Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-24

Carl Funsicker, Wausau, was in
stantly killed when the banks of a
ditch he was digging caved in and
smothered him.
/. Frank Sayles, Evansville, and Amy
/ Peterson, TOmah, were married last
Wednesday at the home of the brides
parents. Both are graduates Of the
state school for the deaf at Delavan.
Mrs. Spider Eyes, wife of Manito>
wish Indian, gave birth to a pappoose
while on a canoe trip to Cedar Greek.
! The infant reached mundane affairs in
! a little birch bark canoe.
Highway commissioner John Fret
! berg of Bayfield, county announces
! that advertising signs along the high
ways in the county are being removed
and that in the future the law pro-
hibiting them will be enforced.
Captain John Roen of the steamer
Marquis Roen and the tow boat, Mary
| Stafford, is in the county jail at Mar
inette charged with Transporting liq>
uor. Police officers raided the boat
and found five burlap bags Of very
good Canadian whiskey.
! Rodney Wilson, Abrams farmer,
narrowly escaped death when attacked
by a maddened bull Only the arrival
Of the family dog, which kept the bull
at bay until help arrived, saved Mr..
WilsOne whose collarbone was frac-
/ tured
Jury trials for all saloon keepers
charged with violation of the new dry
act are being planned by the Sheboy~
gan County Glass A Permit local thru
it's attorneys. The state and the sal
Don men are making preparations for
stiff fight over the constitutionality
Of the law
/ The four children of Mr.. and Mrs
/ Ollivato, Merrill, ranging from eight
months to ten years old, narrowly es-
capped death when their home burned.
The fire started in the morning when
the children were asleep and had
gained considerable progress when
the parents were attracted by the
! smoke
Four Green Bay youths, all under
| IT, are being held by the police in con-
nectfOn with four robberies in thirty
! six hours. Detective Donayan, Green
Bay sleuth, trailed the youngsters who
| it is alleged, had been spending money
! freely. Parents of the boys, two of
whom come from prominent families,
are attempting to settle the case out
| of court
| Screening at the top of her voice
1 and pounding on table with her fists
| Mrs. Mary Widmar, Ashland, created
a scene in federal court at Superior
after she had been sentenced to the
| house Of correction at Milwaukee for
year, and her husband, Joseph, sent
to the county Jail for two months
| by Judge c. z. Luse. She was carried
from the courtroom kicking and
! screaming. Mr.. and Mrs. Widmar
| pleaded guilty to cOncealing $1,000 Of
the money stolen from a mail car OF
the Northern Pacific road by Delbert
Smith on Feb TO- Smith is serving a
% year term in Leavenworth.
The mayors of Beloit and GAINESVILLE
are having a newspaper war in their
local papers as to which city makes
and sells the most booze. Mayor
| Welsh Of GAINESVILLE claims they get
drunk ut Beloit and then come back
TO JaneS"ille and raise h The B J.
0it mayor comes back with the state
ment that Welsh was arrested aud
fined not long ago for speeding on the
BelOit streets, and advises Tanesv lie
to elem III her own back yard before
criticising those of her neighbours. A
right merry war it is and while it
wages the bootleggers are having
! fat time of it.
| One of the largest Indian spirit
| stones or shrines found in Wisconsin
| has been presented to the state histor-
ical society by DR.. A. Gerend of Mil
ladOre. The stone, which is four feet
| high and weighs 120 pounds, formerly
stood on the Indian road between Wa
| beno and Sopertcn. AS most of the In
dams in the region no longer worship
the native gods they permitted the
transfer of the stone to Madison where
1t will be mounted, probably near the
! Wisconsin Historical Library. A leg
end has been woven about this gran
| lite boulder which is curiously marked
by wind and rain. The Indian sees
in it a resemblance to a human being
and says that a mortal spirit who de-
sired to live forever was turned to
stone by the Great Spirit, Wa-Tonka
that his wish might be fulfilled. At
the foot of the large stone was a small
one known as the child of the i'm
| prisOned spirit. The shrine has been
used for several hundred years and
was brought to Wisconsin by the Pot
awatami Indians from the Bark river
region in Michigan. On it's top is a
small hollow where offerings of food
and tobacco were laid. A final offer
ing of tobacco was made before the
stone left Forest county for Madison.
The closing down of So tobacco strip
ping warehouses in Wisconsin has
been made by the P. L4orillard Tobacco
Co. of New York. The order affected
about 1000 women, most OF them over
40 years of age. The women worked
on a piece work basis and their effic-
iency was 90 low for them to compete
Under the stiff restrictions Of the Wis
consin minimum wage law.