Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-12
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

Lars Snetum, StoughtOn, has sailed
for SOgn, Norway to visit his mother,
brothers and sisters.
$4,000 damage was done in a night
fire at the Carlton hotel, Edgerton.
The guests were aroused and emerged
i'll their street clothes.
Chas. Burrow, SO, GAINESVILLE street
car track worker, dropped dead as he
welded a heavy iron bar. Fellow
wOrkmen picked him up lifeless.
The celebration of the 18th ami
yersary of the Luther Valley church
OF Rock county and the golden jubilee
of the pastor, Rev. J. A. Bergh, was
held at Orfordville. The church was
founded in 1874.
Clarence Dahl, young RUTLAND
farmer, eloped with Hazel Olson,
pretty 19-year-old Miss, while Mrs.
Dahl was in the hospital recovering
from the birth of a daughter. Dahl
had quickly converted his crops and
effects into cash, leaving his wife
without warning. She went home to
her mother.
From all communities of the south
ern part of the state come reports OF
phenomena caused by the warm
weather of September. Lilacs in
bloom, apple trees in blossom, ber-
ries on the bushes and roses in bloom
are common, and winter wheat and
rye have shown a growth and color
never remembered.
Perry Haugen, liver Anderson and
Kenneth Hereid, three young men who
attended a dance at Rockdale, Dane
county, were arrested for having a
quantity of moonshine and elderberry
wine in their possession. The liquor
was cOnfscated by the officers from
their car. The men pleaded not
guilty and await trial
Wallace Smith, IS, and Palmer
SwensOn, 20, Ashland young men
wanted for the theft of a car, were
arrested at Two Rivers where they
had gone to visit Joseph Adams, a
friend who was injured by falling
from a scaffold. Adams sent for the
boys and the police trailed them.
They admitted their guilt.
Otto Johnson, Stoughton, driving
to town with a load of eggs, stopped
at the roadside when the lights on his
Ford went out Along came Fred
Grant, driving on Overland with one
light. The One-eyed Overland struck
the blind Ford and was tipped over.
Not much damage resulted but the
road was filled with scrambled eggs.
PloveT village and township are in
the grip of an epidemic of diphtheria.
Eight homes are under quarantine
while more than double that number
of cases are believed to be in exist
ence. The village schools have been
closed by order of the health board
until conditions improve. Physicians
attending patients report many of the
cases serious.
Five safe crackers robbed the bank
at Eagle, near Milwaukee, of 81 900
and made their escape amid a shower
of shots from citizens aroused by
Louise Breidenbach, Is, telephone
operator, who in her quarter above
the bank, used the few wires not cut
by the thieves to call the town. One
bandit is believed to be wounded. The
Eagle bank was looted in 1908 by men
who are still serving prison terms.
Miss Lucille Curtis of FIT. Atkinson
has returned home from Europe
where she had an exciting adventure
In company with five other girls she
made trip by passenger plane from
Brussels to London. While over the
channel a crank shaft broke on one
of the engines with a storm at it's
height. The pilot managed to make
shore and landed his passengers in a
field. They ate wheat kernels until
rescued.