but recovered. The legislature voted
him $4,000 damages but refused to
recognize any legal liability on the
part of the state.
Begging for food, hundreds of little
children stormed the Racine city hall.
When the Personal Workers Rescue
| Mission exhausted it's funds, it was
forced to deny bread to hundreds who
have been appearing there daily.
Hungry and disappointed they
marched to the city hall to plead 70"
relief The city treasurer sent the
waits to charity institution after he
had emptied his pockets. City officials
are considering steps to relieve the
situation. 1t is contended that the
demonstration was induced by the &C
ton of the rescue mission. The man
ager told the children: go and see
the mayor. We have no more money
A WalWOrth county farmer has an
outbreak of hog cholera that apparent
ly came from buying unvaccinated
pigs of a dealer. Certain dealers
make a practice of buying pigs far
Their north in the state and transport
ing them by trucks and carloads to
southern Wisconsin and northern Il
linois where they are sold for feeders.
This in itself is legitimate business
but many times the pigs come from
sections where hog cholera is ram
pant and where the owners. are selling
to escape loss. Such pigs should be
treated with cholera serum and virus
or they are dangerous. Farmers are
warned not to buy pigs of dealers I'M
less they are thus immunized.
The Fond du Lac county board in a
special session refused to withdraw
war resolution passed in January,
1918, condemning the words and ac-
tons of Senator La Toilette. The
resolution to erase the action from the
county records was defeated by vote
of 20 to %. The war resolution de-
clared: "Citizens of Wisconsin have
been misrepesented in the senate of
the United States and elsewhere by
their senior senator, Robert M. La
Folette,'' and continued, ''the spoken
words, the actions, and the conduct
OF the said Senator Robert M La
Toilette in bringing upon the citizens
of Fond du Lac, as well as the citizen
ry of the entire state of Wisconsin,
the appearance of being disloyal in
the present emergency"
Holding that the actions of Rev. c..
w Boag, Methodist pastor, and Mrs.
Clara Evans, had sprung from clean
hearts and minds, but had been gross
ly misinterpreted by suspicion and
gossip, Judge Gehrz in Milwaukee
circuit court, not only cleared them
in one of the longest and most unusual
decisions ever made in a divorce court
but granted the decree of divorce to
Mrs Evans on her counter claim
against DR.. Edw. Evans. In dismis
sing the charges of improper con-
duct made in DR.. Evans complaint,
Judge Gehrz ruled that they were
utterly unsupported in testimony, in
fact, that there had been no miscOn-
duct on the part of Rev Boag and
Mrs. Evans, and that their relations
were utterly untainted throughout
their acquaintance and association.
The Lawson airplane, valued at
$4,000, was wrecked at South Mil
waukee, when during its maiden take
off it snagged a wing and crashed so
feet to the ground. Four passengers,
including Alfred Lawson, designer,
escaped uninjured. Damage was es-
timated at $4,000 Blame for the ac
cident is placed on the field at South
Milwaukee, which is called both small
and soft" The plane took off about
$50 a. m, with Mr.. Lawson and Chas
Wilcox as pilots, and Carl Schory and
Andy Eurino, mechanics. An attempt
was made to steer the rising plane
between the tree and a house in an
adjacent field. In banking the ship
the lower left wing struck the tree,